The True Crime Podcast, Sacred Scandal, returns for a second season to investigate a led sexual abuse at Mexico's La Luz del Mundo Mega Church.

Journalist Robert Garza explores survivor stories of pure evil experiences at the hands of a self-proclaimed apostle who is now behind bars.

I remember as a little girl being groomed to be his concubine, that's how I was raised. It is not wrong if you take your clothes off for the apostle.

Listen to Sacred Scandal on the IHR Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

On Queen Charlotte, the official podcast, we're stepping behind the scenes and the drawing boards of this team to experience the life breathed into the Bridgerton prequel.

Listen to the Leap's executive producer and series director Tom Barraka took to capture the feeling that puts that lump in your throat.

And you've got to catch creator Shonda Rhymes. She's dropping gems, diamonds, and mics.

You can listen to Queen Charlotte, the official podcast every Thursday on the IHR Radio app Apple Podcasts or anywhere you listen to your favorite shows.

What do a flirtatious gambling double agent in World War II? An opera singer who burned down an honorary to kidnap her lover. And a pirate queen who walked free with all of her spoils, haven't comment.

They're all real women who were left out of your history books.

You can hear these stories and more on the Womanica podcast. Check it out on the IHR Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

I want to start this episode with a warning. What we're going to talk about in the next two episodes actually is incredibly dark and unspeakably violent.

We will be discussing the possibility of the United States descending into the kind of apocalyptic city annihilating violence that people in Syria know all too well.

Even in the event of a second American Civil War, I do not find these scenarios particularly likely. We are talking about the very worst case scenario of the very worst case scenario here.

But everything I will discuss in this and the next episode has been reality for millions of people across the world.

And so we will talk about such possibilities here too. Please do not listen to these episodes if you feel they will be more than you can handle emotionally. Please do not take them as my prophecy for what will happen. Only what might, if every domino falls in the worst possible way.

With all that said, it's time for a story.

Bombs, bombs, bombs between the airstrikes and the mortars, 20 have hit close enough to rattle the frame of your apartment building in the last day.

Your windows are a distant for-lorn memory. The water pipes went weeks ago and with that your hope of ever using your shower again.

One of your neighbors managed to liberate a pallet of baby wipes though. The other day you realize that you now value a single pack of the things more than every electronic gadget you've ever owned.

The day provides some relief. Someone you've heard it was the Canadians supplied the separatists in your neighborhood with man-portable anti-aircraft missile launchers. They knocked out a couple of helicopters last week and ever since then the federal forces have been more cautious during the day.

It's weird to think of the munitions and craft your tax dollars paid for being used to bombard your hometown. It's even weirder to look out from your roof during the day and see the Dominionist militia, the decked in their fiery crosses, firing from up armored Ford F-150s.

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