Weird Little Guys

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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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  • The Whites' Last Stand
    Apr 3 2025

    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:

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong

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    https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/

    https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html

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    https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

    https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/

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    Death of Apartheid: The Whites’ Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.

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    52 mins
  • White Guns for Hire
    Mar 27 2025

    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 with the South African police. But how did all these Germans end up in South Africa in the first place?

    https://www.propublica.org/article/vasilios-pistolis-imprisoned-marine-hate-groups

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    Bartholomäus Grill: German right-wing radicals shoot in South Africa: License plate D. In: Die Zeit . No. 13 , 25 March 1994

    Antifaschistisches Autorenkollektiv: Drahtzieher im braunen Netz : Ein aktueller Überblick über den Neonazi-Untergrund in Deutschland und Österreich. Konkret Literatur Verlag, 1996,

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    Searchlight Magazine, issues July, August, September 1996

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    45 mins
  • The White Wolf
    Mar 20 2025

    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 took credit for the wave of bombings that followed.

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    Falkof, Nicky. The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2016.

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    https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/19/world/outjo-journal-un-namibia-team-makes-some-unlikely-friends.html

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    https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZASCA/1999/72.html

    https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/08/11/Gunmen-attacked-a-UN-peace-keeping-force-adminstrative-headquarters-and/6550618811200/

    https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-nexus-between-far-right-extremists-in-the-united-states-and-ukraine/

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20181118212149/

    https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/the-day-wit-wolf-turned-pretoria-red-with-blood-18125595

    https://www.jordanharbinger.com/bradley-steyn-undercover-with-mandelas-spies-part-one/

    https://theafricancriminologyjournal.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/south-africa-the-strijdom-square-massacre/

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/us-wit-wolf-slaughter-1873433

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/what-became-of-the-big-wit-wolf-424408

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    56 mins

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top knotch show

fascinating stuff. well researched. funny without trying to be. good stuff. lots of little freaks 'round these parts.

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wonderful intro info and delivery

please post on YouTube as well, audio glitches where segments go out of order make some episodes not make sense

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