more and more people are saying you should check out my podcast, weird little guys! i'm in the middle of a multi-episode arc about white supremacist terror in the final years of apartheid as part of an exploration into trump's recent interest in "white genocide" narratives. - ThreadSky

socialistdogmom.bsky.social • 11 days ago

more and more people are saying you should check out my podcast, weird little guys!

i'm in the middle of a multi-episode arc about white supremacist terror in the final years of apartheid as part of an exploration into trump's recent interest in "white genocide" narratives.

Reposted from Columbia Journalism Review

Weird little guys, Wired’s big commitment, and a huge wire-copy gaffe, in this week's Laurels and Darts. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

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iamcurious.bsky.social•11 days ago

Love learning about South Africa/apartheid WLGs. Especially when you seemingly discover international cop-killing fascist terrorists just casually living their lives in the UK.

Or that Hungarian war criminal who cranked out fascist newspapers in NJ after the war.

Wish a reporter would follow up.

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•11 days ago

i appreciate the show being described as "more fun than it sounds." probably the most reasonable way to recommend my podcast to someone. yeah it's about the absolute worst people on earth committing unspeakable acts of violence in service of an abhorrent political agenda but it's fun, i promise.

robbinsa.me•11 days ago

I can't say .... fun is a word I'd quite use, but I don't actually know what I would!

seamuspetrie.bsky.social•11 days ago

In recommending Weird Little Guys and It Could Happen Hear to a friend recently, I called them both podcasts in the genre of “our current fucked up world (talked about in a way that isn’t depressing)”

drhello.bsky.social•11 days ago

Hi Molly have you seen this doc about Nazis moving to a small town in North Dakota and the fight that ensued https://youtu.be/DEZCBmnqd1E?si=1n8dORyDqT1uPdjM

issuefortyfive.bsky.social•11 days ago

Your podcast and a really bizarre one about etymology are my two bright spots of the week. I listen to Slate to feel like a serious person.

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•11 days ago

oh what’s your weird etymology podcast? i love “the history of english podcast”

issuefortyfive.bsky.social•11 days ago

I love History of English! But the one I’m into now is Words Unravelled.

https://open.spotify.com/show/7yeADN5OX1m9RPImv1mFhb?si=FiVSVsRQSYmttW-p0rPsyQ

issuefortyfive.bsky.social•11 days ago

And sorry, didn’t mean to imply at all that your podcast isn’t serious. But you present it in a way that’s fun. Molly Ivins once gave a speech where she talked about why she used humor to discuss serious issues and she said, ‘It shakes the cobwebs off your brain.’ You do that well.

socialistdogmom.bsky.social•11 days ago

oh i didn’t take it that way - a podcast can be just for fun!

burnsieb.bsky.social•11 days ago

I mean between this and behind the bastards the amount of “no wait its great i promise” is very much a non zero number 😆

bnarraway.bsky.social•11 days ago

My recommendation would always be “just when the story seems at its darkest, the most hilarious individual possible will pop up with a bizarre role in the narrative.”

witchsqrl.bsky.social•11 days ago

I really enjoy Weird Little Guys. I love the pacing, the diversions that help fill out a more complex tapestry of the Weirdlittleguyosphere you're checking out, all of it! ....Except the actual weird little guys.

iamcurious.bsky.social•11 days ago

I'm a huge fan, too, for a lot of the same reasons. I'm prone to tangents myself. "More fun than it sounds" is good, but I wonder if there's some similar bit of guidance for potential listeners coming from True Crime™️. This is true, it's crime, but it's not a tidy little case that always satisfies.

emmagoldman.bsky.social•11 days ago

Just felt like there should be a link:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weird-little-guys/id1760218611

boatpeeper.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's required listening at this point I feel for anyone interested in what is happening right now and how we got here in the US. Really fantastic work.

suburban-vampire.bsky.social•11 days ago

That's because between your researching skills / uncontrollable mania, and the crew's work supporting you, it ends up being a kick ass podcast you can be proud of!

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