This is I Don't Speak German.

I'm Jack Graham, he, him, and in this podcast I talk to my friend Daniel Harper, also he, him,

who spent years tracking the far right in their safe spaces. In this show we talk about them

and about the wider reactionary forces feeding them and feeding off them. Be warned,

this is difficult subject matter, content warnings always apply.

Hello and welcome to another episode of I Don't Speak German. It's a very special episode.

We have no Daniel this time. I'm afraid Daniel's off having fun somewhere. I don't know. He

doesn't tell me anything, but you'll have to make do with me. But to compensate, I do have a

very special guest for this episode, which is kind of a bonus episode. It's a bit of a sideways one.

It's off our usual beat, but it's something I really wanted to talk to as somebody about,

because it's on a subject that I'm absolutely fascinated almost to the point of obsession by.

So I was very lucky indeed and delighted to be able to get on the show.

Writer, reporter, MSNBC columnist, writer of the substack, The Handbasket, and writer of a series

of, along series of posts now, which have been absolutely essential for this whole thing,

which I'm about to introduce, called The Daily Santos, and that gives you a clue,

because this episode is going to be about a gentleman called George Santos, supposedly,

anyway, last week, that was a joke. Now it's a question. But yeah, we're very lucky to have on the

show, Marissa K. Bass. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy to be here. You were on Twitter

the other day, asking people what they wanted in terms of Santos coverage. And I noticed that

several people asked you for a primer, you know, an intro, because, and I understand that,

because the subject is now so complicated with this avalanche of revelations and stories and

substories that have come out about Congressman George Santos. And I thought maybe we could get

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