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Weird Little Guys is a weekly show about the worst people you’ve never heard of, taking you beyond the headlines to get to know the race warriors and aspiring terrorists trying to unravel the fabric of our society. Weaving together the origin stories of modern American white supremacist groups and the crimes that land their members in court, independent journalist Molly Conger exposes the monsters for what they really are - some weird guy. Whether they’re conspiring to build bombs or serving swastika shaped cookies at a dinner party, the weird little guys trying to destroy America are a little less scary with their masks off. 

  1. 4D AGO

    CZM Rewind: The Devil's Chatroom

    The Devil's Chat Room: Ethan Melzer, Part 1In June of 2020, US Army Private Ethan Melzer was arrested for leaking information about his unit's deployment to Turkey with the intention of causing a mass casualty incident. The plot was hatched in a Telegram chat room for a group calling itself Rapewaffen, an Atomwaffen splinter cell that was committed to the beliefs of a neonazi satanic cult called the Order of Nine Angles. This episode follows the rise of satanism within Atomwaffen and the chaos that influence caused.Original air date: 10/31/24A Deal With the Devil: Ethan Melzer, Part 2In 2022, Ethan Melzer pleaded guilty to plotting to help al Qaeda ambush and kill his entire unit while on a sensitive mission in Turkey. But Melzer's co-conspirators turned out to be a Canadian teenager and a government informant, not members of al Qaeda. And the satanic cult that drew him down this nazi rabbit hole turned out to have been run by a man on the FBI payroll.Original air date: 11/7/24Part 1 Sources:https://unicornriot.ninja/2020/national-guard-soldier-who-deployed-to-dc-identified-as-neo-nazi/ https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/ohio-national-guard-member-sent-home-for-white-supremacist-views-is-likely-a-fascist-youtuber https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/ohio-national-guard-soldier-pulled-from-mission-in-d-c-appears-on-neo-fascist-podcast-says-hes-being-discharged https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/05/fbi-national-guardsman-expressed-white-supremacist-ideology-303924 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280 https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-06-02/military-begins-staging-around-washington-to-quell-george-floyd-protests https://hopenothate.org.uk/2020/06/23/the-rapewaffen-telegram-channel/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/soldiers-cases-highlight-reach-of-white-extremism-into-us-military/2020/06/25/0203532e-b582-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/atomwaffen-division https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/sites/default/files/2022-06/REDACTED%20CTEC__TAT%20Accelerationism%20Report%20.pdf https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-56044179 https://gnet-research.org/2023/09/25/the-significance-of-dark-foreigners-arrest/ Ariel Koch (2024) The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 47:10, 1172-1199, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.2024944Mathieu Colin (01 Jul 2024): “And the Devil Marches with Us”: Aesthetics and Accelerationism in the Order of Nine Angles, Terrorism and Political Violence, DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2024.2365749Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Emelie Chace-Donahue (07 Mar 2023): The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2023.2186737Shanon Shah, Jane Cooper & Suzanne Newcombe (19 Apr 2023): Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order of Nine Angles, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2023.2195065Part 2 Sources:https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17286246/united-states-v-melzer https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69307006/united-states-of-america-v-melzer/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-satanist-neo-nazi-plot-to-murder-u-s-soldiers-1352629/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jack-teixiera-case-military-extremism-1234724461 https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangerous-exploits-of-an-extremist-fbi-informant/ https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/ona-fascism-nazis-folk-horror-underground-occult/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    1h 55m
  2. MAY 1

    Mission South Africa

    At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside the embassy in Pretoria to claim refugee status under Trump's executive order.Sources:https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administrationhttps://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563 https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/FlagPost/2022/May/diplomatic-expulsions https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465 https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/ https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/ https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025 https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-after-air-force-one-arrival-february-2-2025/#15 https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/ https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/ https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/24/an-indictment-of-south-africa-whites-only-town-orania-is-booming https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/ https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-03-17-eff-condemns-us-ambassador-expulsion-vows-to-block-white-supremacist-appointment/ https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-30-new-us-envoy-might-be-even-more-conservative-than-me-joel-pollak/ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html https://mistra.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MISTRA-Statement-webinar-Implications-of-changes-in-US-administration-for-South-Africa-and-Africa.pdf https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-18-rasool-diplomacy-and-global-power/ https://www.sajr.co.za/rasools-expulsion-a-crisis-not-a-hiccup/ https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-south-africa-actively-opposed-fight-to-end-apartheid https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/14/Foundation-unveils-Contra-commercials/1746553233600/ https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2025-02-19-ernst-roets-leaves-solidarity-movement-to-live-out-his-calling/ https://za.usembassy.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-faqs/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    59 min
  3. APR 17

    Blood River

    In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with God.Sources:Thompson, Leonard L. The Political Mythology of Apartheid. Yale University Press, 1986. FA Mouton (1995) F A van Jaarsveld (1922–1995) — a flawed genius?, , 27:1,5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00232089585310011https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00232089585310011 Stephney, Inez Mary. “Race, History and the Internet: The use of the Internet in White Supremacist Propaganda in the late 1990’s, with particular reference to South Africa”https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/b04bdabb-ecd9-4f99-a3ae-fff55b88f483/content Schönteich, Martin, and Henri Boshoff. “Volk”, Faith and Fatherland: The Security Threat Posed by the White Right. Institute for Security Studies, 2003. Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. “Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of ‘Blood River’ and King Dingane in the Late 1920s-1930.” History and Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, 2000, pp. 111–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678052.http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/johannes-nkosi https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222024000200001 https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552 https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838 https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838 https://web.archive.org/web/20071220164018/http://www2.univ-reunion.fr/~ageof/text/74c21e88-617.html#_ftn13 https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042554/http://history.humsci.ukzn.ac.za/files/sempapers/Adutoit2005.pdf https://www.litnet.co.za/adriaan-snyman-1938/ https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a64ddcfc-49eb-4680-b59d-b342d8bc358c https://www.news24.com/news24/five-boeremag-members-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-murder-madiba-20150430 https://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-03-boeremag-relied-on-rottweiler-and-kgb/ Snyman, Adriaan. Voice of a Prophet. Vaandel Publishers, 1999. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    53 min
  4. APR 10

    The Jamboree in Jamba

    This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.Sources:Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.Easton, Nina. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade. Simon & Schuster, 2000.Ivon, David. “Touting for South Africa: International Freedom Foundation.” Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1989.Blumenthal, Sidney (December 1983). "Let Lehrman Be Reagan". The New Republic.Cachalia, Firoz and Mervyn Shear. WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era. Wits University Press, 2022.https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/ https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/ https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/ https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/ https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/SNSep83.pdf https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNNov83.pdf https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNOct80.pdf https://staging.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/pam19870826.026.009.583.pdfhttps://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flammehttps://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/48870988/volume-36-number-07-university-of-the-witwatersrand https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38832258/volume-36-number-13https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/293602.html?c=on https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/pam19811200.026.009.580.pdf https://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/the-wrecking-crew/ https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/06/world/4-rebel-units-sign-anti-soviet-pact.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/world/reporter-s-notebook-angola-s-children-of-war.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20060128022735/   http://www.alternet.org/story/13134/https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/1996/3.pdf https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/Local-News/robert-hall-pioneer-in-medical-equipment-dies-20170711 https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/73gould.pdfhttps://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/ https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    58 min
  5. APR 3

    The Whites' Last Stand

    In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century: Sources:https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7OngGuelke, Adrian. “Political Violence and the South African Transition.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 59–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001810https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/ https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkIhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htmhttps://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htmDeath of Apartheid: The Whites’ Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    52 min
  6. MAR 27

    White Guns for Hire

    In 1994, a second group of mercenaries arrived at the airport in Johannesburg... but no one was there to pick them up. Their host had been arrested days earlier, after the last group of mercenaries she'd hosted got into a deadly shootout with the South African police. But how did all these Germans end up in South Africa in the first place? https://www.propublica.org/article/vasilios-pistolis-imprisoned-marine-hate-groupsSources:Simonelli, F. J. (1999). American Führer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. University of Illinois Press.Krott, R. (2008). Save the last bullet for yourself: A soldier of fortune in the Balkans and Somalia. Casemate. Eisenberg, D. (1967). The Reemergence of Fascism. Barnes.https://balkans.aljazeera.net/news/balkan/2017/11/29/slobodan-praljak-umro-u-bolniciBartholomäus Grill: German right-wing radicals shoot in South Africa: License plate D. In: Die Zeit . No. 13 , 25 March 1994Antifaschistisches Autorenkollektiv: Drahtzieher im braunen Netz : Ein aktueller Überblick über den Neonazi-Untergrund in Deutschland und Österreich. Konkret Literatur Verlag, 1996,https://etd.library.emory.edu/concern/etds/jm214q33q?locale=ithttps://js.emory.edu/news/news-stories-container/Using%20South%20African%20Archives%20to%20Study%20PostWorld%20War%20Two%20Antisemitism%20and%20White%20Supremacist%20Networks.html https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/c7f1b03d-343d-4abf-bcb3-e508f43dbc90/content https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib99/dressed-killSearchlight Magazine, issues July, August, September 1996 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    45 min

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Weird Little Guys is a weekly show about the worst people you’ve never heard of, taking you beyond the headlines to get to know the race warriors and aspiring terrorists trying to unravel the fabric of our society. Weaving together the origin stories of modern American white supremacist groups and the crimes that land their members in court, independent journalist Molly Conger exposes the monsters for what they really are - some weird guy. Whether they’re conspiring to build bombs or serving swastika shaped cookies at a dinner party, the weird little guys trying to destroy America are a little less scary with their masks off. 

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