142: State Terrorism and Fascism, with Amanda Rogers AKA MsEntropy
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Daniel and Jack are delighted to welcome back - after far too long an absence - the brilliant Amanda Rogers (AKA MsEntropy). We pick Amanda's brains in a conversation about the complexities of the concept of terrorism, its relationship to national states, citizenship, and fascism, with special relevance to America in the grip of Trump, MAGA, and their apparatchiks. Amanda touches on recent events including the ICE / Border Patrol incursions, the under-reported Prarieland trial of protestors, and most especially the horribly topical issue of the US-Israeli military attack upon Iran....
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141: Megyn's a Sad Bunny
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Kick off! Daniel & Jack discuss Elijah Schaefer's recent troubles, TDS showing up in the Epstein Files, and - mainly - Megyn Kelly's appearance on Piers Morgan's show to deliver an unhinged racist rant about Bad Bunny doing the Superbowl Half-Time Show. Sorry about the delay getting this to you - Jack has been super busy lately, and also ballsed up his first attempt at the edit. Content Warnings. EPISODE NOTES: Megyn Kelly on Piers Morgan Full Episode, "I'd rather DIE than bend the knee!" Bad Bunny Haltime Show, with subtitles in English and Spanish. Bad Bunny in Spanish on SNL: ...
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UNLOCKED: Nuremberg (2026)
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Unlocked bonus episode, previously for Patreon members only. Daniel and Jack talk about Nuremberg (2025) starring Russell Crowe as Hermann Goering. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: Jack's Patreon: IDSG Twitter: Daniel's Twitter: Jack's (Locked) Twitter: Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social IDSG on Apple Podcasts:
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140: Doug Wilson talks to Ross Douthat (Bad Faith Discussion, Part 2)
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Sinister Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson gets interviewed by chunky conservative media lolcow Ross Douthat. Amazingly, the person who comes out of this horrifying development looking worst is... Sam Harris? CONTENT WARNINGS. BECAUSE DOUG WILSON SAYING STUFF. EPISODE NOTES: Christian Nationalism vs Clown World | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat Dogma, Tribe, and Truth (Sam Harris, Making Sense Ep. 449) I Don't Speak German: 139: Bad Faith Discussion; Doug Wilson talks to Sam Harris EXTRA NOTES re WILSON: Sons of Patriarchy Podcast - YouTube Inside the Church That...
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139: Bad Faith Discussion; Doug Wilson talks to Sam Harris
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Daniel and Jack pick through Sam Harris' disgracefully friendly interview with right-wing fundamentalist and Hegseth-inspirer, Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson. Content Warnings Episode Notes: Harris's release of his interview with Wilson: Note: At one point in our episode, Daniel states that Wilson also posted the interview with Harris on his own channel, and this seems to be a mistake. Oops. Harris' response to his interview with Wilson: Wilson's response to the interview on his own channel: Behind the Bastards episodes on the Hegseth book: & Fundie Fridays...
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PREVIEW: Bonus 45 Nuremberg (2025)
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Daniel and Jack talk about Nuremberg (2025) starring Russell Crowe as Hermann Goering. A clip. Full episode exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: Jack's Patreon: IDSG Twitter: Daniel's Twitter: Jack's (Locked) Twitter: Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social IDSG on Apple Podcasts:
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138: The Epstein Excuses of Megyn Kelly and Steve Bannon
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We look at Megyn Kelly's sickening and ludicrous (and instantly infamous) apologia for Jeffrey Epstein in the wake of the dump of Epstein emails, and follow the thread from her, via Richard Hanania's deranged tweets about how it's normal for adult men to fancy minors, and Alan Dershowitz's seemingly eternal dedication to having Jeffrey Epstein's back, all the way back to a 2017 meeting between Epstein and Steve Bannon (et al), as related by Michael Wolff in a book, published in 2021, that contains many things now being treated as revelations by the media... Oh what a tangled web we weave......
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137: Full Haus
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We finally deliver on a promise going back to the start of the show, an episode on the 'nazi dads' podcast Full Haus. Content extremely warnings. Contains extensive clips featuring racism and sexism, and slurs (bleeped by us). Episode Notes: Oh, and Daniel's recent appearance on Half the Answer talking about the Tucker / Nick Fuentes interview: Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon:...
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News Roundup: Graham Platner, etc
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We look at some recent news stories, including: Progressive Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, his scandals, and the reactions; Kenneth Leland Morgan walking into a pub in Athens Georgia in a full SS uniform, assaulting a woman, being arrested, and then being bailed out by Paul Miller AKA 'GypsyCrusader'; and the revelation that upcoming nazi video-maker 'Shameless Sperg' is Chris Booth, husband of Meghyn Booth, Republican treasurer of Maple Valley Township. Episode Notes: Platner: Booth: Miller and Morgan: Nick Fuentes goes on Tucker: Angela Collier's The Faust and the...
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PREVIEW: Bonus 44 Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
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A clip of our new bonus episode on Kurt Vonnegut's great anti-fascist absurdist tragicomic novel Mother Night and the 90s film version. Full episode exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: Jack's Patreon: IDSG Twitter: Daniel's Twitter: Jack's (Locked) Twitter: Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social IDSG on Apple Podcasts:
info_outlineDaniel and Jack discuss who Charlie Kirk really was, and what he really said.
Features Megyn Kelly's reaction to the breaking news, and clips from Kirk's shows, including his very last podcast.
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Episode Notes:
New York Times Coverage of the Death of Charlie Kirk. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah
Wall Street Journal, "Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology: Sources" https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot/card/ammunition-in-kirk-shooting-engraved-with-transgender-antifascist-ideology-sources-pdymd1sXXMSlVRhpvR4b
Ezra Klein Opinion, at The New York Times, "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination-fear-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lE8.c8fl.bhF6iMJ6NLxJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election.
That was not all Kirk’s doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it. I did not know Kirk and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk, admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirk’s project."
Robert Draper, New York Times, How Charlie Kirk Became the Youth Whisperer of the American Right: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/magazine/charlie-kirk-american-right.html
"But perhaps most important is that Kirk’s dominant voice, via his podcast and his ubiquity on social media, has earned him credibility among conservatives as a die-hard Trump devotee. He has become a close friend of the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., with whom Kirk traveled to Greenland on Jan. 7 — wearing a “Charlie”-embroidered flight jacket for the occasion — to publicize Trump’s proclaimed intent to acquire the Arctic territory. And Kirk was an early champion of JD Vance as Trump was deciding whether the senator would be his running mate."
Megyn Kelly, YouTube, Charlie Kirk Dead at 31 -- Assassination on Utah College Campus During Turning Point Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goia3bx9aZ8
The Charlie Kirk Show, "What Does 'Phillies Karen' Say About American Men" https://thecharliekirkshow.com/podcasts/the-charlie-kirk-show/what-does-phillies-karen-say-about-american-men
Tricia McLaughlin at dhs.gov: https://www.dhs.gov/person/tricia-mclaughlin
USA Today Story on "Phillies Karen" https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/09/10/phillies-karen-outrage-explained/86070492007/
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/133-the-mamdani-reaction
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/102-rittenhouse-anarcho-tyranny-and-blood-libel
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-36-the-groyper-war
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/sep/17/turning-point-usa-professor-watchlist
https://x.com/queenie4rmnola/status/1965960315587416268
https://www.the-end.news/after-kirk-right-wingers-double-down-on-eliminating-opponents/
https://www.404media.co/charlie-kirk-was-not-practicing-politics-the-right-way/
Show Notes:
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