Episodes

  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 185
    Jun 7 2025
    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1 Tiananmen Remastered, Part 2Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-covid-vaccines-can-stay-fall-access-concerns-rcna208492 Tiananmen Remastered https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/ https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/ http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/ https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/ https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4 https://libcom.org/article/utopia-rules-technology-stupidity-and-secret-joys-bureaucracy-david-graeber Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/119 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203059913-9/pronatalism-motherhood-franco-spain-mary-nash https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438402062/html?lang=en https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237296749_Marriage_squeeze_and_changes_in_family_formation_historical_comparative_evidence_in_Spain_France_and_the_United_States_in_the_twentieth_century https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/treating-infertility-the-new-frontier-reproductive-medicine https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/2/2155893/-Texas-Republican-channels-Stalin-and-Putin-to-glorify-motherhood https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8 Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19 https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/19/san-diegos-highest-paid-city-employees-cops-racking-up-overtime-and-earning-over-400-000 https://www.nilc.org/resources/how-calif-dl-records-shared-with-dhs/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-detained-buona-forchetta-employees https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/expedited-removal https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5422248/trump-steel-aluminum-50-tariffs-double-prices https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-and-chinas-xi-jinping-speak-at-last-agree-to-more-talks-191201181.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/06/02/immigration-restrictions-pile-up-on-international-students/ https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697 https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697 https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/minneapolis-lake-street-law-enforcement-ice-homeland-security/ https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-white-house-relationship https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elon-musk-privately-expresses-frustration-range-recent-moves/story?id=122485920 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    3 hrs and 7 mins
  • Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
    Jun 5 2025

    Robert explores Dr. Church's weird history with eugenics adjacent projects, like the world's creepiest dating app, and how Colossal Biosciences was created and immediately used by the Trump administration as an excuse to attack the Endangered Species Act.

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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
    Jun 3 2025
    Robert walks Langston Kerman through the story of Dr. George Church, a very real scientist who co founded the company making bullshit claims of "de extincting" dire wolves. (2 Part Series) Sources: George Church, Colossal W*nker – For Better ScienceCan Gene Therapy Slow Ageing in Dogs? - Gowing LifeNever-ageing Anti-aging to cure COVID-19 – For Better ScienceThe original sins of Leonard Guarente – For Better ScienceJeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA - The New York TimesBiologist George Church apologizes for contacts with Jeffreyticl EpsteinGenetics Company Wants To Bring Iconic Tasmanian Tiger Back From Extinction - NewsweekGene editing company hopes to bring dodo ‘back to life’ | Extinct wildlife | The GuardianJeffrey Epstein-Funded Geneticist Is Building a Dating App That Only a Eugenicist Could LoveGeorge Church Explains How DNA Will Be Construction Material of the Future - DER SPIEGELGeneticist George Church gets funding for lab-grown woolly mammothsWooly Mammoth De-extinction Scientist Reveals Plan To Create 'Arctic Elephant' - NewsweekBringing back dinosaurs or making new ones? – DW – 06/10/2015‘If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you could be’ — Harvard GazetteCRISPR gene editing on human embryos may be dangerousHere are some actual facts about George Church’s DNA dating company | MIT Technology ReviewScientist on the Loose: George Church Strays Into Eugenics—Again | Center for Genetics and SocietySo...What do we think of Colossal Biosciences? : r/pleistoceneThe "de-extinction" of the woolly mammoth, a "Colossal" hoax? - Genomic chronicles | Medicine/ScienceHiltzik: New frontiers in pseudoscientific baloney - Los Angeles TimesColossal Liar Wolves – For Better ScienceMeet The Disruptors: How Ben Lamm & Hypergiant Are Shaking Up the Space and AI Industries | by Jason Hartman | Authority Magazine | MediumMillionaire Ben Lamm Warns Against Entrepreneurship - Great EntrepreneursThe Serial Entrepreneur Turned Billionaire: Ben Lamm’s Tech and Science Revolution | Where Business News Meets Thought LeadershipHow 39-year-old Ben Lamm has started five companiesMeet Ben Lamm: The World's First De-extinction Billionaire - Forbes IndiaOral history interview with George M. Church - Science History Institute Digital CollectionsDr. George Church, Founding Father of Genomics | News | W.I.The Church Of George ChurchThe World Has a Data Storage Problem. Is DNA the Answer? - proto.lifeDNA: The Future of Data Storage?. DNA, with its amazing storage… | by Nithil Krishnaraj | TechTalkers | MediumSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 184
    May 31 2025

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

    1. 16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story

    2. Rendition By Private Jet

    3. What's Happening in Immigration Court
    4. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18

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    Sources/Links:

    16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story

    https://thefreeradical.org/

    Rendition By Private Jet

    https://hardghistory.ghost.io/a-private-jet-to-hell/

    What's Happening in Immigration Court

    Donate to Primrose's legal fees: venmo.com/u/kirsten-zittla

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose

    Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/22/live-israel-kills-87-in-gaza-shots-fired-near-diplomats-in-west-bank

    https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto

    https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-rodriguezs-leaked-chats?r=1aiy5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ajc-access-young-diplomats-reception-tickets-1312062246499

    https://www.ajc.org/events/washington

    https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/22/us/israel-embassy-shooting-dc

    https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjyxay1zxg

    https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1925468225665446272

    https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1925650699414646909

    https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Spectrum-Security-Services/Job/Detention-Officer/-in-Los-Angeles,CA?jid=2a4b6034cef9977e

    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25954386-24a1153/

    https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-nationals-deported-by-us-being-held-in-notorious-junta-detention-centre/?tztc=1

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/129696965

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    2 hrs and 44 mins
  • Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica
    May 29 2025

    Robert builds to the thrilling conclusion of the other Kevin Smith's story: the mass slaughter of his own flock.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Part One: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica
    May 27 2025

    Robert tells the story of Kevin Ontoniel Smith, a Jamaican-Canadian minister who created an apocalyptic Christian sect and slit his follower's throats in a COVID related panic.

    Sources;

    “Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult | The Walrus

    Ontario college mum on cult pastor's PhD - Jamaica Observer

    The power of religion to abuse, distort and control the realities of susceptible persons | Toronto Caribbean Newspaper

    Preacher Kevin O. Smith, parishioners arrested for alleged human sacrifices

    ‘It was like prison’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

    Naive Christians slammed for missing Kevin Smith red flags | News | Jamaica Gleaner

    Kevin Smith’s money trail | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

    ‘He left a trail of pain and debt’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

    ‘Kevin Smith will return’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

    Kevin O. Smith’s social media footprint | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

    Kevin Smith had great prophetic powers, says Henley Morgan | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

    I’m a scholar of the “prosperity gospel.” It took cancer to show me I was in its grip. | Vox

    Book Review: Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, by Kate Bowler - 9Marks

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    41 mins
  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 183
    May 24 2025
    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 1 Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 2 War Update The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 10-12 Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #17 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chuck-morse-anarchism-in-mexico https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angel-cappelletti-anarchism-in-latin-america Kirk Shaffer’s “Tropical Libertarians: Anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s–1920s” (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/steven-j-hirsch-lucien-van-der-walt-anarchism-and-syndicalism-in-the-colonial-and-postcolonial#toc97) War Update https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/pkk-final-declaration-activities-under-the-pkk-name-have-ended-79294 https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/cemil-bayik-we-are-now-developing-a-new-paradigm-a-second-manifesto-79403 https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/new-message-from-abdullah-Ocalan-79417 https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/mazloum-abdi-we-hope-all-relevant-parties-take-the-necessary-steps-79319 https://jacobin.com/2025/05/kashmir-india-pakistan-cease-fire-democracy https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/14/did-pakistan-shoot-down-five-indian-fighter-jets-what-we-know https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvr4r5d2qo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn617xv4no https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-between-india-and-pakistan https://www.brookings.edu/articles/lessons-for-the-next-india-pakistan-war/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/world/asia/india-pakistan-conflict.html Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #17 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69775896/dvd-v-us-department-of-homeland-security/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.111.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.111.0.pdf https://www.refworld.org/policy/countrypos/unhcr/2024/en/147589 https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/04/09/south-sudan-incendiary-bombs-kill-burn-civilians https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/qjurecic.bsky.social/post/3lppd7wq7jc2h https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/potential-ice-raid-thwarted-central-california-20335765.php https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052025_ice_court_arrests/mayhem-as-ice-officials-arrest-multiple-people-immigration-court-phoenix/ https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-05-21/a-childs-obsession-with-fire-and-a-mysterious-cache-of-explosives-inside-the-palm-springs-bombing-probe https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-18/suicide-bomber-targeted-fertility-clinic https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/reddit-bans-anti-natalists-palm-springs-explosion-rcna207677 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/20/dhs-no-plans-immigrant-reality-show/83743897007/ https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dhs-is-considering-reality-show-where-immigrants-compete-for-citizenship-47de277c https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspected-serial-killers-execution-trump-rcna207171 https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/middleeast/diplomats-israeli-fire-west-bank-intl https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-take-control-gaza-uk-france-canada-threaten-action https://www.patreon.com/posts/129696965?pr=true https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/a-myanmar-artist-finds-freedom-behind-bars-by-portraying-prisoners-oppression/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    3 hrs and 44 mins
  • Part Two: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism
    May 22 2025

    In this episode we follow Carl Schmitt through the disillusionment of WW1, and breaking up with his con artist wife, to his creation of the Death Star of liberal democracy.

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    1 hr and 19 mins
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