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Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 3
October 22, 2026 · 53 minA final look at the Pioneer Fund's attempt to use racist pseudoscience to overturn the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision.Sources & Further Reading:Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper…
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CZM Rewind: Third Position & A Secret Third Thing
October 15, 2026 · 1 hr 27 minWe're revisiting two classic Weird Little Guys episodes from last year about a white nationalist political party's attempt to get their candidate on the ballot. Third Position Original air date: 8/21/25 In 2012, a newly formed white…
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KFC #1: The Lies of Math (w/ Molly Conger)
October 14, 2026 · 2 hr 22 minIn the first level of Knowledge Fight Country, Dan and his guest adventurer Molly Conger set out to understand the context around Tucker Carlson's interview with a welder who is mad about algebra. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
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Scientists for Segregation: Ernest van den Haag
October 8, 2026 · 47 minA closer look at one of the men on the Pioneer Fund's team of scientists for segregation reveals that he wasn't a scientist at all.Sources & Further Reading:Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The…
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Segregation Forever
October 1, 2026 · 38 minLast week, the DOJ's Civil Rights division announced they were moving to dismiss more than 50 desegregation cases against school districts all over the country. Like the weird little guys trying to overturn the Brown v Board of Education…
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Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 2
September 24, 2026 · 43 minIn the decade after the Supreme Court's ruling in the Brown v Board of Education case, segregationists used every tool available to prevent integration. By the early 1960s, a group of Pioneer Fund-backed scientists had teamed up with the…
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Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 1
September 17, 2026 · 43 minWickliffe Draper's Pioneer Fund started out in 1937 by funding screenings of Nazi propaganda films in high schools. But like most American racists, the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v Board of Education case changed how he…
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Death of a Demagogue (rewind)
September 10, 2026 · 50 minSometimes when a weird little guy gets shot, the guy who killed him is just a weirder little guy. Original Air Date: 9/18/2025 Sources:Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington…
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An American Racist in Berlin
September 3, 2026 · 44 minIn 1937, the heir to a textile manufacturing fortune established a charitable foundation to funnel money into disseminating propaganda produced in Nazi Germany. Since then, that fund has subsidized the overwhelming majority of research in…
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Race Scientists and the Human Zoo
August 27, 2026 · 58 minIn 1904, men who believed in 'race science' put hundreds of people in a human zoo at the St. Louis world's fair. Today, those same racist, pseudoscientific views persist, and the men who hold them demand to be taken seriously in the name…
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Mississippi's Still Burning: Byron de la Beckwith Pt 7
August 20, 2026 · 51 minIn 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted of murder for killing Medgar Evers in 1963. He died in prison, his story is over. But history repeats itself.Sources & Further Reading:Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron…
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No Golf No Masters: Celebrating Our Ungovernable Peccary Friends
August 17, 2026 · 30 minJames talks with Molly Conger about the javelina and their installable appetite for golf courses. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65x0RvhJNa8 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/nov/05/conservation.sciencenews…

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