As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives ...
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The political landscape can be confusing, but it doesn't have to be. If you've survived junior high, lived in an urban city or understand gang life, you can understand geopolitics. Join rapper and author Propaganda and his friends as they use their hood-knowledge to break down the political scene.
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Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Te ...
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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.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO RUSSIA'S DEAD OLIGARCHS? Since January 2022, more than 12 of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs have been found dead. One was poisoned with frog venom. One was found hanged on a handrail with his wife and children killed with an axe. Several fell out of high windows. All of the deaths are suspicious. Russia says most of them were coincidental suicides--that the oligarchs were simply depressed. I don't think so. Sad Oligarch is a modern true crime style investigative podcast serie ...
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Megacorp is an investigative podcast series exposing some of the world's most unethical corporations.
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A documentary series from host Robert Evans investigating the Capitol insurrection. Stories of instigators and extremists hellbent on subverting democracy.
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In this limited series, Jamie Loftus investigates and interrogates American spiritualism, a century-old tradition of communing with the dead that takes place in camps full of mediums across the country. Who is drawn to these camps, how did the religion come together, and why are the tarot card readers and the seance-havers fighting? Ghost Church is a look at grief, religion, and loneliness, with on-site reporting and interviews with everyone from spiritualist psychics to Protestant pastors t ...
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Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence marginalized people, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes us all less safe. Bridget talks with people who have been the targets of coordinated attacks, activists who are fighting back, and experts to help break down the deliberate agenda behind it.
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An investigative podcast series that aims to uncover the true identity of QAnon
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Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) is a weekly show from Jamie Loftus that takes a closer look at the internet’s main characters – one part reported, one part interviews, and one part Jamie collapsing her permanently internet-damaged brain. Whether it’s an enduring meme or a dreaded Character of the Day distinction, it’s the kind of notoriety that often results in little money, unwarranted attention, and a confusing blurred line of consent. What do you do when you get more attention and judgement th ...
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A fiction podcast, based on the new novel 'After the Revolution' by Robert Evans. After The Revolution is set fifty years in the future, in a Texas wracked by civil war. We follow three characters: a "fixer" named Manny who leads reporters through the warzone, a young extremist named Sasha determined to join a militia called the Heavenly Kingdom, and an old veteran named Roland with a body full of U.S. army cyber-ware and a bunch of missing memories.
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How did American police get so violent? The answer to that question goes back centuries, to the earliest days of this nation. On this special podcast miniseries hosts Robert Evans and rap artist Propaganda (Jason Petty) draw a straight line from the darkest days of slavery, to the murder of George Floyd and the mass violence American police meted out to their citizens this summer.
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In the wake of the January 6th insurrection in D.C., Robert Evans and co-host Propaganda take a look at fascist insurrections throughout history. They also unpack the evolution, successes, and failures of antifascists in Italy, Germany, and Spain.
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2020 isn't going to be fun for anybody, left, right, or center. What many call the Most Important Election of Our Lifetime is going to be exhausting, ugly, angry, and probably at least a little racist. Listen as Robert Evans, Katy Stoll, and Cody Johnston try to keep level heads covering the election while traveling the country, from the Iowa Caucus to gun shows and anti-vaccine conventions, finding out what Real America really wants and thinks during the, “Worst Year Ever.”
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Background and breakdown on 100 days of Portland insurrection, going in to the background, history of the current protests breaking down the struggles, successes and infrastructure that has made the uprising in Portland possible.
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These are...not optimistic times for most Americans. Across the world, the dangers of climate change and the terror of creeping authoritarianism present an increasing danger to all of us. After covering this degeneration for four years, Robert Evans went looking for hope. He found it in the unlikeliest of places: Northeast Syria, in a region known as Rojava that’s become host to a feminist, anti-authoritarian revolution.When you’ve heard about these folks in the mainstream media, they’re usu ...
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WELCOME TO #Viewsfromdafriendzone PODCAST EVERY SUNDAY AT 5PM! Views from the friend zone is podcast featuring Real Talk Marv, Sinsay, Clifford " Brock" Bonhomme. The podcast discusses Relationships, Social Issues and Living in Social Media Era. Join us as we enjoy Laughs, honest moments and real discussions about issues that affect us every day! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/marvens/support
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Have some studying to do, maybe chores around the house? Get into the right headspace with GZM Beats. Just sit back and relax as our team of composers take you on a musical journey with hours of lo-fi beats, cool grooves, and chill melodies. Perfect for helping you get into the homework zone, crab some zzzz’s, or finish those chores. Just hit play, and enjoy hours of interruption-free music. For more great shows, visit GZMshows.com.
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CZM Book Club: "Yermak, the Conqueror of Siberia" by Leo Tolstoy
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Margaret reads a piece of folklore about the colonization of Siberia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 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 See om…
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 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 See om…
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Molly, Mia, and Shereen celebrate National Police Week by deconstructing some of the myths about line of duty deaths and sharing the stories of several of the officers being honored this week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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Part Two: The Darkest Episode We Will Ever Do
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Robert and Margaret conclude the story of Helmut Kentler's pedophile foster program, and discuss how the German left was infiltrated and co-opted by pedophile activists to disastrous ends. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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Gare, James, Mia, and Molly compare their experiences at campus occupations in four different cities. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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Robert broke his waterbed. Also, the world might end. Let's talk about emergency solar power. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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The Memeification Of It All. Lessons From The Big 3, pt 2
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In the era of music we ae in now, the art of Battle rap and diss tracks can slide petty memes which go from being funny to silly. kinda like...our elections. How do we remain serious in a deeply unserious thing that has such high stakes? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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Part Two: Death to the Rich: Maria Nikiforova and the anarchist battallions in Civil War Ukraine
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In part two, Margaret continues to talk with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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OpenAI's Video Generating AI Is Dead On Arrival
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Earlier in the year, OpenAI debuted Sora, an AI that can generate videos that almost look realistic. In this episode, Ed walks through why generating video with AI is a near-impossible task, and speaks with Walter Woodman of Shy Kids, who made a movie called "Air Head" using the tool. LINKS: Shy Kids' Air Head - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4wJ…
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Part One: The Darkest Episode We Will Ever Do
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Robert weaves a hideous story for Margaret, about how post-war Germans started out trying to make Nazism impossible and wound up harming generations of poor children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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Mia talks with Alex, Rocky, and Madelyn from Blue Bottle Independent Union about organizing an independent union and how they outmaneuvered Nestlé. https://linktr.ee/bluebottleunion @bbiunion on twitter and instagram @bbiu16 on TikTok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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This week, it's Kelly and Antoine Dodson's sixteenth minute — Jamie interviews Professor Gabriel Peoples, author of 'The Forgotten Kelly Dodson: Viral Performance and the Interplay of Excess and Erasure' about what happens when someone is erased from their own story. https://gender.indiana.edu/about/faculty/peoples-gabriel.html Read "The Forgotten …
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Part One: Death to the Rich: Maria Nikiforova and the anarchist battallions in Civil War Ukraine
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Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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No, The Supreme Court Has Not Banned Protest
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James talks to Mo about the supreme court’s decision not to hear the McKesson case, what it really means for protest, and wise legal strategy for protesters in a year of election and genocide. https://harvard.turtl.co/story/protect-your-people/page/1 https://ssd.eff.org Https://NLG.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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CZM Book Club: Three Ruthenian Folk Tales
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Margaret reads three Slavic folk tales about magic women and mean children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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CZM Book Club: Three Ruthenian Folk Tales
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Margaret reads three Slavic folk tales about magic women and mean children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 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 See om…
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 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 See om…
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Rojava Solidarity with the Emergency Committee for Rojava
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James, Robert, and Mia are joined by Debbie Bookchin (@debbiebookchin) and Arthur Pye (@TheArthurPye) to talk about the situation in Rojava, how listeners can help, and the ECR’s upcoming speaking tour. For more information about the Emergency Committee for Rojava and their upcoming West Coast speaking tour (May 11-17) featuring Debbie Bookchin and…
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Part Two: The Parenting Gurus of Nazi Germany
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This week Robert introduces Margaret and the audience to Johanna Harer, the chief Momfluencer of Nazi Germany, whose pop science parenting book was endorsed by Hitler himself. During what historians refer to as his "Oprah period". Sources: https://archive.is/Bvxcs https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/germany-s-secret-paedophiliae…
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Andrew and James build on yesterday’s episode, dig deeper into Bob Altemeyer’s work, and discuss what the psychological characteristics of an authoritarian leader are. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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The first ever criminal trial for a president and it's all over trying to cover up a sneaky link. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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Part Two: The Great Revolt: Palestinian Resistance to Early Zionism
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In part two, Margaret concludes a talk with Matt Lieb about multi-faith Palestinian resistance to early Zionist colonization. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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Andrew and James discuss authoritarian followers and what traits might make people more likely to follow an authoritarian leader. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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