Introducing... The Coming Storm (season 2)
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 40 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, Americasters, it's Mariana Spring here, aka Misinformation, |
| 0:09.1 | and we've got a surprise for you this weekend. |
| 0:10.9 | We're bringing you the first episode of the |
| 0:12.8 | coming storm at Series 2 from BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds. Friend of the |
| 0:17.6 | podcast Gabriel Gatehouse has dived into the world of online conspiracy |
| 0:21.4 | theories again. It's a world I spend way too much time hanging |
| 0:24.5 | out in and while a lot of my time is spent tracking down the real people behind this and the real |
| 0:29.6 | world consequences of what's unfolding on social media. Gabriel delves deep into the |
| 0:34.4 | history and the roots of these conspiracy theories and he talks about all kinds of |
| 0:38.9 | things that we touch on, including January the 6th writers who are now running for office, |
| 0:43.6 | tech bros using their power to so mistrust of government |
| 0:46.8 | and the prospects of survival for American democracy. |
| 0:49.8 | Episodes are going to be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts, but if you're in the UK you can listen to the latest episodes first on BBC Sounds and if you subscribe and opt in for notifications on Sounds we can let you know as soon as new episodes are available. |
| 1:04.1 | Enjoy. |
| 1:05.1 | Okay, here we go. |
| 1:11.1 | So, there was something I didn't get into last time. |
| 1:15.0 | I can see Keanu Reeves asleep and there's kind of early |
| 1:20.0 | internet web pages scrolling up the screen and then the screen pops up and says wake up |
| 1:28.0 | Neo and he wakes up until we started making the coming storm, |
| 1:35.0 | the first series, back in the spring of 2021, |
| 1:38.0 | I had never seen the Matrix. |
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