Podcast Episodes

Introducing: Away Days Podcast

Hi, Weird Little Guys Fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. 

About the show: Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories f…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

CZM Rewind: Arrested Democracy

Arrested Democracy, Part 1

In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of them tried to have th…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Minisode: Pappas v Giuliani

A bite-sized look at the NYPD officer who sued the city for firing him over anonymously mailing racist pamphlets to charitable organizations

Sources:

​​https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/17/nyregion/offic…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

CZM Rewind: The Devil's Chatroom

The Devil's Chat Room: Ethan Melzer, Part 1

In June of 2020, US Army Private Ethan Melzer was arrested for leaking information about his unit's deployment to Turkey with the intention of causing a mas…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

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 7 months, 3 weeks 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 8 months ago

Listener Q&A

Molly answers questions submitted by listeners.

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Published on 8 months, 1 week 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 8 months, 2 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 8 months, 3 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 8 months, 4 weeks ago