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Weird Little Guys

by iHeartPodcasts and Cool Zone Media · English · True Crime

Weird Little Guys is a weekly show about the worst people you’ve never heard of, taking you beyond the headlines to get to know the race warriors and aspiring terrorists trying to unravel the fabric of our society. Weaving together the origin stories of modern American white supremacist groups and t

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 47 min
Latest: 8 Oct 2026
Language: English

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8 Oct 2026 · 47 min

Scientists for Segregation: Ernest van den Haag

A closer look at one of the men on the Pioneer Fund's team of scientists for segregation reveals that he wasn't a scientist at all. Sources & Further Reading: Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press. Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press. Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press. Van den Haag, Ernest (1969). The Jewish…

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1 Oct 2026 · 38 min
Segregation Forever
Last week, the DOJ's Civil Rights division announced they were moving to dismiss more than 50 desegregation cases against school districts all over the country. Like the weird little guys trying to overturn the Brown v Board of Education decision in the 1960s, the Trump administration is trying to take us all back to a version of America they think was great. Sources & Further Reading: Reardon, Sean & Grewal, Elena & Kalogrides, Demetra & Greenberg, Erica. (2012). Brown Fades: The End of Court-Ordered School Desegregation and the Resegregation of American Public Schools. Journal of Policy…
24 Sep 2026 · 43 min
Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 2
In the decade after the Supreme Court's ruling in the Brown v Board of Education case, segregationists used every tool available to prevent integration. By the early 1960s, a group of Pioneer Fund-backed scientists had teamed up with the lawyer they hoped could get their pseudoscientific argument against Brown in front of a judge. Sources & Further Reading: Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press. Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of…
17 Sep 2026 · 43 min
Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 1
Wickliffe Draper's Pioneer Fund started out in 1937 by funding screenings of Nazi propaganda films in high schools. But like most American racists, the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v Board of Education case changed how he approached the fight for white supremacy. Sources & Further Reading: Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press. Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press. Sussman, Robert Wald…
10 Sep 2026 · 50 min
Death of a Demagogue (rewind)
Sometimes when a weird little guy gets shot, the guy who killed him is just a weirder little guy. Original Air Date: 9/18/2025 Sources: Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Lee, Martin A. (1997). The Beast Reawakens. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.…
3 Sep 2026 · 44 min
An American Racist in Berlin
In 1937, the heir to a textile manufacturing fortune established a charitable foundation to funnel money into disseminating propaganda produced in Nazi Germany. Since then, that fund has subsidized the overwhelming majority of research in the pseudoscientific field of 'race science.' Sources & Further Reading: Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press. Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press. Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books. Lusane, Clarence…
27 Aug 2026 · 58 min
Race Scientists and the Human Zoo
In 1904, men who believed in 'race science' put hundreds of people in a human zoo at the St. Louis world's fair. Today, those same racist, pseudoscientific views persist, and the men who hold them demand to be taken seriously in the name of academic freedom. Sources & Further Reading: Newkirk, Pamela (2015). Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Amistad. Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press. McCray, Carrie Allen (2012). Ota Benga Under My Mother’s Roof. University of South Carolina Press. Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man.…
20 Aug 2026 · 51 min
Mississippi's Still Burning: Byron de la Beckwith Pt 7
In 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted of murder for killing Medgar Evers in 1963. He died in prison, his story is over. But history repeats itself. Sources & Further Reading: Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner. Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster. Vollers, Maryanne (1995).…
17 Aug 2026 · 30 min
No Golf No Masters: Celebrating Our Ungovernable Peccary Friends
James talks with Molly Conger about the javelina and their installable appetite for golf courses. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65x0RvhJNa8 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/nov/05/conservation.sciencenews https://zoologicalbulletin.de/BzB_Volumes/Volume_56_1_2/049_054_BzB56_1_2_Moraves_Jiri_and_B%C3%B6hme_Wolfgang.pdf https://www.azgfd.com/wildlife-conservation/living-with-wildlife/living-with-javelina/ https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/8e8abbf4-6775-4575-9a10-fedacb7cb2c1 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
13 Aug 2026 · 55 min
The Fiery Cross: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 6
In 1964, crosses burned all over Mississippi, signaling a return of the Ku Klux Klan. Their big debut was perfectly timed as a show of support for Byron de la Beckwith. Sources & Further Reading: Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner. Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster. Vollers, Maryanne…
6 Aug 2026 · 55 min
The First Trial: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 5
Byron de la Beckwith was tried for the same murder three times. In 1964, it just wasn't generally considered illegal for a white man to kill a black man in Mississippi. Sources & Further Reading: Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner. Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster. Evers, Myrlie (1967).…
30 Jul 2026 · 1 hr
Rabid on the Subject of Segregation: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 4
In the months leading up to the murder of Medgar Evers, the man who killed him was watching his world crumble. Byron de la Beckwith had dedicated his life to the cause of segregation, but it was a losing battle. The governor of Mississippi had backed down, allowing a second black student to enter Ole Miss. Governor George Wallace in Alabama backed down, too. Integration was creeping in all over. That, and his wife left him. Sources & Further Reading: Doyle, William (2001). An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi 1962. Doubleday. Lambert, Frank (2010). The Battle of Ole…
23 Jul 2026 · 58 min
Black Monday: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 3
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Segregated schools didn't react right away, but segregationists did. Within months, the Citizens' Councils began to form in counties across Mississippi. And Byron de la Beckwith was one of the group's earliest and most enthusiastic members. Sources & Further Reading: Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State…
16 Jul 2026 · 54 min
Sons of Mississippi: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 2
Byron de la Beckwith and Medgar Evers never met. Evers didn’t even see the man who killed him. But the man and his killer grew up a hundred miles apart, fought in the same war, worked similar jobs, and were both deeply invested in the outcome over the fight for integration. Sources & Further Reading: Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little…
9 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 3 min
CZM Rewind: The Roommates & In Minecraft
It's a Weird Little Guys classic episode - the story of the Atomwaffen member who murdered two other Atomwaffen members. Stay tuned until the end for some updates to the story. Sources & Further Reading: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67075979/united-states-v-clendaniel/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71119306/united-states-v-brandon-russell/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/ https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/fbi-surveillance-terrorist-attack-00141200…
2 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
I Watched Uwe Boll's Far Right Power Fantasy So You Don't Have To
This week, Molly watched Citizen Vigilante, a new film from the world's worst director. Sources & Further Reading: https://scoutmagazine.ca/remembering-gastowns-ambitious-but-doomed-modern-german-restaurant/ https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/cinema/hanau-attack-film-angers-victims-families https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-fall-of-armie-hammer-a-family-saga-of-sex-money-drugs-and-betrayal https://people.com/movies/armie-hammer-controversy-timeline/ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/sep/26/news…
25 Jun 2026 · 45 min
June 11, 1963: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 1
On the night of June 11, 1963, Byron de la Beckwith murdered Medgar Evers with a single shot. But how did he end up hiding in a bush across the street from the home of a civil rights leader? Sources & Further Reading: Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. Zinn, Howard. (1964) SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Beacon Press. Boston. Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/06/12/issue.html…
18 Jun 2026 · 44 min
Flagged for Removal
Last week, a federal judge ordered the Department of the Interior to stop implementation of a Trump executive order that would whitewash history at National Park sites. A leaked database shows the materials that parks employees had flagged for removal. They want to 'make America great' by erasing its past. Sources & Further Reading: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/ https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3431-restoring-truth-and-sanity-american-history…
11 Jun 2026 · 49 min
Klan Camp
In 1980, Texas Klan Grand Dragon Louis Beam was running a paramilitary training camp outside of Houston. But they weren't just training klansmen for the race war. They ran a boy scout camp on the weekends. Sources and further reading: Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018. https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/518/993/2128255/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/518/1017/2128803/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/543/198/1460786/…
4 Jun 2026 · 52 min
Outside Agitators
In 1967, segregationist lawyer Jack Kershaw swore out a warrant against George Ware, an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. By the end of the week, a congressman was denouncing Ware on the house floor as an outside agitator. But what is an outside agitator? What do we mean when we blame unrest on these untrustworthy outsiders? Where does that idea come from? And is it even true? Sources & Further Reading: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/ARCHIVE/kerner_commission_full_report.pdf https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html…
4 Jun 2026 · 11 min
In Loving Memory of Laura & Mike Sullivan
We lost one of the greats last month. Laura Sullivan was an antifascist researcher, a photographer, a journalist, a friend, a mother, and a mentor. She was a legend and we were lucky to have her while we did. You can make a donation to One People's Project, the antifascist organization Laura was involved in for more than two decades, here: https://onepeoplesproject.com/donate/ Daryle Lamont Jenkins' tribute to his longtime friends & collaborators, Laura & Mike Sullivan: https://idavox.com/index.php/2026/05/07/the-sullivans-much-love-and-rest-in-peace/ Abner Hauge's tribute to Laura & Mike:…
28 May 2026 · 46 min
It's One Nazi Rally, Donald, How Much Could It Cost?
Wrapping up the discussion of the MAGA narrative surrounding the SPLC indictment, Molly addresses the question of money. If the administration is implying the SPLC fully funded the 2017 Unite the Right rally, what would that mean? How much does something like that cost? And who actually paid for it? Sources & Additional Reading: https://www.integrityfirstforamerica.org/exhibits https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/4540209/splc-money-informant-unite-the-right-richard-spencer-national-policy-institute/ https://discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/server/4…
21 May 2026 · 44 min
Nazis React to the President Saying They Aren't Real
The MAGA media is running with the President's theory that the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 wasn't real. That's offensive to anyone with a solid relationship with reality, but it's especially hurtful for the guys who worked very hard to plan that nazi rally. Link to the September 29, 2025 episode of I Don't Speak German that was mentioned: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/136-the-final-cantwell Sources: https://hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/20/egg-sposed-we-reveal-the-identity-of-far-right-bodybuilder-the-raw-egg-nationalist/…
14 May 2026 · 49 min
The Southern Poverty Law Center Did Not Plan Unite the Right
The President of the United States went on 60 Minutes last month and claimed that the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 was fake, a hoax perpetrated by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He's referring to allegations made in the recent indictment against the SPLC that one of their paid informants was a member of the planning chat for the rally. But what does the indictment actually say? And what kind of person snitches for money? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
11 May 2026 · 10 min
Emergency Minisode: Jason Kessler Sues Gavin McInnes
It's the first ever Weird Little Guys emergency broadcast! A weird little guy has filed a lawsuit against another weird little guy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
7 May 2026 · 45 min
Listener Questions
Molly answers some of your burning questions about important stuff, like a nazi's tuna casserole recipe, who came up with a rhyming phrase about fascist violence, and what kind of cake she's eating this week. Sources: Testa, M. Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance. AK Press, 2015. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/m-testa-militant-anti-fascism https://socialistworker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/a-radical-guide-to-antifascism-LR-1.pdf https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-should-give-no-quarter-those-seeking-divide-us…
30 Apr 2026 · 47 min
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 program at the YMCA so he could do his part to stop integration. Sources: Phillips, Betsy. Dynamite Nashville: the FBI, the KKK, and the bombers beyond their control. Third Man Books 2021. Houston, Benjamin, et al. “‘We Kept the Discussion at an Adult Level’: Jack Kershaw and the Tennessee Federation for Constitutional Government.”…
23 Apr 2026 · 42 min
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 innocent, but said she was telling the truth - she really was a Romanian princess. Sources: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1509995/HRH-Prince-Carol-of-Romania.html https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/23/archives/new-jersey-weekly-the-princess-and-the-police-once-upon-the.html…
16 Apr 2026 · 40 min
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-states-v-scheuer/ https://www.eeoc.gov/what-you-can-expect-after-you-file-charge https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/disney-worker-prison-hacking.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9 Apr 2026 · 44 min
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 pocketed a payment from Playboy magazine. Sources: James McKinley, "Playboy Interview: James Earl Ray," Playboy Magazine, September 1977 https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/09/archives/polygraph-indicates-ray-lied.html https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/25/archives/james-earl-ray-wants-mark-lane-to-replace-his-tenth-lawyer.html…

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