This week marks seven years since the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is a brief minisode to mark the anniversary and remind myself why I can't stop looking for these weird little guys.

This week marks seven years since the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is a brief minisode to mark the anniversary and remind myself why I can't stop looking for these 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 little less scary with their masks off. 

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.

Investigative journalist Molly Conger takes you beyond the headlines to examine some of the worst people on the planet, most of whom you’ve never heard of. These are the weird little guys trying to ruin life as we know it.

Weird Little Guys

A Brief Reflection on 'Charlottesville'

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/17fdf0f6-dd33-4ce7-a8bb-b1cb01748f6f/transcript

After winning his battle with a Kansas City cable company over the right to air his Klan public access television show, Dennis Mahon never made a second episode of Klansas City Kable. He was too busy organizing nazi punks in Tulsa and getting Klan chapters started in Germany. 

Sources:

Ronson, Jon. “The Debutante.” Audible Originals, 2023

Ronson, Jon. Them: Adventures with Extremists. Picador, 2001

Forbes, Robert and Stampton, Eddie. The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement 1979-1993. Feral House, 2015

Moore, Jack. Skinheads Shaved for Battle: A Cultural History of American Skinheads. Popular Press, 1993

Travis, Tiffini. Skinheads: A Guide to an American Subculture. Greenwood, 2012

Kushner, Jacob. Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants. Grand Central Publishing, 2024

Newton, Michael. White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866. McFarland and Company 2014

Lee, Martin. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. Little, Brown and Company, 1997.

Ketter, Pia. "Zwischen Mord und Kreuzverbrennung. Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016.

Rink, Nina. "Anleitung zum »Rassenhass«" Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016

Charles, Roger. “Prior Warning.” Soldier of Fortune Magazine, November 1997

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/us/3-to-stop-racist-talks-in-mister-rogers-tone.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/12/us/klan-is-told-to-stop-imitating-mister-rogers-on-the-phone.html 

https://tulsaworld.com/archive/2-victims-speak-out-on-beatings-harassment/article_7376c33f-036b-516f-b004-08e1c7ce3fa2.html 

https://tulsaworld.com/archive/admitted-skinhead-wont-flee-friends-family-say/article_e986329a-b86a-52ca-b6ea-1f9d4954fd3d.html 

https://tulsaworld.com/archive/kkk-head-offers-aid-in-trial/article_992ae2e8-0a99-5922-8c54-c8b19e4a511f.html 

https://okmag.com/blog/a-punk-music-history/ 

https://flatlandkc.org/news-issues/changed-elohim-city-including-beliefs-residents/

https://www.texasobserver.org/906-editorial-the-phones-were-ringing/ 

https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1997_03_28_issue.pdf

https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1997_03_14_issue.pdf 

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/world/klan-seizes-on-germany-s-wave-of-racist-violence.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/01/world/a-wave-of-attacks-on-foreigners-stirs-shock-in-germany.html 

https://jeffmaysh.substack.com/p/how-an-undercover-exotic-dancer-captured

After winning his battle with a Kansas City cable company over the right to air his Klan public access television show, Dennis Mahon never made a second episode of Klansas City Kable. He was too busy organizing nazi punks in Tulsa and getting Klan chapters started in Germany.&nbsp;
Sources:
Ronson, Jon. &ldquo;The Debutante.&rdquo; Audible Originals, 2023
Ronson, Jon. Them: Adventures with Extremists. Picador, 2001
Forbes, Robert and Stampton, Eddie. The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement 1979-1993. Feral House, 2015
Moore, Jack. Skinheads Shaved for Battle: A Cultural History of American Skinheads. Popular Press, 1993
Travis, Tiffini. Skinheads: A Guide to an American Subculture. Greenwood, 2012
Kushner, Jacob. Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants. Grand Central Publishing, 2024
Newton, Michael. White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866. McFarland and Company 2014
Lee, Martin. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. Little, Brown and Company, 1997.
Ketter, Pia. "Zwischen Mord und Kreuzverbrennung. Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016.
Rink, Nina. "Anleitung zum &raquo;Rassenhass&laquo;" Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016
Charles, Roger. &ldquo;Prior Warning.&rdquo; Soldier of Fortune Magazine, November 1997
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/us/3-to-stop-racist-talks-in-mister-rogers-tone.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/us/3-to-stop-racist-talks-in-mister-rogers-tone.html</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/12/us/klan-is-told-to-stop-imitating-mister-rogers-on-the-phone.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/12/us/klan-is-told-to-stop-imitating-mister-rogers-on-the-phone.html&nbsp;</a>
<a href="https://tulsaworld.com/archive/2-victims-speak-out-on-beatings-harassment/article_7376c33f-036b-516f-b004-08e1c7ce3fa2.html">https://tulsaworld.com/archive/2-victims-speak-out-on-beatings-harassment/article_7376c33f-036b-516f-b004-08e1c7ce3fa2.html&nbsp;</a>
<a href="https://tulsaworld.com/archive/admitted-skinhead-wont-flee-friends-family-say/article_e986329a-b86a-52ca-b6ea-1f9d4954fd3d.html">https://tulsaworld.com/archive/admitted-skinhead-wont-flee-friends-family-say/article_e986329a-b86a-52ca-b6ea-1f9d4954fd3d.html&nbsp;</a>
<a href="https://tulsaworld.com/archive/kkk-head-offers-aid-in-trial/article_992ae2e8-0a99-5922-8c54-c8b19e4a511f.html">https://tulsaworld.com/archive/kkk-head-offers-aid-in-trial/article_992ae2e8-0a99-5922-8c54-c8b19e4a511f.html&nbsp;</a>
<a href="https://okmag.com/blog/a-punk-music-history/">https://okmag.com/blog/a-punk-music-history/&nbsp;</a>
<a href="https://flatlandkc.org/news-issues/changed-elohim-city-including-beliefs-residents/">https://flatlandkc.org/news-issues/changed-elohim-city-including-beliefs-residents/</a>
<a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/906-editorial-the-phones-were-ringing/">https://www.texasobserver.org/906-editorial-the-phones-were-ringing/&nbsp;</a>
<a href="https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1997_03_28_issue.pdf">https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1997_03_28_issue.pdf</a>
<a href="https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1997_03_14_issue.pdf">https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1997_03_14_issue.pdf&nbsp;</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/world/klan-seizes-on-germany-s-wave-of-racist-violence.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/world/klan-seizes-on-germany-s-wave-of-racist-violence.html&nbsp;</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/01/world/a-wave-of-attacks-on-foreigners-stirs-shock-in-germany.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/01/world/a-wave-of-attacks-on-foreigners-stirs-shock-in-germany.html&nbsp;</a>
<a href="https://jeffmaysh.substack.com/p/how-an-undercover-exotic-dancer-captured">https://jeffmaysh.substack.com/p/how-an-undercover-exotic-dancer-captured</a>

A Klansman in Berlin: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 2

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/613ce58b-9623-4a27-aed5-b24a01709e59/transcript

In 1990, a single episode of a public access show called "Klansas City Kable" aired in Kansas City, Missouri. The klansman who fought city council for his right to produce it was never prosecuted for the bombing campaign he claims to have carried out in the decade prior, but his long career as a professional racist took him all over the world before a years-long undercover operation finally put him away.

Sources: 

Kennard, Matt. Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror. London: Verso. 2012

Newton, Michael. White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866. McFarland and Company 2014

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/vorwaerts-fuer-die-arische-rasse-a-14649b2e-0002-0001-0000-000013491440

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/world/klan-seizes-on-germany-s-wave-of-racist-violence.html

Ketter, Pia. "Zwischen Mord und Kreuzverbrennung. Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016.

Rink, Nina. "Anleitung zum »Rassenhass«" Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016

Norton, Bill. "The Cop and the Klan." Star Magazine, October 9, 1988

In 1990, a single episode of a public access show called "Klansas City Kable" aired in Kansas City, Missouri. The klansman who fought city council for his right to produce it was never prosecuted for the bombing campaign he claims to have carried out in the decade prior, but his long career as a professional racist took him all over the world before a years-long undercover operation finally put him away.
Sources: 
Kennard, Matt. Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror. London: Verso. 2012
Newton, Michael. White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866. McFarland and Company 2014
<a href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/vorwaerts-fuer-die-arische-rasse-a-14649b2e-0002-0001-0000-000013491440">https://www.spiegel.de/politik/vorwaerts-fuer-die-arische-rasse-a-14649b2e-0002-0001-0000-000013491440</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/world/klan-seizes-on-germany-s-wave-of-racist-violence.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/world/klan-seizes-on-germany-s-wave-of-racist-violence.html</a>
Ketter, Pia. "Zwischen Mord und Kreuzverbrennung. Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016.
Rink, Nina. "Anleitung zum &raquo;Rassenhass&laquo;" Der Rechte Rand, March/April 2016
Norton, Bill. "The Cop and the Klan." Star Magazine, October 9, 1988

Klansas City Kable: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 1

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/8735103f-daee-451a-9930-b243016a50eb/transcript

For over a decade, neo-Nazis and Klansmen were hand-delivering VHS tapes of a California-based public access TV show to local television stations in cities across the country. The stations had no choice but to run the show on local public access channels. The show's host, Tom Metzger, received a gift of $300,000 in 1984 that gave him the financial freedom to pursue his dream of delivering his racist message to as many Americans as possible, right through their television screens. 

Sources: 

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018. 

Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.

Hamm, Mark S., and Cécile Van de Voorde. “Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups: Theory, Research, and Prevention.” Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 9, no. 2, 2005

 National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, Bigotry and Cable TV: Legal Issues and Community Responses (Institute Report No.3), Baltimore, Maryland: The Institute, 1988.

Bradley J. Howard, Pulling the Plug: Controversial Programming on Public Access Television and the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 399 (1995)

Rendahl, Stephen E.. "White Aryan Resistance: A Radical Communication System." North Dakota Journal of Speech & Theatre, vol. 4, no. 1, 1 Sep. 1991, pp. 44 - 52.

Rendahl, Stephen (1990). Media access and the radical right: Public access to "race and reason." Unpublished paper presented to the Central States Communication Association, Detroit, MI.

Spring/Summer 1989 issue of “No KKK No Fascist USA,” Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC37_scans/37.nokkk.spr89.pdf

December 1985 issue of Searchlight magazine https://ia600700.us.archive.org/4/items/searchlight_126/searchlight_126.pdf

https://casetext.com/case/us-v-mahon-19

https://idavox.com/index.php/2020/12/10/american-strasser/

https://northernstar.info/16419/news/city/crusade-adds-fuel-to-flame-of-tensions/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-10-ca-99-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-02-13-me-23281-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/us/bill-wassmuth-61-an-ex-priest-who-fought-white-supremacists.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-10-me-11091-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/us/klan-wins-a-battle-for-cable-tv.html

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2001/tim-and-sarah-gayman-discuss-growing-anti-semitic-christian-identity-movement?page=0%2C1

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/20/us/racist-aryan-nations-group-inducts-new-disciples.html

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-hobson-bruce-augustyniak-bruce-kala

https://memorial.bellsystem.com/pdf/1988ATTar_Complete.pdf

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/04/22/white-supremacist-richard-barrett-murdered-mississippi-home

For over a decade, neo-Nazis and Klansmen were hand-delivering VHS tapes of a California-based public access TV show to local television stations in cities across the country. The stations had no choice but to run the show on local public access channels. The show's host, Tom Metzger, received a gift of $300,000 in 1984 that gave him the financial freedom to pursue his dream of delivering his racist message to as many Americans as possible, right through their television screens. 
Sources: 
Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018. 
Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.
Hamm, Mark S., and Cécile Van de Voorde. “Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups: Theory, Research, and Prevention.” Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 9, no. 2, 2005
 National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, Bigotry and Cable TV: Legal Issues and Community Responses (Institute Report No.3), Baltimore, Maryland: The Institute, 1988.
Bradley J. Howard, Pulling the Plug: Controversial Programming on Public Access Television and the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 399 (1995)
Rendahl, Stephen E.. "White Aryan Resistance: A Radical Communication System." North Dakota Journal of Speech &amp; Theatre, vol. 4, no. 1, 1 Sep. 1991, pp. 44 - 52.
Rendahl, Stephen (1990). Media access and the radical right: Public access to "race and reason." Unpublished paper presented to the Central States Communication Association, Detroit, MI.
Spring/Summer 1989 issue of “No KKK No Fascist USA,” Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee <a href="https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC37_scans/37.nokkk.spr89.pdf">https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC37_scans/37.nokkk.spr89.pdf</a>
December 1985 issue of Searchlight magazine <a href="https://ia600700.us.archive.org/4/items/searchlight_126/searchlight_126.pdf">https://ia600700.us.archive.org/4/items/searchlight_126/searchlight_126.pdf</a>
<a href="https://casetext.com/case/us-v-mahon-19">https://casetext.com/case/us-v-mahon-19</a>
<a href="https://idavox.com/index.php/2020/12/10/american-strasser/">https://idavox.com/index.php/2020/12/10/american-strasser/</a>
<a href="https://northernstar.info/16419/news/city/crusade-adds-fuel-to-flame-of-tensions/">https://northernstar.info/16419/news/city/crusade-adds-fuel-to-flame-of-tensions/</a>
 <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-10-ca-99-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-10-ca-99-story.html</a>
 <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-02-13-me-23281-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-02-13-me-23281-story.html</a>
 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/us/bill-wassmuth-61-an-ex-priest-who-fought-white-supremacists.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/us/bill-wassmuth-61-an-ex-priest-who-fought-white-supremacists.html</a>
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-10-me-11091-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-10-me-11091-story.html</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/us/klan-wins-a-battle-for-cable-tv.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/us/klan-wins-a-battle-for-cable-tv.html</a>
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2001/tim-and-sarah-gayman-discuss-growing-anti-semitic-christian-identity-movement?page=0%2C1">https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2001/tim-and-sarah-gayman-discuss-growing-anti-semitic-christian-identity-movement?page=0%2C1</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/20/us/racist-aryan-nations-group-inducts-new-disciples.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/20/us/racist-aryan-nations-group-inducts-new-disciples.html</a>
<a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-hobson-bruce-augustyniak-bruce-kala">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-hobson-bruce-augustyniak-bruce-kala</a>
<a href="https://memorial.bellsystem.com/pdf/1988ATTar_Complete.pdf">https://memorial.bellsystem.com/pdf/1988ATTar_Complete.pdf</a>
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/04/22/white-supremacist-richard-barrett-murdered-mississippi-home">https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/04/22/white-supremacist-richard-barrett-murdered-mississippi-home</a>

Ku Klux Kable Access TV

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/078efcbd-11a3-4f07-a6e1-b23c015f42e1/transcript

A Brief Reflection on 'Charlottesville'

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