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It Could Happen Here Weekly 228

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 201 minutes

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Summary

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

- The Most Extreme Trans Healthcare Ban You've Never Heard Of

- Rojava with Andrew

- Are Workers Lighting Warehouses on Fire?

- What Next for the People of Iran?

- Executive Disorder: Hungary Election, DoorDash Stunt, Sam Altman’s Home Attacked

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The Most Extreme Trans Healthcare Ban You've Never Heard Of

https://transnews.network/p/u-s-catholic-bishops-launch-attack-on-trans-healthcare-it-s-time-to-fight-back

https://transnews.network/p/it-s-a-nightmare-the-human-toll-of-the-catholic-church-s-trans-healthcare-ban

Are Workers Lighting Warehouses on Fire?

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https://www.tiktok.com/@thejackik/video/7627577500066991391

https://newjersey.news12.com/3-alarm-fire-in-ironbound-section-of-newark-rips-through-warehouse 

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https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/union-county/2026/04/13/rahway-warehouse-lithium-ion-battery-fire/89594009007/

https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2026/04/extremely-large-brush-fire-reported-in-nj-amid-elevated-wildfire-risk.html

https://x.com/charise_lee/status/2043407987520442763?s=20

https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/-/news-events/news-releases/news-details/fire-news-release-business-fire-contained-at-gsl-transfer-station-in-lawrenceville 

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https://www.tiktok.com/@thejackik/video/7627984684210769183

https://abc7.com/post/fire-inside-ontario-mills-mall-prompts-closure-arson-investigation/18867715/

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https://hazwoper-osha.com/blog-post/top-5-ignition-sources-in-warehouses-and-how-to-eliminate-them

https://x.com/charise_lee/status/2043794082833867155?s=20

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https://x.com/mistressdivy/status/2043148239520571676

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/2/27/voters-think-plane-crashes-have-become-more-frequent-and-blame-recent-accidents-on-air-traffic-controller-shortages 

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https://emersoncollegepolling.com/december-2024-national-poll-young-voters-diverge-from-majority-on-crypto-tiktok-and-ceo-assassination/

What Next for the People of Iran?

https://fpa.org/netanyahus-speech-and-the-question-of-an-iran-deal/ 

https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/ 

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1996/shock-n-awe_ch5.html 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yqqyly9n0o 

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Executive Disorder: Hungary Election, DoorDash Stunt, Sam Altman’s Home Attacked

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https://x.com/WarshipCam/status/2042574455549894847 

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-27/iran-routes-grain-imports-to-gulf-of-oman-with-hormuz-locked-up

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1435876/dl

https://x.com/mehran__jalali/status/2042755218819961048?s=20 

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are-workers-lighting-warehouses-on-fire/id1449762156?i=1000761449075 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.0

Call Zone Media.

0:07.7

Hey, everybody.

0:08.5

Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode.

0:12.8

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

0:22.1

if you want. If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week, there's

0:25.6

going to be nothing new here for you, but you can make your own decisions.

0:32.3

Welcome to Aikadha to Have and to Hear a podcast about things falling apart and how to put them

0:36.3

back together again. I am your host, Mia Wong.

0:39.8

And today we are going to be talking about, frankly, the largest and most draconian trans

0:45.8

healthcare band in the country.

0:48.1

And the unexpected place that, well, I don't know if unexpected is the right word, but the

0:53.3

ignored place that it's come from.

0:57.0

And with me, with me to talk about this band is David Forbes, who is an editor and a journalist with the Trans News Network.

1:04.3

David, welcome to the show.

1:06.2

Always good to be here.

1:07.8

I, once again, back to my, I wish I could have people on the show to talk about

1:12.5

like cool and normal things, but, you know, we get that sometimes. This is not one of those stories.

1:18.2

I mean, we're trans journalists in a dying empire. Yeah. So speaking of bad things happening in dying empires, do you want to take us sort of to the start of this healthcare ban and what we're even talking about here?

1:39.7

Because it's not a government health care ban in the way that I think people expect.

1:43.4

No. And that's actually really important to all this story because a lot of the attention in health care bans has been on governments and occasionally hospitals, like secular hospital systems, refusing to provide care because they're scared of the federal government.

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