It Could Happen Here Podcast

Summary

• March to May, 2019: This 10-part investigative journalism podcast covers the growing militant movements in the US and bad actors seeking to "raise the temperature" and push the country towards a 2nd American Civil War. The various episodes spell out numerous scenarios any of which could play out to tear apart America and have far-reaching consequences for the world.

Robert Evans, the host of the podcast, is on the far left of the political aisle, but he's also gun owner and a survivalist prepper who thinks most gun control laws are poorly conceived, so he brings some very nuanced perspectives rarely heard elsewhere. His previous journalism includes several trips to international warzones, as well as a variety of US protest rallies and marches, so he's not just making this stuff up.

Topics covered include:

• 2nd Amendment
• Agriculture and Water Rights
• America
• Antifa
• Blackwater (or their equivalents)
• Civil War
• Disaster Relief Efforts
• Dominion theology
• Drone warfare
• Economic Collapse
• FEMA
• Guerilla warfare / Insurgent Warfare
• Gun Control
• Hurricane Katrina and the violence in it's immediate aftermath
• Insurgency
• IEDs
• ISIL
• Jefferson (proposed Pacific state)
• militia groups
• Nazis
• Occupy movement
• Revolution
• Riots
• saturation bombing
• Street gang
• Syria
• tannerite
• Ukraine
• White Supremacists

and most importantly:

• things everyone can do to help slowly edge the country back from the danger, madness and societal collapse that might be in our near future.

Source

Bibliography

1. original podcast on i heart radio

Game and Story Use

• Tons of gaming-applicable material in that podcast.
• Lots of frighteningly believable ideas for twenty minutes into the future games exploring the end of the world as we know it.
• Also useful insights for military-based campaigns taking place in an insurgency, civil war, uprising or other complicated asymmetrical warfare scenario.
• Podcaster could serve as a good model for an irreverant snarky embedded journalist character with subtle nuance. In one of his other podcasts he mentioned that he plays D&D, so I bet he'd be thrilled if somebody based an RPG character on him.