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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this backer-only bonus ep, Daniel finally gets to talk about Real Genius (1985), which Jack has only just seen... Real Genius (1985) - IMDb 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 ...

A real treat episode: Jack chats with special guest Matthew Remski of the excellent Conspirituality podcast ("dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis".)  The conversation ranges over Teal Swan and influencers like her, the Anti-Wokeness of the conspiritualist milieu, the Satantic Panic and its relationship to QAnon, the fascists and their idea of 'after the revolution', and the neoliberal roots of our current cultural predicament. Content Warnings! Matthew...

In this free public bonus episode, stepping sideways off our usual beat, Jack plays host to extra special guest Marisa Kabas - writer, reporter, MSNBC columnist, and author of The Daily Santos at her journal The Handbasket - and chats with her about the object of their mutual obsession: one-man pile-up, dumpster-fire, and lie-factory, Rep. George Santos (NY-R) IF THAT EVEN IS HIS NAME!!!  Content Warnings Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and...

Our quest to talk about every naff blokey movie from the 80s and 90s continues with this classic bit of homoerotic copaganda murder porn starring Danny Glover and a Nazi. Lethal Weapon - Wikipedia 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...

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...

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...

A real treat this time, as Daniel and Jack are joined by special guest Sophie from Mars to talk about Caleb Maupin and the wider 'Conspiracy Left', i.e. those left-wingers (or pseudo left-wingers) who style themselves anti-imperialists (etc) and who embrace every bad cause from Putin/Assad-apologia to transphobia to conspiracist antisemitism.  Sophie knows and understands this subject backwards and forwards.  Her YouTube documentary video Conspiracy on the Left was an instant classic when it...

Jack welcomes special guest Annika Brockschmidt to the show.  Annika specialises in covering the far-right and tells Jack all about the recent German government swoop on those in the Reichsbürger movement who were planning 'Day X', a storming of the Bundestag and a takeover of the state.  We go over the context of the far-right in Germany, the composition and ideology of the Reichsbürgers, the coup plans, the structure of the conspiracy, the reaction in Germany, the connections with QAnon and...