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Hey, welcome to Weird Little Guys, a weekly show about the worst people you've never heard of.

I'm your host, Molly Conger. I spent years researching and writing about

far-right extremism. I hang out on their chat rooms, watch their live streams, follow their

court cases. I've stared deep into the abyss, pouring over court documents, reading manifestos, and listening to some of the worst podcasts ever made.

And I sat in the silence of a mostly empty courtroom, feet away from men whose hateful ideology spurred them on to acts of shocking

violence. And you know what? They're all just some guy. However heinous the act,

or ever hideous the rhetoric, no matter how dark their desires.

It's like the end of an episode of Scooby-Doo.

There never was a ghost or a swamp creature.

There is no supernatural villain. It's some guy. Take Gerald, for example.

Back in 2017, Gerald Drake started sending letters.

His first letter sent just weeks after the deadly

Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, demanded the cancellation of an annual

Civil War reenactment and threatened that the Unite the Right rally would

look like a Sunday picnic by comparison if they didn't heed his demand.

But they didn't cancel.

So he put a pipe bomb in a tent.

The bomb didn't go off, but the letters continued, and for over a year

members of the board at the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation received letters

with increasingly frightening threats. The letter writer said he'd kill one man's mother with a car bomb.

He made graphic sexual threats toward someone's daughters.

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