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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 47 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast Another of our occasional movie episodes, this time looking at famous (and bad) 90s movie American History X starring Edward Norton as a neo-Nazi skinhead. Content warnings apply. Also, we introduce our new theme music, courtesy of Lune the Band.
Sep 04, 2020•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast The final (for now) part of of coverage of the IDW's Weinstein brothers. Back to Eric, with special reference to his boss Peter Thiel and the Gawker affair, Eric's response to Becca Lewis' Alternative Influence Report, and to Eric's thoughts on BLM and the current protests. Warnings Apply. Notes/Links: Owen Thomas, Gawker, "Peter Thiel is Totally Gay, People." https://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, "The Most Expensive Comment in Internet History...
Aug 30, 2020•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast We return, apologetic for the delay, with the next part of our investigation into the Weinstein brothers (no, the other ones). This time, it's Eric - mathematician, hedgefund manager, cultural commentator, founder of the Intellectual Dark Web (or at least of the name), and persecuted/suppressed victim of conspiracies (to hear him tell it anyway). We don't always cover Nazis. Sometimes we have to cover people like Eric who, while not Nazis, are part of the current reactionary ecosystem. And what ...
Aug 21, 2020•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, Daniel and Jack discuss Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, two alumni of the Intellectual Dark Web, their 'origin story' as 'public intellectuals' in the Evergreen College kerfuffle of 2017, and their current views on Black Lives Matter and Trans Rights as expressed in their Dark Horse podcast. Jack gets angry and giggly. Next week, we will move on to Bret's brother Eric Weinstein. Content Warning. Bari Weiss, "Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web." https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jul 31, 2020•2 hr 47 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bumper episode, Daniel tells Jack all about the recent response to us by Matt Heimbach and Jesse Morton on their Walk on the Right Side podcast. Also, we do a news roundup, taking in Camilla Long, Lauren Southern, Andrew Neil, Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool and Hank Hill; Tucker Carlson and his writer Blake Neff, recently revealed as a racist forum poster; the arrest of Steven Baca; and the latest scary developments in Portland as ICE/DHS start black-bagging protestors, featuring the rise to inst...
Jul 22, 2020•2 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Daniel and Jack skip back a bit to re-examine the raging transphobia on display from the 'Right Stuff' crew, as evidenced with clips in IDSG 52. Also, some 'LUL News' and general 'TRS News'. Content Warning . Notes/Links: IDSG Episode 52 and 53 Jack's article Schoep's tweets:...
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bowing to necessity, this week Daniel and Jack talk about the Boogaloo, the shortcomings of the current discussion around it, and the reality. CONTENT WARNING Notes/Links: Bundyville Podcast https://www.opb.org/news/article/bundyville-occupation-podcast/ Robert Evans; Jason Wilson: The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/ Robert Evans guests on Qanon Anonymous, on the Boogaloo Boys https://www.iheart.com/p...
Jun 25, 2020•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, Daniel and Jack are honoured to be joined by Prof. Megan Squire, Antifascist data-miner. Geeking-out ensues. You're gonna love it. CONTENT WARNING Megan's Twitter: @MeganSquire0 https://facstaff.elon.edu/msquire/ https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/fellows/megan-squire/ https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-antifa-data-mining/...
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Daniel and Jack take another look at Matt Heimbach, formerly of the Traditionalist Workers Party and National Socialist Movement, and his supposed turn to anti-racism. Content Warning Contains Clips Notes and Links: Matt Heimbach SPLC. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/matthew-heimbach SPLC article 'Two Prominent Neo-Nazis Recant, but Their Actions Sow Doubts' https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/14/two-prominent-neo-nazis-recant-their-acti...
Jun 09, 2020•2 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
