It Could Happen Here Weekly 195
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 171 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew
- Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen
- How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center
- Tariffs and the Corruption State
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29
You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today!
Sources/Links:
Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen
https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1908354
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/autopen-trump-biden-analysis
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-clemency-interview.html
How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center
https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-artificial-intelligence-fbf213a915fb574a4f3e5baaa7041c3a
Tariffs and the Corruption State
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nvidia-amd-chip-sales-china-15-percent-h20-mi308/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/business/tariffs-switzerland-trump.html
https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/08/12/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/business/trade-exemptions-tariffs-trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7jjkvzmkxo
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-iphone-factory-china/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29
https://www.cvesd.org/parents/family-and-community-resources
lausd.org
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/trump-bls-ej-antoni.html
https://x.com/AngulusTerrarum/status/1955320816855294169
https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1955041060197114136
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/stephen-miran-federal-reserve-board-e7855877
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bls-appointment-ej-antoni-alarms-economists-2112440
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/business/bls-nominee-trump
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ej-antoni-trumps-pick-lead-bls/story?id=124579471
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8600x7dnn4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loldo4Vmno
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. |
| 0:08.0 | What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? |
| 0:12.2 | Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. |
| 0:18.8 | Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. |
| 0:23.3 | It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on |
| 0:30.3 | the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.3 | CallZone Media. Hey everybody. Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode. |
| 0:42.8 | So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat |
| 0:48.9 | less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch if you want. |
| 0:53.4 | If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you. But to in a long stretch if you want. If you've been listening to the |
| 0:54.4 | episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you, but you can |
| 0:58.0 | make your own decisions. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello and welcome to It Could Happen here, and it could. My name is Andrew Siege. I'm also |
| 1:08.1 | Andrewsome on YouTube, and I'm here once again with James. James Stout. |
| 1:14.6 | People have said I'd never say my last name and they can't work out who I am. So I guess I'll do that more. |
| 1:19.6 | Welcome, James Stout. Thank you. So lately and I mean this is an unfortunately common pattern of thought for me, |
| 1:28.0 | but I've been thinking about just how totalizing the system feels. |
| 1:32.9 | And it's like everywhere you turn, you know, walking down the street, |
| 1:36.6 | look at the city, at pollution, that every inch of land has been claimed by the system. |
| 1:43.3 | Every bit of, you know, the ways you live and operate |
| 1:46.7 | just feels like it's been manipulated and controlled in some way. And so that's really what I want |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

