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I Don't Speak German

181 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 940 ratings

Daniel Harper is a researcher who goes where few others can bear to go: he listens to what the reactionaries - from the IDW to the modern day Nazis - say to each other in *their* safe spaces! In this timely and shocking - but entertaining - anti-fascist podcast, Daniel tells his friend, online writer Jack Graham, all about it.

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PUBLIC BONUS: Cis Solidarity with Trans Struggle, Jack in Conversation with Rowan Fortune & Twilight O'Hara

March 08, 2024 07:29 - 2 hours - 80.4 MB

Another 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 B...

BONUS PREVIEW: Oppenheimer (2023)

March 04, 2024 08:41 - 7 minutes - 5.12 MB

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: @_...

News Brief: Nazis at CPAC

February 29, 2024 19:51 - 55 minutes - 38.5 MB

Nazis 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....

Hangin' out with Eiynah 6: Dystopian Propaganda

February 21, 2024 09:50 - 1 hour - 71.8 MB

Our latest X Space with our friend Eiynah Muhammed Smith. (@nicemangos (2) Eiynah (@nicemangos.bsky.social) — Bluesky ) Discussing the dystopian propaganda around Israel's ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza, from racist Twitter 'hasbara' to IDF TikTok / Insta, to Israeli influencers' skits about Palestinians faking their suffering. Also featuring Dr Caitlin Greene the linguist and tracker of Steven Pinker, etc.  Links: Israeli military’s TikTok attempt to make propaganda cool | Israe...

News Brief: Blood Tribe March in Nashville

February 19, 2024 12:29 - 37 minutes - 25.2 MB

A 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...

124: The Collapse of the National Justice Party

February 19, 2024 08:46 - 1 hour - 46.5 MB

We'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 ...

UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep11 The Dark Knight (Part 2)

February 16, 2024 18:15 - 1 hour - 76.3 MB

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...

PREVIEW: Bonus 31

January 31, 2024 18:50 - 9 minutes - 6.64 MB

We 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 f...

UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep10 The Dark Knight (Part 1)

January 31, 2024 14:50 - 1 hour - 87.4 MB

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/u...

BONUS: Hangin' Out with Eiynah 5 - Halloween Special!

October 29, 2023 12:09 - 1 hour - 49.7 MB

Oooooo-wooooo!  Wokeness is Scary! In this little Halloween bonus, Jack joins friend of the pod Eiynah Mohammed-Smith, and Dr Caitilin Green, for a special spooky space over at cursed nazi chan board X.  Recorded October 27th 2023.  Please excuse the usual sound quality issues. We talk about right-wing and IDW-type panics over woke Halloween costumes, concerns about cultural appropriation, etc.  To quote Eiynah's write-up: "We discuss Bill Maher, Steven Crowder, Yale professors Nicholas ...

FREE BONUS: Jack Talks About Elon Musk and the Nazis

October 04, 2023 20:58 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MB

Just 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: http...

BONUS: Hangin' out with Eiynah 4 - Russell Brand, Patriarchy, etc - with Dr Caitlin Green

September 21, 2023 11:41 - 1 hour - 54.6 MB

Another little bonus to tide you over.  Jack briefly went back to eX-Twitter to hangout in a Space with best-friend-of-the-pod Eiynah and the excellent Dr Caitlin Green to talk about Russell Brand, Lauren Boebert, Danny Masterson, the hypocrisy of those who scream about groomers, patriarchy, etc.  The bit where Caitlin talks about reactions to the Brand allegations among the 'Gender Criticals' is particularly interesting.  Thanks to everyone who showed up to listen and/or join-in.

PREVIEW: Bonus Ep30 In Cold Blood

August 29, 2023 14:35 - 5 minutes - 3.32 MB

In 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...

123: Moms for Liberty, with Teddy Wilson

August 21, 2023 23:08 - 1 hour - 54 MB

In 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 i...

BONUS: Hanging Out with Eiynah 3 - Barbie & Right-Wing Tears

July 29, 2023 00:06 - 1 hour - 120 MB

While Daniel and Jack continue working towards resumption of IDSG, Jack is once again invited by best-friend-of-the-pod Eiynah (@nicemangos of the Polite Conversations podcast) to co-host a Twitter space [obligatory Elon Musk joke here] about the new Barbie movie and the tsunami of reactionary tears it has invoked.  Conversation (with contributions from various guests) ranges over the movie itself and Barbie herself, Musk and X, Dutch politics, the culture wars, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Pier...

UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep9 Iron Man, 2008 (from Oct 2021)

July 21, 2023 16:51 - 1 hour - 104 MB

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: ...

UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep16 Maus (from March 2022)

June 16, 2023 19:08 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB

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...

BONUS: Hanging Out with Eiynah 2 - Monarchy, Misogyny, and Mixed-Race Nazis

May 25, 2023 22:01 - 2 hours - 102 MB

By way of a little compensation for you while you wait (patiently, bless you) for us to get our shit back together (which we are in the process of doing) here is a little bonus, a slightly edited recording of a Twitter space that we did with our friend Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (@NiceMangos) on 12th May last.  We chat about the coronation of Prince Charles (that's his name goddammit!), the revolting sexist discourse around E. Jean Carroll's suit against Trump, and the equally revolting discour...

PREVIEW: Bonus Ep29 Charles and Tucker

May 08, 2023 08:05 - 6 minutes - 3.87 MB

Daniel 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.patr...

UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep9 Physics and Desert Country

April 28, 2023 10:53 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB

Okay, 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...

122: Crowder vs. the Daily Wire

February 27, 2023 09:55 - 1 hour - 72.6 MB

Daniel 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 epis...

FREE Bonus Ep28 Rage Against the War Machine, with Amanda Moore

February 24, 2023 21:05 - 34 minutes - 22.3 MB

A 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 ...

PREVIEW: Bonus Ep 27 Social Media, Science and Art

February 15, 2023 12:05 - 7 minutes - 5.14 MB

Daniel 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...

UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep7 In The Loop (2009)

February 10, 2023 10:09 - 1 hour - 81.4 MB

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 ...

PREVIEW: Bonus Ep26 Real Genius (1985)

February 07, 2023 00:06 - 5 minutes - 3.58 MB

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...

121: Conspirituality and Anti-Wokeness, with Matthew Remski

January 28, 2023 15:59 - 1 hour - 68.2 MB

A 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! Matthe...

FREE Bonus Ep25 George Santos, with Marisa Kabas

January 23, 2023 22:58 - 41 minutes - 26.7 MB

In 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 an...

PREVIEW: Bonus Ep24 Lethal Weapon (1987)

January 23, 2023 10:33 - 6 minutes - 3.92 MB

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: h...

UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep22 Elon Musk and Twitter, with Eric from ESG Hound

January 13, 2023 09:08 - 1 hour - 43 MB

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 stay independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. IDSG ...

PREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep 23 Basic Instinct 1 & 2

January 03, 2023 12:10 - 10 minutes - 7.55 MB

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 stay independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. IDSG ...

120: Caleb Maupin and the Conspiracy Left, with Sophie from Mars

December 21, 2022 11:07 - 1 hour - 67.8 MB

A 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 ...

119: The Reichsbürger Coup, with Annika Brockschmidt

December 14, 2022 10:07 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB

Jack 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 an...

118b: Free Bonus - Ye Context, with Holly B

December 13, 2022 11:54 - 1 hour - 55 MB

In 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.   ...

118: Ye - the Right Reacts

December 11, 2022 20:59 - 1 hour - 55 MB

What 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, ...

PREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode: Elon Musk buys Twitter, with Eric from ESG Hound

November 23, 2022 23:39 - 6 minutes - 4.05 MB

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 stay independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. IDSG ...

UNLOCKED! Bonus Episode: The Queen is Dead (Boys)

November 20, 2022 18:31 - 1 hour - 52 MB

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...

117: Terror in Waukesha (and the NJP)

October 29, 2022 16:23 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB

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...

BONUS: Hanging Out with Eiynah

October 09, 2022 09:01 - 1 hour - 75.2 MB

At the start of the month, Daniel and Jack co-hosted a Twitter Space hangout with their friend, IDW-gadlfy podcaster Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (@NiceMangos).  We had a fun chat about all the silliness that right-wingers had been up to (Jordan weeping over incels to Piers Morgan, Matt Walsh freaking out over crystal flutes, Graham Linehan starting to doubt vaccines and climate change, Peter Thiel's 'Right Stuff' dating app, mermaids of colour, etc) and then took some questions from listeners.  Te...

116: The Oath Keepers and Stewart Rhodes, with Rob from The Right Podcast

September 30, 2022 20:09 - 1 hour - 80 MB

Special 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 ...

115: Amanda Rogers Talks About Terrible Tommy

September 29, 2022 13:56 - 1 hour - 53.7 MB

With 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...

PREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode: The Queen is Dead (Boys)

September 28, 2022 14:30 - 5 minutes - 3.67 MB

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...

114: Jesse Dunstan and Peaceful Ethnic Cleansing - TRS Behind the Paywall

August 21, 2022 00:18 - 2 hours - 82.9 MB

We'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 ra...

113: The People's Party etc, with Rob from The Right Podcast

July 23, 2022 10:46 - 1 hour - 70 MB

In 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 th...

UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep#6 Red Dwarf - Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

July 21, 2022 20:31 - 1 hour - 78.3 MB

We 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: ...

PREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode on 'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut

July 19, 2022 21:52 - 5 minutes - 4 MB

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 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 Patreo...

112: Primary Colors (1998) and other discussions...

June 26, 2022 14:47 - 1 hour - 82.4 MB

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 epi...

111: Elijah Schaffer etc, with José

June 23, 2022 22:15 - 1 hour - 50.1 MB

This 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 m...

UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep#5 Downfall (2004)

June 16, 2022 17:39 - 1 hour - 84.7 MB

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 complica...

110: Uvalde, Buffalo, and Toothache Discourse

June 11, 2022 14:09 - 1 hour - 65 MB

This 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: h...

PREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode on 'The Fugitive' (1993)

May 29, 2022 22:56 - 6 minutes - 4.46 MB

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...

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