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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff (TRS) is a neo-Nazi website, founded by Mike Peinovich in 2012, that operates as a network of white nationalist podcasts.
As of May 2020, TRS hosted 18 podcasts. Its flagship podcast, The Daily Shoah (TDS), was originally given this name in reference to the Holocaust. TDS is known for its anti-Semitic parody songs, promoting [01:14:41] racism and creating [00:05:20] far-right memes.
Other TRS podcasts include: Fash the Nation [FTN], Strike and Mike, The Panoramies Present, The People's Square, Mike and the Mad Wop, Jazz & Jesse, Prep In The Car, Third Rail, Poz Button, HYPERPODCASTISM, Exodus/Americanus, White Rabbit Radio Live [WRRL], The Absolute State of Britain, Midgard Rising, Tales From The Trough, The Godcast and The Young Hwytes.
Multiple TRS podcast hosts marched at the 2017 white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. TRS has also been active [00:11:16] on college campuses.
In August 2016, Peinovich reportedly claimed that the TRS podcasts had 100,000 listeners per week. In October 2018, an Antifa activist wrote that TRS had “more than 100,000 listeners.”
TRS was reportedly founded in 2012 by Mike Peinovich, who goes by the alias “Mike Enoch.”
In 2014, Peinovich launched the TDS podcast with Jesse Dunstan, who goes by the aliases “Seventh Son” and “Sven.” Their other co-host is Alex McNabb, whose alias is “Dr. Narcan.” The hosts call themselves “The Death Panel.”
TDS is known among white nationalists for infusing “edgy humor to touch on current events and politics” and for its efforts to reinvigorate dialogue between the far-right and the far-left.
On August 3, 2014, TDS posted their first episode and wrote: “We discuss race, immigration, politics, religion and social life from our unique TRS perspective.”
Mike Peinovich hosted TDS at its launch in 2014 and continued to co-host the show as of May 2020. He has spread anti-Semitism, promoted anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, mocked the Holocaust and pushed hatred of Israel. In 2019, he tweeted: “I would give baby Hitler detailed notes on allied military moves.”
On January 20, 2017, Peinovich reportedly had his personal information published online that month, including his job and that his wife was Jewish. One of his co-hosts announced he was leaving his wife after the news broke. He also reportedly lost his job as a software developer due to his association with TRS.
Jesse Dunstan reportedly launched TDS with Peinovich in 2014, which he continued to co-host as of May 2020. Dunstan has promoted harassment and spread racism and anti-Semitism online. He has also produced and performed Nazi-themed parodies of rock and pop songs.
Alex McNabb is a TDS co-host who has also spread racism online, mocking his African American hospital patients. In March 2019, he was fired from his job as an Emergency Medical Technician in Virginia after his racist views were publicized.
Joseph Jordan [Eric Striker] is co-host of the TRS podcast “STRIKE & MIKE,” along with Peinovich. He is also a co-host on the TRS podcast The People's Square. He has promoted anti-Semitism, pushed anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and spread racism, homophobia and Holocaust denial.
John Ramondetta [Johnny Monoxide] has been the host of the TRS podcast “The Paranormies.” Ramondetta has promoted anti-Semitism, racism and conspiracy theories. Following the 2017 Charlottesville rally, Ramondetta was reportedly fired from his job as an electrician at Rosendin Electric, in San Francisco.
Andrew Anglin has featured as a guest on TRS podcasts since 2015, including TDS, STRIKE & MIKE and Fash-The-Nation. Anglin is the founder and editor of the Daily Stormer.
Robert Warren Ray [Azzmador] has featured as a guest on TRS podcasts, including TDS and The Paranormies. Ray has listed himself as a “Feature Writer and man on the Ground “for the Daily Stormer and as the “Host of The Krypto Report,” a Daily Stormer podcast. Ray also runs Stormer Book Club (SBC) chapter activities, including on university campuses.
Christopher Cantwell has featured as a guest on TRS podcasts TDS, Fash-The-Nation and Mike and the Mad Wop from 2015 until 2018.
Ryan Dawson [Ryan Patrick Dawson] has featured on multiple occasions as a special guest on TDS, The Paranormies and The People’s Square.
Emily Youcis has featured as a special guest on STRIKE & MIKE in 2017 and 2018 and has also featured as a guest on TDS.
Sacco Vandal [Psycho Sacco] was reportedly affiliated with The Right Stuff. Vandal was also a panelist on TDS in 2017.
Tony Hovater has featured on multiple TRS podcasts, including TDS, The People’s Square and The Paranormies from 2017 to 2019. Hovater was a leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP).
In May 2020, TRS ran a subscription service for many of its podcasts which were available behind a paywall. The website’s “paywall packages” included “$10 monthly, $30 quarterly or $120 annually” options that could be paid for via credit card, check or money order.
On February 28, 2020, Neonazi BTC Tracker tweeted that TRS had received $323,349.23 in Bitcoin donations.
On November 28, 2019, TDS encouraged [00:10:45] listeners to send donations to “PO Box 1069, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533.”
In August 2017, five TRS podcast hosts participated in the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Peinovich and Ramondetta were both listed as featured speakers. Striker participated, as did McNabb and another TRS podcast host who goes by the alias Jayoh de la Rey.
The rally turned violent as Antifa and other leftists clashed with white nationalists and neo-Nazis. Heather Heyer was killed when white nationalist James Alex Fields, Jr. intentionally ran his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. Fields marched alongside Peinovich, McNabb and another TRS podcast host.
On November 8, 2016, Dunstan said [00:11:16] on TDS: “So we’ve got, we’ve got the guys hanging the posters on campus and don’t forget the campus posters are hate speech. And they spent, they going to spend how much money to fight back against that, that one school… millions of dollars, to fight back against pieces of paper.”
On December 7, 2016, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported that fliers promoting TRS were posted at “Purdue University in Indianapolis, at the University at Albany in New York, Kent State in Ohio and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as well as in area near St. Paul, Minnesota campuses.”
One flier said: “ARE YOU SICK OF ANTI-WHITE PROPAGANDA IN COLLEGE? YOU ARE NOT ALONE. THERIGHTSTUFF.BIZ.”
On April 18, 2017, Peinovich opened [00:02:27] a speaking event at Auburn University featuring alt-right movement leader Richard Spencer.
On October 19, 2017, Peinovich opened [00:16:20] a speaking event for Spencer at the University of Florida.
TDS has produced and performed parody versions of rock and pop songs filled with anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi themes and references. Jesse Dunstan has produced many of these parodies and TDS regularly features songs by an artist with the alias “Morrakiu.”
On February 10, 2015, TDS opened with a Morrakiu parody of the song “Who let the dogs out?” titled: “Who let the ZOG out?” The lyrics were changed [00:00:03] to: “Who let the ZOG out? Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew!”
ZOG stands for Zionist Occupied Government, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews control Western governments and is often used by White Supremacists.
On July 5, 2016, to mark TDS’ 88th episode, Dunstan performed a parody version of “The Summer of 69,” by Bryan Adams, titled: “The Summer of 88.” 88 refers to “Heil Hitler,” as both words start with the letter H, the eighth letter of the English and German alphabet.
The song said [00:01:21]: “These are the first days of our Reich. Oh yeah. It's the summer of ‘88 oh yeah!” It then said [00:01:40]: “Man we were killin’ kayaks [Kikes], We put them in parentheses, Muh Vishnu Hitler shrine, this time it will last forever! Forever!”
The song continued [00:02:20]: “Getting ready for a coup. Only One Solution to be honest. Rounding up degenerates, exterminate the Untermenschen.”
“Untermenschen” was a Nazi term referring to non-Aryan or “inferior people,” which included but was not limited to Jews, Roma, Slavs and Blacks.
On July 25, 2017, Dunstan performed [01:09:50] a parody of “Some Nights,” by Fun, titled: “Some Kayaks [Kikes].”
Dunstan changed [01:09:50] the lyrics to: “Some kikes get turned into ashes in my oven, the others get the rope. Some kikes will have their flesh turned into a lampshade, the rest of bars of soap. The goyims [non-Jews] waking up just to hit the gas and we’re all quite sure that the race war’s come.”
On October 4, 2016, McNabb described [01:14:41] on his show how he drew a young black boy’s blood in the emergency room, stating: “...guess who volunteered to take his blood? Dr. Narcan enjoyed great, immense satisfaction as he terrorized this youngster with a needle and stabbed him thusly in the arm with a large-gauge IV catheter.”
In the same episode, McNabb described [01:07:42] a black woman as a “Dinduisha,” and then compared [01:07:59] the woman to a shaved “Harambe,” in reference to a famous gorilla.
A “Dindu” is a derogatory slur for a young black person. The word is “derived from the phrase ‘dindu nuffin.’”
On November 8, 2016, McNabb said [02:51:04] on TDS: “The heat brings out the wild in the dindu, as winter approaches, the animals go into hibernation and the ridiculousness of the [911] calls goes down.”
The Merchant Minute segment on TDS created [00:05:20] and popularized a white nationalist meme known as (((echoes))). The use of triple parentheses has since been used to stigmatize and target individuals of Jewish background for online harassment.
On November 8, 2016, Dunstan said [00:09:12] on TDS: “F\*\*king, f\*\*king punctuation is hate speech now and we did that!”
On July 29, 2015, TRS promoted the term “Cuckservative” before the epithet attracted mainstream attention. The term is a combination of the words “Conservative” and “Cuckold,” shortened to “cuck.”
Richard Spencer, an alt-right movement leader, reportedly said: “The 'cuck' slur is vulgar, yes, but then piercingly accurate. It is the cuckold who, whether knowingly or unknowingly, loses control of his future. This is an apt psychological portrait of white 'conservatives,' whose only identity is comprised of vague, abstract 'values,' and who are participating in the displacement of European Americans — their own children.”
