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  1. Say a Good Word for Slavery: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 3

    In the final part of the story about Jack Kershaw, we'll talk about his legal career. Before he represented MLK's assassin, before he sculpted a gigantic racist statue out of old bathtubs, he got a law degree from a part time night school p

  2. The Princess in the Parking Lot

    Police in New Jersey arrested a woman found sleeping in her car in a strip mall parking lot after the plates came back registered to a stolen vehicle. Her lawyer, Tennessee segregationist Jack Kershaw, insisted that his client was not only

  3. CZM Rewind: Disney's Villain

    After losing his job, an ex-Disney employee tried to get his former employer's attention by hacking in and making strange updates to company files. Original Air Date: 6.5.25 Sources: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69534211/united-stat

  4. Playboy Payola: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 2

    Decades before he sculpted a Confederate general out of old bathtubs, Jack Kershaw briefly represented his most famous client - Martin Luther King Jr's assassin, James Earl Ray. The relationship soured after Ray discovered his lawyer had po

  5. Strange People on the Hill feat. Michael Edison Hayden

    Molly interviews Michael Edison Hayden about his new book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small Town. The book is an intimate portrait of what happened in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia after a white nationalist gro

  6. The Ugliest Confederate Statue in the World: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 1

    Jack Kershaw created his most famous piece of art in his 80s. His lifelong passion for the arts had to take a backseat when he shifted his focus to becoming a professional racist during the fight against integration. He was doing it for his

  7. Minisode: The Real Earl Turner

    Before we leave the novels of William Luther Pierce behind us, let's take a quick look at the real Earl Turner. The protagonist of The Turner Diaries was, like all of Pierce's characters, named after a real guy he knew. See https://omnystud

  8. The Nazi's Mary Sue: Hunter, Pt. 2

    At the end of this exploration of nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin and the novel loosely based on his crimes, the question remains: did any of his friends in the white power movement know what he was going to do before he did it? Wha

  9. The Nazi's Mary Sue: Hunter, Pt. 1

    A closer look at the second novel by the man who wrote The Turner Diaries reveals that it isn't just about serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin... it's the author's fantasy about the man he wishes he could have been. Sources: Pierce, Kelvin.

  10. One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 6

    As we approach the end of the series on nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, the rest of the timeline is filled in. Shortly after murdering two young men in Utah, Franklin was arrested at a motel in Kentucky after calling to complain th

  11. Raymond Turner

    Just about every source of information about nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin gets the name of one of his victims wrong. In my search for information about the man who was murdered in Falls Church, Virginia in August of 1979, I came

  12. One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 5

    After Joseph Paul Franklin was arrested in 1980, prosecutors all over the country were waiting their turn to try him for murder. After a federal prosecutor failed to convince a jury that shooting a man just for being black was a civil right

  13. One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 4

    When Joseph Paul Franklin hit the road to start his killing spree, his movements seemed completely random. But what if they weren't? Sources: Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Poto

  14. One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 3

    Last week, we looked at the nazi newletters serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was probably reading in the leadup to his killing spree. But there is one thing we know for certain he was reading: Hustler. Sources: Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the

  15. One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 2

    In 1977, Joseph Paul Franklin started his three year killing spree, but he wasn't the only neo-nazi who murdered for the movement that summer. Sources: Sunshine, Spencer. (2024). Neo-Nazi terrorism and countercultural fascism: The Origins a

  16. To Catch A Fascist: An Interview with Christopher Mathias

    Molly interviews Christopher Mathias about his new book, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right. It's a rollicking tale of infiltrating nazi groups and exposing their private communications to dox them en masse. Preorder

  17. CZM Rewind: Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney

    Part One: Frank Abbott Sweeney Jr may be the Forrest Gump of American white supremacy in the 20th century. Starting with a failed bank robbery for the American Nazi Party in the 60s, Frank stumbled his way into being an inconsequential side

  18. One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 1

    Years before he set off on his three year killing spree, Joseph Paul Franklin left his home in Alabama to attend a nazi conference in Virginia. Sources: Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Fra

  19. Cops & Klan

    In 1965, a car full of klansmen shot and killed Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit who volunteered to drive civil rights activists back to Selma after the march to Montgomery. The FBI immediately kicked into overdrive to drag her name

  20. Earl Turner's Diary

    When the man responsible for bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City was arrested, he was carrying a page of his favorite book. The book had been sold at gun shows and in ads in nazi newsletters for years, but suddenly the rest of the c

  21. CZM Rewind: Blood River & Mission South Africa

    Parts 7 & 8 of the South Africa arc. Blood River Original Air Date: 4.17.25 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 prophec

  22. CZM Rewind: The Whites' Last Stand & The Jamboree in Jamba

    Parts 5 & 6 of the South Africa arc. The Whites' Last Stand Original Air Date: 4.3.25 In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late

  23. CZM Rewind: The White Wolf & White Guns for Hire

    Parts 3 & 4 of the South Africa arc. The White Wolf Original Air Date: 3.2.25 In 1989, four Afrikaner nationalists and one German mercenary killed a security guard at a United Nations outpost in Namibia. After escaping from custody, they fl

  24. CZM Rewind: The White House Weighs in on White Genocide & Apartheid International

    For the end of the year reruns, Weird Little Guys is revisiting the longest, strangest story of 2025 - the South Africa arc. Those eight episodes tell the strange story of how one little skinhead rally in California in 2012 connects to a va

  25. Minisode: Reverse Q&A

    In this minisode, Molly highlights a couple of listener answers to questions raised on the show. Most importantly, we finally find out what Dan Burros was watching on TV on November 10, 1962. See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

  26. The Florida Bar v Invictus

    Augustus Invictus has finally been suspended by the Florida Bar for his felony conviction for participating in a nazi torch march in 2017. But when will he actually serve his jail sentence? See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in

  27. The Insurrectionist: Tyler Dykes, Part Two

    In 2017, Tyler Dykes marched in Charlottesville. In 2021, he breached the capitol. In 2026, he hopes to win a congressional election. Sources: https://www.postandcourier.com/beaufort-county/politics/tyler-dykes-campaign-sc1-congress/article

  28. CZM Rewind: Burning Hate: Tyler Dykes

    This episode originally ran on October 17, 2024. There is a brief new introduction, but it's back at the top of your feed for listeners who didn't catch it the first time around. Today's regular episode picks up where this one left off. Sou

  29. Weird Little Guys 2025 Q&A

    Molly answers your weird little questions and shares her personal conspiracy theory about who tried and failed to assassinate a nazi in 1967. Sources: Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, 'Mass Communication and Parasocial Interaction: Observati

  30. CZM Rewind: Magic Beans

    In 2017, a man showed up at the emergency room and confessed that he'd accidentally poisoned himself with homemade ricin. He was federally charged with possessing a biological agent, but his case was dismissed on almost unbelievable technic

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