Molly talks to Spencer Sunshine about his book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Sunshine's book explores the history of Siege, the book that is today's nazi terrorist's bible.

https://www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Terrorism-and-Countercultural-Fascism-The-Origins-and-Afterlife-of-James-Masons-Siege/Sunshine/p/book/9780367190606

Molly talks to Spencer Sunshine about his book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason&rsquo;s Siege. Sunshine's book explores the history of Siege, the book that is today's nazi terrorist's bible.
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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. 

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

(Maybe Don't) Read Siege - (It Could Happen Here Bonus)

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There are a lot of made up reasons for eating an all-meat diet. Steak won't cure your cancer and it probably wasn't that effective at preventing death from diarrhea during the Civil War. As we enter the season of gluttony, let's take a brief tour of the history of guys who think you should be eating WAY more meat.

Sources & Further Reading:

Salisbury, James (1888). The Relation of Alimentation and Disease. JH Vail & Company, New York.

McLaughlin, Terence (1978). A Diet of Tripe: The Chequered History of Food Reform. David & Charles.

Moncriff, Bernard (1856). The Philosophy of the Stomach; OR An Exclusively Animal Diet (Without Any Vegetable or Condiment Whatever) Is The Most Wholesome and Fit For Man. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London.

Stuart, Elma (1889). What Must I Do To Get Well AND How May I Keep So? By One Who Has Done It. An Exposition Of The Salisbury Treatment. Trow’s Printing & Bookbinding. New York.

Baker, Shawn (2019). The Carnivore Diet. Victory Belt Publishing, Inc.

Sutherland, George Alexander (1908). A System of Diet and Dietetics. Oxford University Press.

Clummer, Clyde, L. (1950). "Dr. James H. Salisbury and the Salisbury Diet". Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. 59 (4): 352–370.

Parry, Thomas (1844). On Diet, With Its Influence On Man

https://www.foodandwine.com/carnivore-diet-8769136

https://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/deathsandinquests1860.html

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/sep/12/carnivore-diet-meat-plants

http://docfinder.docboard.org/nm_orders/Baker,%20Shawn%20Mark.pdf

https://www.pbs.org/mercy-street/uncover-history/behind-lens/disease/

There are a lot of made up reasons for eating an all-meat diet. Steak won't cure your cancer and it probably wasn't that effective at preventing death from diarrhea during the Civil War. As we enter the season of gluttony, let's take a brief tour of the history of guys who think you should be eating WAY more meat. Sources &amp; Further Reading: Salisbury, James (1888). The Relation of Alimentation and Disease. JH Vail &amp; Company, New York. McLaughlin, Terence (1978). A Diet of Tripe: The Chequered History of Food Reform. David &amp; Charles. Moncriff, Bernard (1856). The Philosophy of the Stomach; OR An Exclusively Animal Diet (Without Any Vegetable or Condiment Whatever) Is The Most Wholesome and Fit For Man. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London. Stuart, Elma (1889). What Must I Do To Get Well AND How May I Keep So? By One Who Has Done It. An Exposition Of The Salisbury Treatment. Trow&rsquo;s Printing &amp; Bookbinding. New York. Baker, Shawn (2019). The Carnivore Diet. Victory Belt Publishing, Inc. Sutherland, George Alexander (1908). A System of Diet and Dietetics. Oxford University Press. Clummer, Clyde, L. (1950). "Dr. James H. Salisbury and the Salisbury Diet". Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. 59 (4): 352&ndash;370. Parry, Thomas (1844). On Diet, With Its Influence On Man https://www.foodandwine.com/carnivore-diet-8769136 https://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/deathsandinquests1860.html https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/sep/12/carnivore-diet-meat-plants http://docfinder.docboard.org/nm_orders/Baker,%20Shawn%20Mark.pdf https://www.pbs.org/mercy-street/uncover-history/behind-lens/disease/

Salisbury Steak, A Civil War Diarrhea Cure: Carnivore Diet Guys, Pt 1

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Molly talks to Adam Becker about his book, More Everything Forever

Molly talks to Adam Becker about his book, More Everything Forever

The Weird Little Guys of AI with Adam Becker

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A final look at the Pioneer Fund's attempt to use racist pseudoscience to overturn the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision.

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.

Newby, IA (1967). Challenge to the Court: Social Scientists and the Defense of Segregation 1955-1966. Louisiana State University Press.

Gabriel, Ricardo, "Somos Boricuas y Estamos Despertando: Decolonial Education, Collective Identity, and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies" (2023). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5583 

Kenneth B. Clark, The Desegregation Cases: Criticism of the Social Scientist' s Role, 5 Vill. L. Rev. 224 (1959).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/vol5/iss2/5 

Ernest van den Haag, Social Science Testimony in the Desegregation Cases - A Reply to Professor Kenneth Clark, 6 Vill. L. Rev. 69 (1960).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/vol6/iss1/3

https://www.naacpldf.org/brown-vs-board/significance-doll-test/

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/dont-blame-us-church-shootings-council-conservative-citizens-says-n380126

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/02/03/south-africa-the-south-west

https://x.com/socialistdogmom/status/1439283771237339139

https://time.com/archive/6873118/education-a-negro-in-ole-miss/

https://time.com/archive/6873165/the-south-the-intruder/

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-the-lies-scientific-racists-told-about-jacksons-children/

https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-integration-failed-jacksons-public-schools-196/

https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/revisiting-brown-v-board-education-70-years-later

https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal83-857-26237-1197399#_

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/07/us/desegregation-plans-in-peril.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1963/09/10/archives/wallace-orders-guard-units-out-for-school-duty-they-replace-state.html

Transcripts:
https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d965a6d8-9452-495b-84ad-0d5be465964a/stell-v-savannah-chatham-county-board-of-education-transcript-of-proceedings

https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/209f0fe1-c065-4a37-b229-fc7b233ce2f3/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript

https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/df5c8b3d-e3fa-465d-a071-7c18dcbd1ce7/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript-1

https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/3c162003-4708-41e2-83da-437c93f0394a/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript-2

Other Court Documents:

https://www.icj-cij.org/case/47

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1748927/evers-v-jackson-municipal-separate-school-district/

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/347/483/#F11

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/220/667/1815159/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/255/88/1818366/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/724/1384/1468033/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/387/486/262018/

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/333/55/14062/

A final look at the Pioneer Fund's attempt to use racist pseudoscience to overturn the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Sources &amp; 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. Newby, IA (1967). Challenge to the Court: Social Scientists and the Defense of Segregation 1955-1966. Louisiana State University Press. Gabriel, Ricardo, "Somos Boricuas y Estamos Despertando: Decolonial Education, Collective Identity, and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies" (2023). CUNY Academic Works. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5583 Kenneth B. Clark, The Desegregation Cases: Criticism of the Social Scientist' s Role, 5 Vill. L. Rev. 224 (1959). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/vol5/iss2/5 Ernest van den Haag, Social Science Testimony in the Desegregation Cases - A Reply to Professor Kenneth Clark, 6 Vill. L. Rev. 69 (1960). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/vol6/iss1/3 https://www.naacpldf.org/brown-vs-board/significance-doll-test/ https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/dont-blame-us-church-shootings-council-conservative-citizens-says-n380126 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/02/03/south-africa-the-south-west https://x.com/socialistdogmom/status/1439283771237339139 https://time.com/archive/6873118/education-a-negro-in-ole-miss/ https://time.com/archive/6873165/the-south-the-intruder/ https://www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-the-lies-scientific-racists-told-about-jacksons-children/ https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-integration-failed-jacksons-public-schools-196/ https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/revisiting-brown-v-board-education-70-years-later https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal83-857-26237-1197399#_ https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/07/us/desegregation-plans-in-peril.html https://www.nytimes.com/1963/09/10/archives/wallace-orders-guard-units-out-for-school-duty-they-replace-state.html Transcripts: https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d965a6d8-9452-495b-84ad-0d5be465964a/stell-v-savannah-chatham-county-board-of-education-transcript-of-proceedings https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/209f0fe1-c065-4a37-b229-fc7b233ce2f3/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/df5c8b3d-e3fa-465d-a071-7c18dcbd1ce7/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript-1 https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/3c162003-4708-41e2-83da-437c93f0394a/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript-2 Other Court Documents: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/47 https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1748927/evers-v-jackson-municipal-separate-school-district/ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/347/483/#F11 https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/220/667/1815159/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/255/88/1818366/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/724/1384/1468033/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/387/486/262018/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/333/55/14062/

Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 3

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