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It Could Happen Here

The Fable of the Fake China Coup

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Daily News, News, Society & Culture

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The crew looks at a truly bizarre conspiracy theory about a coup against Xi Jinping that took social media and India mainstream news by storm

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch.

0:05.7

It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy.

0:11.6

Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism.

0:16.2

Like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week.

0:23.6

I'm that host.

0:25.0

Listen to Story of the Week on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.3

The world of chocolate has been turned upside down.

0:32.9

A very unusual situation.

0:34.9

You saw this tax of cash in an office.

0:36.4

Chocolate comes from the cacao tree, and recently, Variety's cacao, thought to have been lost centuries ago, were rediscovered in the Amazon.

0:42.6

There is no chocolate on there like this.

0:45.2

Now some chocolate makers are racing, deep into the jungle, to find the next game-changing chocolate.

0:50.3

And I'm coming along.

0:51.5

Okay, that was a very large crack it up.

0:55.7

Listen to Obsessions while chocolate on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

1:02.9

Where were you in 92, bouncing your butt to Sir Mixla, wondering if you, like Billy Ray Cyrus, could pull off a moment?

1:11.3

Now I had as a podcast all about it.

1:13.5

I'm Jason Longfee, and on my new show, Where Were You in 92, we take a ride through the major hits,

1:17.8

one hit wonders and shocking scandals that shaped the wildest 12 months of music history.

1:21.6

You know, the president came after me, everybody, time, water, with madness.

1:26.2

Music was magic, and I had completely burned that to the ground.

1:30.4

I realized I'm the forbidden fruit.

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