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Robert, James, Mia, and Gare talk about the comedians who sold their soul to perform stand up for the royal family in Saudi Arabia. Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413 [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413] https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime [https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413 [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Mia talks with Unraveled’s Raven about ICE’s horrific raids in Chicago from a traffic stop murder to helicopter apartment raids. Sources: https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/ [https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/] https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated [https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Kicking off spooky month with a story about demons that I don't want to spoil by telling you more about but it's so good I promise. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  - SEIU 1000 Union Rep of the IE Reports Live from the Frontline - Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel - Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism? - What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech? - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone [http://apple.co/coolerzone]  Sources: Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel https://www.cawshinythings.com/about-caw/ [https://www.cawshinythings.com/about-caw/] https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/insights/eye-on-the-market/fair-shakes-amv.pdf [https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/insights/eye-on-the-market/fair-shakes-amv.pdf] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/jimmy-kimmel-returns-after-suspension-for-charlie-kirk-comments-our-government-cannot-be-allowed-to-control-what-we-do-and-do-not-say-on-television-195436293.html [https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/jimmy-kimmel-returns-after-suspension-for-charlie-kirk-comments-our-government-cannot-be-allowed-to-control-what-we-do-and-do-not-say-on-television-195436293.html] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/24/trump-approval-rating/86306451007/ [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/24/trump-approval-rating/86306451007/] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-dips-americans-worry-about-economy-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-09-23/ [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-dips-americans-worry-about-economy-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-09-23/] https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop [https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/democrats-pounce-in-reliably-red-iowa-fueled-by-special-election-hopium-00538075 [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/democrats-pounce-in-reliably-red-iowa-fueled-by-special-election-hopium-00538075] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-win-in-iowa-special-election-breaks-gop-supermajority [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-win-in-iowa-special-election-breaks-gop-supermajority] https://www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democrats-win-massive-upset [https://www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democrats-win-massive-upset] Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406 [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406] What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech? https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/ [https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/]  Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36 democrats-are-shutting-down-government [https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/right-wing-media-run-wild-blatantly-false-claim-democrats-are-shutting-down-government]https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ [https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/]  https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42 [https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42]  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/ [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ [https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/]  https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/ [https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/ [https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility]  https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458 [https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458]  https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california [https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california]  https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/ [https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/]  https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 [https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568]  https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528 [https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528]  https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe [https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe]  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike]  https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/ [https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/]  https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ [https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/]  https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/ [https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/]  https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/ [https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The gang discuss the government shutdown, War Department plans to deploy troops to US cities, ICE raids in Chicago, new border wall construction, and a National Security Presidential Memo targeting political violence indicators like “anti-capitalism, anti-christianity, and extremism on migration, race, and gender.” https://www.gofundme.com/f/ec-off-ice [https://www.gofundme.com/f/ec-off-ice] Sources: https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/right-wing-media-run-wild-blatantly-false-claim-democrats-are-shutting-down-government [https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/right-wing-media-run-wild-blatantly-false-claim-democrats-are-shutting-down-government]https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ [https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/]  https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42 [https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42]  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/ [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ [https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/]  https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/ [https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/ [https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility]  https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458 [https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458]  https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california [https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california]  https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/ [https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/]  https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 [https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568]  https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528 [https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528]  https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe [https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe]  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike]  https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/ [https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/]  https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ [https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/]  https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/ [https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/]  https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/ [https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.