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It Could Happen Here

The Assassination of Shinzo Abe: The Reckoning

It Could Happen Here

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Daily News, Politics, News

4.36.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mia chats with Alisa Mahjoub, an ex-member of the Unification Church and part of Deprogramming Imperialism about the Japanese government's reaction to the public outcry over their connection to the Unification Church and how the various factions of the cult have responded.

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0:14.5

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0:18.7

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0:23.9

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0:58.0

Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.

1:04.3

Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student-teacher

1:08.4

relationship on our favorite show. We're Suzy Banna-Karim and Jessica Bennett,

1:12.5

posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from

1:17.6

the past that shaped us and probably you to try to understand what it taught us about the world

1:22.2

and our place in it. You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.

1:26.2

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1:30.8

favorite shows.

1:40.0

It's it could happen here. The thing that's happening is that Shinzo Abe is still dead one year on.

1:46.4

That man has not come back from the dead. He is still absolutely the most assassinated man

1:51.6

of 2023, 2022. Well, you know, honestly, given how assassinated he is, we're giving him the credit

1:58.1

for being the most assassinated man of 2023. And what's interesting about this assassination?

2:02.9

And we talked about this really briefly in my sort of intro thing to the last episode that we ran

2:09.0

about the Abe assassination. But this has been maybe the most successful political assassination

2:17.2

not done by the CIA in the last like 70 years. Like absolutely stunningly incredibly

2:23.6

successful political assassination because specifically of the political impact that the assassination

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