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It Could Happen Here

The End of the United States of America

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

News, Daily News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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The End of the United States of America

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0:00.0

The True Crime Podcast, Sacred Scandal, returns for a second season to investigate a led sexual abuse at Mexico's La Luz del Mundo Mega Church.

0:08.2

Journalist Robert Garza explores survivor stories of pure evil experiences at the hands of a self-proclaimed apostle who is now behind bars.

0:16.4

I remember as a little girl being groomed to be his concubine, that's how I was raised. It is not wrong if you take your clothes off for the apostle.

0:24.6

Listen to Sacred Scandal on the IHR Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.6

On Queen Charlotte, the official podcast, we're stepping behind the scenes and the drawing boards of this team to experience the life breathed into the Bridgerton prequel.

0:40.6

Listen to the Leap's executive producer and series director Tom Barraka took to capture the feeling that puts that lump in your throat.

0:49.6

And you've got to catch creator Shonda Rhymes. She's dropping gems, diamonds, and mics.

0:54.6

You can listen to Queen Charlotte, the official podcast every Thursday on the IHR Radio app Apple Podcasts or anywhere you listen to your favorite shows.

1:05.6

What do a flirtatious gambling double agent in World War II? An opera singer who burned down an honorary to kidnap her lover. And a pirate queen who walked free with all of her spoils, haven't comment.

1:19.6

They're all real women who were left out of your history books.

1:23.6

You can hear these stories and more on the Womanica podcast. Check it out on the IHR Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

1:37.6

Most days, the Warfield's distant, like a bad dream from your early childhood.

1:42.6

You remember in gasps and flashes, moments of horror and pain and laughter and confusion that leap unbidden into your consciousness.

1:50.6

Sometimes you have nightmares. Sometimes you can smell the bodies of your neighbors buried under rubble, minkled with the accurate reek of gunpowder.

1:59.6

But for the most part, the war hides in the back of your mind as you try to get on with your life.

2:05.6

After the war ended, you wound up migrating from Canada to the Pacific Northwest.

2:10.6

The old United States had Balkanized into a mishmash of functional, semi-functional and failed nations. And of those, the Northwest seemed to be your best option.

2:19.6

It's whether the end of the United States and the brutality of climate change better than most places. Thanks mainly to the low population density and, of course, the water.

2:30.6

Fresh water is in short supply these days, not just in America, but across much of the world.

2:35.6

Global agricultural output never quite recovered from the loss of the United States, and famines are common.

2:40.6

You guessed they've always been common, but not in places like Virginia and Florida, not until now.

2:46.6

You read yesterday that, in much of the old South, lack of clean water and adequate food has dropped the average life expectancy to under 50 years.

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