This week we tell the harrowing story of Paul Bennewitz, a simple nerdy engineer who spotted evidence of covert Air Force weapons programs and was gaslit into believing they were alien spacecraft.
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Robert and Molly continue their exploration of Venusian health science which apparently involves eating nothing but raw fruit.
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Robert sits down with Molly Conger to explore a book at the foundation of American conspiracy culture that may have helped kill Steve Jobs.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
The Decline and Fall of the American Post Office
Nut Country Revisited feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
They're Trying to Put Women Into Men's Prisons
How Unions Can Protect Trans Rights
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #1
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Sources:
The Decline and Fall of the American Post Office
https://concernedlettercarriers.com
https://www.nalc.org/member-benefits/nalc-disaster-relief-foundation
Nut Country Revisited
Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America https://www.ucpress.edu/books/a-culture-of-conspiracy/paper
Mark Fenster, Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816654949/conspiracy-theories/
Edward H. Miller, Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo19197692.html
How Unions Can Protect Trans Rights
Solidarity Pledge: https://crm.broadstripes.com/ctf/SJID0H
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/24/nx-s1-5238169/starbucks-strike-christmas
https://www.them.us/story/starbucks-threatens-to-take-away-trans-rights-at-stores-that-unionize
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