And 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 ...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Become 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 on...
May 24, 2021•3 min
In 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 d...
May 09, 2021•2 hr 15 min
In 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....
May 03, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new (and SPOILERY) bonus episode about Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009). 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
Apr 22, 2021•5 min
This 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 ...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 35 min
In 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.patreo...
Apr 01, 2021•1 hr 26 min
In 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 inde...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode about Bob Roberts (1992), written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins; also starring Alan Rickman, Ray Wise, Giancarlo Esposito, Harry Lennix, Lynne Thigpen, Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Fred Ward, Bob Balaban, John Cusack, Gore Vidal, and Jack Black. 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_la...
Mar 26, 2021•11 min
Another 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 ha...
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 29 min
This 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...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode about The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, starring Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles. 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...
Feb 23, 2021•3 min
A 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 Pe...
Feb 13, 2021•1 hr 24 min
This 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: ht...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 18 min
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: htt...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new, forthcoming episode about Peter Watkins' Punishment Park (1971). Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
Jan 23, 2021•5 min
Daniel 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 Podca...
Jan 11, 2021•2 hr 7 min
And 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 sho...
Dec 30, 2020•1 hr 28 min
The first in a two part series on Tom Metzger (deceased), former Grand Dragon of the California Klan turned Neo-Nazi, pioneer of using cable-TV for propaganda and hate music to recruit young people. Content Warnings. This episode is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Mulugeta Seraw. Notes/Links: Louis Meets the Nazis (at BBC iPlayer): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02q8d5v/louis-theroux-louis-and-the-nazis James Mason and Tom Metzger on Race and Reason: https://www.bitchute.com/vide...
Dec 05, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Part 2 of our look at the National Justice Party's 25 Point Program, with special attention paid to ecofascist rhetoric. Content Warnings. Links / Notes: Part 1 pf this discussion: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/73-the-njp-program-part-1 National Justice Party: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/ National Justice Party Platform: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/platform/ Mike Enoch/Peinovich "The Way Forward" Speech: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/2020/11/19/the-way-forward/ Strike and Mike...
Nov 28, 2020•1 hr 30 min
In this episode, the first of a two-parter, Daniel tells Jack all about the new 25 Point Program of the National Justice Party, the latest venture from Mike Enoch and the Right Stuff rabble, and their hope of peeling away support from disaffected leftists using 'Third Position' rhetoric. Daniel starts going through the program point-by-point, analysing its hypocrisies and contradictions. The 'left' rhetoric is exposed by comparison with genuine left ideas and principles. To be continued... soon....
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 42 min
This time, after a brief obligatory discussion of current events, Daniel and Jack take one of their periodic detours into film discussion to talk about David Fincher's 2010 movie The Social Network about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, and thus of so many of our current problems (not that the film gets that). Links/Notes: Our old podcast about Zodiac , at Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44059681 Behind the Bastards 3-part episode on Mark Zuckerberg: https://www.iheart...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 30 min
Recorded 8/9 Nov 2020. What the hell do you *think* we're talking about? Content Warning North Carolina Gerrymandering article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/us/north-carolina-congressional-districts.html IDSG makes it to the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/fbi-arrests-the-base-michigan.html...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 47 min
In this episode, after a little roundup of podcast recs, Daniel (finally) tells Jack all about the latest venture by Mike Enoch and the TRS: the National Justice Party. We listen in on their founding meeting in a barn and learn the *other* problem with the GOP according to Enoch's audience. Then we check in on Richard Spencer to see what he thinks about it all. Finally, Daniel gives Jack a short, improvised tutorial on the concept of... pardon us... 'Finkelthink', which Jack finds unwarrantedly ...
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 42 min
This episode, we are joined by special guest Talia Lavin to talk about her excellent new book Culture Warlords. Content Warning. Talia's Twitter: @chick_in_kiev Culture Warlords: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/talia-lavin/culture-warlords/9780306846434/
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Christopher Cantwell, the 'Crying Nazi', was recently tried and convicted in a federal court in New Hampshire. As our regular listeners will know, we've been following Cantwell's fortunes for some time. In this episode, Daniel and Jack are joined by special guest, journalist and Cantwell expert Hilary Sargent, to talk about the trial, and the long, winding, bizarre, horrifying story of how we got here. Content warnings. Notes / Links: Hilary's Twitter: @lilsarg Hilary's articles on the Cantwell ...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 58 min
An unplanned, emergency mini-sequel to our discussion of Tim Pool just a couple of days ago. Reality, displaying its customary poor timing, waited until just after we dropped our Tim Pool episode to reveal the story of the Wolverine Watchmen, a group of militia types arrested for planning the abduction and 'trial' (i.e. murder, presumably) of Michigan Governer Gretchen Whitmer. At least one of the conspirators seems to have been part of Tim's audience; Tim has been demonizing Whitmer as a danger...
Oct 11, 2020•47 min
This time, Jack and Daniel delve into the cesspool that is the barking, beanie-wearing, bollocks-talker Tim Pool. Prepare for a small avalanche of weapons grade stupid from YouTube's favourite reactionary propagandist pretending to be a centrist or something. Content Warning. Links / Notes: CV Vitolo “Haddad”: Another Academic Racial Fraud? https://medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110 The CV Dossier: https://twitter.com/thecvdossier In...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 28 min
This time, Daniel welcomes special guest Rebecca Lewis to the show. Rebecca is the author of the Data & Society report 'Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube' about which Eric Weinstein was such an asshole (our word, not Rebecca's). Content Warnings as ever. The report: https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/ Rebecca's Twitter: https://twitter.com/beccalew IDSG 62 (on Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel, etc): https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/62-eric-w...
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 37 min
This week, Daniel is joined by a special guest Ed Burmila who blogs at Gin and Tacos and hosts the Mass for Shut-Ins podcast. A free-form chat about the way things are and the way they're going. Fun despite the depressing subject matter. Content Warnings, as ever. Ed's Twitter: @edburmila Gin and Tacos blog: http://www.ginandtacos.com/ Mass for Shut-Ins: https://massforshutins.libsyn.com/...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 19 min
