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It Could Happen Here

CZM Rewind: My RNC Grindr Adventure

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Daily News, Politics, News

4.36.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Gare investigates the alleged increase in Grindr activity at the 2024 Republican National Convention.

Original Air Date: 8.2.24

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed human.

0:06.0

CoolZone Media.

0:09.7

Grindr, I hardly.

0:12.7

This is It Could Happen here where today the It is gay flirting and or harassment.

0:18.6

And the here is Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 2024 Republican National

0:23.8

Convention. I'm Gare, also known by my undercover alias, Garrison Davis, and I was lucky enough

0:31.7

to be one of our on-the-ground RNC correspondence. A few weeks ago, we provided daily coverage of the GOP

0:38.8

Coronation Festival based on our conversations with delegates, lobbyists, and think tank ghouls,

0:44.6

and reported on the general trends in rhetoric used by popular speakers at the event.

0:49.9

We'll have some more in-depth episodes about those topics in the weeks to come, using more of

0:53.9

our recorded interviews we collected at the convention.

0:57.0

But on top of our regular coverage,

0:58.8

I also had a special assignment that I more or less assigned to myself.

1:04.3

On this show, we often talk about right-wing extremism and issues facing gay and trans people,

1:10.2

including the various ways.

1:11.2

Conservatives and Christian Nationalists are trying to make life harder for queer people,

1:15.1

whether through legislation, online harassment, and physical violence.

1:19.5

As these are two of our most frequently covered topics, being at the Republican National Convention

1:24.7

provided me with the perfect opportunity to investigate

1:27.9

the intersection between conservatism and homosexuality. For years, I've heard rumors and

1:35.3

urban legends about a massive influx of Republicans flocking to the gay hookup app grinder

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