Weird Little Guys
Episodes
One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 6
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As we approach the end of the series on nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, the rest of the timeline is filled in. Shortly after murdering two yo...
Raymond Turner
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Just about every source of information about nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin gets the name of one of his victims wrong. In my search for infor...
One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 5
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After Joseph Paul Franklin was arrested in 1980, prosecutors all over the country were waiting their turn to try him for murder. After a federal prose...
One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 4
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Joseph Paul Franklin hit the road to start his killing spree, his movements seemed completely random. But what if they weren't? Sources: Mel Ayto...
One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 3
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, we looked at the nazi newletters serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was probably reading in the leadup to his killing spree. But there is o...
One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 2
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1977, Joseph Paul Franklin started his three year killing spree, but he wasn't the only neo-nazi who murdered for the movement that summer.Sources:...
To Catch A Fascist: An Interview with Christopher Mathias
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Molly interviews Christopher Mathias about his new book, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right. It's a rollicking tale of infiltra...
CZM Rewind: Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Part One: Frank Abbott Sweeney Jr may be the Forrest Gump of American white supremacy in the 20th century. Starting with a failed bank robbery fo...
One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 1
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Years before he set off on his three year killing spree, Joseph Paul Franklin left his home in Alabama to attend a nazi conference in Virginia. ...
Cops & Klan
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1965, a car full of klansmen shot and killed Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit who volunteered to drive civil rights activists back to Selma...
Earl Turner's Diary
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When the man responsible for bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City was arrested, he was carrying a page of his favorite book. The book had been ...
CZM Rewind: Blood River & Mission South Africa
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Parts 7 & 8 of the South Africa arc. Blood River Original Air Date: 4.17.25 In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 20...
CZM Rewind: The Whites' Last Stand & The Jamboree in Jamba
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Parts 5 & 6 of the South Africa arc. The Whites' Last Stand Original Air Date: 4.3.25 In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were gettin...
CZM Rewind: The White Wolf & White Guns for Hire
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Parts 3 & 4 of the South Africa arc. The White Wolf Original Air Date: 3.2.25 In 1989, four Afrikaner nationalists and one German mercenary killed...
CZM Rewind: The White House Weighs in on White Genocide & Apartheid International
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the end of the year reruns, Weird Little Guys is revisiting the longest, strangest story of 2025 - the South Africa arc. Those eight episodes tell...
Minisode: Reverse Q&A
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this minisode, Molly highlights a couple of listener answers to questions raised on the show. Most importantly, we finally find out what Dan Burros...
The Florida Bar v Invictus
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Augustus Invictus has finally been suspended by the Florida Bar for his felony conviction for participating in a nazi torch march in 2017. But when wi...
The Insurrectionist: Tyler Dykes, Part Two
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, Tyler Dykes marched in Charlottesville. In 2021, he breached the capitol. In 2026, he hopes to win a congressional election.Sources:https://w...
CZM Rewind: Burning Hate: Tyler Dykes
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally ran on October 17, 2024. There is a brief new introduction, but it's back at the top of your feed for listeners who didn't cat...
Weird Little Guys 2025 Q&A
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Molly answers your weird little questions and shares her personal conspiracy theory about who tried and failed to assassinate a nazi in 1967. Sources:...
CZM Rewind: Magic Beans
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 wit...
The Lost Episode: Nazis for Ron Paul: Curtis Maynard, Pt. 2
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007, a white nationalist known for his addiction to causing drama claimed he saw Ron Paul at a nazi supper club. Ron Paul supporters, including th...
CZM Rewind: Revisionist History Riverboat Cruise: Curtis Maynard, Pt. 1
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally ran on January 23, 2025. The second half of the story had to be taken down a few weeks later. That episode has now been rewrit...
CZM Rewind: An Accidental Nazi Rally
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, an anti-Muslim nonprofit crowd-sourced the organization of a nationwide series of rallies. Many of the people who stepped up to help turned o...
Disorganized Crime, Pt. 4
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final chapter of his life, Frank Smith really did start the whites only church he first proposed to George Lincoln Rockwell. Sources: https://w...
Disorganized Crime, Pt. 3
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1965, Frank Smith was laying low in Maine after a failed mob hit nearly killed him. He reappeared a few months later in Virginia, acting as a body ...
The Other Rockwell
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 u...
Disorganized Crime, Pt. 2
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ha...
Disorganized Crime, Pt. 1
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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.nyti...
George Lincoln Rockwell's Coffin Flop
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 A...
Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3.5
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode of the story of George Lincoln Rockwell's assassin, Rockwell finally dies and his assassin goes on trial.Sources:Schmaltz, Willia...
Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 2
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 with...
Death of a Demagogue
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Lin...
American Fart Party
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Recalled, Replaced
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, Judd Blevins marched in Charlottesville with men chanting 'you will not replace us.' In 2024, voters in Enid, Oklahoma replaced him - a recal...
A Secret Third Thing
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After the 2012 election, the American Third Position Party rebranded. Not because their candidate lost, they expected that. But probably because their...
Third Position
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, a newly formed white nationalist political party tried to get their candidate on the ballot. The American Third Position Party wanted America...
In Minecraft
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 terrori...
The Roommates
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 g...
Magic Beans
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 wit...
Slow Decline
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, Nicholas Young became the first American police officer to be arrested and charged with a federal terrorism offense. At trial, jurors were sh...
Red Flag
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When FBI agents started combing through the digital footprint of a dead school shooter, they found more than the usual missed warning signs.Sources:ht...
CZM Rewind: The Civil War False Flag
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
There Is A Spectre Haunting New York City
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 remova...
A Brief History of Vehicular Violence
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?...
Murder on Fourth Street
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With vehicular attacks on protests on the rise and elected officials encouraging the tactic, old conspiracy theories about one vehicular attack in par...
Stand Back and Stand By
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, five Proud Boys announced a $100 million lawsuit against the government over their treatment during the January 6th prosecutions. Sources:h...
Disney's Villain
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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.Sou...
State Created Danger
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Small Time Arms Dealer
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
CZM Rewind: Arrested Democracy
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arrested Democracy, Part 1 In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of t...
Minisode: Pappas v Giuliani
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A bite-sized look at the NYPD officer who sued the city for firing him over anonymously mailing racist pamphlets to charitable organizationsSources:...
CZM Rewind: The Devil's Chatroom
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 deploym...
Shooter Without A Cause
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, Arth...
Mission South Africa
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Listener Q&A
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Molly answers questions submitted by listeners.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Blood River
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ful...
The Jamboree in Jamba
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
The Whites' Last Stand
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the ...
White Guns for Hire
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 da...
The White Wolf
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1989, four Afrikaner nationalists and one German mercenary killed a security guard at a United Nations outpost in Namibia. After escaping from cust...
Apartheid International
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 su...
Update On: A Short-Lived Pardon
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The White House Weighs in on White Genocide
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In February of 2012, racist skinheads in California rallied at the capitol building in Sacramento. They were trying to raise awareness for an imaginar...
They Got What They Wanted
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"They got what they wanted." Those were the words of Don Logan after a February 11, 2025 meeting of the Scottsdale, Arizona city council. Twenty-one y...
An Accidental Nazi Rally
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, an anti-Muslim nonprofit crowd-sourced the organization of a nationwide series of rallies. Many of the people who stepped up to help turned o...
(Maybe Don't) Read Siege - (It Could Happen Here Bonus)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Molly talks to Spencer Sunshine about his book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege...
A Short-Lived Pardon
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In January of 2025, Matthew Huttle was one of nearly 1600 people to receive a pardon from Donald Trump for his participation in the January 6, 2021 ri...
Revisionist History Riverboat Cruise: Curtis Maynard, Pt .1
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010, a rising star in the small world of holocaust denial blogging murdered his ex-wife and then took his own life. This first chapter of his stor...
The Co-Conspirators: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 5
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the end of Dennis Mahon's story. In 2012, he was convicted for building the bomb that went off in the hands of Scottsdale, Arizona's director ...
The Debutante at Elohim City: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 4
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1994, a former debutante named Carol Howe became an informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. For six months, she and Dennis Mahon...
The Klansman's Twin: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 3
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before we finish the story of Dennis Mahon, let's take a little side quest to learn about his identical twin brother, Daniel. In 1999, Daniel Mahon wa...
CZM Rewind: White Terror
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A teenager who murdered two people outside of a gay bar in Slovakia, a teenager who stabbed five men at a mosque in Turkey, and a teenager who planned...
A Klansman in Berlin: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 2
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 seco...
Klansas City Kable: Dennis Mahon, Pt. 1
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ku Klux Kable Access TV
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
CZM Rewind: Barry Black Pt. 1 & 2
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Fire Will Not Consume Us: Barry Black, Part 1 In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that the mere act of burning a cross, absent evidence of specific i...
Arrested Democracy, Pt. 2
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Oath Keeper Darren Huff returned to Madisonville, Tennessee on April 20, 2010, he was planning to take control of the courthouse. It didn't quite...
Arrested Democracy, Pt .1
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of...
A Deal With the Devil: Ethan Melzer, Pt. 2
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, Ethan Melzer pleaded guilty to plotting to help al Qaeda ambush and kill his entire unit while on a sensitive mission in Turkey. But Melzer's...
The Devil's Chat Room: Ethan Melzer, Pt. 1
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 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...
Weird Little Check-in
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's no new weird little guy this week, but I wanted to check in with you about how the show is going so far and squeeze in a few weird little fact...
Burning Hate: Tyler Dykes
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Bradley Dykes entered a guilty plea last year on the charge of burning an object with the intent to intimidate for his participation in the 2017...
Freedom to Burn: Barry Black, Pt. 2
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of the story of Barry Black, we finally get to the landmark supreme court case that won the klansman the right to burn crosses. Barry's Ke...
The Fire Will Not Consume Us: Barry Black, Pt. 1
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that the mere act of burning a cross, absent evidence of specific intent to intimidate, is protected by the first ame...
An Officer and A Skinhead
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, the FBI arrested a coast guard lieutenant who'd been buying pain pills online, but it wasn't just Tramadol they found in his apartment: he'd ...
White Terror
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A teenager who murdered two people outside of a gay bar in Slovakia, a teenager who stabbed five men at a mosque in Turkey, and a teenager who planned...
Liar, Liar
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A soldier was arrested last month on charges that included lying about his membership in a hate group on his application for a security clearance. But...
Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney, Pt. 2
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of the life of the Forrest Gump of fascism, Frank Sweeney leads the CIA on an international goose chase, befriends and then betrays a seri...
Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney, Pt. 1
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Abbott Sweeney Jr may be the Forrest Gump of American white supremacy in the 20th century. Starting with a failed bank robbery for the American ...
Lights Out
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An investigation into illegal gun sales at Camp Lejeune uncovers a neonazi paramilitary group plotting to cause a blackout in the Pacific Northwest, a...
The Civil War False Flag
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
A Brief Reflection on 'Charlottesville'
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Do We Really Need to Talk About Kevin?
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why do people keep posting that fake Voltaire quote and who is the pedophile who actually said it? Molly takes you back to the 90s, inside the Nazi co...
The Weird Little Guys Trying to Ruin Our Lives
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join host Molly Conger each week for a story about one of the aspiring little Führers of the suburbs, men whose actions altered the course of the liv...
Introducing: Weird Little Guys
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Weird Little Guys is a weekly show that gives you an uncomfortably close look at the worst people you’ve never heard of. Molly Conger takes a closer...