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, and James Stout 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.
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Margaret reads you a story about the endless quest to find the roots of inequality.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 1
- How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 2
- The Fall of the House of Liver King
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #23
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The gang discuss the DOJ‘s attempts to denaturalize American citizens, how the Big Beautiful Bill funds genocide, and Islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani from Republicans and Democrats. Plus, updates on tariffs, the Diddy trial, and Elon Musk’s subsidies.
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Robert walks the gang through the Liver King's recent arrest for terroristic threats and his rapid decline towards what will probably be an early grave.
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Mia continues her conversation with Margaret Killjoy about how to actually run a meeting and the role of proper meetings as the tools that build a democratic society.
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Mia talks with Margaret Killjoy about how to actually run a meeting and the role of proper meetings as the tools that build a democratic society.
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Margaret reads you a story about arts and crafts.
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- A Medical Perspective On Protest Safety
- Dividing the World, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew
- Dividing the World, Pt. 2: Externalization feat. Andrew
- Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Dem. Primary
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #22
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The gang discusses the war with Iran, the Supreme Court’s decisions on rendition and trans people, and the New York mayoral primary election.
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Gare and Mia discuss the New York City mayoral primary and what it means for the Big Apple and the future of the Democratic Party.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxyXXVoi514
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor
James and Andrew continue their discussion on different ways of splitting up the world, and what they tell us about the way their proponents see the world.
Sources:
David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
Karl Polanyi - The Great Transformation
Immanuel Wallerstein - The Modern World System
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James and Andrew discuss different ways of splitting up the world, and what they tell us about the way their proponents see the world.
Sources/Links:
Rome: https://europe.factsanddetails.com/article/entry-1087.html
China: Rome, China, and the Barbarians Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires by Randolph B. Ford
European Colonialism: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mf71b8.7?seq=1
Edward Said - Orientalism
Bened...
In a rare ICHH and House of Pod Joint Episode, James is joined by Miriam, Kaveh, and Dr. Richard Ferro to discuss street medicine, police use of irritants and less-than-lethal weapons and how to keep each other safe.
Links:
https://lapdonlinestrgeacc.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/lapdonlinemedia/2021/12/Directive_17.1_40mm_Less_Lethal_Launcher_Oct-.pdf
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1310-live-like-the-world-is-dy-85677729/
Margaret reads you two more stories about anticapitalism and religion.
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This special edition of ICHH Weekly compiles the complete Anti-Vax America series by guest host Steven Monacelli.
- Viral Texas
- Anti-Vax Genealogy
- God's Will
- Soft Eugenics
- Could It Happen Here?
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The gang discuss Israeli attacks on Iran, tragedies at Trump’s military parade and the No Kings Protests, the sale of public lands, and the Supreme Court ruling on trans healthcare for minors.
Sources:
https://hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-detained-by-federal-agents/
As anti-vax beliefs become increasingly widespread, and vaccination rates drop, the greater the risk of some sort of massive viral outbreak or the return of horrific illnesses such as polio. This episode will explore what could happen if anti-vax beliefs spread further into United States politics and culture.
Sources:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/04/10/1168141163/t...
Anti-vaccination rhetoric is often framed by proponents as a sort of medical freedom, the ability to decide what one wants to do with their own body. It’s an argument that can appeal to crunchy granola types and religious zealots alike. But there is also a darker side to this rhetoric that reveals an embrace of eugenic ideas among anti-vax advocates, whose preferred “herd immunity” approach to outbreaks subordinat...
For Peter, the father of the deceased child and a member of a Mennonite community in West Texas, the death of his child was God’s will. Many in the Mennonite communities of Texas and across the United States do not vaccinate their children, and their anti-vaccination stance is in line with their general religiously informed practice of eschewing modernity and its technological advances. But it is not merely the few sectarian ...
For many years, the threat of measles, a deadly disease that spreads more rapidly than COVID and regularly took thousands of lives a year, had been effectively eradicated in the United States due to the widespread acceptance of vaccination. The death of a child from measles in West Texas was the first in over a decade and it came as a shock to the American medical establishment that is now grappling with a disturbing reality: the c...
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