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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've 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, whoever 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 towards someone's daughters.

He threatened to feed ground-up glass to the horses ridden by the cavalry reenactors and drive trucks through parades.

And all the letters were from Antifa, or so the envelope said. But they weren't from Antifa.

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