1. The Yogi
The Coming Storm
BBC
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. As America heads into a presidential election, Gabriel Gatehouse dives back into the labyrinthine rabbit warren of American conspiracy culture.
Whilst liberals across the world worry about a possible return of Donald Trump, millions of Americans are convinced that their democracy has already been highjacked - by a sinister Deep State cabal. How did this happen? And who is behind it?
Gabriel meets a January 6 rioter running for office who sees his detention as political imprisonment and goes on the trail of a Californian yogi who stormed the Capitol and then fell even deeper down the rabbit hole.
New episodes available on Wednesdays. Listen first on BBC Sounds.
Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham
CREDITS: Audio from January 6 from A Reporter’s Video from Inside the Capitol Siege, Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker
Audio of Ivan Raiklin from @MattStruck on X News report of Alan Hostetter’s first protest from Former La Habra police chief sentenced for role in Jan. 6 attack on US Capitol, KCAL News News report of Alan Hostetter’s first protest from PROTEST - Coronavirus Quarantine/Lockdown Protests - The Next Thing? (San Clemente, CA), Local Story TV Audio of ‘fencegate’ from OC Hawk
Audio of protests outside Katrina Foley’s home from @inminivanhell, X Alan Hostetter outside the Supreme Court from Virginia Women for Trump rally at Supreme Court, NTD / Patria De Marti Alan Hostetter’s video on ‘fencegate’ from Bitchute
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Gabriel Gatehouse and this is series two of the coming storm |
| 0:10.3 | from BBC Radio 4. Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:16.0 | But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episode first on BBC Sounds. Okay, here we go. |
| 0:28.0 | So, there was something I didn't get into last time. |
| 0:32.0 | I can see Keanu Reeves asleep and there's kind of early internet web pages |
| 0:38.2 | scrolling up the screen and then the screen pops up and says wake up Neo and he wakes up. |
| 0:48.0 | Until we started making the coming storm the series, back in the spring of 2021, I had never seen the Matrix. |
| 0:57.8 | If you haven't seen it either, it's a classic, film from the 90s, about a computer hacker called Neo who realizes that he's |
| 1:06.7 | living in a simulation the Matrix. This is I can't believe I haven't seen it I can't believe I haven't seen this before. |
| 1:13.0 | I can't believe I even came up with the idea of doing this series without having seen the Matrix. |
| 1:18.0 | Lucy Proctor, the producer, she literally came round my house and made me watch it. |
| 1:24.0 | Okay, so he's got a stash of cash and he's going to hide it in a book. |
| 1:30.0 | Early on, there's this scene. Neo, the hero, hides his money inside a book is Simolacra and simulation, an obscure text from the early |
| 1:47.5 | 1980s by the French philosopher Jean Baudreard. That helps us actually. |
| 1:53.0 | I mean, that is kind of what this is all about. |
| 1:56.0 | I happen to have a copy on my bookshelf. |
| 1:58.0 | So I took it down and dusted it off. |
| 2:02.0 | It's no longer a question of a false representation of reality, but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real. |
| 2:13.0 | It's pretty impenetrable stuff, but basically the gist is this. |
| 2:19.0 | Baudh replace reality. Baudryard used the word Simolakra, |
| 2:35.0 | representations of things that don't exist. |
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