Fourth Reich Archaeology

Bracing for Revolution w/ Brace Belden

This week we are joined by a special guest, TrueAnon’s Brace Belden, to take stock of the current and impending crisis and brainstorm ways that we might think creatively to meet the moment and face off against an admittedly much better organized fascist enemy. For those of us on the left seeking to exploit the next crisis to push back against the consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of our craven overlords, we must come to grips with the fact that there currently is no organized revolutionary movement; there’s not even a revolutionary working class. But that does not mean that we should give into fatalism. There are plenty signs of hope, and the demand for a unified front against fascism is higher than it has been in generations.

We discuss all of this and much more with Brace, including the magnetic pull of the spectacle towards compatible leftism, the prospects for armed struggle (including insights from Brace’s time in Syria), and how we can learn from the past without using history as a costume for revolutionary LARPing. We don’t have the answers, but we do have the will, and we hope you’ll tune in and join us.

Links: TrueAnon Podcast https://podcast.trueanon.com/

Brace’s Baffler Article, “The Hatred of Podcasting” https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/the-hatred-of-podcasting-belden

Lukacs “History and Class Consciousness” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/

Herbert Marcuse’s 1969 Berkeley Speech with Angela Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuyWj8BtjKc

CONTRA IRAN

This week we dig deep into Iran. We go all the way back to the country’s entree into modernity and its role as a nominally independent nation amidst and between competing empires in The Great Game. We also go a bit deeper into the political forces that gave rise to the first Shah of Iran, which is a real Fourth Reich fairytale involving Nazis, Brits, and of course that black gold, oil. 

You know we dig into the rise and fall of the great lost hope for democracy, Mohammed Mossadegh. All he wanted was for Iran to get half the profits from his country’s oil, and instead he got ousted and replaced by a 26-year long dictatorship, replaced by the Islamic Republic in 1979.

Basically we cover about 250 years of Iranian history and tell a story that we just have not been hearing in the news these days. We then take it to the present day and give our analysis on the current protests and the factional formations popping up to prepare a hostile takeover of the roiling nation. It is a time for clear thinking, for historical understanding, for only through consciousness of our role in reality can we act in history. And act we must.

A Tale of Twin Cities

Apropos of the cold-blooded, and absolutely needless and senseless murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by the ICEstapo, I thought it would be a good time to share a song I wrote after the fizzle-out of the 2020 protests that popped off in that city in response to the police murder of George Floyd. The song is called "A Tale of Twin Cities," and borrows from the famous opening passage of Charles Dickens's classic "Tale of Two Cities" to reflect some observations on the inevitability of violence to maintain the status quo of extreme economic inequality, and on the role of the spectacle in steering protest into the dead-end of electoralism.

This version of it was produced by a friend I met on Twitter who used to go by the moniker of "Compost Ghoul." The lyrics are below. Hope you like it, and I really hope that "we" can learn from the past and avoid making some of the same mistakes that have hamstrung past attempts to leverage righteous indignation into revolutionary action.

LYRICS:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
When the ones accusing keep on doing the crimes.
They have the best of plans and the worst intent,
And believe you me things'll get worse yet.

it was the age of wisdom and of foolishness,
When there was so much knowledge yet so little sense.
We had a whole free market of ideas to choose
We had some scraps to gain but our souls to lose

Chorus: It’s another tale of two cities;
Two parallel societies;
One's selling out to keep on buying cheap
And the other one is burning to get free.

It was the spring of hope, the winter of despair,
When there was rage in our hearts, rebellion in the air
And every murder sanctioned by the slave patrol was just them telling us they’re still in control.

It was the season of light, and plenty darkness too,
When we chose to fight but we knew we’d lose--
Divided up ourselves, unable to agree, and our differences became commodities.

Chorus: It’s another tale of two cities;
Two parallel societies;
One's selling out to keep on buying cheap
And the other one is burning to get free.
I said that the other one is burning to get free.

Much love,

Don

Emergency Dispatch - Illegal Business

This week we are dropping our episode early because there is just too much going on for us to sit on the sidelines until Friday.  Recorded on Sunday, January 4th, 2026, in this episode we weigh in on the outright violation of international law that occurred in the dead of night on Saturday, January 3rd in Caracas, Venezuela, when Nicolas Maduro and his wife were kidnapped by the United States Military Industrial Complex and brought to the center of empire to answer to federal charges of narcoterrorism. 

Even though we (and the rest of the world) knew this was a long time coming - and we predicted it in our Geopolitik 7 episode - the actual event was still a shock when it happened. Whatever happens next, this invasion marks the entry into a new era of U.S. world policing, one in which the United States will straight up go out and bag any head of state it dislikes, under cover of darkness, in order to get what it wants.  This is a violation of international law. It is a violation of domestic law. And beyond strongly worded letters and statements, the international community seems to be okay with letting it go unanswered.  At least for now, it seems like the United States’ policy of “might makes right” is going to carry the day. 

Meanwhile, the U.S. mafia-state under the helm of King of K-K-Krime Donald Trump is wearing its criminality like a mink coat. U.S. friendly drug dealers like the recently pardoned ex-Honduran kingpin/president Juan Orlando Hernandez, Ecuadoran billionaire/president Daniel Noboa, and crypto fraudster/torture-dungeon-master Nayib Bukele laugh their way to the bank. The empire’s reasons for flouting the law are beyond transparent, they are blatant and brazen. Under the laughable pretext of curbing drug trafficking into the United States, the Trump administration has openly asserted that the reason they took Maduro was to open up the Venezuelan oil and mineral market to multinational corporations. 

It’s all so basic. It’s all so annoying. We have come back to the 19th Century policy of going out and taking control over places and peoples simply so that we can extract their resources to enrich our psychotic rulers. And at this point, the default is that the billionaire class, the powers that be, and whatever hangers on who worship that group are just going to keep doing mafia shit to consolidate capital as long as everyone else goes along with the shakedown racket.

Let’s get digging. 

TWCD OST Track 2: Building a Commission

This one, of course, features Cake's amazing song, "Comfort Eagle," off their eponymous album, mashed up with the words of erstwhile Yale Law School Dean, Eugene Rostow, as he called LBJ aide (and later famed PBS journalist), Bill Moyers. Rostow purported to be calling on behalf of "a party" of like-minded individuals, strongly recommending that the president form a blue ribbon commission consisting of non-partisan gentlemen (including, "maybe Nixon," LOL) and absolutely no Supreme Court Justices (again, LOL). Who was in that "party"? Check out the next tracks on the disc for more.

The Warren Commission Decided Official Soundtrack, Track 1: "The 33rd Degree"

As a treat for you, our beloved Patrons, we are putting out deluxe editions of all the audio mashups from our Warren Commission Decided series as "songs" in a "collection" that you can play as an album. As we start to roll this project out, please let us know if it's something you're interested in. We thought it might be nice to have a quick and easy (and, hopefully, entertaining) reference point to revisit all the high points of Warren Commission lore without necessarily re-playing the entire episodes (though that can be fun, too!).

We're always trying to give you all some special treats, so as always, don't be shy to let us know what you like, and what more you'd like to see.

This first one up is from TWCD ep. 1, and features the song "The 33rd Degree" by Thievery Corporation, featuring Henry Kissinger, recorded at Gerald Ford's funeral in January 2007. Enjoy!

Love,

Dick n Don

Is This It?

It’s Christmas, 2025 is almost over, and the insanity of the world - the seemingly unaccountable criminality of our rulers - is on full display. Scan any newspaper, scroll the feed of your “favorite” social media app, and it’s hard not to feel an all-encompassing sense of dread and doom, and of powerlessness. Enter Dick and Don with some holiday “cheer.” Or, more than cheer, analysis and righteous indignation - our specialty.

In this episode, we take a look at the headlines from hell that have marked the past weeks to reiterate what our longtime listeners already know all too well: we ARE living in the Fourth Reich. Down South America way, yet another actual Nazi scion has been elected president of a whole-ass country, namely José Antonio Kast in Chile, son of a dyed in the wool ratline escapee with big plans to revive and resurrect the legacy of the cruel Pinochet dictatorship. That’s another domino felled by the AmerIsraeli empire in what we’re calling “Operation Condor 2.0.” Meanwhile, plans continue apace for the imperial conquest of Venezuela and the seizure of its oil, including a bill introduced by Bernie Sanders’s “good friend” Mike Lee (R-UT) to authorize the president to issue letters of marque, empowering Amerikan pirates to prowl the Caribbean once more.

Speaking of the Caribbean, we look at the latest Epstein document dumps and assess whether anything will happen in response. Seems unlikely, even though the pedophile government is more unpopular than ever. Like, who is still supporting these utterly degenerate freaks?

TPUSA - that’s who. And that’s where we end our episode, discussing the WWE style griftfest of Erika Kirk and friends. That’s also where we try to draw some hope for the future: the depravity, the artificiality, the totally vacuous performance that the Amerika-firsters put on display (not to mention the “night of the long knives” circular firing squad taking shape among the fascist ranks over support for Israel) is doomed to fail. But rather than let the craven democrats pick up the pieces of the wreckage, we need to build our own power base for humanity. And with that in mind, let’s onto 2026!!

Patreon Exclusive - The Hotline, Part 1

Hi there Patrons! We have a very special treat for you this week. It’s an exclusive, one-of-a-kind, out of studio Dick & Don experience featuring some of our very favorite people on earth: you! Recall way back in August 2025 we set up a toll free Hotline and asked you to call in and tell us what is on your mind.  Well, we are just so thrilled to roll out the very first of what will no doubt be an ongoing series of Patreon exclusive drops where we feature your messages and field your questions. Enjoy!

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Fourth Reich Political Theology with Marcus//Return of the Repressed

We are coming in hot this week with a very special episode and a very special guest.  We are calling this one Fourth Reich Political Theology, and we are honored to have Marcus from the Return of the Repressed podcast joining Don to do some serious digging.  

In this episode, Don and Marcus examine how “The Market” and people’s fealty to its bizarre logic has come into actual existence, almost alchemically, or religiously.  To put it bluntly, The Market today fills the role of God in our society. It is beyond human control, beyond reproach, and exercises an omniscient, omnipotent power over human affairs. To capitalists, The Market’s pure rationality also bestows it with benevolence. Don and Marcus explore the historical and theoretical bases for the development of this phenomenon, by examining the transition from feudalism to capitalism and the adaptation of religion to the economic mode of production and vice versa. 

Please be sure to check out Marcus’s stuff over on https://www.patreon.com/TheReturnOfTheRepressed

Down by Law 1: Asylum for Mankind

We are excited to announce that we are launching a brand new series called “Down by Law.” In it, we are going to talk about how laws and legal systems that create and enforce them are put in place to serve the ruling class, while producing a spectacle of “justice” to distract and pacify the masses. We believe that, despite the law’s ultimate impotence to bring about the type of revolutionary change needed to ensure collective survival for humanity, it is important to understand how the law functions in society. This series is our attempt at political/legal education, jumping between various areas of law that purport to regulate behavior in “civilized nations.”

It is certainly true that the legal system - from statutory legislation to the vast regulatory state to the judiciary - does impose restrictions on actors at all levels of the socioeconomic pyramid. We are not implying that the wealthy and powerful are entirely unfettered by the law. That would be an overstatement and would not reflect reality.

But the law, too, operates as spectacle. And to a larger degree than most lawyers, government bureaucrats, and policy wonks would like to admit, the real function of the law is spectacular. It serves to inflate the illusion of justice. In reality, the legal system plays referee between factions of the ruling class, while ensuring that overall control of the systems of power remain in the hands of that same class. 

We start our legal dig site with a dig into immigration and the modern legal regime for asylum. Even though you’d never guess it by the federal government’s utter lack of regard for human rights in the administration of the immigration system, the USA is a party to the 1967 protocol to the treaty on the rights of refugees. That means it is “the supreme law of the land” - with which even the federal government must comply as with the Constitution itself - to afford broad rights to asylum-seekers in danger of death or serious harm in their home countries.

We recorded this before the DC National Guard shooting put asylum into the headlines, but the issue is more salient than ever. As Trump essentially seeks to end asylum as we know it, we trace the bipartisan roots of the whittling-away of immigrant rights, spiking especially under the Obama administration. Put on your lawyer hats, it’s time to get down by law.

No Thanks

This week, we are getting back to the real roots of our project, which was initially conceived from Dick and Don's long phone conversations about current events. And that's largely what this episode is: we're out of the studio and back on the phone, real low-fi style.

But the substance of the conversation, we hope, will not disappoint. We cover the reasons why we're not releasing a full on polished episode like we usually do, and dive right into the hellscape that surrounds us this holiday season, focusing on the latest deep event: the shooting of two national guardsmen in Washington, D.C., by a CIA-trained Afghan national. It's Programmed to Kill all over again.

We hope you enjoy, that you stay sane this Thanksgiving and beyond, and that maybe - just maybe - you can use some of what we're putting down to break your friends and loved ones out of the haze of propaganda that has us all sleepwalking into yet another hot war on the flimsiest of pretenses to steal and exploit another country's national resources.

We're thankful for you, and we wish you all the best.

Fourth Reich Geopolitik 7

This week, we return with another installment of “Fourth Reich Geopolitik,” our ongoing survey of the modern geopolitical landscape. In this one we unpack the United States’ recent military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.  As of this writing, the U.S. War Machine has killed no less than 76 people on the high seas off the coast of Venezuela and it has unilaterally–and with no apparent proof–designated these victims as “narco-terrorists.”  The stated goal of this military operation is to stop drug traffickers.  The actual goals appear to be regime change, sending messages to various audiences both foreign and domestic, and flouting the law as only the King of Crime knows how.

To be honest, we did not want to do a Venezuela episode at risk of stating the obvious (i.e., that the powers that be are yet again up to their same bag of dirty tricks to personally profit from unspeakable violence around the world). But then we spent some time digesting the mainstream media and academic analysis about the situation, heard some of the most outrageous propaganda imaginable, and realized, yet again, that perhaps it is important for us to discuss this stuff even if it seems obvious. 

In this episode, we first turn back the clock and lay a little historical foundation of the Monroe Doctrine, President James Monroe’s 19th Century declaration to the empires of Europe that the western hemisphere was off limits–to them, at least.  We thought we’d start off with a short primer on the Monroe Doctrine because it seems like anyone talking about Venezuela is invoking it, and it seems to us that most don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.  Next, we speed-run the history of U.S. imperialism in Latin America, and the long and storied U.S. tradition of destabilizing economies, overthrowing democratically elected leaders, and exploiting the land and its people to enrich the capitalist ruling class. We then focus specifically on the Spanish-American War at the turn of the 20th century, which really locked in the U.S. as the new kid on the block for the imperial powers, and use that as our jump off point to the modern day to talk about American Imperialism today.  

And this latest phase of American imperialism is goofy as hell.  In the age of purportedly “ending the forever wars” and putting “America first,” the Trump administration is going full on Leeroy Jenkins into Venezuela.  Nevermind that the stated purpose of combating drug traffickers is BS, the fact that the Trump administration is deploying the full force of the U.S. Navy to do so shows that the United States has no qualms about going head first into another military quagmire as though the only lesson from the Iraq War was “we can get away with this and nobody will stop us.” (Shoutout to the USS Gerald R. Ford.) 

As we said in our first episode, and as we’ve been saying it regularly ever since, it is as if we are all suffering from some collective, mass psychosis.  Those in charge say one thing, but do another.  But you know things are getting schizophrenic as hell when with each day that passes, Amerikkka’s fringe reactionary kooks—the likes of Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Candace Owens—are the only ones in the media that dare to call this out.  We are not here to praise these kooks for calling out the U.S. war machine for its hypocrisy. To the contrary, we fully reject their kind.  But that they have identified the problem while, say, the New York Times merely parrots the official narrative, tells you everything you need to know about the sad state of affairs today.

#068 She Harvey Oswald pt. 4: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Aryan Brotherhood

aka "The Gang Gets Racist."

We are back with another installment of our ongoing series about the two women who were convicted of attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford in September 1975.  Picking things up where we left off, we continue our focus on the first of these two ladies who shot their shot at Jerry, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.  You will recall that Fromme emerged from the hippie counterculture of the 1960s, and more specifically, the so-called “Manson family.” As we’ve laid it out, it’s less of a cult than a criminal enterprise with hippie branding. And like any good American criminal enterprise, it has its ties to the intelligence services as well.

When we last left off Charlie Manson and several of his “Manson Girls” had been sentenced to death (of course, none of them were ever executed due to an intervening Supreme Court decision placing a moratorium on the death penalty).  Fromme and the Manson Girls who were not connected to the Tate and Labianca murders had shaved her heads in solidarity, etched Xs in their forheads, and were doing all they could to further Charlie’s message and help Charlie from the outside. Including by “taking care” of the Aryan Brotherhood members who agreed to protect Charlie in prison…

We will pick things up in the early days of the 1970s, with Fromme still living in L.A. alongside some of the other free Manson Girls. Meanwhile, Charlie, ever the schemer, was doing everything he could to get himself out of jail, and that included making a pact with the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.  What this meant for Fromme was that she and the other Manson Girls were left to bunk with the Aryan Brotherhood gang members who were on the outside while the whole group planned and attempted several botched prison escapes for Charlie.  

What it also meant is that Fromme had effectively swapped out the hippie free love vibes that she was immersed in the late 1960s for a much more brutish and violent culture espoused by the white supremecist Aryan Brotherhood.  And so we spend much of this episode examining whether Fromme, who willingly shacked up and rubbed elbows with the Aryan Brothers, was going along with them wholly ignorant of the violence the Aryan Brotherhood left in its wake, or if she was much more attuned to what was going on than she would have you believe? 

We also ponder why Squeaky seemed to get out of jail free just about every time her pals got into a jam, drawing a spectrum of counterintelligence involvement from witting agent on the one hand to uninvolved patsy on the other: where does Squeaky fall on that line? It's not easy to pinpoint!

Beyond the facts, we spend a good deal of time discussing the white apologetics of Americans of the baby boom generation and how well buried is the bloody and disgusting history of the highest echelons of power adopting essentially Nazi views on race and White Supremacy.  

COMING SOON: She Harvey Oswald Part Four: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Aryan Brotherhood

(As in later today.) Check out the free feed for Side A if you want, but we are adding in a couple more gems that still need some cutting and should be able to get that full ep up later today or tonight. We are confident you will like this one. It's got Aryan Brotherhood, it's got a lot of talk about the weird race myths the Manson group held, and how those overlapped with the most powerful people in California and the US at that time.

-Much Love,

Dick n Don

FAUX Kings

This week we are calling an audible and deviating again from our regularly scheduled programming to do a special episode on the (spectacle of the) No Kings March.  As we are always looking for opportunities for the practical application of Fourth Reich Archaeology theory we could not help but put on our hard hats, sharpen our pick axes, and get to examining what history’s largest protest REALLY means for Democracy.  

Of course we think it’s absolutely essential that people organize, gather, and show strength in numbers against the fascist agenda currently running roughshod over the United States and beyond. In fact we want to see much more organization, ideally organization with discrete goals, employing tactics actually designed to achieve them.  But in the wake of the No Kings March, we can’t help but feel like this one was just another performative, astroturfed event - a swan song for Progressivism, Inc. - that helps the powers that be enforce the two party model, funnel popular anger into electoralism (and the institutional Democratic Party), and distract the people from true organization.  

In this episode, as usual, we use the text of Guy Debord and track how his words have come to life in 2025.  Just as Debord saw in his time, it seems like it’s impossible to find anything authentic within the spectacle, and the spectacle has turned all of its subjects into its defenders. The No Kings March is the embodiment of that, complete with its Byzantine network of corporate donors.

Spoiler alert, we get pretty down and dirty in this one. Let’s get digging. 

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The New Western Frontier w/ Matt Farwell (@HuntClancy)

We are absolutely brimming with joy this week as we welcome back the indomitable journalist, researcher, and all around swell dude, Matt Farwell.  Our day one homies will know that Matt was the very first guest we had on the show way back when we were just a wee baby podcast.  And we need not tell most of you that Matt’s Substack is a must read for any respectable noided leftist. But what you might not know is that Mr. Hunt-For-Tom-Clancy is a native of Utah, which is the backdrop for our episode today. 

Our entry point into this one is, of course, the Charlie Kirk murder at Utah Valley University. But don’t worry, this is not another Charlie Kirk assassination episode. Kirk’s killing is simply the first step on our path to discussing the larger geopolitical forces that have come together to reshape Utah and the broader American West in the image of the Military Industrial Surveillance Technology Complex.  What was once the frontier for American genocidal expansion Westward has become home to the next frontier for the new Data Center Imperialism—the information frontier.

We start out by hearing from Matt about his on-the-ground experience in Orem, Utah in the aftermath of Kirk’s murder, and his observations of the eerily ubiquitous presence of the national security state around the otherwise unknown Utah Valley University.  And wouldn’t you know that right now the national security state, just like the entire rest of the US economy, is going bananas for AI. So we zoom out to talk about data center imperialism and the deep roots of the surveillance state in the American West.   We focus on the Utah Data Center in particular (thanks, Obama!). Finally, we set the stage for a part 2 of our excavation, wherein we will delve into the historical particularities - including the regions colonization by Mormons and other sects - that make the New Western Frontier prime for the picking by a new generation of billionaire barons and their doomsday preaching hired guns of the military industrial complex. 

Enjoy! 

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Buy Matt’s book https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541784/american-cipher-by-matt-farwell-and-michael-ames/

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She Harvey Oswald 3: Sex and the Spectacle

We are back with another installment of our ongoing miniseries about the two women who pointed a gun at President Gerald Ford in the fateful month of September 1975.  This week we continue our exploration into the life and times of the first of these two, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme. 

One of our goals with this miniseries has been to trace the events and experiences that ultimately led these women to their actions, and weaving their lives and would-be assassinations into our larger narrative of the integrated spectacle.  As for Squeaky, we started out by setting the scene of her dystopian suburban upbringing in the 1950s and 60s.  Her father worked for weapons manufacturer, Northrop Aircraft, and was a weird guy to say the least.  He was abusive to Squeaky and the rest of his family (as well as anyone around them).  The tension that this created in the house led to regular blowout fights which ultimately led Fromme into the arms of Mr. Helter Skelter himself, Charles Manson.  When we left off last, Squeaky, Charlie, and the fledgling flock of Mansonites were living a nomadic life, traveling to various parks and remote wilderness locations, as well as cities and towns throughout the American West, as their “family” grew. 

In this episode we link up with Squeaky as the Manson family gives up the nomadic life and takes up residence in LA, first at Beach Boy Dennis Wilson’s estate, and later at the Spahn movie ranch in Hollywood. We discuss Squeaky’s unsettling role in the family’s sexual grooming of teenagers, and her later role as caretaker for the elderly George Spahn, pondering the parallels between Charles Manson and Jeffrey Epstein, and between Squeaky and Ghislaine Maxwell.  Finally, we will discuss how Squeaky - who claimed she never saw anyone kill anything in her life - lived through, processed, and pontificated about the family’s various homicides and highly spectacular trials therefore. Buckle up because this magical mystery tour is heading in some dark directions. 

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Fourth Reich Geopolitik 6

This week, we return with another installment of “Geopolitik,” our ongoing examination of the modern geopolitical landscape with a focus on matters both foreign and domestic. We would just as soon keep building the momentum of our She Harvey Oswald miniseries, but real talk, things are getting pretty damn weird, and your boyz needed to weigh in.   

We take stock of the sad state of affairs in the United States of Amerikkka in light of the Reich-coded speeches by President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of War Pete “Hog Sex”) Hegseth to U.S. military leaders.  Just last week, the War Secretary summoned all of the military brass to Quantico for untold reasons.  Rumors started to percolate that there would be a significant announcement. Perhaps a declaration of war. Maybe the formation of a new branch. In the end, this turned out to be another goofy-ass Trump rally. Cool… 

Trump went on his typical diatribe about Joe Biden and the “Radical Left.” He praised his own tariff policy. He praised his own ability to make peace notwithstanding his “disappointment” with Putin. He basically said the same list of six or seven things that he says literally to anyone on any occasion. And then, ominously, he suggested that Hegseth send the troops to American cities to handle the “enemy from within.”  

As for the “major announcement,” that came from the Defense Secretary when he said, in so many words, that the military is in desperate need of a glow-up.  Hegseth instituted physical training and regular tests because there are too many “fatties.” He also said that drill sergeants can lay their hands on recruits and get physical with them during training. As if we needed even more reasons to send our combat-trained young men into America’s streets with knowledge of guns and a chip on their shoulder. 

We then turn to the news of Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza. We emphasize the quotes around “peace plan,” because this is basically just a ploy to bribe Arab leaders into acquiescence with the genocide of the Palestinians, get the Israeli hostages back (Trump says “dead or alive”) without exacting any concessions from Israel in return, shield that Genocidal terrorist state from accountability, and pave the way to lucrative beachfront real estate deals and offshore drilling for the ravenous blood-soaked beasts of the ruling class.

And all of this is happening in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination and a charged-up Republican party. With each day that passes, Amerikkka’s mainstream conservatives are looking more like fundamentalist reactionaries and are being more blatant about their white supremacist goals. It’s like 1972 all over again. Or maybe 1933?

New Tiers!

Dear listeners and supporters - we wanted to let you all know that we have launched some new tiers with some new bonuses to accelerate our growth and hopefully accelerate our ability to spend more time on the pod, offering you even more of that Fourth Reich Archaeology analysis, historical exposition, fun, and community that brought you here in the first place.

If you can, consider ratcheting up your support. We love and appreciate you all!!

-Dick n Don

She Harvey Oswald 2: Squeaky's Origins

We are back with another installment of our new series-within-a-series, beginning our excavation into the first lady-shooter who took aim at Gerald Ford in September 1975, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (pronounced “frow-me,” rhymes with “throw me”). 

We start at the beginning, with her upbringing in the contradictory world of Westchester Los Angeles where the barbecues and manicured lawns were financed by the barbecuing of human flesh by the warplanes and munitions fabricated by southern California's booming aerospace industry. Lyn’s father was a stern, teutonic, probably abusive disciplinarian who worked as an engineer for Northrop aircraft (now part of Northrop Grumman), a mainstay in the military industrial complex. To escape from her fraught home life, Lyn partook in the art of dance, just like Betty Ford as our longtime listeners will recall.

As she grew up, the tensions with her father grew and so did her time away from home, engaged in productive pursuits like poetry and remunerated work, as well as escalating acts of teenage rebellion. Finally, she moved out of the house entirely and met Charlie Manson almost immediately. She’d join him on a trip up to the Bay Area and the redwoods of Mendocino in the summer of love, 1967. Throughout their trippy times in the North, Charlie and the girls frequented the infamous Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, which the likes of Dr. Jolly West had turned into a recruitment center for test subjects; a laboratory for human experimentation on unwitting, disposable hippies.

Squeaky’s boomer childhood gives us yet another sharpened lens through which to view the consolidation of the fourth reich, the integration of the spectacle, and the preemptive destruction of the burgeoning movement for radical social change that characterized the 1960s and 70s.

The Wait Is Over: Full Warren Commission Finale Now Up!

Just a quick note to say thank you for your patience as we poured our love and attention into the series finale of The Warren Commission Decided. The full 3-hour episode is now up in lieu of the Side A track we had posted week before last.

We think you'll really like this one, and truth be told, it was a little tough to say goodbye to those 8 goofy fellas and the rotating cast of characters swirling around them after spending the better part of a year digging into their exploits.

Let us know what you think! What were the highlights of the series for you? What would you like us to revisit or dig deeper into? We love hearing from you here, via email (fourthreichpod@gmail.com) or on Twitter and Instagram @fourthreichpod.

She Harvey Oswald, Part 1

Well, folks, we are back in Jerryworld, and we are right on to the next series within a series. The one you’ve been waiting for. The one we’ve been waiting for. It’s She. Harvey. Oswald. Our deep dive into the two assassination attempts on Gerald Ford just over a year into his presidency. We are just in time for the 50th anniversary of “almost-bloody September” 1975. 

On September 5, 1975, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme - one of the original members of the Manson family, then aged 26 years old - pointed a .45 caliber pistol at Jerry Ford as he pressed the flesh outside the California state house in Sacramento. She said she did it for the redwoods, and insisted she didn’t intend to hurt anyone.

Just 17 days later, on September 22, a 45-year-old accountant named Sara Jane Moore fired a shot at Jerry with a .38 pistol outside of San Francisco’s St. Francis Hotel. She missed by a mere six inches. Moore had spent the California years of lead deeply embedded in the revolutionary left-wing scene in the Bay Area… as an informant for the FBI. 

There is so much to these deepest of deep events, and we will get into all of it in this miniseries, but first, in this episode, we will set the stage. That proprietary Fourth Reich Archaeology lens, fully equipped with some extensive quotation by Guy Debord, and a zoomed-out snapshot of the development of the spectacle between November 63 and September 75. This episode really has it all. Gerald Ford, geopolitical mise-en-scene, female assassins, radical leftists, parallels to the present day, and so much more.

FEAR NOT: Full TWCD 14 is Coming Soon!

Beloved Patrons,

You will have noticed the version up on Patreon of the last Warren Commission Decided episode is just Side A. We wanted to make sure you all had something for your feeds today, but still have a little more magic to work on the second half of the episode, so stay tuned and we will swap out Side A for the full thing ASAP. We think it will be worth the wait.

Meanwhile, please enjoy this photo of Ellen Rometsch, the German maybe-spy with whom JFK and (maybe) Gerald Ford both had affairs in the 1960s. Her story awaits in the second half of the episode.

Thanks as always for your support!

Much love,

Dick and Don

The Warren Commission Decided 14: Deep Cover(up)

UPDATE #2: The large technology company where we host our free feed, which shall remain nameless, is cramping our style on this one. So we are unlocking the full episode for our free Patreon subscribers, too. No time like the present to level up to one of our tiers, too, we will do our very damnedest to make it worth your while!!

UPDATE: Without further ado, we've swapped in the full 3-hour series finale EXCLUSIVELY for you, our beloved Patrons. Apologies for the delay, and thank you for your patience and continued support. Fast-forward to about the 1:20 mark if you already listened to Side A and want to skip it.

The time has come to say farewell to our ragtag team of commissioners and to close out our ongoing miniseries, The Warren Commission Decided. We wrap things up much as we started them, with Commissioner Gerald R. Ford as our guide. 

In this episode, with Jerry in the driver's seat, we navigate through the commissioners' executive sessions in roughly chronological order from December 1963 all the way up to when the commissioners presented their report to President Johnson in September 1964. The executive sessions were formal meetings, on the record, in which the commissioners discussed the case, made major decisions, and roadmapped their investigation. It is also where the Commission's chief counsel, J. Lee Rankin, broke the news that Lee Harvey Oswald was an undercover FBI agent.

We use the executive sessions as our final dig site because these sessions really showcase what the Warren Commission was all about – covering up any whiff of conspiracy. The executive sessions also show how little these guys cared about getting to the truth. Goal one was to package up a narrative they could sell to the public. As for our boy Jerry, this episode goes even deeper on his almost supernatural ability to rise to the occasion and serve the powers that be.  It’s also another great lesson of how all is not what it seems when it comes to Gerald Ford.

This episode has it all - sexual blackmail, propaganda, and plenty of primary source clippings, including highlights from Jerry's HSCA testimony.

It has been a wild ride into the depths of the Warren Commission. We hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have, and we're so grateful you've joined us on this journey.

She Harvey Oswald

New series-within-a-series alert! It's called "She Harvey Oswald." It's about that time two women--on separate occasions in September 1975--pointed a gun at President Gerald Ford and pulled the trigger. The first episode will drop on 9/19/25. We think you will love it.

You Don’t Know Jack (Ruby), Part 6

It is somewhat bittersweet to say it, but we’ve come to the end of the line with old Jack Ruby, and in this episode, we close out his saga in style with returning guest and Ruby expert Max Arvo. This episode really has it all: CIA mind control experiments, psychopathic psychiatrists, visions of an American Holocaust, a machine-gun-toting rabbi, and much more.

We pick up where we left off after Jack’s conviction and death sentence. He fires Melvin Belli and hires the lawyer/psychiatrist Hubert Winston Smith to take his case on appeal. He tries to fire the mountain of a man, Joe Tonahill, too, but Joe refuses to go and sticks around. The first order of business after Jack is put on death row (besides filing his appellate papers) is to put him under hypnosis. And who better to do that than the CIA’s favorite super-shrink, Mr. MKULTRA himself, Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West. Coincidentally or not, Jolly just so happens to show up right after Jack suffers an acute psychotic break, including vivid audio-visual hallucinations. Thereafter, everything Jack says - including (and especially) all of Jack’s talk of a larger conspiracy - is taken with a heaping portion of salt and largely discarded by everyone around him. 

This is important because, as we’ve previewed heavily in past episodes, Jack’s Warren Commission testimony raises a lot of eyebrows. We walk through his testimony, his subsequent polygraph examination, his successful appeal of his conviction, and his deep connection with Zionist Haganah militant-turned-rabbi Hillel Silverman, who became Jack’s closest confidante and confessor in his final years. 

Finally, we reach Jack’s tragic end. Just months after his conviction was overturned in October 1966, Jack was beset with a sudden and rapidly spreading form of cancer that would kill him by January 1967 before he got the new trial he had won. Meanwhile, his strong intimations of a conspiracy were muddled amidst his psychotic ramblings about a honky-tonk Kirstallnacht rampaging through the streets of Dallas. One thing Jack got absolutely right, though, was that the country he grew up in and served in uniform had been taken over by Nazis. He’d never get the chance to speak his truth except as a novelty, and we hope that we’ve done him some justice, warts and all.

Jerryworld: Returning Soon!

We are gearing up to tie off the Warren Commission Decided series and return to Jerryworld as our boy graduates into the big leagues. Here's a little video promo to whet your appetite, with more coming soon.

Geopolitik - Tape One

A very happy Monday to all! Check out our latest video, which is meant to be an accompaniment to our ongoing Geopolitik series. This one is inspired by, and contains, excerpts from Episode 4 of that series. Enjoy!

You Don't Know Jack (Ruby), pt. 5

This week, we are back with the fifth installment of our series within a series within a series about that amateur dog breeder and professional weirdo turned assassin–Jack Ruby. Having set the table in episodes one through four about the events leading up to Ruby’s big day in court, the time has now come for the trial of the century. And you know we’ve got to don our noided lawyer hats for this one. 

As always, we take a more expositional approach rather than a bare recitation of the facts and chronology of Ruby’s trial. We do so by doing what we do best—studying the people involved. Because we ended episode four with a focus on Ruby’s defense team, we pick things up in this episode by taking a good, long look at both the district attorney who prosecuted Ruby and the judge who presided over the trial. We also take a look at the witnesses each side decided to put up–a colorful cast of characters that included cops, strippers, and Ruby’s rabbi. 

With cameras flashing, mics hot, and all of America watching, the Jack Ruby trial was set to be a spectacle for the ages. In the end, the trial was a shit show. And in this episode, we go deep into that shit to bring us all one step closer to knowing Jack.

4RA Hotline - Call Now!

Hello Patreon family! As we announced on our Anniversary Episode, we are rolling out a toll free hotline as another channel through which you can reach us, and perhaps through which you can reach the whole Fourth Reich Archaeology dig crew. 

We’d be lousy lawyers if we didn’t give plenty of caveats and disclaimers about the use of the hotline, so please make sure you read to the end of this statement for all of that before calling the number.  Ultimately, the best way for all patrons to have free, fun, and safe use of the hotline is if we are completely transparent and everyone’s expectations are clear and aligned.

WHAT: The Hotline is a voicemail box you can call, leave a message, and tell us what is on your mind. Neither we nor anyone else will answer a phone at this number. Use it as a place to share feedback, anecdotes, or questions for your humble hosts. Sometime down the line we will put together Q&A type episodes featuring and responding to questions from the hotline. Maybe it will become a regular patron-only feature of the pod. Anything’s possible. The line will be open 24/7 for as long as we can afford to keep it open.

GUIDELINES/DISCLAIMERS: We are certain that a listening public as chill, smart, and kind as ours doesn’t need us spelling out guidelines for exercising basic decency, but it’s the internet and vigilance demands extra caution.

• First, we ask that you keep in mind the Fourth Reich Archaeology core values of love and friendship.  We want you to be honest, but please be respectful.

• Second, consider the hotline voicemail a “public square.” By leaving us a message, you are granting us a right to use your voice on our show. You are also releasing us from any legal or equitable claim arising out of or relating to the use of your voice on the show. That said, you don’t need to worry that we’ll manipulate or selectively misrepresent anything you say.

• Third, and relatedly, by leaving us a message, you consent to have whatever you say published.  So please, use your best judgment and please don't share anything you would not want publicly disclosed. 

• Fourth, while we will do our best to play as many of your messages as we can, we cannot promise that we will have the time or resources to play every message.  

PRIVACY: Your privacy is very important to us.  We know it is very important to you. We will not use, sell, or keep your phone number or any personally identifying information provided through Caller ID for any reason. If you don’t want to share your name on air, just don't say it or use a pseudonym. If you do give us your name, it’s fine to stick with just your first name. For voicemails that we use, we will keep only the audio file. We will delete everything else in our call log once a week.  

PATRONS-ONLY: Last point. The Hotline is meant to be an exclusive perk for our Patreon subscribers. You all have been faithful supporters, and many of you have been with us since the very beginning.  We want to hear from you first, we want to hear from you the most, and we want to give you all an opportunity to talk to us and, if you want, get some airtime on the pod. The only way we can do that is if everyone here plays it real cool about the phone number. So please keep the number confidential--for your eyes only, and strictly hush-hush. 

You’ll find the number for the Hotline in the signature block below. We look forward to hearing from you. 

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