Podcast appearances and mentions of Fred A Leuchter

For a new retro review, Michael selects one of his favorite docs, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. by Errol Morris. Joe recommends a recent Criterion Collection release, Michael revisits a Tom Cruise hit, and Jared explores the oeuvre of an overlooked Italian documentarian.

Layman's Report by Eugene Marten https://amzn.to/46KhV4B A disturbing, darkly funny fictionalization of the life of Fred A. Leuchter, the garage tinkerer turned execution authority who became a darling of the neo-Nazi movement, and subject of the Errol Morris documentary, Mr. Death. He comes to fix your photocopier, but really, Fred's an inventor. At night, he goes to work. He has goals, ambitions, and when offered the task of building a better electric chair, he jumps at the chance. People have to die—he believes in the occasional necessity of evil—but what if we could kill them more humanely? A death specialist, first in his field but forever under-appreciated, he's charmed when a new generation of fascists come calling for his expertise. A Holocaust denier is on trial in Toronto—could Fred prove the gas chambers never existed? Newspapers descend. Talking heads have their say. A documentarist makes a film. Everyone will know his name, though some things society will simply not abide. Dishonoured, discredited, disgraced. But Fred's work does not stop, and the world may yet be reminded of the dangerous truth that some men are driven by forces far more powerful than shame. First published in 2013, this is the updated and definitive edition of Eugene Marten's chilling masterwork of transformational historical fiction.

Down on the Docs - Ep. 68 - Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) Part 2 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is a 1999 American documentary film by Errol Morris about execution technician Fred A. Leuchter. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/VykasRN974 Down on the Docs, starring comedians Chris Neff & Dave Sarra, is a weekly podcast breaking down the latest documentaries on Netflix, HBO, and Amazon Prime the only way they know how, with lots of dumb jokes. Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/downonthedocs⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/downonthedocspod/⁠⁠⁠ Chris Neff: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/chrisneffcomedy⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/horsetooth⁠⁠⁠ Dave Sarra: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/davexhale⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/dave.sarra⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/DaveSarra⁠

Down on the Docs - Ep. 67 - Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) Part 1 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is a 1999 American documentary film by Errol Morris about execution technician Fred A. Leuchter. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/VykasRN974 Down on the Docs, starring comedians Chris Neff & Dave Sarra, is a weekly podcast breaking down the latest documentaries on Netflix, HBO, and Amazon Prime the only way they know how, with lots of dumb jokes. Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/downonthedocs⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/downonthedocspod/⁠⁠⁠ Chris Neff: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/chrisneffcomedy⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/horsetooth⁠⁠⁠ Dave Sarra: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/davexhale⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/dave.sarra⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/DaveSarra⁠

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa feel the weight of what really is the most intense horror story ever made.***Referenced media:“Band of Brothers” (Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, 2001)“Eddie Murphy Raw” (Robert Townsend, 1987)“The Day After” (Nicholas Meyer, 1983)“Avatar” (James Cameron, 2009)“Kill Bill: Volume 1” (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)“Kill Bill: Volume 2” (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)“Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.” (Errol Morris, 1999)Audio quotation:“Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)“Band of Brothers” (Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, 2001), Episode 9: “Why We Fight” (John Orloff, 2001)“Eddie Murphy Raw” (Robert Townsend, 1987)

My guest is Shane Claiborne, a Christian activist fighting against war, gun violence, and the death penalty. I got to meet him recently at a death penalty abolitionists' meeting in Columbia, S.C., and he graciously set aside a little time to talk about the struggle to end state-enforced killing in my state and across the country.On a personal note, Shane's writing has meant the world to me. His first couple of books, The Irresistible Revolution and Jesus for President, helped me understand the teachings of Jesus as radical, countercultural "good news for the poor" as the Good Book tells us. His more recent books include Executing Grace and Beating Guns.Talking with Shane was a breath of fresh air after my previous interview with Fred A. Leuchter Jr., the man who earned the nickname "Mr. Death" because he sold so much death chamber equipment to states in the '80s. I published that interview in Luke O'Neil's Welcome to Hell World newsletter (there's also an excerpt up at brutalsouth.substack.com if you want to check that out).Here's a clip from the interview when I asked Leuchter for his opinion on firing squads, which South Carolina just authorized for executions this year:“I’d rather be electrocuted, if you really want to know. But one of the things I found out, and I didn’t know this when I started, but I found out after being involved in it for over 30 years, is that the human body as I told you earlier is designed to protect itself and not allow you to kill it. And because of that, and everybody’s body is different, we can design a system that is completely flawless and works all of the time and does everything exactly right, but you’re gonna get, 20% of the time, you’re gonna get somebody who’s not gonna fit the mold, and he’s gonna be an issue. So even when we do everything right, we have a problem that we shouldn’t have had, and it’s because of an unknown physiological condition in the person that we’re executing. My feeling is that if we’re gonna execute people, we need to do it right and humanely. Other than that, we shouldn’t be doing it. If I can’t do the execution right 100% of the time, maybe we shouldn’t be doing it. So I’m not a proponent of capital punishment.”I'm skeptical of Fred Leuchter's claim that he's not a proponent of the death penalty. He may have done more singlehandedly to aid and abet the execution of imprisoned people in the U.S. than any other person in the second half of the 20th century, and he went out of his way to do so without a medical license or formal training in electrical engineering.The Leuchter interview was difficult and strange for me. I didn't want to lend credence to what he was saying, but I felt it was important to highlight his central role in the making of the modern death penalty regime in the U.S.My interview with Shane, on the other hand, was a great relief. I went from talking about the practical and mechanical issues of killing another person to the life-giving work of loving our neighbors. Shane stands with an executed savior, and so do I.While I've got you here, please go rate and subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen, or just tell a friend about an episode you liked. You can also subscribe to the newsletter at brutalsouth.substack.com/subscribe. It's free every Wednesday, or you can sign up as a paid subscriber at $5 a month to help support this work and get access to some exclusive issues as well as some sweet vinyl stickers I will send you in the mail.In other news, I have a Freedom of Information Act request awaiting a response from the South Carolina Department of Corrections. I’m seeking information on the purchase, inspection, and maintenance of electrocution equipment in the state's death chamber. If and when they send me some information, I’ll keep you updated via the newsletter.The episode art is “The Magpie on the Gallows” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1568).Twitter // Bookshop // Bandcamp // Apple Podcasts // Spotify Podcasts This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at brutalsouth.substack.com/subscribe

This week the Dudes dive into Errol Morris' 1999 documentary Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.  

On this episode of Strangers to Fiction we discuss two films by legendary documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. We take a look at Vernon, Florida - a film pieced together after the originally project Nub City had to be scrapped. As well as Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. 

Something a bit different this week, as Daniel and Jack chat about Errol Morris' documentary film Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jnr, as part one of a two part discussion of Holocaust denial. Warnings most definitely apply. * Show Notes: A Militia Group Detained Hundreds of Migrants At Gunpoint At The Border United Constitutional Patriots on Facebook https://twitter.com/LCRWnews/status/1119902405821288448 https://twitter.com/leftkist/status/1118662484640976896 "Republican discussed violent attacks and surveillance with rightwingers" https://twitter.com/jason_a_w/status/1120451594825420801 Republican Representative Matt Shea Planned Violent Attacks On ‘Communist’ Leftists, Leaked Chat Messages Show Matt Shea connection to Christian Identity in 2018 (Ad-heavy but with good detail) "Biblical Basis For War" * Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr (YouTube) Mr. Death Transcript Analytical Chemistry segment from Mr. Death The Nizkor Project (it's okay to click through) 66 Questions and Answers About the Holocaust "First of all, consider the implicit conspiracy theory. Notice how the testimony of every single inmate of every Nazi camp is automatically dismissed as unconvincing. This total dismissal of inmates' testimony, along with the equally-total dismissal of the Nazis' own testimony (!), is the largest unspoken assumption of Holocaust-denial. This assumption, which is not often spelled out, is that the attempted Jewish genocide never took place, but rather that a secret conspiracy of Jews, starting around 1941, planted and forged myriad documents to prove that it did; then, after the war, they rounded up all the camp survivors and told them what to say." "The conspirators also supposedly managed to torture hundreds of key Nazis into confessing to crimes which they never committed, or into framing their fellow Nazis for those crimes, and to plant hundreds of documents in Nazi files which were never discovered until after the war, and only then, in many cases, by sheer luck. [...] "Regarding postwar testimony from Nazis, were they all tortured into confessing to heinous crimes which they supposedly did not commit? This might be believable if only a few Nazis were captured after the war, or maybe if some had courageously stood up in court and shouted to the world about the supposed attempt to silence them. But hundreds testified regarding the Holocaust, in trials dating from late 1945 until the 1960s." Holocaust Controversies   Holocaust Controversies "Rebutting the Twitter Denial." Deborah Lipstadt, "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory." Richard Evans, "Lying About Hitler." Nizkor on The Leuchter Report Institute for Forensic Research, Cracow, analysis of Auschwitz in 1994 Holocaust Controversies on The Leuchter Report Leuchter Report thoroughly debunked, by a fellow Nazi no less, in 1993 (page 32 in scanned "Liberty Bell" Fred Leuchter interview 2015, with Jim Rizoli David Irving "The Manipulation of History" Another Voice For Freedom with Ernst Zundel: "Left-Wing" Violence on the Streets of Canada Ernst Zundel, "Adolf Hitler -- Artist, Architect, and Designer" Highlights from the 9th IHR Conference (footage from this was used in Mr. Death) Van Pelt Report from Irving trial Richard Evans Report from Irving Trial Holocaust on Trial (Docudrama about Irving Trial)  

It’s the Halloween season so Brothers E and J take on a horrifying true crime story: 1967’s In Cold Blood. Spoiler: it holds up and is a nice companion piece to Capote. Afterward the discussion turns to the documentaries “Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.,” “Stevie,” and “A Day in September” Brother J has a new segment at 1:05:00 Bathroom Plumbing tales References: In Cold Blood 1967 Trailer Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Stevie A Day In September File length 1:13:58 File Size 67.9 MB Subscribe to us on iTunes Listen to us on Stitcher Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Send your comments to show@notinacreepyway.com Visit the show website at www.notinacreepyway.com

Drew and Travis have a prison brawl on our hands when The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile go head to head! Which beloved Stephen King prison drama will come out the victor? TIMESTAMPS 00:00:40 - Housekeeping 00:03:39 - Currently Consuming 00:21:00 - The Shawshank Redemption vs The Green Mile (Spoilers Abound!) 01:06:16 - End SHOW LINKS The Tick on Amazon Dirty Dancing on Amazon Night Ranger T-Shirt on Amazon Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. on Amazon Ingrid Goes West Official Website Good Time Official Website Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives on Amazon Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood on Amazon Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey on Amazon

The episode that everyone has been waiting for, our Holocaust Denial Super Fun Happy Hour inspired by the new film starring Rachel Weisz, DENIAL. Listen to the insane ramblings of your two hosts Chris and Mike, along with some other far more harmful ramblers found in the 1999 Errol Morris documentary MR. DEATH: THE RISE AND FALL OF FRED A. LEUCHTER, JR. and the 2014 German film LABYRINTH OF LIES. Also: we discuss the merits of moving to Canada post 2016 Presidential Election and decide that America is the It from IT FOLLOWS.