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I Don't Speak German132: Why to Learn Spanish, with Craig JohnsonWe're delighted to welcome back Craig Johnson - of Fifteen Minutes of Fascism - to chat about the politics and value of native English speakers learning other languages, especially Spanish. Episode Notes: Spanish language papers: Pagina12: left Peronist, Argentina: www.pagina12.com.ar Proceso, Mexico: www.proceso.com.mx elDiario.es and Público, Spain: www.eldiario.es, www.publico.es Again, not an endorsement of these as the best and most perfect news sources in the world, they have their own biases (esp regarding their own domestic left), bu...
2025-06-301h 00I Don't Speak German128: How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, with Craig A. JohnsonJack and Daniel welcome to the show Craig A. Johnson - academic, researcher, antifascist, and host of the (excellent) podcast 15 Minutes of Fascism - to chat about his (excellent) new book How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, a primer on today's fascist and far-right, in all their styles and iterations, aimed at people worried that a young person in their lives (most especially a young man, obviously) is being sucked into the darkness. Episode Notes: How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, book. 15 Minutes of Fascism at Soundcloud I...
2025-03-2354 minI Don't Speak GermanPUBLIC BONUS: Estranged Parents, with George Daniel LeaJack is joined by friend (and friend-of-the-show), the writer George Daniel Lea, to talk about the online phenomenon known as 'Estranged Parents' or the 'Estranged Parents Movement'. George did a deep dive and is here to tell us about what he found. It turns out to be a lot more relevant to IDSG than it might seem at first glance! George's site http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/ George on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid George on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@ExaggeratedElegy In researching this episode, and compiling a...
2025-01-302h 22I Don't Speak German127: January 6th and the Second Trump PresidencyWe begin our seventh year (!) with a conversation with special guest Teddy Wilson, the journalist behind Radical Reports, on the state of the January 6th convictions, prosecutions, and investigations in the looming shadow of a second Trump presidency. Episode Notes: https://bsky.app/profile/reportbywilson.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/radicalreports.bsky.social https://www.radicalreports.org/ Teddy's previous IDSG appearances: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/123-moms-for-liberty-with-teddy-wilson https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/bonus-hanging-out-with-eiynah Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make...
2025-01-111h 13I Don't Speak GermanNews Brief: J.D. Vance, Eric Weinstein, Jack Murphy, Nick Fuentes and Groyper War 2Jack and Daniel catch up with J.D. Vance's recent press, featuring guest appearances from a host of old IDSG characters, including Eric Weinstein, Jack Murphy, and Nick Fuentes. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod D...
2024-08-3058 minI Don't Speak GermanBONUS PREVIEW: Bonus Ep33 Air Force One (1997)We begin our celebration of America's months-long presidential election with the first in a projected bonus series on movies about the US President. In this edition, we look at 1997's Air Force One. Exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
2024-04-2909 minI Don't Speak German125: Cantwell on GrindrAn entire episode of Cantwell news. And it ain't nice. Content Warnings. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.so...
2024-04-241h 16I Don't Speak GermanPUBLIC BONUS: Talking About Gaza, with Eiynah Mohammed-SmithDaniel 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 Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access t...
2024-04-171h 12I Don't Speak GermanPUBLIC BONUS: Cis Solidarity with Trans Struggle, Jack in Conversation with Rowan Fortune & Twilight O'HaraAnother 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 Row...
2024-03-082h 06I Don't Speak GermanBONUS PREVIEW: Oppenheimer (2023)Daniel and Jack discuss Christopher Nolan's 2023 film Oppenheimer. Exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social IDSG on Appl...
2024-03-0407 minI Don't Speak GermanNews Brief: Nazis at CPACNazis are mingling at CPAC, networking and sharing ideas. We delve into a couple of them for you. Content Warnings Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's (Locked...
2024-02-2955 minI Don't Speak GermanNews Brief: Blood Tribe March in NashvilleA 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: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's P...
2024-02-1937 minI Don't Speak German124: The Collapse of the National Justice PartyWe'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: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true...
2024-02-191h 10I Don't Speak GermanUNLOCKED! Bonus Ep11 The Dark Knight (Part 2)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 Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Content Warnings. Please consider donating to help...
2024-02-161h 27I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Bonus 31We return! Backer-only episode in which we chat about our recent lengthy hiatus, our lengthy journey to IDSG, the lengthy rise of fascism, our favourite lengthy YouTube videos, and, by way of contrast, Chris Cantwell's penis. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Content Warnings. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitt...
2024-01-3109 minI Don't Speak GermanUNLOCKED! Bonus Ep10 The Dark Knight (Part 1)To whet your appetite for our intended imminent return, 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. Brand new bonus episode for patrons coming soon. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Content Warnings. Please consider donating to help us make the sh...
2024-01-311h 41I Don't Speak GermanFREE BONUS: Jack Talks About Elon Musk and the NazisJust 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 Do...
2023-10-0424 minI Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Bonus Ep30 In Cold BloodIn our new Bonus Episode, we talked about In Cold Blood - book, film, films about the book, and the crime itself. * Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and...
2023-08-2905 minI Don't Speak German123: Moms for Liberty, with Teddy WilsonIn this episode, Jack is honoured to be joined by special guest Teddy Wilson of the excellent substack Radical Reports. (Links below.) Teddy has been closely studying the US far-right, including the sinister political pressure group that calls itself Moms for Liberty, one of the prime movers in the current reactionary cultural counter-revolution going on in America. Teddy tells Jack all about it, going into detail about M4L's aims, methods, and connections. He also tells Jack about the interactive visualisation tool he's created at Radical Reports for tracking M4L, their activities and interactions with other people and grou...
2023-08-221h 26I Don't Speak GermanUNLOCKED! Bonus Ep9 Iron Man, 2008 (from Oct 2021)Our hiatus continues, owing to some real pain-in-the-ass stuff in what is jokingly called 'real life'. Hopefully we are nearing the time when we can resume making new shows. In the meantime, here's another old bonus episode to tide you over until our triumphant return. In this one - originally recorded and released exclusively to Patreon subscribers in October 2021 - we discuss the 2008 movie Iron Man. * Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make th...
2023-07-211h 59I Don't Speak GermanUNLOCKED! Bonus Ep16 Maus (from March 2022)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 Liber...
2023-06-161h 20I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Bonus Ep29 Charles and TuckerDaniel and Jack reconvene for a chat about the coronation of Charles Windsor and the defenestration of Tucker Carlson. They also talk a little bit about their recent hiatus, and their imminent return to regular production of episodes. Enjoy! Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com...
2023-05-0806 minI Don't Speak GermanUNLOCKED! Bonus Ep9 Physics and Desert CountryOkay, so.... as you'll have noticed, we haven't been that productive lately. We've both been going through some stuff. However, we are both still committed to the show. To tide you over while you wait for us to get our acts back together, here's a public release of an old Patreon-only bonus episode from August 2021. It's a general chat in which Daniel and Jack react to some contemporary news, and Daniel tells Jack about his visit to a museum while on his holidays. More interesting than it sounds, hopefully. Content warnings for some discussions of atro...
2023-04-281h 21I Don't Speak German122: Crowder vs. the Daily WireDaniel and Jack return with a bumper episode. We start with Steven Crowder's declaration of hostilities against Shapiro and his organisation The Daily Wire, and from there we move through the various reactions on the far Right, from Elijah Schaffer to John Doyle to Isabelle Riley Moody to Nick Fuentes, and more. This episode is less about the Crowder vs. Shapiro spat and more about how it opens a window into the rampant and increasingly mainstreamed antisemitism on the Right. This episode comes with heavy content warnings. Daniel has done a ton of research and come back...
2023-02-271h 53I Don't Speak GermanFREE Bonus Ep28 Rage Against the War Machine, with Amanda MooreA 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 Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get excl...
2023-02-2434 minI Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Bonus Ep 27 Social Media, Science and ArtDaniel and Jack had an impromptu chat one night, accidentally recorded it, and decided that - a few edits later - it would stand up as a bonus episode. We hope you enjoy it. If you do, we might do more bonus episodes without a set topic, just us shooting the breeze. * Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: http...
2023-02-1507 minI Don't Speak GermanUNLOCKED! Bonus Ep7 In The Loop (2009)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. Becoming a patron brings access to all other bonus episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
2023-02-101h 33I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Bonus Ep26 Real Genius (1985)In this backer-only bonus ep, Daniel finally gets to talk about Real Genius (1985), which Jack has only just seen... Real Genius (1985) - IMDb Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the sho...
2023-02-0705 minI Don't Speak German121: Conspirituality and Anti-Wokeness, with Matthew RemskiA real treat episode: Jack chats with special guest Matthew Remski of the excellent Conspirituality podcast ("dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis".) The conversation ranges over Teal Swan and influencers like her, the Anti-Wokeness of the conspiritualist milieu, the Satantic Panic and its relationship to QAnon, the fascists and their idea of 'after the revolution', and the neoliberal roots of our current cultural predicament. Content Warnings! Matthew and Conspirituality matthew remski (@matthewremski) / Twitter Conspirituality Conspirituality on Apple Podcasts IDSG: Please c...
2023-01-281h 40I Don't Speak GermanFREE Bonus Ep25 George Santos, with Marisa KabasIn this free public bonus episode, stepping sideways off our usual beat, Jack plays host to extra special guest Marisa Kabas - writer, reporter, MSNBC columnist, and author of The Daily Santos at her journal The Handbasket - and chats with her about the object of their mutual obsession: one-man pile-up, dumpster-fire, and lie-factory, Rep. George Santos (NY-R) IF THAT EVEN IS HIS NAME!!! Content Warnings Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a...
2023-01-2341 minI Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Bonus Ep24 Lethal Weapon (1987)Our quest to talk about every naff blokey movie from the 80s and 90s continues with this classic bit of homoerotic copaganda murder porn starring Danny Glover and a Nazi. Lethal Weapon - Wikipedia Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=tru...
2023-01-2306 minI Don't Speak GermanUNLOCKED! Bonus Ep22 Elon Musk and Twitter, with Eric from ESG HoundBecome a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @daniel...
2023-01-131h 09I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep 23 Basic Instinct 1 & 2Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @daniel...
2023-01-0310 minI Don't Speak German120: Caleb Maupin and the Conspiracy Left, with Sophie from MarsA 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 co...
2022-12-211h 33I Don't Speak German119: The Reichsbürger Coup, with Annika BrockschmidtJack 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...
2022-12-141h 30I Don't Speak German118b: Free Bonus - Ye Context, with Holly BIn this 'DVD extra', we are joined by our friend, super knowledgeable and insightful pop culture writer Holly B, who takes us sad old deeply-uncool men on a journey through the weird world and arcane lore of the artist formerly known as Kanye West and now known as "that guy who looooooves Hitler". I don't know that we end up wiser exactly... but we certainly end up better informed and massively entertained. Or at least we would be entertained if everything about this weren't so awful. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the...
2022-12-131h 12I Don't Speak German118: Ye - the Right ReactsWhat happens when one of the most famous recording artists in the world has a full divorced-dad-crisis and plummets into the abyss he's been dangling over for ages, the abyss of far-right, antisemitic, pro-Nazi conspiracy theories? Well, now we know, because we've all been watching Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) cart Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos around with him like his new crew of homies and hype men as he dines with Trump, does interviews with Tim Pool and Alex Jones, and chats with Gavin McInnes (founder of the Proud Boys) in what looks like a t...
2022-12-111h 18I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode: Elon Musk buys Twitter, with Eric from ESG HoundBecome a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @daniel...
2022-11-2406 minI Don't Speak GermanUNLOCKED! Bonus Episode: The Queen is Dead (Boys)To tide you over until we have some new content for you, here's our most recent bonus episode, originally released 28th September for Patreon backers only. Becoming a patron of Daniel or Jack brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month (that's the plan anyway). Eiynah's GoFundMe: Fundraiser by Eiynah Nicemangos : Donate to help Eiynah (gofundme.com) Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help...
2022-11-201h 12I Don't Speak German117: Terror in Waukesha (and the NJP)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. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all bac...
2022-10-291h 25I Don't Speak German116: The Oath Keepers and Stewart Rhodes, with Rob from The Right PodcastSpecial guest Rob from The Right Podcast (@TheRightPodcast) returns to tell Jack all about Stewart Rhodes and The Oath Keepers - seen like a rash all over American fascist activity from Ferguson to January 6th - with special attention to their deep roots and influences in the Tea Party explosion of the Obama era, the John Birch Society tradition, the Ron Paul Revolution, the Bundy saga, Waco and Ruby Ridge, and the US far-right tradition generally. Content warnings. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and...
2022-09-301h 56I Don't Speak German115: Amanda Rogers Talks About Terrible TommyWith apologies for our long absence (we've both had non-Covid health problems) and assurances of our continued commitment to the show, here is a new episode in which Daniel chats with brilliant special guest Amanda Rogers (@MsEntropy on Twitter) about terrible Tom Metzger, his importance to the far-right movement, his continued relevance, and the dangerous way his legacy is often misunderstood and underestimated. Jack will be back soon with another chat with Rob from @TheRightPodcast about Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers. Content warnings. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help...
2022-09-291h 16I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode: The Queen is Dead (Boys)Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. In case you hadn't heard, an old lady died and her unpleasant elderly son became her. Or something? Anyway, we puzzle it out in this bonus episode. I'm still trying to figure out who destroyed a ring, personally. Eiynah's GoFundMe: Fundraiser by Eiynah Nicemangos : Donate to help Eiynah (gofundme.com) Daniel's Patreon: http...
2022-09-2805 minI Don't Speak German114: Jesse Dunstan and Peaceful Ethnic Cleansing - TRS Behind the PaywallWe've been away but now we have returned and your ears will be sorry... largely because we're back with a soft-reboot episode in which we go back to our roots, i.e. the proper nazis... specifically, the cesspit that is the TRS podcast. In this show we take you behind the paywall and present a catalogue of hideousness, focusing on TRS co-host Jesse Dunstan (AKA Sven) and his various thoughts on ethic cleansing ('peaceful', of course), how to react properly to mass shootings by genocidal racists (don't deny, celebrate), the Holocaust (guess what he thinks), and why...
2022-08-212h 01I Don't Speak German113: The People's Party etc, with Rob from The Right PodcastIn 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 th...
2022-07-231h 37I Don't Speak GermanUNLOCKED! Bonus Ep#6 Red Dwarf - Infinity Welcomes Careful DriversWe here at IDSG have lots of great stuff in the pipeline... but the pipeline is taking a little longer to construct than we'd like. So here is a bonus episode - originally published in June last year and previously available only to Patreon backers - featuring us in conversation with our old friend, podcasting legend James Murphy, about Grant Naylor's novel Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, based on the TV series. Plus access to all other bonus episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/u...
2022-07-211h 30I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode on 'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt VonnegutBecome a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. This time we talk about Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut's classic satire of war and American civilisation (but I repeat myself), and the disappointing movie version. Slaughterhouse-Five - Wikipedia Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to...
2022-07-1905 minI Don't Speak German112: Primary Colors (1998) and other discussions...So, Daniel and Jack recorded a bonus episode on 1998's Primary Colors (the Mike Nichols movie, written by Elaine May, starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson, based on the originally Anonymous roman-à-clef about the 1992 Bill Clinton primary campaign) for their Patreon contributors... and, as the discussion ranged widely, it somehow turned into something they wanted to release on the main feed. Content Warnings Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least on...
2022-06-261h 50I Don't Speak German111: Elijah Schaffer etc, with JoséThis time Daniel and Jack welcome special guest José, brilliant YouTube essayist, for a chat about Elijah Schaffer and José's recent video about him and the US Christian Right. We also sorely try the good man's patience with much frivolity and digression. Things get giggly when we start talking about Glen Beck's novels. A thoroughly good time, this one... before we begin our descent back into hell next time... Content Warnings Always Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at...
2022-06-241h 08I Don't Speak GermanUNLOCKED! Bonus Ep#5 Downfall (2004)We haven't given you, our non-paying listeners, a bonus episode since Christmas, so have a summer present. It's our bonus episode - originally for Patreon backers only - on 2004's Downfall, the acclaimed German movie (good thing there are subtitles because... y'know) about the last days of Hitler and his assorted hangers-on in the bunker as the Red Army grind their way into Berlin. Spoiler: he shoots himself. It's a complex, flawed, fascinating movie, and both of your hosts have complicated feelings about it. Downfall (2004 film) - Wikipedia Become a backer of Daniel or...
2022-06-161h 36I Don't Speak German110: Uvalde, Buffalo, and Toothache DiscourseThis time, Daniel and Jack talk about Uvalde, Buffalo, the cops, guns, and the discourse. This episode is respectfully dedicated to the victims of these crimes and their families. Content Extremely Warnings Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com...
2022-06-111h 33I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode on 'The Fugitive' (1993)Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. This time we talk about The Fugitive (1993). The Fugitive (1993 film) - Wikipedia Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extr...
2022-05-3006 minI Don't Speak German109: News Roundup - Schaffer, America First, Buffalo ShooterIn 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: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. ...
2022-05-171h 08I Don't Speak German108: Jimmy Dore, Part 2 - Transphobia, Misogyny, BoogalooJack continues to tell an increasingly (and understandably) resentful Daniel all about insidious YouTube 'comedian' and political commentator Jimmy Dore, detailing his 'leftist' or 'progressive' version of reactionary politics via accounts of his slimy transphobic coverage of the Lia Thomas story (leading to a bizarre open challenge to all trans man basketball players), his frothingly misogynistic coverage of Taylor Lorenz' interview about the harassment she faces, and his insane conversation with deeply silly and unpleasant Stalinist Caleb Maupin, in which they free associate (based on a ridiculous Grayzone article) about 'Breadtube' being run by the CIA. Along the way...
2022-05-091h 24I Don't Speak German107: Jimmy Dore, Part 1 - Ukraine Biolabs and Bogus Fact ChecksSo 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 apo...
2022-04-211h 27I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode on 'No Country for Old Men' (2007)Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. This time we talk about the Coen Bros. No Country for Old Men (2007). No Country for Old Men Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get e...
2022-04-2005 minI Don't Speak German106: Flat Earth, with Kelly WeillThis time we are honoured and delighted to welcome special guest Kelly Weill of The Daily Beast (etc) to talk to us about her new (and excellent) book Off The Edge, a history of Flat Earth, the current state of the Flat Earth movement, and our cultish and conspiratorial times generally. A fun and thoughtful - and sometimes melancholic - discussion. Off The Edge links Off the Edge - Workman Publishing Amazon.com: Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything: 9781643750682: Weill, Kelly: Books Kelly's Twitter @K...
2022-04-051h 09I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode on 'Fargo' (1996)Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. This time we talk about the Coen Bros. Fargo (1996). Fargo Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
2022-03-2404 minI Don't Speak German105: The Mainstreaming of Lauren SouthernIn rank defiance of all the various conflicting things we've told you Episode 105 would be about, here is an episode about 2015's (and sadly also 2022's) Lauren Southern (lying, untruth-telling nazi liar-nazi) and the mainstreaming and normalising thereof. In this episode we consider Lauren's career (in brief, owing to the fact that chronicling her trail of lies and evil acts has become something of a cottage industry for the online left), her departure from politics and regrettable return, her ostensible changed nature (lol), her pub-excluding ideological lenses, and her sitcom life which comes complete with eccentric stereotype...
2022-03-131h 44I Don't Speak German104: AFPAC IIIThis time, we look at the recent AFPAC conference, Nick Fuentes' gathering of the Groypers, i.e. the even worse version of CPAC, attended by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Joe Arpaio, among many horrible others. Controversies, squabbles, coalition-building, Christian dominionism, and very long, weird speeches. Daniel and Jack both do voices. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack...
2022-03-011h 36I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode on 'Maus' by Art SpiegelmanBecome a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. This time we talk about Maus by Art Spiegelman. Maus Our episode about Maus and the McMinn County School Board Auschwitz in Contemporary Popular Literature by Dr Wanda Witek-Malicka Of Mice and Memory by Joshua Brown Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
2022-03-0106 minI Don't Speak German103: Maus vs. McMinn County School BoardSo, McMinn County School Board in Tennessee decided to remove Maus - Art Spiegelman's classic graphic novel about the Nazi Holocaust and historical memory - from their syllabus, on the grounds that some simply sketched mouse nudity and a few very mild swears would upset and corrupt their pupils, which is obviously very reasonable and evidence of extremely well balanced priorities. Actually, alongside the epidemic of attempts across the US to remove certain sorts of books from school libraries and curricula, it is evidence that an insidious reactionary agenda is gaining traction. In this episode we talk...
2022-02-101h 55I Don't Speak German102: Rittenhouse, Anarcho-Tyranny, and Blood LibelIn the second part of our Rittenhouse coverage, we start with a look at Kyle's reception as a rock star messiah at Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA and follow the thread where it leads, from more on Elijah Shaffer to Tucker Carlson and his 'Trial of Kyle' to Mike Enoch and the National Justice Party via "a twentieth century philosopher". In the process, we consider the currency of the concept of 'Anarcho-Tyranny' and how the term Blood Libel is being appropriated. Dialectical? Yeah, we're dialectical AF. And we don't apologise. Content Warnings. Podcast Notes:
2022-01-281h 47I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode L.A. Confidential (1997)Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. To start 2022, we chat about Curtis Hanson's 1997 period thriller L.A. Confidential, starring Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, fetus Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, pre-exposure Kevin Spacey, and Danny DeVito, and based on the James Ellroy novel of the same name. Content warnings, spoilers for movie and Ellroy's books. L.A. Confidential (film) - Wikipedia Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/p...
2022-01-1706 minI Don't Speak German101: Roman McClay and the ManosphereAnd so we kick off 2022, IDSG's fourth year, with an episode about the Denver shooter and self-published SF novelist (who put himself and his own murder plans in his own books) Lyndon McCleod, AKA Roman McClay, and his relationship to the infamous 'Manosphere', AKA a network of misogynistic and 'masculinist' fashy chudlingers like Jack Murphy, Jack Davenport, etc. We follow up a bit on our last episode (Part 1 of our post-verdict Rittenhouse coverage) and drop back in on the nauseating You Are Here podcast, and Baldy McDickface's Tim Pool's show, as we explore the recent flap around Jack Murphy's...
2022-01-112h 02I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode 14 Seven (1995)Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. To see off 2021, we chat about David Fincher's 1995 serial killer movie Seven, starring Brad Pitt and several cancelled people. Content warnings, spoilers from the word go. Seven (1995 film) - Wikipedia Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show an...
2021-12-3003 minI Don't Speak German100: Kyle Rittenhouse, Part 1IDSG episodes are like the proverbial bus that keeps you waiting and waiting and waiting and then turns up in multiples. And it's definitely nothing to do with Jack having irregular jags of being in the mood to edit or anything. Anyway, here's your latest. For this, our combined hundredth / Christmas episode, Daniel has prepared a bevvy of clips of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha Killer Kid, pre and post verdict. Compare and contrast his tears on the stand to those he cried in the police interview room. Compare and contrast his claimed trauma with his concerns...
2021-12-211h 41I Don't Speak German99: Sines vs. Kessler VerdictLet all persons having any manner of business before this venerable podcast gather ye forth and giveth your attention! Closing in on the end of 2021 and their hundredth episode, Daniel and Jack talk about the Sines vs. Kessler trial (the civil trial of the Unite the Right organisers etc), the way in which the far-right (including the defendants) have conceptualised it, the long-awaited aftermath in the wake of the verdict (which dropped just before Thanksgiving), and the reactions and attitudes to the whole thing among the far-right, including lots of inexplicably buoyant Cantwell lunacy. * Content...
2021-12-201h 35I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep13 A Few Good Men (1992)Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. This time, we chat about Rob Reiner's 1992 movie of Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men. A Few Good Men Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a mon...
2021-12-0605 minI Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep12 Rittenhouse EtcBecome a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. This time, we have a general chat taking in the recent antics of Tim Pool, Jimmy Dore, Bret & Heather, etc, before concentrating on the Rittenhouse case, and the trial as it enters its final phase. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true EXTRA Content Warnings for discussion of violence and...
2021-11-1609 minI Don't Speak German98: The University of Austin, with Kristin Rawls and Jeff EatonSo UATX happened. Dear God I wish stuff would stop happening. Thankfully we got Kristin Rawls and Jeff Eaton from Christian Rightcast to come back to help us talk about it. * Content Warnings. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod ...
2021-11-161h 55I Don't Speak German97: Debating Sam HarrisSo Sam Harris went on Decoding the Gurus, and we decided we had to talk about it. Content warnings. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/p...
2021-11-101h 22I Don't Speak German96: Catching Up With Cantwell (and The Failures of the Prison Industrial Complex)Sines v. Kessler is finally underway, and Christopher Cantwell is representing himself. Need we say more? Actually, yes. And hence, this episode. Content warnings. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ IDSG on Apple Podcasts...
2021-10-311h 28I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep11 The Dark Knight, Part 2Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. Since we spent the entirety of Bonus Episode 10 moaning about the technical shortcomings of The Dark Knight, 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 of same. And so we did. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: ht...
2021-10-2611 minI Don't Speak German95: James Lindsay and the Grievance Studies Hoax, Part 2Yes, we're back with Jimmy Concepts, reliable source of dishonest idiocy. This time, as a kind of 'bonus feature' to our last episode, Daniel reads out a representative selection of reviewer comments on some of the fake papers submitted to academic journals by Lindsay, Pluckrose and Boghossian during the so-called 'Sokal Squared' prank. It's very revealing... albeit of something we already knew: namely that Lindsay and his cohorts are absolutely full of shit. Content Warnings. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access...
2021-10-241h 28I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep10 The Dark Knight (2008)Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. This time, Daniel and Jack embark on a chat about Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman movie The Dark Knight. You know, it's the one with Heath Ledger as the Joker. In a development that is depressingly less surprising than we wish it were, it turns out we have so much to say about this silly movie that this episode morphs into Part 1 of a two part discussion before ou...
2021-10-1209 minI Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep9 Iron Man (2008)Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode in which we chat about 2008's Iron Man, foundation of the biggest media franchise in history and politically dense text in its own right. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Content Warnings. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to o...
2021-10-0705 minI Don't Speak German94: James Lindsay and the Grievance Studies HoaxSo, in rank defiance of our recent promise to 'get back to the nazis' instead we continue our James Lindsay coverage. (What... me? Irony? How dare you?) This time, Daniel patiently walks a distracted, slightly hyperactive, and increasingly incredulous Jack through the infamous 'Grievance Studies Hoax' (AKA 'Sokal Squared') in which Lindsay and colleagues Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian tried (and then claimed) to prove something or other about modern Humanities academia by submitting a load of stupid fake papers to various feminist and fat studies journals. As Daniel reveals, the episode was an orgy of dishonesty and tactical...
2021-09-291h 38I Don't Speak German93: Richard Spencer ReduxWe revisit the subject of our very first episode, Richard Spencer, catching up with his more recent exploits, all in an attempt to emphasize that a) he's still around, b) he's still dangerous, and c) he means what he says. Content Warnings. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com...
2021-09-251h 28I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep8 Physics and Desert CountryBecome a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode in which we chat about museums, historical memory, war, the Bomb and various atrocities. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Content Warnings. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. IDSG Twitter: h...
2021-08-3005 minI Don't Speak German91: The Theological Dark Web, with Kristin Rawls and Jeff EatonWith - once again - apologies for the gap between episodes, here is a very special edition in which Daniel plays host to Kristin Rawls and Jeff Eaton of the excellent Christian Rightcast podcast, to chat about the areas where their work - on the Christian Right, if the name of their show didn't tip you off - intersects with ours. Lots of laughs in this chat about depressingly awful people. Content warnings. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one fu...
2021-08-171h 17I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep7 In The LoopBecome a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode 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 Alisatair Campbell. Also features much embarrassing old geezer reminiscing. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Content Warnings. Please consider d...
2021-08-1406 minI Don't Speak German90: Bret & Heather's Crunchy CovidBret and Heather and Ivermectin. Oh my. IDSG returns from it's 17 year absence with a banger of an episode in which Daniel dishes out THE FUCKING TEA on Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying (again) and their irresponsible spreading (in hushed, reasonable voices) of potentially lethal conspiracy theories and bad science re Covid, Wuhan, vaccines, and Ivermectin. Content Warnings. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper
2021-07-231h 51I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep6 Red Dwarf - Infinity Welcomes Careful DriversBecome a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode about Grant Naylor's novel Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, based on the TV series. Featuring special guest, our good friend, podcast legend, the amazing James Murphy. Plus access to all other bonus episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Content Warnings. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one fu...
2021-06-2105 minI Don't Speak German89: Sounds Like Hate, with Geraldine Moriba and Jamila PaksimaFor Episode 89, Jack takes a break and Daniel chats with Geraldine Moriba and Jamila Paksima of the excellent Sounds Like Hate podcast. Content warnings, as ever. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ ID...
2021-06-121h 02I Don't Speak German88: The Long Shadow of New Atheism, with Eiynah Mohammed-SmithAnd so, episode 88 is finally here. And we found the best way to deal with it. In this episode, we welcome back the brilliant Eiynah Mohammed-Smith - of the Polite Conversations podcast - to talk about the long shadow of New Atheism. In the process we also talk about some of the crop of IDW-criticism proliferating these days, and our issues with it. We also talk about other things. Rude things. *Jack blushes* Content Warnings. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent...
2021-06-031h 31I Don't Speak GermanPREVIEW: Backer Bonus E5 DownfallBecome a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode about 2004's Downfall about Hitler's last days (it's the source of the YouTube 'Hitler gets angry' meme). Plus access to all other bonus episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Content Warnings. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a mon...
2021-05-2403 minI Don't Speak German87: James Lindsay's Conceptual PenisIn this bumper edition, we begin a projected trilogy of episodes on James Lindsay, Twitter's favourite anti-Critical Race Theory obsessive and bullying prick. This time, we track the earlier part of James' career as a professional reactionary, leading up to the embarassing 'Conceptual Penis hoax' of which James still seems inexplicably proud. Daniel demonstrates (to a Jack still groggy from all the AstraZeneca nanobots coursing through his brain) that James was pretty much always the obnoxious douchebag he is now, but simply needed to learn through experience (of being called on his bullshit) how to...
2021-05-092h 14I Don't Speak German86: Internet Drama News RoundupIn this News Roundup episode, we take a look at the 'debate' between Professor Richard Wolff (public face of Marxism these days, sadly) and 'Destiny' (AKA Steven Bonnell II), a liberal YouTube livestreamer, and Bonnell's total lack of real and honest curiosity about socialism. We then take a look at Nick Fuentes' extremely not mad reaction to YouTuber Thought Slime's video about him, and discover various things about Nick, including why he doesn't believe in dinosaurs. Or, y'know, the Holocaust. We also check in on Bret (Weinstein) and Heather (Heying) (of the Dark Horse podcast) to correct some of...
2021-05-031h 37I Don't Speak German85: Crypto Fascists, with David GerardThis 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. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/us...
2021-04-161h 35I Don't Speak German84: Heather Heying Goes Full TERF, Part 2In Part 2 of our investigation of Heather Heying's (of the extended IDW, and the Dark Horse Podcast with husband Bret Weinstein) descent from sociobiology into outright TERFery, we get to the really nasty shit. Content Warnings for venomous, hardcore transphobia, albeit couched in an ostensibly reasonable tone. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 I...
2021-04-011h 25I Don't Speak German83: Heather Heying Goes Full TERF, Part 1In the first part of a two-part episode, we continue to chart the increasingly malignant influence of the IDW and satellites, examining the journey of Heather Heying (of the Dark Horse Podcast which she co-presents with her husband Bret Weinstein) from scientific reductionism all the way to (as she herself puts it) "full TERF". Content Warnings for Transphobia, Ableism, anti-Sex Worker stuff, etc. Part 2 up very soon. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a...
2021-03-311h 04I Don't Speak German82: Scott Alexander & Slate Star Codex, with David Gerard and Elizabeth SandiferAnother 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. Podcast Notes:
2021-03-141h 28I Don't Speak German81: Amanda Chase, with Goad GatsbyThis 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. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to...
2021-03-051h 21I Don't Speak German80: with Shannon Foley MartinezA special episode in which Daniel and Jack are joined by guest Shannon Foley Martinez. A friendly chat with an insightful, humane, moving speaker. Owing to technical difficulties the sound quality is not quite up to our recent standard, so apologies for that. But it's quite listenable. Content Warnings. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. From Jan 2021 onwards, patrons get exclusive access to one extra episode a month. Our first bonus episode is on the 1971 Peter Watkins movie Punishment Park. Our February bonus ep will be on Carol...
2021-02-131h 23I Don't Speak German79: Tom Metzger Part 2 & The Origins of Online HateThis week, we finally get to the conclusion of our coverage of Tom Metzger (Part 1 here), which takes us on a journey through the early history of hate online. Content Warnings. * Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. From Jan 2021 onwards, patrons get exclusive access to one extra episode a month. Our first bonus episode is on the 1971 Peter Watkins movie Punishment Park. Our February bonus ep will be on Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949). Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's...
2021-02-011h 18I Don't Speak German78: Jimmy Dore Platforms a Boogaloo Boy (& News Roundup)This week, it's another of our occasional News Roundup episodes. This time Jack takes the lead (and Daniel hits the whiskey) for a discussion about Jimmy Dore platforming a Boogaloo Boy. Plus a couple of other stories, the painful return of an old segment, and a very special but silent guest appearance. Content Warnings. * Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. From Jan 2021 onwards, patrons get exclusive access to one extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: htt...
2021-01-291h 26I Don't Speak German77: Capitol CoupDaniel and Jack respond to the Jan 6th 2021 attack/coup-attempt on the Capitol Building, Washington D.C. Content Warnings. * Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. From Jan 2021 onwards, patrons get exclusive access to one extra episode a month, plus other extra benefits. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509...
2021-01-112h 06I Don't Speak German76: Birth of a NationAnd so 2020 - notable mostly for being IDSG's second year - comes to an end. This time, in a change to the advertised program, and with apologies for our absence throughout most of this last month, we return with another of our period movie discussion episodes, this time looking at D. W. Griffith's epic, lauded, infamous, three-hour, silent-era blockbuster of hate, prejudice, and bigotry, Birth of a Nation. Content warnings very much apply. The promised Part 2 of our coverage of Tom Metzger should be along as the first IDSG of the new year. Th...
2020-12-301h 28I Don't Speak German58: Transphobia and 'The Right Stuff'Daniel and Jack skip back a bit to re-examine the raging transphobia on display from the 'Right Stuff' crew, as evidenced with clips in IDSG 52. Also, some 'LUL News' and general 'TRS News'. Content Warning. Notes/Links: IDSG Episode 52 and 53 Jack's article Schoep's tweets:
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