Oct 29, 20261h 29m
Anti-fascist historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc returns to the show to share the indigenous Irish origins of Halloween. He gives us the lowdown on púcaí forest fairies, eerie banshees, and even scarier MI5 psyops to create a...
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The State Between Us
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About this Podcast:
My name is Fritz McAlinden and this is The State Between Us, the anti-fascist podcast for dark dives into the ruling class insanity and fashy political cultures as well as our defenses against them through mutual aid and building each other up, sharing knowledge, and connecting the disparate voices in our overlapping struggles. Also TTRPGs, Sci-Fi, and other nerd shit. Let's get weird with it!
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What is The State Between Us about?
My name is Fritz McAlinden and this is The State Between Us, the anti-fascist podcast for dark dives into the ruling class insanity and fashy political cultures as well as our defenses against them through mutual aid and building each other up, sharing knowledge, and connecting the disparate voices in our overlapping struggles. Also TTRPGs, Sci-Fi, and other nerd shit.
What has The State Between Us covered recently?
Recent episodes include "42. Púcaí, Banshees, and MI5: A Proper Samhain w/ Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc" (29 October 2026, 89 minutes), "41. Lore Dump Halloween Edition: From KKKardashians to the Tempel ov Blood" (22 October 2026, 56 minutes), and "40. "It's Killing Me. I Cannot Handle It": The Struggle of Rail Workers in Slovakia w/ Nina Nix" (5 October 2026, 95 minutes).
How often does The State Between Us publish?
The State Between Us publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 68 minutes across 40 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The State Between Us?
Booking probability for The State Between Us is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The State Between Us requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The State Between Us's contact route on record: verified email.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 22, 202656 min
Fritz follows a century of sticky historical webs connecting today's Nazi Satanic Vampires with the Pentecostal patrons of the early Revival movement, including the Kardashian family. From bedsheet-wearing Canucks...
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40. "It's Killing Me. I Cannot Handle It": The Struggle of Rail Workers in Slovakia w/ Nina Nix
Oct 5, 20261h 35mFriend of the show, Nina Nix, introduces the hellish struggle of train workers in Slovakia to wrestle their dignity back from capitalist labor pressure and a nationalist mob state ruled by a corrupt OP goon who is more...
- Sep 29, 20261h 9m
In the second half of Laura's two-part history of anarchism in China, they tell the story of the Tokyo and Guangzhou factions, anarchist feminism, the influence of anarchism on revolutionary peasant politics, and the...
Sep 23, 20261h 24mLaura rejoins The State Between Us to tell the story of anarchism in China from the late-19th century through the early 20th. Though largely forgotten today, anarchism was the dominant revolutionary framework for...
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- Sep 10, 20261 min
Before the fash wore black shirts, they wore Buffalo Bill dusters and cowboy hats. This is the absurd story of Marquis de Morès, a 19th century French aristocrat and degenerate gambler whose ridiculous misadventures and...
- Aug 26, 202650 min
Following a recent attack against a Roma settlement in Slovakia, TSBU assembles an introductory primer on Europe's genocidal treatment of Roma people over the centuries. From the early-modern period to the 21st century...
Aug 13, 20261 minFULL FREE EPISODE at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs Author Joseph Kelly joins Fritz to discuss his new book, The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915 (Bloomsbury, 2026), and explains how the modern...
- Aug 12, 20261h 28m
Author Joseph Kelly joins Fritz to discuss his new book, The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915 (Bloomsbury, 2026), and explains how the modern ideology of human inequality was built...
- Jul 21, 20261h 35m
Fritz's favorite historian, Marcus Rediker, joins The State Between Us to unearth long-lost nautical stories of bold and brilliant people liberating themselves from American slavery in the 19th century, and the...
- Jul 14, 20261h 58m
Fritz's old friend, Salvador Ibarra of the new anti-fascist rock band Widows of the Night, joins the show to discuss his childhood during the brutal civil war in El Salvador (1979-1992). Son of a prominent lawyer for...
- Jul 7, 20261h 46mS0
<p>Stepping away for a moment from his Novara Media series, Do Your Own Research, Richard Hames joins Fritz to explain the study of "Critical Collapsology" and what exactly 'collapse' really means. Richard talks about...
- Jul 7, 20261h 46m
Stepping away for a moment from his Novara Media series, Do Your Own Research , Richard Hames joins Fritz to explain the study of "Critical Collapsology" and what exactly 'collapse' really means. Richard talks about the...
- Jun 5, 202659 minS0
<p>Fritz, still worried about what Tucker Carlson and JD Vance have in store for the post-MAGA right, uncovers the old WASP spiritual foundations of the American mythology around UFOs/UAPs/Flying Saucers, etc.. From a...
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28. Class War and Counterinsurgency in Appalachia: The '84 Massey Coal Strike w/ Ashley Nguyen
May 12, 20261h 29mS0<p>From 1984 to '85, both sides of the Tug Fork river on the West Virginia / Kentucky border were occupied by private security forces, green berets, mercenaries, and other muscle for the bosses to terrorize striking...
- May 6, 20261h 10mS0
<p>Researcher Nick Graf joins The State Between Us to talk about the strangest May Day celebration the Midwestern United States ever had. In 1950, the American Legion organized a "high-effort LARP", transforming the...
- Apr 21, 202649 minS0
<p>As Tucker Carlson splits the Right into weirder and more racist directions, TSBU examines a precedent to this contemporary moment occurring in the 1950s and '60s. William F. Buckley and his National Review cultivated...
- Apr 9, 20261 hourS0
<p>25. Revenge of the WASP pt. 1: The Tucker Diaries<br>Fritz fears the rise of the post-Trump right, arguing that a fashy new take on the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant with some worrying and familiar characteristics is...
- Mar 31, 20261 minS0
<p>[Trailer] Fritz analyzes a Trad-Cath classic, and is inspired to try his own hand at the genre. Written by a Carmelite nun in 1972, the novel AA-1025: The Memoirs of the Communist Infiltration into the Church, also...
- Mar 18, 20261h 11mS0
<p>In TSBU's second edition of the News Rug, Fritz rips up the carpet on two recent U.S. press stories to track the long history of bad trouble underneath them: [2] trad-cath marine John W. Ripley's posthumous medal of...
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