Weird Little Guys
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 li...
Episodes
The Other Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell was a nazi. Norman Rockwell was a painter. They didn't have much in common at all, but people can't seem to stop mixing them up.Sources:https://library.washu.edu/news/norman-rockwell-and-race-complicating-rockwells-l…
Disorganized Crime, Pt. 2
When Frank Smith got out of prison in 1964, he went right back to working for the New England mafia. He also joined the American Nazi Party. And he had a dream that the two organizations could work together.Sources:https://newenglandhistori…
Disorganized Crime, Pt. 1
Before he joined the American Nazi Party in 1965, Frank Smith was already a career criminal working for the New England mafia.Sources:https://www.nytimes.com/1952/05/06/archives/friend-of-sutton-seized-as-suspect-in-schuster-death-armed-bur…
George Lincoln Rockwell's Coffin Flop
When the commander of the American Nazi Party died, he left instructions with his successor. He wanted the military funeral he was entitled to as an American veteran. It didn't go well.Sources:https://snccdigital.org/events/protests-danvill…
Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3.5
In 1976, the recently paroled assassin went back to prison after being arrested in Charlottesville. He was acquitted on the charge of being naked in a stranger's living room, but he'd violated his parole. He's tried to stay out of the spotl…
Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3
In the third episode of the story of George Lincoln Rockwell's assassin, Rockwell finally dies and his assassin goes on trial.Sources:Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Riv…
Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 2
In the year leading up to George Lincoln Rockwell's assassination, he was trying to take the American Nazi Party in a new direction. Not everyone within the party was on board with the changes.Sources:Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: Geor…
Death of a Demagogue
Sometimes when a weird little guy gets shot, the guy who killed him is just a weirder little guy.Sources:Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey'sSchmaltz, William H.…
American Fart Party
The American Freedom Party and the American Fart party have a couple things in common - the acronym, for one thing. They've also both filed paperwork with the federal election commission claiming to be a national political party. One is a s…
Recalled, Replaced
In 2017, Judd Blevins marched in Charlottesville with men chanting 'you will not replace us.' In 2024, voters in Enid, Oklahoma replaced him - a recall election removed him from office as a city commissioner. During his short time in office…
A Secret Third Thing
After the 2012 election, the American Third Position Party rebranded. Not because their candidate lost, they expected that. But probably because their candidate didn't know what the party's name meant. Sources: https://www.fec.gov/resources…
Third Position
In 2012, a newly formed white nationalist political party tried to get their candidate on the ballot. The American Third Position Party wanted Americans to vote for Merlin Miller, but how did the party end up picking him? Sources:https://ww…
In Minecraft
After Devon Arthurs murdered his roommates, he claimed he'd only done it to prevent the loss of innocent lives. The man he said was planning a terrorist attack was arrested with a car full of guns, but not charged with any of the things Art…
The Roommates
In 2017, police investigating a double homicide found more than just bodies in a Tampa condo. The founder of a neonazi group was making bombs in the garage. Sources: https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-threat-is-the-network-the-multi-node-structu…
Magic Beans
In 2017, a man showed up at the emergency room and confessed that he'd accidentally poisoned himself with homemade ricin. He was federally charged with possessing a biological agent, but his case was dismissed on almost unbelievable technic…
Slow Decline
In 2016, Nicholas Young became the first American police officer to be arrested and charged with a federal terrorism offense. At trial, jurors were shown mountains of evidence about his collection of nazi memorabilia. But what does that hav…
Red Flag
When FBI agents started combing through the digital footprint of a dead school shooter, they found more than the usual missed warning signs.Sources:https://www.maargentino.com/narrative-examination-of-the-antioch-high-school-shooters-manife…
CZM Rewind: The Civil War False Flag
When someone left a bomb at a Civil War reenactment event in 2017, it looked like antifascist activists were out for revenge after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. A mysterious letter writer claiming to be an antifascist collec…
There Is A Spectre Haunting New York City
The right wing media is buzzing with accusations that the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City is a communist. They're calling for his removal from not only the ballot... but the also the country. This anticommunist panic isn't new…
A Brief History of Vehicular Violence
Last week, we talked about one particular incident of vehicular violence on protesters. But where does the tactic come from? Who is doing it? And why? Sources:Miller, Vincent, and Keith J. Hayward. “‘I DID MY BIT’: TERRORISM, TARDE AND THE …
Murder on Fourth Street
With vehicular attacks on protests on the rise and elected officials encouraging the tactic, old conspiracy theories about one vehicular attack in particular are circulating once again. This is the story of what actually happened on Fourth …
Stand Back and Stand By
Last week, five Proud Boys announced a $100 million lawsuit against the government over their treatment during the January 6th prosecutions. Sources:https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70474277/tarrio-v-united-states-of-america/https://www…
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.Sources:https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69534211/united-states-v-scheuer/https://www.eeo…
State Created Danger
In April 2025, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case filed by a pair of white supremacists who felt the police had violated their civil rights by refusing to help them put on a rally in Charlottesville in August of 2017. Their lawsuit w…
Small Time Arms Dealer
In 1992, a small business owner in Oregon had to shut down his gun store. But he had to do something with all his remaining inventory…. Sources: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-21-ariel-sharon-apartheid-south-africa-and-mutu…
Introducing: Away Days Podcast
Hi, Weird Little Guys Fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. About the show: Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society. We’re compas…
CZM Rewind: Arrested Democracy
Arrested Democracy, Part 1 In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of them tried to have the President indicted. And when none of th…
Minisode: Pappas v Giuliani
A bite-sized look at the NYPD officer who sued the city for firing him over anonymously mailing racist pamphlets to charitable organizationsSources:https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/17/nyregion/officer-admits-to-racist-mail-and-is-offered-d…
CZM Rewind: The Devil's Chatroom
The Devil's Chat Room: Ethan Melzer, Part 1In June of 2020, US Army Private Ethan Melzer was arrested for leaking information about his unit's deployment to Turkey with the intention of causing a mass casualty incident. The plot was hatched…
Shooter Without A Cause
The guy who took a shot at Trump last summer wasn't the first person to shoot a presidential candidate without a clear political motive. In 1972, Arthur Bremer failed to assassinate Richard Nixon and settled on one of Nixon's opponents inst…
Mission South Africa
At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside the embassy in Pretoria to claim refugee …
Listener Q&A
Molly answers questions submitted by listeners.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Blood River
In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with God.Sources:Thompson, Leonard L. The Poli…
The Jamboree in Jamba
This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.Sources:Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Ha…
The Whites' Last Stand
In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century: Sources:https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/https://archive.…
White Guns for Hire
In 1994, a second group of mercenaries arrived at the airport in Johannesburg... but no one was there to pick them up. Their host had been arrested days earlier, after the last group of mercenaries she'd hosted got into a deadly shootout wi…
The White Wolf
In 1989, four Afrikaner nationalists and one German mercenary killed a security guard at a United Nations outpost in Namibia. After escaping from custody, they fled home to South Africa. A possibly non-existent group called The White Wolves…
Apartheid International
In the last episode, we looked at a strange series of rallies held in cities across the United States in 2012 - American neo-nazis were rallying in support of white South African Farmers. But how did they get that idea in their heads? The r…
Update On: A Short-Lived Pardon
This is a rerun of the episode that originally ran on February 6, 2025 with a newly recorded introduction with new information about the traffic stop that led to Matthew Huttle's death. Sources:https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025…
The White House Weighs in on White Genocide
In February of 2012, racist skinheads in California rallied at the capitol building in Sacramento. They were trying to raise awareness for an imaginary problem - an ongoing genocide against white South African farmers. In February of 2025, …