Strange People on the Hill feat. Michael Edison Hayden
Weird Little Guys
iHeartPodcasts and Cool Zone Media
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Molly interviews Michael Edison Hayden about his new book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small Town. The book is an intimate portrait of what happened in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia after a white nationalist group moved into the castle on the hill.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.0 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:13.8 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:15.4 | Molly here. |
| 0:16.9 | If you're a regular listener to It Could Happen Here, another show in the Cool Zone Media |
| 0:21.2 | family, you may have already heard this interview I did with Michael Edison Hayden |
| 0:25.2 | when it aired on that feed the other day. But just in case you're not subscribed over there, |
| 0:31.4 | I wanted to drop it into the weird little guy's feed because I think it's something |
| 0:34.3 | listeners to this show would enjoy. There's even a weird little guy's tie-in. |
| 0:39.4 | In the interview, I'm talking to Mike about his new book, Strange People on the Hill. |
| 0:44.6 | It's about a small town in West Virginia, where the guy who runs a white nationalist blog bought a castle. |
| 0:50.1 | And it's a castle we've talked about on this show before. |
| 0:53.5 | In the final part of the three-part series |
| 0:55.5 | about the American Third Position Party I did last fall, in an episode I apparently very elegantly titled |
| 1:01.9 | American Fart Party, the lightly rebranded American Freedom Party held their first big party |
| 1:08.6 | convention at the Racism Castle. |
| 1:11.7 | So I thought you might enjoy hearing a little bit more about the town where, |
| 1:15.7 | occasionally, Nazis get together. |
| 1:19.0 | It was a great chat with Mike, and I hope you enjoy the episode. |
| 1:22.7 | And don't forget to ask your local library to add a copy of his book to their shelves. |
| 1:30.8 | Hello and welcome back to It Could Happen here. I'm your occasional host, Molly Conger, |
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