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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Post Woke Cinema
- AI Minstrel Shows feat. Bridget Todd
- Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #27
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Sources/Links:
The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
@providers4transjustice on IG
Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/live-like-the-world-is-dying
http://www.tangledwilderness.org
http://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/ready-for-anything
https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/its-time-to-build-resilient-communities
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocalypse
https://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/s1e1-kitty-stryker-on-anarchist-prepping/
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #27
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5477365/israel-gaza-aid-casualties
https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-133/en/
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.238.0.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.97.0.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.98.0.pdf
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Joining is Evan McDonell, a former nuclear engineer with the US Naval nuclear program to give us the breakdown!
After years of rumors, recent releases have confirmed the US government knew much more about UFOs than they'd originally let on. And, despite the recent waves of revelations and classifications, Uncle Sam is still refusing to release everything. When pressed on the issue, the government stated that disclosing certain files would pose "an extraordinarily grave threat to national security" -- so what exactly is on these files? Tune in to learn more.
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Traditional culture meets global international economic development at the Bering Straits Native Corporation. The collection of tribes plays a key role in the Port of Nome that is working to develop the nation’s first deepwater port in the Arctic. It is among the big — and small — economic development visions for Indigenous people in the Arctic region. We’ll hear about those opportunities as well as some concerns about balancing financial and traditional environmental well-being being discussed at the Arctic Encounter Symposium in Anchorage, Alaska.
GUESTS
Haven Harris (enrolled tribal member of the Nome Eskimo Community), senior vice president of growth and strategy for the Bering Straits Native Corporation
Edward Alexander (Gwich’in), co-councilor for Gwich’in Council International
Rachel Kallander, founder and CEO of Arctic Encounter Summit
Kuno Fencker (Inuit), member of the parliament of Greenland
When were glasses invented? What happened back then if your horse stepped on them? How is the digital age changing adults’ and kids’ vision? The first half of this special bonus episode about Optical Technology features the charmingly hilarious director of the Museum of the Eye in San Francisco, Jenny Benjamin. Then we bop over to Houston, Texas for the ultra-knowledgeable real-life optometrist, Dr. Nadia Sledge to chat about the importance of annual exams and where our eyesight is trending in the digital age. Also: dark Roman trivia, Downton Abbey fashion, how online eye tests overlook critical conditions, and how you would have survived in the past without spectacles.
Other episodes you may enjoy:
Ophthalmology
Medieval Codicology
Experimental Archaeology
Literary Olfactology
Proptology
Disability Sociology
... what? Yep that's right. They say there is no college affordability crisis. And I guess then, presumably no student debt crisis as well? You can read for yourself here, and/or you can sit back and let Dr. Jenessa Seymore break down why this article is so... incorrect.
The gang discuss Ghislaine Maxwell's meetings with Trump's DOJ, executive orders banning 'Woke AI' and promoting the involuntary institutionalization of homeless people, the forced starvation of Palestine, and a prisoner swap releasing 230 Venezuelans from CECOT.
Sources:
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5477365/israel-gaza-aid-casualties
https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-133/en/
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.238.0.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.97.0.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.98.0.pdf
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
array(3) { [0]=> string(184) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/78d30acb-8463-4c40-a5ae-ae2d0145c9ff/5d0044b2-d596-4891-a421-b32b012db22f/image.jpg?t=1753985962&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }Uncle Benny hips the gang to the bizarre story of the Kaikōura lights. Smells Like Low Tide asks about the latest news regarding the First Palomar Sky Survey Spanish Virtual Observatory. Beer Fairy reaches out with disturbing developments in the world of "AI" therapy. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.
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array(3) { [0]=> string(150) "https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/2e824128-fbd5-4c9e-9a57-ae2f0056b0c4/image.jpg?t=1749831085&size=Large" [1]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" [2]=> int(0) }Can you find your way out of the maize? The corn maze has become an enduring attraction of the American autumnal experience, seen at touristy family farms next to pumpkin patches and haunted houses. But what are the historical roots of this iconic living puzzle? Sarah guides the eternally-lost Chelsey Weber-Smith through the twists and turns of the corn’s corridors and reveals the hidden architects that walk behind the rows.
More Chelsey Weber-Smith:
www.americanhysteriapodcast.com
Mr. Jeff's Labyrinth Typology Hand Out:
https://www.labyrinthos.net/Labyrinth%20Typology.pdf
The Labyrinthos Labyrinth and Maze Resource Photo Library and Archive:
https://www.labyrinthos.net/index.html
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