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Daniel Harper is a researcher who goes where few others can bear to go: he listens to what the reactionaries - from the IDW to the modern day Nazis - say to each other in *their* safe spaces!  In this timely and shocking - but entertaining - anti-fascist podcast, Daniel tells his friend, online writer Jack Graham, all about it.

I Don't Speak German

In a companion piece to the last public bonus, Daniel and Jack discuss Adam McKay's Vice from 2018, a dense metafictional dramedy biopic of Dick Cheney, unofficial president during the George W. Bush years and architect of the 'War on Terror'. An interesting movie, possibly as flawed as it is brilliant. 
 
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: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social
 
Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

PUBLIC BONUS: Vice (Adam McKay, 2018)

We begin our seventh year (!) with a conversation with special guest Teddy Wilson, the journalist behind Radical Reports, on the state of the January 6th convictions, prosecutions, and investigations in the looming shadow of a second Trump presidency.
 
Episode Notes:
 
https://bsky.app/profile/reportbywilson.bsky.social
 
https://bsky.app/profile/radicalreports.bsky.social
 
https://www.radicalreports.org/
 
Teddy's previous IDSG appearances:
 
 https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/123-moms-for-liberty-with-teddy-wilson
 
 https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/bonus-hanging-out-with-eiynah
 
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: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social
 
Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

127: January 6th and the Second Trump Presidency

Jack is joined by friend (and friend-of-the-show), the writer George Daniel Lea, to talk about the online phenomenon known as 'Estranged Parents' or the 'Estranged Parents Movement'. George did a deep dive and is here to tell us about what he found. It turns out to be a lot more relevant to IDSG than it might seem at first glance!
 
George's site http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/
 
George on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid
 
George on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@ExaggeratedElegy
 
In researching this episode, and compiling a suite of clips of the infamous Estranged Parent content creator Diane, Jack made extensive use of the work of Maximmino on YouTube, who has covered this subject at length. https://www.youtube.com/@Maximmmino
 
Here is Maximmino's video on Diane's infamous deleted video, from which Jack harvested several clips. https://youtu.be/SpSRkNYUiAw?si=Af4kRPvMg2PQJ57i
 
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: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social
 
Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

PUBLIC BONUS: Estranged Parents, with George Daniel Lea

With apologies for our latest recent hiatus, here's an old bonus episode - formerly just for patrons - in which Daniel and Jack chat about 1992's A Few Good Men, a military courtroom drama written by Aaron 'West Wing' / 'Social Network' Sorkin, and starring Kevin Pollack and some other people probably.
 
We're still alive and the show will be back. We appreciate your patience.
 
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Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social
 
Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

UNLOCKED! Bonus 13: A Few Good Men (1992)

Daniel and Jack chat about the eventful millennia that have passed since they last convened... 
 
Features Cantwell News!
 
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: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social
 
Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

News Brief: The First Ten Million Years of the Second Trump Presidency

Jack and Daniel welcome to the show Craig A. Johnson - academic, researcher, antifascist, and host of the (excellent) podcast 15 Minutes of Fascism - to chat about his (excellent) new book How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, a primer on today's fascist and far-right, in all their styles and iterations, aimed at people worried that a young person in their lives (most especially a young man, obviously) is being sucked into the darkness.
 
Episode Notes:
 
 How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, book.
 
15 Minutes of Fascism at Soundcloud 
 
 IDSG on 15MoF
 
Craig's bluesky
 
Craig's Patreon
 
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: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social
 
Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

128: How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, with Craig A. Johnson

Our series on 'movies about presidents' continues with a fun discussion of this 1997 'thriller', written by legendary Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman based on the debut novel of David Baldacci, starring/produced/directed by noted chair-interviewer Clint Eastwood, and boasting a splendid cast - including recently-deceased screen legend Gene Hackman - none of whom are given anything very interesting to do. Clint plays a suave cat burglar - with the unlikely name of Luther Whitney - who accidentally witnesses the president of the United States sexually assaulting a woman (far-fetched, right?) and getting her killed. All Hell then persistently threatens but repeatedly fails to break loose. Instead we get a slow, aimless, half-baked movie filled with good elements that don't cohere or go anywhere special. It sparked an amusing conversation though, as we hope you will agree.
 
Full episode exclusive for Patreon subscribers.
 
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Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social
 
Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

PREVIEW: Bonus Ep38 Absolute Power (1997)

Our 'movies about presidents' series continues (probably for four more years) with a much better movie this time. 1993's Wolfgang Peterson joint In the Line of Fire, featuring Clint Eastwood again (are we... doing a Clint Eastwood season now?) as jaded old Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, veteran of a particular epic fail in Dallas 1963, up against the 90s serial killer shtick of rogue CIA super-assassin John Malkovich and, even more dauntingly, the merciless side-eye of fellow agent Rene Russo. A superior slice of 90s Hollywood nonsense with a nice line in gentle self-mockery and some adorable early digital effects.
 
This is a fun one, kids.
 
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: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social
 
Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

PREVIEW: Bonus 39 In the Line of Fire (1993)

Trump released all the remaining secret JFK files! Except not really. And they're full of revelations! Except not really. (They're mainly full of people's social security numbers which, it transpires, is pretty much all the remaining redactions were hiding.) Anna Paulina Luna (R, FL) is leading a new congressional investigation! Er... no, she's inviting conspiracy theorists into Congress to confirm her ill-informed beliefs. The mystery is solved! Or deepens! Except nope nope and nope.
 
In this impromptu News Brief, Jack and Daniel jump off from a supremely stupid clip of reactionary conspiracybrained shitheads Bill Maher and Andrew Sullivan to ponder the changing political meaning of the conspiracy theories around the Kennedy assassination, why it has migrated from a left preoccupation all the way over to being an obsession of MAGA and the far-right. 
 
Along the way we encounter the peculiar and controversial author Gerald Posner, who is able to debunk JFK conspiracy theories but apparently unable to see the problems with Israel's policies in Gaza, Elon Musk doing seig heils, or Gender Criticals who think the Trans movement is all funded by evil rich Jews (or possibly alien lizards).
 
Yes, this is the world we live in folks.
 
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: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social
 
Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1
 
*
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Posner#Controversies
 
https://www.justthefacts.media/
 
 https://www.justthefacts.media/p/the-ressurection-of-oliver-stone
 
 https://www.justthefacts.media/p/hitler-musk-and-the-art-of-the-smear
 
https://www.justthefacts.media/p/the-transgender-money-pipeline
 
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LGB_Alliance
 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20211009112830/https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1368635513775689728
 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20211029170407/https://twitter.com/LGBAlliance_CA/status/1368988077901905925
 
 https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2022/02/fears-of-creeping-transhumanism-give-space-for-overt-conspiracism-in-gender-critical-communities/
 
 https://progressive.org/magazine/antisemitism-meets-transphobia-greenesmith-lorber/
 
 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/donald-trump-bill-maher-real-time-b2732092.html
 
https://youtu.be/aE9mTr2uI10?si=4OaFzGM27Y1lots9
 
https://youtu.be/KAMC9cxEPzo?si=4SMhZoH9XKWLcaQ5
 
https://youtu.be/UJ28qfIR_8M?si=-rDyDFG70OvE3--x
 
https://youtu.be/-Lo1ButCuqE?si=tNl46hKnHyXdfvnO
 
Sean Munger: Oswald Acted Alone Part 1: https://youtu.be/DC8tO16xdrY?si=jhWAKR-GzJHnQacz
 
Part 2: https://youtu.be/Ptt1ti63IiE?si=Dkr3Nd75Jjlv6j95

News Brief: The JFK Files

In this immediately out-of-date episode, Daniel and Jack discuss the 2024 movie Conclave in light of the (at the time of recording) underway 2025 Conclave in the Vatican to choose a new Pope. Both your hosts talk a little about their own religious backgrounds, review the film, and then get onto the politics of the Catholic Church, particularly the integration of right-wing US bishops with American reactionaries.
 
Episode Notes:
 
 https://www.ncronline.org/culture/book-reviews/playing-god-traces-history-catholic-conservatism-gone-extreme
 
 https://publicseminar.org/2024/08/the-catholic-new-right-and-project-2025/
 
 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/catholic-right-celebrity-conversion-industrial-complex?srsltid=AfmBOooTq0kt0MevV9R8VfOMTL3vn5n2JBO1URs0O1qbA9760WPUWsRa
 
 https://www.politico.eu/article/vaticans-church-catholic-pope-francis-hard-right/
 
https://sojo.net/magazine/march-2019/rise-catholic-right
 
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/maga-catholics-vatican-pope-conclave
 
https://youtu.be/Mb3zYyhrUWg?si=d1UG7bpGi16WAaRo
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKW-0fIDHdw&t=220s
 
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: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social
 
Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

129: Conclave (2024), the Papacy, and Right-Wing Catholicism

Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode.
 
Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes.
 
This time, Daniel and Jack embark on a chat about Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman movie The Dark Knight. You know, it's the one with Heath Ledger as the Joker. 
 
In a development that is depressingly less surprising than we wish it were, it turns out we have so much to say about this silly movie that this episode morphs into Part 1 of a two part discussion before our own astonished and frankly ashamed faces as we talk. 
 
This episode focuses mainly on how the movie is a structural mess and a sometimes bafflingly incompetent bit of filmmaking. The next bit gets more into the themes and ideology.
 
Part 2 along soon.
 
Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts
 
Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true
 
Content Warnings.
 
Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month.
 
IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod
 
Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper
 
Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_
 
IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

PREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep10 The Dark Knight (2008)

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