116: The Oath Keepers and Stewart Rhodes, with Rob from The Right Podcast
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Special guest Rob from The Right Podcast (@TheRightPodcast) returns to tell Jack all about Stewart Rhodes and The Oath Keepers - seen like a rash all over American fascist activity from Ferguson to January 6th - with special attention to their deep roots and influences in the Tea Party explosion of the Obama era, the John Birch Society tradition, the Ron Paul Revolution, the Bundy saga, Waco and Ruby Ridge, and the US far-right tradition generally.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, a little introduction. This episode is long delayed. It was actually originally recorded on the 10th of September, |
| 0:06.2 | so you should have had it before now. I'm sorry about that, but I had some technical problems, and I've had some health issues. |
| 0:12.3 | The main problem was that my side of the conversation didn't really come out, so I've actually had to re-record it, |
| 0:17.8 | sort of mock up my own side of the conversation. It's an honest representation of what I said on the night, |
| 0:23.5 | and I haven't bothered doing it with all the little interjections, the ah-has, and the little laughs, |
| 0:29.2 | and so on, so you'll hear the quality of the original recording. But I hope you enjoy this one, |
| 0:35.1 | now that you're finally going to get it. This is, I don't speak German. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Jack Graham, he, him, and in this podcast I talk to my friend Daniel Harper, also he, him, |
| 0:57.6 | who spent years tracking the far right in their safe spaces. In this show we talk about them, |
| 1:03.9 | and about the wider reactionary forces feeding them and feeding off them. Be warned, this is difficult subject matter, |
| 1:10.8 | content warnings always apply. |
| 1:12.8 | Okay, and we're back with episode 116 of I Don't Speak German. It's another Danielless episode, |
| 1:36.6 | I'm afraid, but not to worry, he'll be back next time. But we are very lucky that we have |
| 1:41.5 | making up the shortfall for this episode, our good friend and excellent former guest Rob from |
| 1:47.6 | the right podcast. Welcome back Rob, how are you doing? Hey, excellent Jack, thank you. |
| 1:51.9 | Great, well the last episode you were on was very well received, which is good because I was very |
| 1:57.2 | pleased with that, and that was kind of a just shooting the breeze, chucking ideas back and forth |
| 2:02.4 | general chat. But this time we're going to talk in a bit more focused way about the oath keepers, |
| 2:07.2 | which you've been doing a lot of research on recently. Yes, yes, and of course, |
| 2:12.4 | this is pertinent to everybody with the January 6th hearings having closed and court dates being |
| 2:20.7 | cemented by judges. So in September we should see some things happening in the news related to the |
| 2:26.5 | oath keepers. Yeah, and the oath keepers have been in the news a lot recently. What would the trial |
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