It Could Happen Here Weekly 226

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 255 minutes

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Summary

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

- The Trans Panic Clickbait Economy

- Talking to Venezuelans About Venezuela

- Strange People on the Hill: An Interview with Michael Edison Hayden

- Slouching Towards Gallipoli: How The U.S. Might Be Losing To Iran

- Executive Disorder: Tariff Refund Disaster, DHS Citizenship List, Idaho Bathroom Bill, Two Bombing Plots

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Talking to Venezuelans About Venezuela

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Strange People on the Hill: An Interview with Michael Edison Hayden

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Executive Disorder: Tariff Refund Disaster, DHS Citizenship List, Idaho Bathroom Bill, Two Bombing Plots

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
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0:09.1	Spoken without fear.
0:10.9	Person who is not generous can not be an artist.
0:13.8	The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers.
0:18.4	Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Abhaw show,
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0:27.6	Come for the honesty.
0:29.2	Stay for the fire.
0:34.9	Callsor Media.
0:36.6	Hey, everybody.
0:37.4	Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode.
0:41.7	So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch if you want.
0:52.1	If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week,
0:54.3	there's going to be nothing new here for you, but you can make your own decisions.
1:01.1	The past few weeks, my social media feeds have been more apocalyptic than usual.
1:08.0	Oddly enough, not due to the escalating war with Iran, the shell-shocked economy or
1:12.8	oil prices, but because of a wave of posts and news articles proclaiming impending doom for
1:20.6	trans people in the United States. Attacks on trans rights are obviously not new and have
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