WEBVTT - It Could Happen Here Trailer

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<v Speaker 1>You wake up before your alarm. No sunlight peaks through

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<v Speaker 1>your window. It's far too early for that. You're confused

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<v Speaker 1>for just a moment, and then you hear another explosion.

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<v Speaker 1>It echoes in the night, rattling the walls in the

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<v Speaker 1>window of your apartment. This is not the first bomb

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<v Speaker 1>you've heard, and it sounds far enough away that you

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<v Speaker 1>know the danger isn't a minute. That surprises you a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit, the fact that you recognized it's not close.

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<v Speaker 1>You realize you've now heard enough explosions to have a

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<v Speaker 1>pretty good ear for them, and when they're close enough

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<v Speaker 1>to worry about. It's weird how quickly life in a

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<v Speaker 1>war zone becomes just life. You get up, there's no

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<v Speaker 1>sense trying to get back to sleep. As you stumble

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<v Speaker 1>over to the kitchen to grind some coffee, you hear

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<v Speaker 1>the crack of rifle fire. It's distant, too far enough

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<v Speaker 1>away that it sounds almost like firecrackers, but you know

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<v Speaker 1>it's not. You feel the grinder, put on the top

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<v Speaker 1>and press down. Nothing happens. You realize, belatedly your sleep

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<v Speaker 1>fogged brain that the powers out again. You wonder which

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<v Speaker 1>of the dozen different rebelent insurgents groups in your state

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<v Speaker 1>might be responsible. You don't even bother to get out

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<v Speaker 1>your phone and check the news. It doesn't really matter,

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<v Speaker 1>and you've got shipped to do. It's still dark outside,

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<v Speaker 1>and since you're already up, you might as well take

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<v Speaker 1>advantage of the situation and beat the crowd to the

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<v Speaker 1>grocery store. As you close and lock your door behind you,

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<v Speaker 1>you try to ignore the pop and shatter of not

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<v Speaker 1>so distant gunfire. There are days when you do feel

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<v Speaker 1>like doing something, maybe even joining your friends, but most days,

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<v Speaker 1>like today, you've got shipped to do. It's an election year.

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<v Speaker 1>Every candidate is doing their level best to not call

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<v Speaker 1>this what it is, a civil war. You heard that

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<v Speaker 1>phrase out on the street, though, more and more every day.

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<v Speaker 1>You reach a crosswalk and start to step across on

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<v Speaker 1>the left. Your eyes are drawn to the massive bulk

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<v Speaker 1>of a police bear cat as it trundles across the

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<v Speaker 1>street parallel to you. A man sits up top in

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<v Speaker 1>the couple up, his hands on a machine gun that

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<v Speaker 1>for now has its nose pointed up in the air.

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<v Speaker 1>He stares at you, and you try not to stare back.

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<v Speaker 1>As you hurry along to the supermarket, you ask yourself

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<v Speaker 1>the question you've asked almost every day for the last

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<v Speaker 1>three years, How did it get this bad? Did that

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<v Speaker 1>seem far fetched? You outlandish? If so, let me try

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<v Speaker 1>to show you why the preceding passage might well be

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<v Speaker 1>reality for millions of Americans startlingly soon if something isn't done.

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<v Speaker 1>The Second American Civil War doesn't sound like a crazy,

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<v Speaker 1>distant possibility to me, and it hasn't for a while.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Robert Evans, and it's my job to help you

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<v Speaker 1>see what I see. Two thousand sixteen was the first

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<v Speaker 1>year I started seriously considering the possibility of a second

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<v Speaker 1>American Civil War. It was the year I reported on

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<v Speaker 1>the major protests surrounding the most contentious election in modern

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<v Speaker 1>American history. I was there at the r n C

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<v Speaker 1>in the d n C, and at both I saw

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<v Speaker 1>tremendous hatred on display. I also traveled to a Rack

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<v Speaker 1>in two thousand sixteen to report on the Siege of Mosel.

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<v Speaker 1>But nothing I saw there, nothing I saw anywhere that

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<v Speaker 1>year scared me more than watching Alex Jones speak on

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<v Speaker 1>the first day of the RNC. These are not liberals

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<v Speaker 1>welcome to It could happen here. The podcast where every

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<v Speaker 1>season I take some fantastic, unlikely scenario and explain how

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<v Speaker 1>it could happen, why it might be closer than you'd think,

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<v Speaker 1>and how it will look when or if it comes Listen.

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