Fourth Reich Archaeology

The Anniversary Episode

It's our birthday! Well, technically, it's not until this Saturday, but given everything going on in the world, we think we deserve a pass for celebrating early. And considering the monumental occasion, we decided it is time for some R&R. This week, we shut off our lamps, hang up our hard hats, and take some time to reflect on the past year, the present moment, and what’s to come. 

Since our very first episode, our view has been that it is high time that we wise up and realiz...

You Don't Know Jack (Ruby) pt. 4

We are thrilled to be back with our friend from across the pond, researcher Max Arvo, for another installment of our excavation into the man who killed Lee Oswald, Jack Ruby.

We start off by recapping and taking stock of our speculative findings thus far, from the motivating force behind Jack's desperate spate of phone calls to old mob pals, to whether and how he was brought into a larger conspiracy, to what was going through his mind as he took the fatal shot and surrendered his body ...

The Big Con(gress) 3

We are back with another installment of the Big Con(gress)—our ongoing exploration of that putrid cesspool on the Potomac, the United States Congress.  In this episode we turn our focus back to the ongoing genocide in Palestine in the wake of yet another visit to Washington by notorious international war criminal, mass murderer, and genocidaire extraordinaire, Benjamin Netanyahu. With us again is Andrew Myslik, a former congressional staffer and our man in Washington.

We are now ...

Fourth (Reich) of July

Friends, ‘Muricans, Countrymen. Or, for that matter, anyone lucky or unlucky enough to find themselves in the grips of the American Empire. We hope you enjoy this departure from our ongoing series (plural) to take stock of American independence on this anniversary of American “independence” (Luca Brasi voice). Dick and Don offer asynchronous reflections on the meaning and continuing viability of the so-called American Experiment as it descends into a place as dark as the one Frederick D...

Jack Ruby: Get Me to Washington!

Greetings, beautiful Patrons! We've gotten some positive feedback on our little radio play reading of Jack Ruby's famous "Get Me to Washington" exchange with Chief Justice Earl Warren that was featured as a cold open in the first couple of episodes of "You Don't Know Jack (Ruby)," so we thought we'd post the full exchange for you here. The cover image is from Gerald Ford's diary of his trip, including his diagram of the layout of the room where the interrogation took place. Enjoy!

You Don’t Know Jack (Ruby) pt. 3

PATREON EARLY RELEASE!!! Here is Part 3 of our deep dive into the life and times of Jack Ruby. Recall that in Part 1, we focused on Ruby’s early years in Chicago’s southwest side during America’s  Prohibition era. Ruby’s rough and tumble upbringing put him in the mix with kids who grew up to be well-connected guys in some of the most powerful and notorious mob families of the 20th Century.  We discussed how Ruby’s ties to the mob influenced his eventual move to Dallas and ...

What's Next? w/ Malcolm Harris

Author and critic Malcolm Harris joins Don for a forward-looking, optimistic discussion on communism, the possibilities for leftist organizing in our fascist hellscape (including concrete steps YOU can take to contribute to the struggle), the buildup to war in Iran, and much more. If you’re not already familiar with Malcolm’s work, you should be. He is the author of four books including 2023’s Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, and this year’s What’s Left...

The Big Con(gress) 2: Big Beautiful Bull

We are back with another installment of our excavation into the U.S. Congress with guest Andrew Myslik, who worked for Rep. Rashida Tlaib as a staffer for her first 7 years in office. Our anchor point for discussion is Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Without getting too in the weeds, we cover what’s in it, who wins and who loses. Spoiler alert: the winners, as always, are the ruling class. Billionaires, multinationals, military-industrial-tech-surveillance-infotainment-industrial ...

You Don’t Know Jack (Ruby) pt. 2

Welcome back for Part 2 of our excavation into Jack Ruby with Max Arvo! In Part 1, we dug up the surface layer of Ruby’s biography and followed his life trajectory from Chicago’s Southwest side (b. 1911) to Dallas’s club scene in the early 60s. In this episode, rather than going broader, we go deeper. This episode is really about adding some much-needed nuance to the often simplistic picture of American Organized Crime, and how it fits into the nexus between the business and intelligenc...

The Warren Commission Decided 5 (Vol. 1): McCloy

[Another from the back catalogue we are uploading to Patreon for completeness today. Enjoy!]

If anyone has a resumé befitting a Horseman of the Fourth Reich, it’s the subject of this episode–John J. McCloy. Just look at some of these highlights:

• Boarding school for high school;

• Harvard Law;

• Multiple Wall Street firms (Cadwalader; Cravath; Milbank);

• U.S. Department of War under Henry L. Stimson;

• President of t...

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The Warren Commission Decided 3: Commissioners Assemble

[This is an oldie but a goodie. For some reason we forgot to post it on Patreon, so here you go! And with special musical numbers now EXCLUDED from the free version. Enjoy!!]

Last time, we talked about how President Lyndon Johnson came to put together a top-flight blue ribbon commission to cover up the Kennedy assassination. For the next two episodes, we go around the table and introduce the listener to each of the seven members of that  commission. As we do, we also receive a mast...

The Warren Commission Decided 13, Pt. 1: You Don't Know Jack (Ruby)

The Warren Commission Decided Series is back from an extended hiatus with our newest series within a series within a series. This time our object of study is Jack Ruby. We’ve teased it a few times over the past several months, and it’s finally here. And not only that, but we are joined on this journey by a very special guest, Max Arvo. 

Max is a writer, researcher, musician, poet, and more, and you can find all of his work at his website here: 2025-05-23 05:34:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Gerald Time Ford Traveler

We’ve been hard at work on a pseudo-documentary about the life and times of Gerald R. Ford Jr. It’s called Gerald Time Ford Traveler. In it we explore what we think is the most defensible explanation for the accidental president’s remarkable career (jk, lol). While we are still working on a release date, you can check out a cut of the trailer TODAY!

Fourth Reich Geopolitik 5

This week marks the fifth installment of our ongoing Geopolitik series. More so than any of our other excavations, we’ve been proceeding with Geopolitik as if it were an actual archeological dig. Recall that we began with a surface level survey on the field of geopolitics itself, tracing the pseudoscience back to its roots in the British Empire, its passage through the Third Reich, and its handoff from the Nazis to the American empire. We went on to examine the geopolitical goals of the Tru...

Working Class Hero (John Lennon Cover)

Don, aka Angleton's Orchids, is back with a cover of John Lennon's classic dirge, "Working Class Hero." This will feature in this week's upcoming episode, but we thought we'd give our wonderful, incredible patrons a sneak peek. Hope you enjoy!

Fourth Reich Geopolitik 4

We're back this week with the fourth installment of our ongoing Geopolitik series. Picking up where we left off, we continue our exploration into the normalization of genocide in the Fourth Reich. Despite the fact that genocide is reviled as one of (if not THE) worst crime against humanity, as we discussed in Part 3 it is hard to remember a time when the United States was not involved in genocidal violence in its relentless quest for global hegemony and imperial domination. 

This t...

The Big Con(gress) 1

This week Don is back with another guest: Andrew Myslik - a former legislative aide to Representative Rashida Tlaib. Andrew joined Rashida’s Congressional staff at the very beginning of her career on the hill, spending several years in her office until leaving recently. This will be the first installment of yet another Fourth Reich Archaeology excavation into the workings of Congress, that Amerikan Reichstag. 

In this episode, we dig into the inner workings of Congress and begin ...

Fourth Reich Geopolitik 3

This week, we are back with another excavation into the present moment, and once again, we are digging deep into its historical roots. The theme of the episode is genocide. First, we give a snapshot of the current moment within the broader trajectory of the US/Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. In Gaza, in the West Bank, and even in the diaspora. Physically and intellectually. But as our listeners should know by now, we are not just “reading the news” out here. Instead, w...