I Don't Speak German

A trial balloon for a new format. Relatively brief, topical, news update episodes. We might do more of this going forward. This one is a response to the recent march of masked neo-nazis waving swastika flags through Nashville, Tennessee. We talk about the group involved, Blood Tribe, and their leader, attitudes, and associates. Content Warnings 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 Episode Notes: https://www.thedai

We're back.  It's cool.  What isn't cool is the National Justice Party.  Because it doesn't exist any more.  And it wasn't cool when it did.  It was shit.  And that's why... well, listen to the episode. Content Warnings. 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   Episode Notes to follow. Links to previous episodes on the NJP: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/70-national-justice-party https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.

Part 2 of our epic Dark Knight chat.  Since we spent the entirety of the last one moaning about the technical shortcomings of Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman vs the Joker movie, this time we - being who we are - felt the need to spend this episode moaning about the themes and politics and ideology.  And so we did.   Originally published for patrons only Oct 26th, 2021 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 (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

We return!  Backer-only episode in which we chat about our recent lengthy hiatus, our lengthy journey to IDSG, the lengthy rise of fascism, our favourite lengthy YouTube videos, and, by way of contrast, Chris Cantwell's penis. 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 (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

To whet your appetite for our intended imminent return, here's an old bonus episode - the first part of a long conversation Daniel and Jack had back in October 2021 about Christopher Nolan's bloated, pretentious, ramshackle, reactionary Batman vs the Joker movie from 2008. Originally available only for patrons, from October 12th 2021. Brand new bonus episode for patrons coming 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 (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

Oooooo-wooooo!  Wokeness is Scary! In this little Halloween bonus, Jack joins friend of the pod Eiynah Mohammed-Smith, and Dr Caitilin Green, for a special spooky space over at cursed nazi chan board X.  Recorded October 27th 2023.  Please excuse the usual sound quality issues. We talk about right-wing and IDW-type panics over woke Halloween costumes, concerns about cultural appropriation, etc.  To quote Eiynah's write-up: "We discuss Bill Maher, Steven Crowder, Yale professors Nicholas & Erika Christakis & their calls for students to ‘look away’ from ‘offensive Halloween costumes’, U of Oregon Professor Nancy Shurtz who wore blackface at a party that students attended ….all this and more." As always, thanks to everyone who turned up to listen and contribute.

Just Jack, talking about Elon Musk, X/Twitter, the nazis, and where we are now. Content Warnings. This episode is largely based on the work of Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket.  Great stuff.  Go, read, subscribe. https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-an-antisemite https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/elon-musk-crosses-the-border-to-nazi Also based on the work of Ben Collins: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490 Also quoted: https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalists-adopt-clowns-as-their-next-racist-symbol-yes-seriously/ Daniel's episode about Musk with Eric from ESGHound: I Don't Speak German: UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep22 Elon Musk and Twitter, with Eric from ESG Hound (libsyn.com) 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.  At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's

Another little bonus to tide you over.  Jack briefly went back to eX-Twitter to hangout in a Space with best-friend-of-the-pod Eiynah and the excellent Dr Caitlin Green to talk about Russell Brand, Lauren Boebert, Danny Masterson, the hypocrisy of those who scream about groomers, patriarchy, etc.  The bit where Caitlin talks about reactions to the Brand allegations among the 'Gender Criticals' is particularly interesting.  Thanks to everyone who showed up to listen and/or join-in.

In our new Bonus Episode, we talked about In Cold Blood - book, film, films about the book, and the crime itself. * 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.  At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true 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

In this episode, Jack is honoured to be joined by special guest Teddy Wilson of the excellent substack Radical Reports.  (Links below.)  Teddy has been closely studying the US far-right, including the sinister political pressure group that calls itself Moms for Liberty, one of the prime movers in the current reactionary cultural counter-revolution going on in America.  Teddy tells Jack all about it, going into detail about M4L's aims, methods, and connections.  He also tells Jack about the interactive visualisation tool he's created at Radical Reports for tracking M4L, their activities and interactions with other people and groups on the right.  Topics covered include M4L's links to the Republican Party including DeSantis in Florida, their ideological censorship movement to expunge school libraries of anything they don't like, their links to the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, etc.  Fascinating (if ominous) stuff. Just Jack this episode, but Daniel is on his way back.  Won't be too long now. Show Notes: Plea

While Daniel and Jack continue working towards resumption of IDSG, Jack is once again invited by best-friend-of-the-pod Eiynah (@nicemangos of the Polite Conversations podcast) to co-host a Twitter space [obligatory Elon Musk joke here] about the new Barbie movie and the tsunami of reactionary tears it has invoked.  Conversation (with contributions from various guests) ranges over the movie itself and Barbie herself, Musk and X, Dutch politics, the culture wars, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Piers Morgan, and that weird guy on YouTube who dresses like a medieval knight.  Obviously, this being an X space (sigh), sound quality is variable.  

Our hiatus continues, owing to some real pain-in-the-ass stuff in what is jokingly called 'real life'.  Hopefully we are nearing the time when we can resume making new shows.  In the meantime, here's another old bonus episode to tide you over until our triumphant return.  In this one - originally recorded and released exclusively to Patreon subscribers in October 2021 - we discuss the 2008 movie Iron Man.   * Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  Patrons [are supposed to] 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

We're still working on getting back up and running so in the meantime, here's an old bonus episode.  This is our March 2022 discussion of Art Spiegelman's Maus, to go with our public episode from February 2022 about the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee removing the classic graphic novel about the Holocaust from the curriculum.  Sadly, this is relevant again because yet another school board - this time in Nixa, Missouri - has targeted the book.  It's not alone either.  Nor is Maus the only classic Holocaust text being targeted.  Ann Frank's diary is in the crosshairs of Mom's For Liberty.   Maus Our episode about Maus and the McMinn County School Board Auschwitz in Contemporary Popular Literature by Dr Wanda Witek-Malicka Of Mice and Memory by Joshua Brown Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to one f

By way of a little compensation for you while you wait (patiently, bless you) for us to get our shit back together (which we are in the process of doing) here is a little bonus, a slightly edited recording of a Twitter space that we did with our friend Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (@NiceMangos) on 12th May last.  We chat about the coronation of Prince Charles (that's his name goddammit!), the revolting sexist discourse around E. Jean Carroll's suit against Trump, and the equally revolting discourse from deniers and obfuscators around the deadly shooting in Allen, Texas, with special reference to the bullshit about his ethnicity.  Other subjects come up, naturally.  Some interesting people took part and made great contributions.  Hope you enjoy it.  See you soon.

Daniel and Jack reconvene for a chat about the coronation of Charles Windsor and the defenestration of Tucker Carlson.  They also talk a little bit about their recent hiatus, and their imminent return to regular production of episodes. Enjoy! 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.  At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true 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

Okay, so.... as you'll have noticed, we haven't been that productive lately.  We've both been going through some stuff.  However, we are both still committed to the show.  To tide you over while you wait for us to get our acts back together, here's a public release of an old Patreon-only bonus episode from August 2021. It's a general chat in which Daniel and Jack react to some contemporary news, and Daniel tells Jack about his visit to a museum while on his holidays.  More interesting than it sounds, hopefully. Content warnings for some discussions of atrocity and war, and one satirical use of a slur (by Jack).   Also, owing to technical difficulties, this episode doesn't have the absolute greatest sound, but it's perfectly listenable. The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History https://www.nuclearmuseum.org Shaun, Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRTgtpC-Go Abigail Shrier Twitter thread about gender identity paperwork. https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/stat

Daniel and Jack return with a bumper episode.  We start with Steven Crowder's declaration of hostilities against Shapiro and his organisation The Daily Wire, and from there we move through the various reactions on the far Right, from Elijah Schaffer to John Doyle to Isabelle Riley Moody to Nick Fuentes, and more.  This episode is less about the Crowder vs. Shapiro spat and more about how it opens a window into the rampant and increasingly mainstreamed antisemitism on the Right.   This episode comes with heavy content warnings.  Daniel has done a ton of research and come back with a panoply of sniggering horrors.  Jack has bleeped out the r-slurs and f-slurs.  But still, take care. 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 Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https

A bitesize bonus in which Jack chats with Amanda Moore - journalist and former undercover infiltrator of MAGA! - about the recent Rage Against the War Machine rally... actually a rally in support of Putin and Russian imperialism.  Amanda attended - for research purposes obviously - and found herself amidst Jimmy Dore and Matthew Heimbach, Tulsi Gabbard and Caleb Maupin, the Larouchites, the Grayzoners, loads of nazis and a parade of Russian flags.   Content Warnings 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 Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 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 Episode Notes: Amanda on Twitter

Daniel and Jack had an impromptu chat one night, accidentally recorded it, and decided that - a few edits later - it would stand up as a bonus episode.  We hope you enjoy it.  If you do, we might do more bonus episodes without a set topic, just us shooting the breeze. * 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.  At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true 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

To tide you over while we prepare more new content for you, here's an old bonus episode.  Once for backers only, now it's yours for free.   We talk about 2009's In The Loop, satire of the political machinations leading up to the invasion of Iraq, written/directed by Armando Iannucci (et al) and starring Peter Capaldi as Not Alistair Campbell.  Content Warnings, especially for embarrassing old geezer reminiscing. Originally recorded August 2021. Becoming a patron brings access to all other bonus episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true 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