It Could Happen Here Weekly 208

Robert sits down with Andrew Ti for three episodes in one week about the bizarre life of Pol Pot, a man who spent too much time reading books and bullshitting with his friends and for convinced he could save his country by destroying it. (3 Part Series)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

29 Apr 1h 2min

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Elon Musk and The Martian Revolution feat. Mike Duncan The City Sold Your Water feat. Prop Nihilist Violent Extremism Robert's Guide to The Next Six Months of Danger and Resistance Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #13 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: Nihilist Violent Extremism https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=%22nihilistic%20violent%20extremists%22&type=r&order_by=dateFiled%20asc https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/fbi-dhs-domestic-terrorism-definitions-terminology-methodology.pdf https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups https://globalextremism.org/post/trump-abandoning-efforts-to-combat-white-supremacist/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/fbi-kash-patel-investigations-far-right https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-scales-back-staffing-tracking-domestic-terrorism-probes-sources-say-2025-03-21/ https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/fbi-dhs-domestic-terrorism-strategic-report.pdf/view https://www.dni.gov/files/NCTC/documents/news_documents/2022_10_FBI-DHS_Strategic_Intelligence_Assessment_and_Data_on_Domestic_Terrorism.pdf https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/23_0724_opa_strategic-intelligence-assessment-data-domestic-terrorism.pdf https://bxwrites.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-satanic-plot-to-assassinate https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/what-are-nihilist-violent-extremists?r=1aiy5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #13 https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/justices-temporarily-bar-government-from-removing-venezuelan-men-under-alien-enemies-act/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.98.1_1.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.100.0_2.pdf https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/maryland/prince-georges-county/hyattsville-police-department-details-2019-encounter-with-kilmar-abrego-garcia/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-rwanda-relocates-iraqi-refugee-omar-ameen https://news.azpm.org/s/100806-us-citizen-detained-for-10-days-by-immigration-officials-may-not-have-known-what-he-was-signing/ https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1914393644766843386 https://bsky.app/profile/juddlegum.bsky.social/post/3lni7mlxow22c https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/musk-bessent-trump-white-house-irs https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/ https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/21/feds-blame-u-s-citizen-for-his-arrest-under-suspended-immigration-law/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/21/doge-musk-trump-federal-employees-emails/ https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-b2736753.html https://insideevs.com/news/753730/tesla-insurance-vandalism-elon-musk/ https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tesla-earnings-show-anti-musk-backlash-damaged-bottom/story?id=121008566&cid=social_twitter_abcn https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/busiest-us-ports-see-big-drop-in-chinese-freight-vessel-traffic.html https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/peter-navarro-the-economist-who-has-outsmarted-elon-musk-and-has-the-ear-of-donald-trump https://archive.ph/v8Vp1 https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-economy-tariffs-china-powellSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26 Apr 3h 42min

Robert explains the weird cult Andrew Tate created with a wizard and former pick up artist to rob young men and abuse women at scale.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

24 Apr 1h 2min

Why Was Andrew Tate allowed back in the U.S.? What's happening with all his court cases? Robert sits back down with Ian Johnson and Sophie Lichterman and explains what's happening with Tate's numerous charges, his latest criminal allegations, and his God awful taste in machetes. (2 Part Series....for now.) Sources: Gadget on X: "This one is VERY dramatic. https://t.co/4wByW3yQVx" / X Andrew Tate Is Trying to Use His Dying Grandma to Escape Romania Andrew Tate now under federal investigation in the United States Andrew Tate’s ex-girlfriend accuses him of sexual assault and battery in new lawsuit Andrew Tate lands in Dubai, calls UK case 'politically motivated' Andrew and Tristan Tate return to Romania as human trafficking case heats up What to Know About the Accusations Against Andrew Tate - The New York Times Andrew Tate says he and his brother are 'largely misunderstood' after arriving in US - live updates - BBC News Romanian court finds irregularities in prosecutors' case against Andrew Tate | AP News Andrew Tate: Chats in 'War Room' suggest dozens of women groomed Kat Kanada on X: "The conservative hero who just wants to help men scammed men out of their houses, life savings, loans etc. When asked if he felt bad about it he said “f*ck no!” Role model! https://t.co/Txnqsv8CDI" / X Leaving The Real World: How I Escaped Andrew Tate’s Get Rich Quick ‘Cult’ The Untold Story Of Notorious Influencer Andrew Tate Andrew Tate said he broke a woman’s jaw ahead of Romanian arrest https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2024/12/04/controversial-andrew-tate-war-room-videos-leaked-by-hackers/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/08/31/what-we-know-about-andrew-tates-war-room-as-report-alleges-global-network-to-exploit-women/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=yCDTltg6Jk8&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailydot.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailydot.com https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-tate-hack-leaked-war-room-videos/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/andrew-tate-bbc-documentary-war-room-1234815321/ https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/08/10/revealing-andrew-tates-secretive-war-room-brothers/ https://crabcrawler.substack.com/p/additional-tate-war-room-chat-logs See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

22 Apr 1h

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. When Care Workers Organize Behind Myanmar's Devastating Earthquake Trump's Concentration Camps in El Salvador How Strikes Build Democratic Workplaces Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #12 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: When Care Workers Organize https://www.instagram.com/friendspdxunionnetwork/ https://friendspdx.org/donate Behind Myanmar's Devastating Earthquake https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/up-to-700-myanmar-muslims-killed-in-quake-hit-mosques-weakened-by-neglect.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-aftershocks-airstrikes.html https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-juntas-aerial-attacks-continue-despite-post-quake-ceasefire/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/myanmar-junta-shoots-chinese-earthquake-aid-convoy-rcna199233 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-aid.html https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/myanmar-lashes-out-at-quotchocolate-barquot-foreign-aid-idUSSP172535/ https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/lives-updates-quake-death-toll-rises-to-3600-junta-suspends-tourist-visa-after-quake-private-us-field-hospital-in-naypyitaw-and-more.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/global-response-to-myanmar-earthquake-shines-light-on-strategic-rivalries.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/live-updates-death-toll-exceeds-3500-hundreds-in-urgent-need-of-quake-aid-juntas-airstrikes-still-rage-on-and-more.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/world/live-updates-death-toll-rises-to-3471-quake-relief-teams-must-obey-junta-us-pledges-additional-7-million-in-quake-relief-and-more.html https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/resistance-forces-capture-indaw-town-after-months-of-fighting/?sfnsn=scwspmo https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmar-junta-airstrikes-kill-over-30.html Trump's Concentration Camps in El Salvador https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogLw7I2BWO0 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/14/el-salvador-president-return-wrongly-deported-trump-00289234 https://documentedny.com/2025/04/14/ice-bukele-cecot-tren-de-aragua-el-salvador-new-york-deported/ How Strikes Build Democratic Workplaces https://gofund.me/9ce38160 https://www.instagram.com/urban_ore_workers/ Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #12 https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/investing/us-stock-market/index.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-signals-readiness-for-talks-if-us-shows-respect-amid-numbers-game-191201017.html https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ensures-national-security-and-economic-resilience-through-section-232-actions-on-processed-critical-minerals-and-derivative-products/ https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/temu-cuts-us-ad-spend-drops-in-app-store-rank-after-trump-tariffs-.html https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-issues-export-licensing-requirements-nvidia-amd-chips-china-2025-04-16/ https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/dispatch-border-wall https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/interior-department-transferring-federal-land-army-border-wall/story?id=65702870 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/military-mission-for-sealing-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states-and-repelling-invasions/ https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy03j9vddlt?post=asset%3Aaff18753-80c9-4445-963e-03b9438ef121#post https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/dhs-issues-waiver-expedite-new-border-wall-construction-california https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/08/2025-05992/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibilitySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

19 Apr 3h 23min

Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to continue to discuss Andrew Tate. Update series dropping next week! Includes Part 3 & 4 with less ad breaks. Better Offline & Weird Little Guys are nominated for this year’s Webby Awards! Get your votes in by April 17th! 🗳️🗳️🗳️https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/businesshttps://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/crime-justice FOOTNOTES: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108090691/chess-family-strives-to-keep-pressures/ https://youtu.be/bsu-IoE8J4A https://youtu.be/VIsKh-dtnQA https://books.google.com/books?id=-4j9wgEACAAJ&newbks=0 https://www.insidesport.in/andrew-tate-what-is-top-g-andrew-tates-religion/ https://youtu.be/EpR9ucpGpWs https://youtu.be/UVUcv7yyJIA https://youtu.be/IgdWYaz-6ZY https://youtube.com/shorts/RirKfcVP2OM?feature=share https://youtu.be/cI-Ps1NIU4w https://youtu.be/M-doheMG424 https://youtu.be/fFky34MAeGg https://youtu.be/JyNizUlYTC https://thecourseplace.net/product/andrew-tate-phd-program-full/ https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/who-is-andrew-tate-from-kickboxing-champ-to-accused-human-trafficker/ar-AA166CnO https://web.archive.org/web/20220811143550/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/andrew-tate-violent-misogynistic-world-of-tiktok-new-star https://youtu.be/LqGmS_9zCkU https://www.insider.com/andrew-tate-says-women-at-house-not-allowed-out-video-2023-1 https://archive.is/MEhRiOn https://www.jointherealworld.com/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/andrew-tates-hospital-visit-sparks-conflicting-reports-about-his-health/ar-AA1684ty https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/andrew-tate-tiktok-fame-men-2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/30/andrew-tate-explainer-arrested-greta-misogyny/ https://rumble.com/v1gluzu-the-worst-things-about-being-rich-.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/andrew-tate-how-make-money-arrested-romania-b2256514.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brothers-make-millions-using-webcam-26508739 https://archiIve.is/hAhhQ https://archive.is/lwViQ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ikrd/andrew-tate-hustlers-university https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/1/10/23547393/andrew-tate-toxic-masculinity-qa https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/02/03/mens-movement-stalks-the-wild-side/83d3e85f-1384-484c-8e43-c4e30e1229f4/ https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2021/12/a-snowy-poem-by-robert-bly/ https://ew.com/article/1991/04/19/robert-blys-mens-movement/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1967/12/21/protest/ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ikrd/andrew-tate-daria-gusa-instagram-dm?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharetwitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

17 Apr 2h 10min

Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to discuss Andrew Tate, and the Mythopoetic Men's Movement. Includes Part 1 & 2 with less ad breaks. Update series dropping next week! Better Offline & Weird Little Guys are nominated for this year’s Webby Awards! Get your votes in by April 17th! 🗳️🗳️🗳️https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/businesshttps://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/crime-justice FOOTNOTES: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108090691/chess-family-strives-to-keep-pressures/ https://youtu.be/bsu-IoE8J4A https://youtu.be/VIsKh-dtnQA https://books.google.com/books?id=-4j9wgEACAAJ&newbks=0 https://www.insidesport.in/andrew-tate-what-is-top-g-andrew-tates-religion/ https://youtu.be/EpR9ucpGpWs https://youtu.be/UVUcv7yyJIA https://youtu.be/IgdWYaz-6ZY https://youtube.com/shorts/RirKfcVP2OM?feature=share https://youtu.be/cI-Ps1NIU4w https://youtu.be/M-doheMG424 https://youtu.be/fFky34MAeGg https://youtu.be/JyNizUlYTC https://thecourseplace.net/product/andrew-tate-phd-program-full/ https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/who-is-andrew-tate-from-kickboxing-champ-to-accused-human-trafficker/ar-AA166CnO https://web.archive.org/web/20220811143550/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/andrew-tate-violent-misogynistic-world-of-tiktok-new-star https://youtu.be/LqGmS_9zCkU https://www.insider.com/andrew-tate-says-women-at-house-not-allowed-out-video-2023-1 https://archive.is/MEhRiOn https://www.jointherealworld.com/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/andrew-tates-hospital-visit-sparks-conflicting-reports-about-his-health/ar-AA1684ty https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/andrew-tate-tiktok-fame-men-2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/30/andrew-tate-explainer-arrested-greta-misogyny/ https://rumble.com/v1gluzu-the-worst-things-about-being-rich-.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/andrew-tate-how-make-money-arrested-romania-b2256514.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brothers-make-millions-using-webcam-26508739 https://archiIve.is/hAhhQ https://archive.is/lwViQ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ikrd/andrew-tate-hustlers-university https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/1/10/23547393/andrew-tate-toxic-masculinity-qa https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/02/03/mens-movement-stalks-the-wild-side/83d3e85f-1384-484c-8e43-c4e30e1229f4/ https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2021/12/a-snowy-poem-by-robert-bly/ https://ew.com/article/1991/04/19/robert-blys-mens-movement/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1967/12/21/protest/ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ikrd/andrew-tate-daria-gusa-instagram-dm?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharetwitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

15 Apr 1h 56min

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Behind the Scenes of That Teen Vogue Article on Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's Daughter Why Watching Actors Get Maimed By Big Cats Gives Me Hope For The Future How ICE Kidnapped A Farmworker Union Organizer Esperanto with Andrew Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #11 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: Behind the Scenes of that Teen Vogue Article on Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's Daughter https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #11 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/trump-administration-immigrant-detention-facilities-services.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.PL6V.gJR0OQEOJP8G&smid=url-share https://ucsdguardian.org/2025/04/07/5-ucsd-students-face-sudden-f-1-visa-terminations-a-6th-deported-at-the-border-no-apparent-pattern-among-students-targeted/ https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-statement-international-students-visa-status-terminations https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmcxoqk2ts24 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147.30.1_1.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25881144-24a949/ https://bsky.app/profile/khuddleston.bsky.social/post/3lmaiaxi7f226 https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/03/18/516185/hpd-says-their-stance-on-immigration-enforcement-hasnt-changed-despite-recent-turnover-to-ice/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/cea-chairman-steve-miran-hudson-institute-event-remarks/ https://apnews.com/article/china-response-us-tariffs-104-d40d497f6e07ee4163d88443cb75ab3fSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12 Apr 2h 47min