Podcast Episodes

Shooter Without A Cause

The guy who took a shot at Trump last summer wasn't the first person to shoot a presidential candidate without a clear political motive. In 1972, Arthur Bremer failed to assassinate Richard Nixon and…

Published on 4 months ago

Mission South Africa

At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside …

Published on 4 months ago

Listener Q&A

Molly answers questions submitted by listeners.

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Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Blood River

In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

The Jamboree in Jamba

This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.

Sources:

Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.

A…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

The Whites' Last Stand

In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century:

Sources:
https://dcist.com/stor…

Published on 5 months ago

White Guns for Hire

In 1994, a second group of mercenaries arrived at the airport in Johannesburg... but no one was there to pick them up. Their host had been arrested days earlier, after the last group of mercenaries s…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The White Wolf

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 fled home to South Africa. A possibly n…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Apartheid International

In the last episode, we looked at a strange series of rallies held in cities across the United States in 2012 - American neo-nazis were rallying in support of white South African Farmers. But how did…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Update On: A Short-Lived Pardon

This is a rerun of the episode that originally ran on February 6, 2025 with a newly recorded introduction with new information about the traffic stop that led to Matthew Huttle's death.

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Published on 6 months ago