It Could Happen Here
It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, James Stout and Shereen Lani Younes take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.
Episodes
Do Democrats control the weather? Will FEMA raid your home? Garrison and Mia discuss why the misinformation ecosystem is getting worse and how fact-checking may not fix it.
Sources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/10/09/hurricane-helene-fema-funding-response-fact-check/75587360007/
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Margaret reads you a spooky vampire story that's quite a bit different.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Sources can be found in the descriptions of each individual episode.
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Bad Mayor Monday: The Eric Adams Indictment Special
- The Things That Helped People In Western North Carolina
- DHS' Child Border Agents & Civilian Paramilitaries
- A Future Without Coffee feat. Prop
- Israel Invades Lebanon & Other Horrors
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Mia and Gare discuss a new Israeli push into northern Gaza and their expanding war on Lebanon.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vp7dg3ml1o
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/9/israeli-offensives-in-lebanon-and-gaza-kill-doz...
Turns out climate change is also coming for our coffee! Guest host Prop from Hood Politics with Prop walks us through the coffee supply chain and how irresponsible harvesting practices have led us to the possibility of a future without coffee. Then he shows us how people in the industry, through regenerative indigenous practices, are saving our soil.
Sources:
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change
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Mia and James talk about ICE's program to train civilians into paramilitaries and the Border Patrol's training camp for children.
Sources:
https://documentedny.com/2024/10/01/ice-immigration-train-citizens-academy/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1768KW4pKjW1HGF8qEz5mwT0ncwiXH13b/view
James and Margaret discuss her trip to Western North Carolina, the things people had prepared that helped, the things that didn't help, and how you can learn from their experiences.
MADR: https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/
Appalachian Medical Solidarity: https://www.facebook.com/appmedsolid/
MSR Dromedary Bags: https://www.msrgear.com/water-treatment/storage-bags/dromedary-bags/dromedary-bags.html
MSR Guardian: http...
Mia, Gare and James are joined by the Outspoken slate's Joey Patt to read the indictment of Eric Adams and discover how his cartoon bribery schemes fell apart.
Sources:
Next-in-Line for New York Mayor Got Contributions From Donor in Eric Adams Indictment
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Margaret reads you even more William Morris, but this story has swords in it.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Sources can be found in the descriptions of each individual episode.
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What’s the Matter With Boeing, Pt. 1: Shareholders Don't Build Airplanes
- What’s the Matter With Boeing, Pt. 2: The Plane That’s Trying to Murders You
- Disaster Relief, Survival & Hurricane Helene
- Vance & Walz Become Friends During Debate
- James' Trip To The Darién Gap ...
James talks to Mia about a reporting trip to the Emberá community of Bajo Chiquito in the Darién Gap, and his experience interviewing migrants making the most dangerous part of their journey to the USA.
Sources:
Jesuit Shelter: https://www.feyalegria.org/panama/
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Robert, Sophie, and Garrison discuss the vice presidential debate between Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Ohio senator JD Vance.
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Robert sits down with Margaret Killjoy for a dispatch from Asheville in the wake of a disaster, and then talks to James Stout about disaster survival lessons we need to learn before the next one.
Sources:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hurricane-helene-death-toll-missing-people-b2622259.html
https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/43107
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1625951558?ref=cm_sw_r_apan_dp_JGGG...
As the shareholder revolution takeover continues, Boeing builds a plan that tries to crash itself and fixes it with software that also tries to crash the plane. Hundreds die.
Sources:
As Boeing workers strike and airplanes are grounded for new and terrifying reasons, Mia looks back at how the shareholder revolution crushed Boeing's engineers.
Sources:
Liquidated An Ethnography of Wall Street
The 1997 Merger That Paved the Way for the Boeing 737 Max Crisis
Margaret reads you even more William Morris, but this story has swords in it
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Sources can be found in the descriptions of each individual episode.
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How Bread Bloc Feeds Unhoused People In San Diego
- Anarchism In Brazil, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew
- Anarchism In Brazil, Pt. 2 feat. Andrew
- Gig Economy Terror: What Israel's Pager Bomb Attack Means for You
- Wild Faith: A Conversation with Talia Lavin
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Molly Conger sits down with Talia Lavin to talk about her new book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America. Pre-order Wild Faith now, available in hardcover, audiobook, and e-book October 15.
Pre- order: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/
Talia's Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich
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Robert sits down with Mia and Gare to discuss the recent Mossad attack on Hezbollah using pagers and radios impregnated with explosives. It turns out this is an incredibly easy thing to do, an attack that opens a massive pandora's box with the potential to change daily life for all of us in terrifying ways.
Sources:
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog (bunniestudios.com)
Andrew continues his conversation with Garrison about the development of Brazilian Anarchism during repression and fascist violence in the 20th century.
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