How A Butterfly Sanctuary Became The Center of a Border War, Part One
It Could Happen Here
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4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Robert and James head down to the Texas border to meet with the director of a butterfly sanctuary in the crosshairs of a far right culture war.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bethany Frankel. My time on the Real Housewives of New York is a few years behind me. |
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| 0:34.0 | Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch. |
| 0:41.0 | It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy. |
| 0:47.0 | Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism. |
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| 0:58.0 | I'm that host. Listen to Story of the Week on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Danish Ward's host of Stealing Superman, a new iHeart original podcast about the most unlikely art heist of all time. |
| 1:15.0 | It was Nick Cage's own personal national treasure. At a 1999 New Year's Eve party, someone snatched Cage's priceless comics. |
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| 1:36.0 | Unfortunately, some of these recordings haven't got the best sound quality. |
| 1:39.0 | We were walking around the butterfly center. We tried our best to block the wind, but some of it's pretty blown out. |
| 1:47.0 | We still wanted you to hear them, so we've included them, but apologies that the sound quality isn't what it could be. |
| 1:58.0 | There was a time when you could have been forgiven for believing that American fascism had been thoroughly beaten back, marginalized, and damaged beyond the capacity for reconstitution. |
| 2:07.0 | Only the very foolish and dishonest believe that today. Every time the far right has taken a serious beating in this country, they've had a place to retreat to, a sanctuary to reorganize, recoup, and surge out again towards the halls of power. |
| 2:20.0 | That sanctuary is the US Mexico border. |
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