Fourth Reich Archaeology

This week we are back with old friend of the pod and returning guest, Andrew Myslik - former congressional staffer for Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and current Palestine policy advocate - to break down the “Bluenami” midterm elections whereby the Democratic Party won control of both the House and Senate by substantial margins. After giving our takes on the elections themselves, we dig into what’s unique about this moment, where to be weary, and how to take advantage of this moment.

As always, we have no love for the genocidal Democrat Party (what we call the most effective anticommunist organization in history), and no real investment in electoralism–certainly not to the exclusion of other means of organizing. However, it would be folly to simply ignore the spectacle of democracy altogether. It is undeniable that masses of people are fired up against the rampant and blatant corruption on display, and that public opinion has shifted substantially on Israel and pro-Israel warmongering in the Middle East. In this moment where the reactionary ruling class forces in charge of the Democrats are already punching left (as we predicted in Electile Dysfunction a couple weeks back), it is crucial not to cede the narrative, and to insist that “affordability” and “corruption” are both issues rooted in the rot at the heart of the system as a whole. 

The accountability that must come for Trump and his criminal cronies must also come for Schumer, Jeffries, and all the rest of the enablers on the left side of the aisle. We, the conscious and informed people of the left, must meanwhile press our narrative and promote a real socialist alternative to empire. The reckoning we’re all after may not come as a result of these elections, but they do open up space to capitalize on the anger felt universally by everyone downstream from the billionaires pissing in the river.

Featured music is Dury Dava and Carsie Blanton (https://www.carsieblanton.com/) 

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SPOILER ALERT!! This week we are pleased to welcome back returning guest, Brother Isaac, of Coexist, Inc. podcast to discuss the Biggest Movie of the Year: Nathan Fielder’s pseudo-documentary “You Can See Everything.” We do talk about the movie itself, so if you hate spoilers and haven’t seen it yet, maybe wait a bit to listen.

We explore many of the discursive threads that have sprung out of the film including the obvious question of Liz’s and Billy’s respective degrees of culpability, but we also bring in the Fourth Reich lens and discuss the possibility that the whole Theranos scam was a spectacular sacrifice of one tech grifter for the survival and prosperity of thousands more, who continue to rake in money hand over foot on equally specious promises. Is Elizabeth Holmes a patsy? Lis Holmsey Oswald? Is she a criminal mastermind? A mind-control/grooming victim? Autistic? 

It’s a fun ride and our first ever movie episode. We hope you’ll enjoy it!

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This week we step back out of our historical narrative and into the present day once more. But fear not, this is not yet one more election episode regurgitating the same basic talking points about what to expect from the midterms. Instead, we zoom out and look at the whole electoral charade as Spectacle, asking not what policies are up to a vote, but rather what narratives are being promoted as the two permissible poles for popular discourse.

We promise we’re not libbing out, but we are encouraging people to think practically about how this moment of utter overreach and unpopularity on the extreme right has created a political vulnerability that an organized left could exploit. Just think about it!

We hope you enjoy.

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This week we are picking up where we left off in our ongoing series within a series about the two women who, in September 1975, pointed their pistols at President Gerald R. Ford.  Our focus in this series as of late has been on the second of these two female assassins, the one who actually took a shot at the accidental president, Sara Jane Moore.  

In this episode, we continue our discussion of Sara Jane’s husband #3, John O. Aalberg, the 10-time Oscar nominee and RKO executive Sara Jane lovingly called “Big John.”  Now, this is Fourth Reich Archaeology, so you know that we couldn’t really paint a complete picture of John Aalberg without diving a little deep into RKO, his longtime employer, and its eccentric owner, the aviator himself, Howard Hughes. It’s got the Fourth Reich written all over it.

And that’s not all folks! In the second half of this episode, we read directly from Sara Jane’s 1979 prison interview transcript, with excerpts we humbly submit put together the pieces and show that not everything is what it seems when it comes to John Aalberg. In fact, nothing is what it seems.  Because according to Sara Jane herself, Big John was not just an academy man, but also a company man. 

So get out your Vistavision glasses, ladies and gentlemen. It is time to go to the movies!

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We are back to our series-within-a-series, She Harvey Oswald (a Jerryworld Series). And boy are we excited. When we last left her, Sara Jane Moore had dumped husband #2, Sydney Manning, and sent her three kids from her California home back to her parents in West Virginia. This week we move on to husband #3, still in Southern California–indeed, in Hollywood!--the RKO Pictures sound wizard, 10-time Oscar nominee, John O. Aalberg. In Side A, we gave the “official narrative” of Sara’s and “Big John’s” romance, drawing largely on Geri Spieler’s biography of Moore. Now it’s time to dig beneath the surface…

John Aalberg was a veteran of WWI and lifelong mega-patriot. He perfected a recording technology in 1928 that enabled precise and easy cutting of sound in films. One of the technologies that bridged the gap to the widespread adoption of talking pictures. But moviemakers aren’t the only people interested in recording and editing technology: Aalberg was recruited to the Army to assist its pictographic works during WWII (in fact, starting even before Pearl Harbor by several months). And he remained involved in the armed services during the Cold War as well, besides busying himself as a reserve member of the LA County Sherriff’s Office as a literal “posse” member.

It’s a great tale and we think you’ll like it. It’s got material and connections that have really not been reported before, and we thank you ever so kindly for supporting our work! We couldn’t do it without you.

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“I Put a Spell on You” performed by Angelina Jordan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXOPpwucDYw&list=RDgXOPpwucDYw&start_radio=1

We are back to our series-within-a-series, She Harvey Oswald (a Jerryworld Series). And boy are we excited. When we last left her, Sara Jane Moore had dumped husband #2, Sydney Manning, and sent her three kids from her California home back to her parents in West Virginia. We had questioned whether “Syd” might have been a handler of some kind, considering that (1) he was a psychiatric professional working in a facility while she was a patient undergoing treatment and analysis, (2) he was 17 years her senior, (3) he knew her only a short time before tying the knot, and (4) she had exhibited abnormal psychology, suffering fainting spells and bouts of amnesia, making her an ideal subject for just the type of experiments the CIA was doing at the time under Project Bluebird.

This week we move on to husband #3, still in Southern California–indeed, in Hollywood!--the RKO Pictures sound wizard, 10-time Oscar nominee, John O. Aalberg. We begin by giving the “official narrative” of Sara’s and “Big John’s” romance, drawing largely on Geri Spieler’s biography of Moore. Even the truncated and largely superficial story told by Spieler is interesting if, for no other reason, it is pretty wild that Sara Jane Moore was married to the guy who did the sound for Citizen Kane! And if you are listening on the free feed, that is where we leave things off. There’s more at Patreon, otherwise, you’ll have to wait to hear the rest of the story…

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Outro song performed by Angelina Jordan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXOPpwucDYw&list=RDgXOPpwucDYw&start_radio=1

This week, Dick and Don are back together talking about a topic that seems to have fallen out of the media spotlight lately, but that is more than deserving of serious attention and concern. Deportation numbers are breaking records each month, due process is being whittled away, hundreds of thousands of people are losing legal status with the stroke of a pen based on what country they’re from.

Even as the policies around mass deportation decline in popularity (even among Trump voters), administration officials continue to peddle mask-off Nazi rhetoric to dehumanize the most marginalized members of society. All in service of the classic fascist maneuver of prioritizing a hardcore base of support among ideological extremists - white nationalist eugenicist racists, in this case. 

Side B will include an interview with Alex, a veteran immigration lawyer, who shares her perspective on the insanity from the center of the Maelstrom. Head on over to Patreon if you’d like to get at it sooner!

This week, Dick and Don are back together talking about a topic that seems to have fallen out of the media spotlight lately, but that is more than deserving of serious attention and concern. Deportation numbers are breaking records each month, due process is being whittled away, hundreds of thousands of people are losing legal status with the stroke of a pen based on what country they’re from.

Even as the policies around mass deportation decline in popularity (even among Trump voters), administration officials continue to peddle mask-off Nazi rhetoric to dehumanize the most marginalized members of society. All in service of the classic fascist maneuver of prioritizing a hardcore base of support among ideological extremists - white nationalist eugenicist racists, in this case. 

Side B will include an interview with Alex, a veteran immigration lawyer, who shares her perspective on the insanity from the center of the Maelstrom. Head on over to Patreon if you’d like to get at it sooner!

The cover of Victor Jara’s “La Partida” featured in the episode can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8LaF-tFgg0&list=RD_8LaF-tFgg0&start_radio=1

We are coming at you this week with Side B of Don's discussion with Brother Isaac. In this episode we reprise a theme Don and Isaac have already recorded 2 episodes on on Isaac’s podcast, Coexist, Inc. That’s right, it’s the Jewish Question. This time, rather than diving deep on the theoretical approaches that have been taken to the Jewish Question by Marxists of various stripes over the past 200 years or so, we dig into the discursive turf of 2026, where the “blame the Jews” narrative is on the rise.

Don and Isaac discuss how this narrative serves as an anticommunist trojan horse, carrying the potential to merge together the reactionary politics of the likes of Tucker Carlson with people of conscience shocked and appalled by Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine (and Lebanon, for that matter). We call the episode “JewAnon” because–just like the QAnon narrative that posited the overrepresentation of perverted pedophiles in the upper echelons of power, while adding into the mix a whooooole bunch of batshit crazy bullshit–there is a grain of truth at the core of the most popular forms of the “blame the Jews” narrative. 

In other words, it IS true that Israel is engaging in daily atrocities with absolute cover from the U.S. government, and without any real consequences on the global stage, but it is not for “the benefit of the Jews” that it is doing so, or exacting global fealty in so doing. Instead, it is for the benefit of a global ruling class hell bent on developing (and testing out!!) new technologies of surveillance and mass slaughter that will absolutely “come home” to be deployed against those of us who dare oppose the Total Control sought by the techno-fascist ruling class. 

This one went on so long we’re breaking it up on the free feed, but you can get the whole thing on Patreon at: ⁠patreon.com/fourthreicharchaeology⁠

And subscribe to Isaac’s work at: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/u6112951

Brother Isaac is back, and this time he’s with Don to reprise a theme the two of them have already recorded 2 episodes on on Isaac’s podcast, Coexist, Inc. That’s right, it’s the Jewish Question. This time, rather than diving deep on the theoretical approaches that have been taken to the Jewish Question by Marxists of various stripes over the past 200 years or so, we dig into the discursive turf of 2026, where the “blame the Jews” narrative is on the rise.

Don and Isaac discuss how this narrative serves as an anticommunist trojan horse, carrying the potential to merge together the reactionary politics of the likes of Tucker Carlson with people of conscience shocked and appalled by Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine (and Lebanon, for that matter). We call the episode “JewAnon” because–just like the QAnon narrative that posited the overrepresentation of perverted pedophiles in the upper echelons of power, while adding into the mix a whooooole bunch of batshit crazy bullshit–there is a grain of truth at the core of the most popular forms of the “blame the Jews” narrative. 

In other words, it IS true that Israel is engaging in daily atrocities with absolute cover from the U.S. government, and without any real consequences on the global stage, but it is not for “the benefit of the Jews” that it is doing so, or exacting global fealty in so doing. Instead, it is for the benefit of a global ruling class hell bent on developing (and testing out!!) new technologies of surveillance and mass slaughter that will absolutely “come home” to be deployed against those of us who dare oppose the Total Control sought by the techno-fascist ruling class. 

This one went on so long we’re breaking it up on the free feed, but you can get the whole thing on Patreon at: patreon.com/fourthreicharchaeology

And subscribe to Isaac’s work at: https://www.patreon.com/cw/u6112951