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Mar 14, 2025 • 1h 1min

Premium Episode 109: the World of Mitch WerBell III pt. 9 - International Shakedowns LLC

note from the archivist: Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes. However, an explanation is required. umgelenkt. Jimmy wrote these episodes, recorded them, and then began writing a book on WerBell. He wrote expanded the podcast manuscript into a book (and fixed some errors) but was required to stop writing for personal reasons. Jimmy did not stop due to what he found. incredibly hard artwork by Robert Voyvodic (@rvoy__) Songs: Let’s Have a War by Fear
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Mar 7, 2025 • 38min

Premium Episode 108: the World of Mitch WerBell III pt. 8 - Victory for the Forces of Democratic Freedom

note from the archivist: Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes. However, an explanation is required. umgelenkt. Jimmy wrote these episodes, recorded them, and then began writing a book on WerBell. He wrote expanded the podcast manuscript into a book (and fixed some errors) but was required to stop writing for personal reasons. Jimmy did not stop due to what he found. incredibly hard artwork by Robert Voyvodic (@rvoy__) Songs: DMNY by Young Avii
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Feb 28, 2025 • 58min

Premium Episode 107: the World of Mitch WerBell III pt. 7 - First as Farce, Then as Tragedy

note from the archivist: Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes. However, an explanation is required. umgelenkt. Jimmy wrote these episodes, recorded them, and then began writing a book on WerBell. He wrote expanded the podcast manuscript into a book (and fixed some errors) but was required to stop writing for personal reasons. Jimmy did not stop due to what he found. incredibly hard artwork by Robert Voyvodic (@rvoy__) Songs: To Live and Die in L.A. title theme by Wang Chung World is a Ghetto by Intervention feat. Dr. F sampling Hello by Ice Cube
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Feb 27, 2025 • 35min

Premium Episode 106: the World of Mitch WerBell III pt. 6 - Los Tigres de Masferrer

note from the archivist:Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes. However, an explanation is required. umgelenkt. Jimmy wrote these episodes, recorded them, and then began writing a book on WerBell. He wrote expanded the podcast manuscript into a book (and fixed some errors) but was required to stop writing for personal reasons. Jimmy did not stop due to what he found.incredibly hard artwork by Robert Voyvodic (@rvoy__)Songs:the original song for this episode was H*vana by C*mila C*bello feat. Y*ung Th*g. it's the perfect song for the episode but the jackbooted thugs at DMCA and National Music Publishers' Association have been striking down fair use on my episodes left and right. I should have known better than to use a Miami Cuban's songs when talking about this particular topic. also, Y*ung Th*g sacrificed a goat - look it up
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Feb 14, 2025 • 53min

Premium Episode 105: the World of Mitch WerBell III pt. 5 - Officially Licensed Eminently Respectable Munitions Manipulator

note from the archivist: Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes. However, an explanation is required. umgelenkt. Jimmy wrote these episodes, recorded them, and then began writing a book on WerBell. He wrote expanded the podcast manuscript into a book (and fixed some errors) but was required to stop writing for personal reasons. Jimmy did not stop due to what he found. additional note: Jimmy found much more on Gordon Ingram who was very nearly as interesting as WerBell. Perhaps the most interesting fact was that the Slaves of Satan outlaw motorcycle club was interested in manufacturing the MAC-10. As it turns out, the MC were largely technicians aerospace/defense jobs (who also had the machine tool expertise to actually manufacture the guns). Ingram seriously considered this offer before WerBell appeared and their partnership eventually formed. incredibly hard artwork by Robert Voyvodic (@rvoy__) Songs: Pouya/Fat Nick - Big Glocks
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Feb 7, 2025 • 56min

Premium Episode 104: the World of Mitch WerBell III pt 4 - the Old Boy Network aka “the cloak and dagger type’s answer to the union hiring hall”

note from the archivist: Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes. However, an explanation is required. umgelenkt. Jimmy wrote these episodes, recorded them, and then began writing a book on WerBell. He wrote expanded the podcast manuscript into a book (and fixed some errors) but was required to stop writing for personal reasons. Jimmy did not stop due to what he found. incredibly hard artwork by Robert Voyvodic (@rvoy__) Song: Murda Blocc by Maxo Kream feat. A$AP Ferg
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Jan 31, 2025 • 51min

Premium Episode 103: the World of Mitch WerBell III pt 3 - the OSS in China, or, Ivy League Nine Trey Bloods

note from the archivist: Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes. However, an explanation is required. umgelenkt. Jimmy wrote these episodes, recorded them, and then began writing a book on WerBell. He wrote expanded the podcast manuscript into a book (and fixed some errors) but was required to stop writing for personal reasons. Jimmy did not stop due to what he found. additional note: Jimmy later found much, much more on Detachment 202, which was very difficult to do for reasons which may become clear. incredibly hard artwork by Robert Voyvodic (@rvoy__) Songs: Billy by 6ix9ine
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Jan 24, 2025 • 32min

Premium Episode 102: the World of Mitch WerBell III pt 2 - Setting the Stage with WerBell Family History

note from the archivist: Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes. However, an explanation is required. umgelenkt. Jimmy wrote these episodes, recorded them, and then began writing a book on WerBell. He wrote expanded the podcast manuscript into a book (and fixed some errors) but was required to stop writing for personal reasons. Jimmy did not stop due to what he found. incredibly hard artwork by Robert Voyvodic (@rvoy__) Additional note: Jimmy was able to confirm that Mitchell Livingstone WerBell III was not Russian or Scottish but in fact Jewish on both paternal and maternal sides. This was confirmed in the 1920 census which listed their mother tongue as Hebrew and his parents coming from Poland/Romania/Russia. The 1930 census listed his parents' origins as Odessa, Russia. Further, WerBell's grandparents were listed as speaking "Russian Yiddish" in the 1910 census, and were buried in Har Nebo Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. There is no doubt that Mitch WerBell III was Jewish. The implications are truly staggering. WerBell portrayed himself as Russian and Scottish, never Jewish, and in fact his family pretended to be Russian nobility. The whole white Russian thing. Kevin Coogan's books on Goleniewski, Yockey, and National Bolshevism are the keys to understanding this bizarre milieu of crypto-Jewish fascists. It also borders into the exact same territory as the fictional chivalric orders of the SoSJ and SoM that Coogan and Steven Snider have been studying. There was never any clear indication whether WerBell (or his sons) even knew he was Jewish, although it is unlikely that he was completely ignorant given his connections to Rich's Department store, advertising, his time in China, and the Israelis generally. Jimmy never found any indication that WerBell was antisemitic although he was constantly interacting with extreme far-right actors who were. It raises new questions about some of his interactions with Israeli military officials (episode 11), as well as the nature of his interactions with these extreme far-right groups. The fact that WerBell was Jewish raises many more questions than answers, and the question was never fully resolved before Jimmy discontinued his project. This was only one of several bizarre revelations between Jimmy writing the podcast and writing the book. Songs: Little Lord Fauntleroy by Upper Crust
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Jan 14, 2025 • 34min

Premium Episode 101: the World of Mitch WerBell III pt 1 - a Primer on Mitch WerBell III aka the Wizard of Whispering Death

note from the archivist: Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes. However, an explanation is required. umgelenkt. Jimmy wrote these episodes, recorded them, and then began writing a book on WerBell. He wrote expanded the podcast manuscript into a book (and fixed some errors) but was required to stop writing for personal reasons. Jimmy did not stop due to what he found. incredibly hard artwork by Robert Voyvodic (@rvoy__) Songs: Guns 4 Sale by 50 Centavo
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Jan 10, 2025 • 1h 46min

Premium Episode 133 - the Gulf Breeze (Three) Six Mafia pt. 4: A True Story of Courage and Belief, feat. Tanner

note from the archivist: Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes. artwork by Jimmy and Dakota using found media Songs: Two Potato by Elite One Potato by Elite On Some Faraway Beach by Brian Eno

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