Weird Little Guys
Created by Molly Conger (iHeartPodcasts, 2024-Present)
Despite its unassuming name, Weird Little Guys is a veritable shop of horrors—a catalogue of, as the show’s tagline puts it, the “worst people you’ve never heard of.” Investigative journalist, activist, and host Molly Conger unearths all the gory details about more right wing extremists and white supremacist groups than you might believe exist. From modern-day eugenicists to card-carrying neo-Nazis, there is a shocking—and disheartening—amount of material for Conger to work with.
Many episodes of the podcast follow the true crime format that has come to dominate much of the podcast world, though instead of focusing on the latest and most sensational murder trials and gossip headlines, Conger tackles stories most tabloids seem to avoid. The multi-episode series unravels the crimes that have landed a particular extremist or hate group in court, unpacking the evidence against them, the tactics used to apprehend them, and their warped belief systems.
One early episode, for example, examines the investigation into a false-flag bombing following the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Other episodes pull from slightly more distant history, such as the story of Dennis Mahon, a Klansman who fought his city council in 1990 for the right to continue to produce his public access show Klansas City Kable. Still others examine white supremacist activity that has not (yet) risen to the level of crime, including an episode on “race science” that attempts to tease out a web of interconnected eugenicist journals and foundations still active today.
If there’s any bit of hope—or at least some minor sense of relief—to be found here it’s this: These people are, for the most part, little guys, isolated from mainstream society and mostly operating in their own little worlds. They’re not harmless, but with continued effort they’re beatable.
This article also appears in the November 2026 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 91, No. 11, page 37). Click here to subscribe to the magazine.
