Another special episode this time, as we welcome to the show David Gerard, author of acclaimed takedown of cryptocurrency Attack of the 50ft Blockchain, and Elizabeth Sandifer, author of acclaimed takedown of neo-reaction Neoreaction a Basilisk, to discuss Scott Alexander (or is it Siskind?) and his blog Slate Star Codex, with digressions into Less Wrong, 'rationalism', and why David is responsible for Grimes hooking up with Elon Musk.

Content Warnings apply, as ever.

Also, we once again we have audio that doesn't quite meet our recent standards, though its perfectly listenable.

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Episode Notes:

Elizabeth's...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElSandifer

Site: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/elizabethsandifer

David's...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidgerard

Site: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/overview

Elizabeth's recent article on Scott Alexander/Siskind: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method/

RationalWiki on Scott Alexander: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander

I Don't Speak German

IDSG Ep82 Scott Alexander & Slate Star Codex, with David Gerard and Elizabeth Sandifer

This episode sees the return of popular guest David Gerard - reluctant expert on crypto currency and author of Attack of the 50ft Blockchain and Libra Shrugged - to tell us about Bitcoin and the Nazis. 

Content Warnings, as ever, but an especial TW this time for discussion of a suicide.

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Episode Notes:

David's...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidgerard

Site: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/overview

 The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism by David Golumbia (https://twitter.com/dgolumbia): https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-politics-of-bitcoin
 
Brenna Smith at Bellingcat on the 'Bitcoin Fairy': https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/02/03/why-500k-donation-to-right-wing-causes-does-not-signify-return-of-bitcoin-fairy/
 
Craig Wright copyright claims, Grayscale, Mt. Gox, Reddit on Ethereum, the French Bitcoin neo-Nazi: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/01/27/news-craig-wright-copyright-claims-grayscale-mt-gox-reddit-on-ethereum-the-french-bitcoin-neo-nazi/
 
Thread: https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1350174661590577155
 
Neo-Nazi BTC Tracker: https://twitter.com/NeonaziWallets

IDSG Ep85 Crypto Fascists, with David Gerard

So there’s this jagoff comedian making videos in his garage… I mean, this millionaire Hollywood guy running his own media venture, employing writers and producers… who is persecuted… I mean, criticised… for bravely standing up to the establishment and the corporations and American imperialism… I mean, for being a reactionary, and platforming fascists, and doing interviews on fascist TV with America’s most prominent fascist, and spinning conspiracy theories, and engaging in stealth antivaxx during a deadly pandemic that he downplays and about which he spreads misinformation, and smearing people who point out that he’s full of shit, and making covert apologias for Trumpism, and sneakily implying that brutal, murderous, authoritarian, imperialist dictators like Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad are actually not that bad…

Content Warnings apply, not least for clips of very shit comedy.

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IDSG Ep107 Jimmy Dore, Part 1 - Ukraine Biolabs and Fact Checks

Part 2 of Jack's look at Jimmy Dore.

Content Warnings.

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IDSG Ep108 Jimmy Dore, Part 2 - Transphobia, Misogyny, & Boogaloo

In a depressing but necessary News Roundup episode, we cover the recent apparent career problems of Elijah Schaffer, the weird implosion of Nick Fuentes' America First Foundation, and... and here comes the depressing part... the recent nazi massacre in Buffalo, New York.

This episode is respectfully dedicated to the victims of this crime.

Content Extremely Warnings

Show Notes:

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IDSG Ep109 News Roundup - Schaffer, America First, Buffalo Shooter

In this episode, Jack is joined by special guest Rob from The Right Podcast, creator of intimidatingly detailed yet somehow also accessible and enjoyable shows covering subjects from US domestic right-wing extremism to Russian right-wing extremism, Russia and Ukraine, National Bolshevism, etc.

We have a chat about the populist US 'People's Party' - presidential candidate: Jimmy Dore - and their composition, actual politics, and internal scandals, including their recent disgraceful tweet thread of rape apologia.  

The conversation ranges over Dore and Caleb Maupin (and his tendency) to Putin and Russia, Greenwald, the 'alt-imperialist' left, the theories of Dugin and their influence, and misinformation, including Oliver Stone's disinfo 'documentary Ukraine on Fire.

Rob's channel and videos come highly recommended.

Content Warnings 

Show Notes:

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Episode Notes:

The Right Podcast on YouTube

The Right Podcast on audio

Rob's Twitter

IDSG Ep113 The People's Party etc, with Rob from The Right Podcast

In an episode recorded before Daryl Brooks was convicted on all counts, Daniel tells Jack all about the disgusting ways in which the National Justice Party has exploited his crimes, and other victims of other crimes.  Coming to your town if you should be unlucky enough to suffer local crime committed by someone who happens to not be white.

Content Warnings.  Obviously.

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IDSG Ep117 Terror in Waukesha (and the NJP)

Jack welcomes special guest Annika Brockschmidt to the show.  Annika specialises in covering the far-right and tells Jack all about the recent German government swoop on those in the Reichsbürger movement who were planning 'Day X', a storming of the Bundestag and a takeover of the state.  We go over the context of the far-right in Germany, the composition and ideology of the Reichsbürgers, the coup plans, the structure of the conspiracy, the reaction in Germany, the connections with QAnon and the Sovereign Citizens, the context of 'Nuremberg 2.0' and the various strands of paranoid pandemic politics, etc.  A really fascinating episode, thanks to Annika's deep knowledge.

Show Notes:

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Annika on Twitter: @ardenthistorian

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IDSG Ep119 The Reichsbürger Coup, with Annika Brockschmidt

A real treat this time, as Daniel and Jack are joined by special guest Sophie from Mars to talk about Caleb Maupin and the wider 'Conspiracy Left', i.e. those left-wingers (or pseudo left-wingers) who style themselves anti-imperialists (etc) and who embrace every bad cause from Putin/Assad-apologia to transphobia to conspiracist antisemitism. 

Sophie knows and understands this subject backwards and forwards.  Her YouTube documentary video Conspiracy on the Left was an instant classic when it was released earlier this year, and she has lots of other videos in which (with others) she goes over Maupin's cultic conferences, his reactionary politics, his paranoid grudges, and his weird and patronising fascist screeds disguised as despatches from the new Lenin.

A great chat about an important issue for the left to deal with.  And there is also, you will be unsurprised to learn, some laughing at the cringe of it all.

Show Notes:

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Episode Notes:

Sophie from Mars on YouTube Sophie from Mars - YouTube

Sophie from Mars on Twitter Sophie 💅 From 💅 Mars (@sophie_frm_mars) / Twitter

Conspiracy on the Left https://youtu.be/aZyIjBxxpTY

Reading Caleb Maupin's "Satan At The Fountainhead" with Thoughtslime, We're In Hell & That Jess - YouTube

Reading Caleb Maupin's Breadtube Serves Imperialism ft. That Jess & ThoughtSlime - YouTube

Caleb Maupin exposed for abuses and cult manipulation tactcs - YouTube

Pinko & Mildred watch Caleb Maupin addressing the allegations - YouTube

IDSG Ep120 Caleb Maupin and the Conspiracy Left, with Sophie From Mars

To tide you over while we prepare more new content for you, here's an old bonus episode.  Once for backers only, now it's yours for free.  

We talk about 2009's In The Loop, satire of the political machinations leading up to the invasion of Iraq, written/directed by Armando Iannucci (et al) and starring Peter Capaldi as Not Alistair Campbell. 

Content Warnings, especially for embarrassing old geezer reminiscing.

Originally recorded August 2021.

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IDSG Bonus Ep7 In The Loop (2009)

A bitesize bonus in which Jack chats with Amanda Moore - journalist and former undercover infiltrator of MAGA! - about the recent Rage Against the War Machine rally... actually a rally in support of Putin and Russian imperialism.  Amanda attended - for research purposes obviously - and found herself amidst Jimmy Dore and Matthew Heimbach, Tulsi Gabbard and Caleb Maupin, the Larouchites, the Grayzoners, loads of nazis and a parade of Russian flags.  

Content Warnings

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Episode Notes:

Amanda on Twitter

Amanda's report on the rally

Amanda's Linktree

IDSG Free Bonus Ep28 Rage Against the War Machine, with Amanda Moore

We're still working on getting back up and running so in the meantime, here's an old bonus episode.  This is our March 2022 discussion of Art Spiegelman's Maus, to go with our public episode from February 2022 about the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee removing the classic graphic novel about the Holocaust from the curriculum.  Sadly, this is relevant again because yet another school board - this time in Nixa, Missouri - has targeted the book.  It's not alone either.  Nor is Maus the only classic Holocaust text being targeted.  Ann Frank's diary is in the crosshairs of Mom's For Liberty.  

Maus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus

Our episode about Maus and the McMinn County School Board https://viewer.joomag.com/memoria-en-no-38-11-2020/0670709001606578509/p6

Auschwitz in Contemporary Popular Literature by Dr Wanda Witek-Malicka https://viewer.joomag.com/memoria-en-no-38-11-2020/0670709001606578509/p6

Of Mice and Memory by Joshua Brown https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/classes/33d/33dTexts/maus/JBrownMiceMemoryOHR1988.htm


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Links:

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/103-maus-vs-mcminn-county-school-board

https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/tennessee-school-book-ban-robbing-students-history-rcna87531

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/185844

https://www.jta.org/2023/06/14/united-states/a-missouri-school-district-could-ban-maus-citing-concerns-about-whether-it-is-explicit-sexual-material

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-746349

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/14/art-spiegelman-maus-book-bans/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/27/maus-removal-old-debate/

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2023/04/07/anne-frank-book-pulled-from-florida-library/11622644002/

https://www.businessinsider.com/moms-for-liberty-get-florida-school-to-ban-anne-franks-diary-adaption-2023-4?r=US&IR=T

IDSG Bonus Ep16 Maus

Another little bonus to tide you over.  Jack briefly went back to eX-Twitter to hangout in a Space with best-friend-of-the-pod Eiynah and the excellent Dr Caitlin Green to talk about Russell Brand, Lauren Boebert, Danny Masterson, the hypocrisy of those who scream about groomers, patriarchy, etc.  The bit where Caitlin talks about reactions to the Brand allegations among the 'Gender Criticals' is particularly interesting.  Thanks to everyone who showed up to listen and/or join-in.

BONUS: Hangin' out with Eiynah 4 - Russell Brand, Patriarchy, etc - with Dr Caitlin Green

Just Jack, talking about Elon Musk, X/Twitter, the nazis, and where we are now.

Content Warnings.

This episode is largely based on the work of Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket.  Great stuff.  Go, read, subscribe.

https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-an-antisemite

https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/elon-musk-crosses-the-border-to-nazi

Also based on the work of Ben Collins:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490

Also quoted:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalists-adopt-clowns-as-their-next-racist-symbol-yes-seriously/

Daniel's episode about Musk with Eric from ESGHound:

I Don't Speak German: UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep22 Elon Musk and Twitter, with Eric from ESG Hound (libsyn.com)

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FREE BONUS Jack Talks About Elon Musk

We're back.  It's cool.  What isn't cool is the National Justice Party.  Because it doesn't exist any more.  And it wasn't cool when it did.  It was shit.  And that's why... well, listen to the episode.

Content Warnings.

Show Notes:

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Episode Notes to follow.

Links to previous episodes on the NJP:

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/70-national-justice-party

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/73-the-njp-program-part-1

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/74-national-justice-party-program-part-2-ecofascism

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/117-terror-in-waukesha-and-the-njp

IDSG Ep124 The Collapse Of The National Justice Party

A trial balloon for a new format. Relatively brief, topical, news update episodes. We might do more of this going forward.

This one is a response to the recent march of masked neo-nazis waving swastika flags through Nashville, Tennessee. We talk about the group involved, Blood Tribe, and their leader, attitudes, and associates.

Content Warnings

Show Notes:

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Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social

IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

Episode Notes:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazis-march-through-downtown-nashville-in-the-middle-of-black-history-month

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-town-drives-out-blood-tribe-nazi-encampment

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-wants-blood-tribe-neo-nazi-squatters-gone

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a34db/upcoming-neo-nazi-rally-shows-how-disparate-extreme-right-groups-work-together

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VN8Q3U1GYmo

https://twitter.com/brotherjones_/status/1758936273153085941?t=Xl940T4MymEJFNwbv8-xtw&s=19

https://twitter.com/aimeeterese/status/1759162412044005506?t=RPJIC-pesOCNm1TyQd1wJw&s=19

https://twitter.com/NuanceBro/status/1758974163987943656?t=3GCLkboEX44mQWlsVKC2Kg&s=19

https://www.splcenter.org/states/tennessee

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2023/04/17/tennessee-three-attempt-silence-lawmakers-strikes-heart-democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moxzSxwwmio

IDSG News Brief - Blood Tribe In Nashville

Here's an old bonus episode - the first part of a long conversation Daniel and Jack had back in October 2021 about Christopher Nolan's bloated, pretentious, ramshackle, reactionary Batman vs the Joker movie from 2008.

Originally available only for patrons, from October 12th 2021.

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Content Warnings.

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IDSG Bonus Ep10 The Dark Knight, Part 1

Part 2 of our epic Dark Knight chat.  Since we spent the entirety of the last one moaning about the technical shortcomings of Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman vs the Joker movie, this time we - being who we are - felt the need to spend this episode moaning about the themes and politics and ideology.  And so we did.  

Originally published for patrons only Oct 26th, 2021

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Content Warnings.

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IDSG Bonus Ep11 The Dark Knight, Part 2

Our latest X Space with our friend Eiynah Muhammed Smith. (@nicemangos (2) Eiynah (@nicemangos.bsky.social) — Bluesky )

Discussing the dystopian propaganda around Israel's ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza, from racist Twitter 'hasbara' to IDF TikTok / Insta, to Israeli influencers' skits about Palestinians faking their suffering.

Also featuring Dr Caitlin Greene the linguist and tracker of Steven Pinker, etc. 

Links:

Israeli military’s TikTok attempt to make propaganda cool | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/1/idfs-tiktok-and-its-attempt-to-make-propaganda-cool

The Israeli army is on TikTok. It's as bad as you'd expect (newarab.com) https://www.newarab.com/opinion/israeli-army-tiktok-its-bad-youd-expect

Israeli Defense Forces Soldiers Embrace Thirst Traps on TikTok (rollingstone.com) https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/israel-defense-force-idf-tiktok-thirst-trap-1174211/

Natalia Fadeev: Israeli Influencer's Gaza Instagram Draws Outrage (dailydot.com) https://www.dailydot.com/debug/natalia-fadeev-israeli-influencer-gaza-instagram-photo/

Israeli Influencers Are Mocking Palestinians Suffering in Gaza (newsweek.com) https://www.newsweek.com/israeli-influencers-are-mocking-palestinians-suffering-gaza-1838655

Propaganda images/memes we discussed in the beginning
https://x.com/nicemangos/status/1760143208766456133?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw

T-Rex Costume, bombs and techno, dancing on a tank https://x.com/rachael_swindon/status/1748398198358507960?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw

Bill Maher’s poorly aged Burqa bit https://x.com/billmaher/status/1740866573655810131?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw

Contrasts: Fine dining scene vs. Starving population
https://x.com/brandyljensen/status/1754145731466723520?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw

Lifestyle piece on IDF soldiers cooking in the kitchens of Gazans
https://x.com/gawanmac/status/1757500107912556767?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw

IDF using Human Shields: https://www.btselem.org/human_shields

Dystopian Propaganda

Nazis are mingling at CPAC, networking and sharing ideas.  We delve into a couple of them for you.

Content Warnings

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Episode Notes:

I Was Banned From CPAC, but the Extremists Weren’t | The Nation 

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cpac-far-right-nazis/

 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335

https://www.wired.com/story/day-one-take-our-border-back-convoy-texas/

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/truck-convoy-2656787935

Sanchez on OAN with hopeless Alison Steinberg 
Nov 7 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z88g0GFyjI

( She’s the one who got hysterical about seeing a pride flag at huntingdon beach https://therecenttimes.com/news/oan-contributor-alison-steinberg-was-attacked-for-her-homophobic-rant-on-the-internet-who-is-she 

Homophobia, harassment, and anti-mask tantrums: Meet OAN’s latest personality
https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/homophobia-harassment-and-anti-mask-tantrums-meet-oans-latest-personality )

https://heavy.com/news/christian-secor/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/19/christian-secor-ucla-jan6-sentence/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220524141531/https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/2021/01/heres-the-nazis-who-toppled-that-monolith


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccW17T2LNgI&t=393s

The national divorce with david zsutty homeland institute


https://homelandinstitute.org/about/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/several-well-known-hate-groups-identified-at-capitol-riot/

https://www.propublica.org/article/white-hate-group-campaign-of-menace-rise-above-movement

https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/rise-above-movement

https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/rise-above-movement

https://www.rawstory.com/rise-above-movement/

Splinter
How Did a White Supremacist Get a Job as an Equal Employment Officer?
2017
https://splinternews.com/how-did-a-white-supremacist-get-a-job-as-an-equal-emplo-1821061611

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/students-horrified-about-coach-with-white-nationalist-ties-school-says/2018/01/10/81617f88-f5a4-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html

https://occidentaldissent.com/2023/02/18/tales-from-the-movement-njp-drama/

https://www.youtube.com/@NationalistNetwork/videos

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/06/republican-photo-neo-nazis-congressman-matt-rosendale

https://odysee.com/@gregoryconte:2/Prussian-Socialism-35-The-Hitlerputsch-100-Years:6

IDSG News Brief - Nazis at CPAC

Another free public bonus in which Jack steps sideways a little from the usual IDSG focus. 

In this episode, Jack hosts a conversation with comrades Twilight O'Hara & Rowan Fortune of Anti-capitalist Resistance about their blistering and important essay A Trans* Guide to Cis Solidarity: Beyond Oppression.

This conversation was recorded in January before the show's return from hiatus.  

https://anticapitalistresistance.org/a-trans-guide-to-cis-solidarity-beyond-oppression/

Rowan on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rowantree.bsky.social

Twilight on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:az4mtz2vt545x2mlifptup2r

Rowan on Mastodon https://mstdn.social/@rowanfortune

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Public Bonus: Cis Solidarity with Trans Struggle, Jack in Conv. with Twilight O'Hara & Rowan Fortune

Daniel is joined by friend-of-the-pod and regular guest/collaborator Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (Polite Conversations, Woking Up,  @nicemangos (2) Eiynah (@nicemangos.bsky.social) — Bluesky ) to talk about Israel's genocide in Gaza, and in particular about some questions that have come up around IDSG's public response to it.  Jack was sadly unable to attend the recording but was fully there in spirit.  

Our X Space on IDF / Israeli 'dystopian propaganda' with Eiynah: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/hangin-out-with-eiynah-6-dystopian-propaganda

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IDSG Public Bonus - Talking About Gaza, with Eiynah

An entire episode of Cantwell news.  And it ain't nice.

Content Warnings.

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Episode Notes:

Previous episodes about (or heavily featuring) Cantwell:

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-5-christopher-cantwell-part-1

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-6-christopher-cantwell-part-2

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-33-nazi-infighting-news-roundup

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-43-cantwell-news-special-with-emily-gorecenski

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/68-the-trial-of-christopher-cantwell-with-hilary-sargent

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/96-catching-up-with-cantwell-and-the-failures-of-the-prison-industrial-complex

https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/99-sines-vs-kessler-verdict

Images from new episode can be seen here: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/125-cantwell-on-grindr

IDSG Ep125 Cantwell on Grindr

Originally published 10th July 2019

This episode, Daniel tells Jack about Andrew Anglin and The Daily Stormer.  Big content warnings for this one.

Notes/Links: http://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-23-andrew-anglin-and-the-daily-stormer

IDSG Ep23 - Andrew Anglin and The Daily Stormer

Originally published 15th April 2019

This week, after many requests, Daniel and Jack take a look at cult-leader, ancap, blowhard, bullshit-artist, white-nationalist, misogynist, narcissist, and phoney-philosopher Stefan Molyneux.

As always, warning apply.

Links/Notes: http://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-15-stefan-molyneux

IDSG Ep15 - Stefan Molyneux

Originally published 13th March 2019

Notes/Links here: http://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-10-james-allsup-and-nick-fuentes

IDSG Ep10 - James Allsup and Nick Fuentes

Originally published 6th March 2019.

This week we delve into the dark pit of deeply pathetic depravity that is Mike Enoch of The Right Stuff and his 'Daily Shoah' podcast.  Big deals within the 'alt-right'.

This episode comes with strong content warnings.  We relay racial slurs and "unironic exterminationism".  Daniel has been less sparing than usual and Jack has decided not to bleep anything.

A wonderful listener has made a transcript: https://t.co/GJP1S2yYN9?amp=1

Notes and Links here: http://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-9-mike-enoch-and-the-daily-shoah

IDSG Ep 9 - Mike Enoch and 'The Daily Shoah'

Originally published 30th Jan 2019.

In this episode, Daniel tells Jack about the aftermath of the disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville 2017.  They also get a tad more theoretical about some of the reasons for some of the behaviour of the so-called 'alt-right', and chat about some related issues such as the recent controversy concerning the Covington MAGA kids.

Warnings.

Notes/Links: https://idontspeakgermanpod.blogspot.com/2019/01/episode-4-unite-right-aftermath.html

I Don't Speak German, Episode 4 - Unite the Right, the Aftermath

A classic, back-to-basics, oldskool episode in which Daniel tells Jack all about a very nasty (and racist trivia-obsessed) specimen, Michael J. Thompson, who chooses to (sometimes) go by the online alias 'Paul Kersey', which is the name of Charles Bronson's character in Death Wish... y'know, the movie in which a middle-class architect becomes a serial killer, and murders loads of poor petty-criminals, and he's the hero.

Content Warnings within Content Warnings for this one.

Links/Notes here: http://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/website/category/episode-44-michael-j-thompson-aka-paul-kersey

IDSG Ep44 - Michael J. Thompson AKA 'Paul Kersey'

This week, special guest Goad Gatsby joins us from the streets of Twitter (you'll get it later) to tell us all about Virginia's biggest growing threat, so-called "Trump in heels", coup-supporting, GOP-suing, fash-associated, plexiglass-encased firebrand, State Senator(and gubernatorial hopeful) Amanda Chase, and her epic struggles against the tyrannical forces of Antifa, the Deep State, RINOs, Covid masks, reality, anyone who criticises her, and - most poignantly - car park cops.  Don't you know who she is???

Content warnings.

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