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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 the crimes that land their members in court, independent journalist Molly Conger exposes the monsters for what they really are - some weird guy. Whether they’re conspiring to build bombs or serving swastika shaped cookies at a dinner party, the weird little guys trying to destroy America are a little less scary with their masks off.
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14 OCT 2026 · In the first level of Knowledge Fight Country, Dan and his guest adventurer Molly Conger set out to understand the context around Tucker Carlson's interview with a welder who is mad about algebra.See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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8 OCT 2026 · 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 Mystique. Stein and Day.
Ernest van den Haag, Academic Freedom and Tenure, 15 Pace L. Rev. 5 (1994)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58948/2331-3528.1354
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/plr/vol15/iss1/2
Chianese, Gloria (2006). Fascismo e lavoro a Napoli: Sindacato corporativo e antifascismo popolare (1930-1943).
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/538438703?objectPage=3
https://ilmanifesto.it/melamerson-una-coppia-in-fuga-a-vietri
https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/the-intellectual-portrait-series-a-conversation-with-ernest-van-den-haag
https://web.archive.org/web/20031010001427/http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/pioneer.htm
https://holidaycoast.it/en/Vietri-sul-Mare-and-Salerno%3A-highlights-on-designer-ceramics-with-Europe/
https://www.ilvescovado.it/it/storia-e-storie-19/verso-il-25-aprile-l-antifascismo-vietrese-105190/article
https://www.nytimes.com/1969/11/23/archives/the-jewish-mystique-by-ernest-van-den-haag-252-pp-new-york-stein.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/nyregion/e-van-den-haag-87-educator-and-backer-of-death-penalty.html
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/cultural-revolutions/ernest-van-den-haag-r-i-p/
https://vdare.com/articles/in-memoriam-ernest-van-den-haag
https://kirkcenter.org/essays/ernest-van-den-haag-19142002/
https://sousamendesfoundation.org/family/melamerson
https://archives.albany.edu/description/catalog/apap135
https://files.supersite.aruba.it/media/31058_cfca3f8a5fa8002f9ebf82670aba47c97078fb72.pdfSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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1 OCT 2026 · 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 Analysis and Management. 31. 876-904. 10.2307/41653800.
https://selc.wordpress.ncsu.edu/files/2013/03/Brown-Fades.pdf
Wang G, White JS, Hamad R. The end of court-ordered desegregation and US children's health: quasi-experimental evidence. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2024 Nov 4;193(11):1530-1540. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae082
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12096290/
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. (2007). Becoming less separate? School desegregation,
justice department enforcement, and the pursuit of unitary status. Washington, DC
https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/docs/092707_BecomingLessSeparateReport.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-ends-over-50-half-century-old-desegregation-cases-throughout-united
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-dismisses-half-century-old-louisiana-consent-decree
https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/communication/speech-march-washington-aug-28-1963
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/freedom-black-women-speak-march-washington-jobs-and-freedom
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jun/18
https://www.k-12legalinsights.com/2026/03/some-recent-motions-for-unitary-status-seem-to-be-facing-less-careful-scrutiny/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-seeking-to-end-school-desegregation-cases/
https://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/why-are-schools-still-segregated/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/justice-department-desegregation-cases.html
https://www.ed.gov/grants-and-programs/grants-birth-grade-12/school-and-community-improvement-grants/training-and-advisory-services-equity-assistance-centers
https://www.regulations.gov/document/ED-2026-OESE-0958-0001
https://www.justice.gov/crt
https://web.archive.org/web/20240301102317/https://www.justice.gov/crt
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-employees-us-justice-department-blast-destruction-civil-rights-unit-2025-12-09/
https://redlinecivilrights.org/education/
https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/us-federal-court-ends-decades-long-school-desegregation-lawsuit-in-louisiana/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6105774/smith-v-concordia-parish/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14791822/boudreaux-v-st-mary-parish/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5295676/thomas-v-st-martin-parish/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72066767/navy-v-sch-bd-of-st-mary-prsh/See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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24 SEP 2026 · 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 Education. New York University Press.
Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.
Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books.
McMillen, Neil (1971). The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-1964. University of Illinois Press
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 Analysis and Management. 31. 876-904. 10.2307/41653800.
https://selc.wordpress.ncsu.edu/files/2013/03/Brown-Fades.pdf
Albert P . Blaustein & Andrew H. Field, "Overruling" Opinions in the Supreme Court , 57 MICH. L. REV. 151 (1958). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol57/iss2/2
Amy M. Gardner, Comment, "An Attempt to Intervene in the Confusion: Standing Requirements for Rule 24 Intervenors," 69 University of Chicago Law Review 681 (2002).
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5684&context=journal_articles
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/08/how-often-does-the-supreme-court-overturn-its-own-decisions/See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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17 SEP 2026 · 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 (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.
McMillen, Neil (1971). The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-1964. University of Illinois Press
Kevin M. Kruse, The Paradox of Massive Resistance: Political Conformity and Chaos in the Aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, 48 St. Louis U. L.J. (2004).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj/vol48/iss3/13
Thompson, Susan C. "Racial Injustice: A History of the Segregated School System in Jackson, Mississippi." Georgia State University, 2018. https://doi.org/10.57709/12100172
Sadler, Cynthia Jones, "Standing in the Shadows: African American Informants and Allies of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 268. https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/268
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/how-integration-failed-in-jacksons-public-schools-from-1969-to-2017/
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/06/archives/antiintegrationad-seeks-teachers-aid.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/02/20/justice-department-lawyer-george-s-leonard-86-dies/238e9399-ef53-4983-9814-40b2250a2223/
https://ldfrecollection.org/content/archives/ba006941-a08b-4c85-b0d7-2f2e5ff00e85
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/21/archives/jackson-schools-end-segregation-43-negroes-sign-up-quietly-for.html
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/meridian-schools-no-longer-under-federal-supervision-stemming-from-1965-desegregation-lawsuit/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB929056013324992946
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/19/archives/mississippi-agency-channels-260000-to-antirighits-drive.html
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/sovcom/document/images/png/cd12/113717
https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/coordinating-committee-for-fundamental-american-freedoms/
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/nativist-lobby-three-faces-intolerance/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/eugenics-voter-id-laws-thomas-farrs-connections-pioneer-fund/See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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10 SEP 2026 · 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.
Rosenthal, A. M.; Gelb, Arthur (1967). One More Victim: The Life and Death of an American-Jewish Nazi. New York: New American LibrarySee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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3 SEP 2026 · 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 (2003). Hitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era. Routledge.
Kühl, Stefan (1994). The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. Oxford University Press.
Barry Mehler, “The New Eugenics,” Science for the People (May/June 1983)
Lorimer, Frank, et al. “The Role of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.” The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4, 1971, pp. 86–105. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3349466.
“Current Topics.” The Economic Journal, vol. 45, no. 178, 1935, pp. 406–09. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2224670.
“116. International Congress for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems.” Man, vol. 35, 1935, pp. 109–109. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2790721.
“Medical News.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3890, 1935, pp. 192–93. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25344986.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/12/01/the-tainted-sources-of-the-bell-curve/
1994 publication of excerpt from The Bell Curve:
https://newrepublic.com/article/120887/race-genes-and-iq-new-republics-bell-curve-excerpt
Rebuttals published in the same issue:
https://newrepublic.com/article/120890/responses-new-republics-bell-curve-excerpt
Andrew Sullivan’s 2022 article
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/denying-genetics-isnt-shutting-down-racism-its-fueling-it.html
https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/
https://x.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1050391663552671744
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/business/media/im-still-reading-andrew-sullivan-but-i-cant-defend-him.html
https://www.ub.edu/personal/docencia/infocomp/bell.htm
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,748954-1,00.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1956/06/17/archives/dr-cg-campbell-88-expert-on-eugenic.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/136100c0
https://www.nytimes.com/1935/08/31/archives/berlin-congress-ends-in-dispute-international-and-scientific-nature.html
https://newrepublic.com/article/147960/charles-murray-marketing-genius
Herrnstein 1971 article in the atlantic
https://gwern.net/doc/iq/1971-herrnstein.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/16/obituaries/richard-herrnstein-64-dies-backed-nature-over-nurture.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20170324145730/http://www.intelligence.martinsewell.com/Gottfredson1997.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20200608195813/http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/intelligence/cache/eugenics2.html
https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/the-bell-curve/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2757926/See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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27 AUG 2026 · 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. Penguin Books.
Nathan Cofnas’ Doctoral Thesis: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd78170f-1131-47ef-af8d-7a3bb2ef41d0
https://jannalangholz.wordpress.com/2022/12/26/17-worlds-fair-deaths/
https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/specimen-days-human-zoos-at-the-1904-worlds-fair/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070610034510/http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Bontoc.html
https://ashp.cuny.edu/documentaries-list/savage-acts-wars-fairs-and-empire-1898-1904/#
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/how-i-became-the-scapegoat-in-the-jason-arday-affair-dc134088
https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2007046/ghent-university-under-fire-for-appointing-us-philosopher-with-ties-to-scientific-racism
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/reptiles-with-a-conscience-the-coevolution-of-religious-and-moral-doctrine-by-nathan-cofnas-pp-523-ulster-institute-for-social-research-press-london-2012-3000-isbn-9780956881151-paperback/4005A8AD3C5B21AC0A82A38D5D97BBF8
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/the-man-who-was-caged-in-a-zoo
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/nyregion/thecity/the-scandal-at-the-zoo.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevmrjd9lj1o
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/06/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/largest-human-zoo-world-historySee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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20 AUG 2026 · 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). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.
Newton, Michael (2010). The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. McFarland & Company, Inc.
Dittmer, John (1994). Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. University of Illinois Press.
Ball, Howard (2004). Murder in Mississippi. University Press of Kansas.
Snipe, Tracy (2021). The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, The Sarah Collins Rudolph Story. Africa World Press.
Doyle, William (2001). An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi 1962. Doubleday.
Nossiter, Adam (1994). Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/719/1345/1438234/
https://shadowproof.com/2018/03/07/documents-reveal-police-targeting-anti-racists-charlottesville/
https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/4404359-DHS-Bulletin-Aug-9/
https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2007/may/30/dredging-up-the-past-why-mississippians-must-tell/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-minneapolis-news-agents-claim-alberto-castaeda-mondragn-hit-wall-shattered-skull-triggers-tension-hospital/18514566/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72504545/ge-v-immigration-and-customs-enforcement/See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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17 AUG 2026 · 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 https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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...
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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 the crimes that land their members in court, independent journalist Molly Conger exposes the monsters for what they really are - some weird guy. Whether they’re conspiring to build bombs or serving swastika shaped cookies at a dinner party, the weird little guys trying to destroy America are a little less scary with their masks off.
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