WEBVTT - CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Live From DinoCon 4 in Helsinki 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:03.240 Cool Zone Media. 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:11.040 Book Club book Club, book Club book Club. It's the 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:12.840 Cool Zone Media book Club, the book club where you 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:14.319 don't have to do the reading because I do it 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.320 for you. I'm Margaret Giljoy and this week and this 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:22.000 month on cool Zone Media book Club, we have missives 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:27.080 from the future. That's right, it's week two of Cool 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.400 Zone twenty fifty four Reports from the dinoh War. And 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.680 what if we have from the future, Well, let's find out. 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.559 Welcome to Cool Zone twenty fifty four Reports from the 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.320 dinoh War. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and alongside the 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.240 rest of the Cool Zone team, we're covering everything World 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.920 War three point five. Alongside some of the rest of 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.519 the team, I spent the past week in Helsinki, Finland 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.040 at Dino Con four and I'm excited to share with 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:56.440 you all what I've learned. But first, this podcast wouldn't 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.480 even be here if it weren't for our biggest sponsor, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:03.400 the one the Old Dino Cadence. What started as an 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.880 avant garde dinosaur dance troupe soon became the world's premier 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:11.280 network of combat academies. If you're serious about dino riding, 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:16.000 you need to get serious about dino cadence. Admission is free, 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.280 but spots are limited. So apply today to save the 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:25.760 world tomorrow. When the wheels of the ancient seven thirty 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.319 seven hit the runway at Helsinki, Vanta, I wasn't the 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.880 only one to breathe out a sigh of relief. We'd 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.600 made it, we landed, we were on the ground, which is, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.280 from my point of view, where we belong. You will 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.800 not catch me riding a pterodactyl, and not just because 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.360 I'm far too old for it. And look, I wasn't 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.560 worried about the plane falling apart. Ever since the cooperativization 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.560 of Boeing in twenty thirty seven, when workers took over 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.560 the beleaguered company, it's gone from producing the world's least 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.200 reliable airplanes back to producing some of the world's best. No, 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.480 I was worried about getting shot out of the sky. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.639 I just flown in from free Poland, which meant flying 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:09.080 over three different nationalists occupied Baltic states. Every journalist is 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:13.320 a war journalist. In World War three point five, the plane, 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.520 like any post war retrofit, was equipped for non electric 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.240 flight in the case of EMP. But I've been in 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.280 planes hit by EMPs twice in my life already, and 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.240 it is never fun. Capable of not crashing is an 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:31.239 entirely different thing from comfortable flight. Our seven thirty seven 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.840 was also equipped with its own Vishnu shield in case 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.160 of incoming surface to air missiles. But for the past year, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.600 of course, nationalist forces in Estonia have had the habit 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.520 of firing dummy rockets at more or less everything flying 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:49.600 anywhere near their airspace. The whole flight, I told myself 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.800 I was getting too old for this shit, and I 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.079 tried to distract myself with work like I always do. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.880 I caught up on about a week's worth of email, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.600 and I figured out my dino kon itinery. Then we 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.800 landed and I stepped out into the unseasonably warm Helsinki 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:09.080 December air Can you even say unseasonably anymore? Does that 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.880 even mean anything anymore? Like It's like every morning God 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.160 spins a big spinny wheel with numbers from negative thirty 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.840 to about one hundred and thirty to determine how hot 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.480 it's going to be. I guess that only works if 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.640 you're one of us weird old poor people who can't 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:31.120 internally shift to celsius negative thirty to plus fifty. I 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.679 don't know, do your own Celsius math, you metric men. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.560 I stepped out into that pleasant air, and we took 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.840 the train into town, and I looked out the window 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:45.160 and I remembered I love Helsinki, and I love my job, 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.920 and flying is just part of it, and danger is 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.120 just part of it. And that's okay. It's funny how 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.120 our conscious mind works to forget danger as soon as 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.520 it passes. Funny how hard our unconscious mind works to 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.800 hold on to the memory of fear. But unless you've 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.840 got that sorrophobia, there's nothing to be afraid of at 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.720 Dinocon besides having too much fun hanging out with dinosaurs 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:12.760 and their riders. Well, I mean besides the microraptor incident 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:19.039 at Dinocon too, but that won't happen again. Probably, when 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.359 you first come in through the gates, after the security 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.120 checkpoint that I'm legally required to not tell you about 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.560 in detail, the first thing you see is Captain Emily 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:32.440 Hanford Junior herself and of course her faithful Trigger, that 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.400 is to say, the most decorated dinosaur and dinosaur rider respectively. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.120 Trigger was waving and smiling, hair pulled back into that 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.560 don't fuck with the librarian bun that they single handedly 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.160 brought back into style. Their uniform was gleaming with metals 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.200 from the war and little one inch buttons from bands 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.640 they listen to. Captain Emily Hanford Junior is, of course 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.440 an ankliosaurus, and I've never been able to tell a 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.920 reptile's mood by looking at its face, and I think 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.039 people who claim they can are lying. But she seemed 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.240 happy enough and occasionally nuzzled her massive head into Trigger's 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.160 shoulder for scretches. I wasn't able to catch an interview 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.839 with Trigger that morning, but if you listened to last 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.960 April's episode why do we use medals at all? In 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.839 an internationalist army? You can hear me and mi along 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.960 talk to them at length. It's mostly just war stories 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:29.080 that episode, but you know they're good stories. It's controversial 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.000 for internationalist forces to have any sort of mascot soldiers 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.960 at all, but whatever a claim Trigger gets, Trigger has earned. 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.479 My first stop at DINOCN four was, of course the 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:45.200 Swag Table flash, a little cool Zone media badge explain 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.240 that don't worry, you're not Robert Evans, and no you 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.719 haven't seen Robert Evans and know you will not be 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.040 commenting on the news about Robert Evans, and you are 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.680 set up with one of the coolest swag bags ever 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:01.040 produced this year. It was a plush anchor Leosaurus backpack 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.039 filled the overflowing with do dads in general promo, a 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.960 little floaty pen with a pack of raptors chasing away 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:12.960 a cartoonish Nazi. A mug that reads I survived the 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.719 dinoh War so far, but death is inevitable and comes 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.480 for kings and commoners alike. So really, my goal isn't 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.400 to survive, but to live a full life and live 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.280 free and or kill fascist for as long as I can. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.400 The type is pretty small on the mug, except that 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.040 dinoh War is in big red letters. There was also 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.080 an edible wristwatch made out of protein plastic. Look. I 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.200 know most people say it's safe, but I am just 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.400 too old to start eating plastic on purpose, plant based 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.360 or not. 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After a nice young 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.880 person with a retro slicked back haircut gave me my 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.559 dino backpack, they gestured me towards the mobility aids available, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.439 but instead went and got myself a Jurassic Park style 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.080 cane from a bin, complete with fau amber and faux mosquito, 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:00.480 and started off towards the biggest monsters. I know we're 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.920 not supposed to call them monsters, but dear listener, I 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.280 have been a trans woman for a long time now, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:10.080 and I think like recognizes like dinos and trans people. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.400 We've got a lot in common. There's a whole fifty 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.560 percent of the world population trying to de extinct us both, 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.160 but we've got too many teeth and claws and allies 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.520 and uh writers, depending on what you're into for that 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:29.040 fifty percent to succeed. It's no secret that the various 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.719 dino units compete with each other for a claim and 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:36.199 recruits alike. Terodactyl jockeys think that they're the best because 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.679 they are the hardest crew to get in with, and 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:43.040 they sharpshoot moving objects, well people, while themselves flying through 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.679 the air. The Ancliosaurus brigades are certain that they're the 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.160 best because they've got a real proletarian vibe and interface 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:54.000 smoothly with infantry. It's true that the Ankliosaurus brigades have 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.640 liberated more towns from fascist than any other because they're 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.240 the ones who roll in like tanks to capture. The 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.200 rex riders have their whole cowboy vibe whether they're mounted 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.920 or not, with ten galled hats over their polymer helmets. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.400 The mother Hens don't ride dinosaurs at all. Of course, 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:15.480 they heard velociraptors the size of and attitude of overly 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:20.680 aggressive roosters, and the mother hens have got style. John 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.920 Waters would have loved the mother Hens, every one of them, 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.400 copying the quote armed drag fashion of the first six 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.560 folks who formed the first velociraptor unit. Then there are 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.839 the Amazons and their ceratopsian mounts, who are some of 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.920 the finest and most feared units in the war. I 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.679 went past recruitment booth after recruitment booth and talked politely 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.599 to the press liaisons of each of those units. You 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.200 can hear those conversations themselves in the extended episodes, which 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:53.120 are of course available to paid subscribers internationalists, soldiers and veterans, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:57.000 and anyone in the civilian volunteer Corps or your territory's 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:01.240 equivalent thereof. But more than anything else, I was there 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.200 to talk to the newest unit, one with a terrifying 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.319 claim to fame. I was there to talk to the Dreadnoughts. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.800 Their booth was easy to find, plain black banners hung 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.920 vertically like medieval flags. Each of the fighters please call 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:21.160 them fighters, not soldiers, wore heavy medieval inspired armor with 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.160 plain black surcoats over them. Every soldier of every unit 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.520 proudly bears arms, of course, but the Dreadnought fighters they 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:33.160 are dripping with weapons, pistols and grenades and rifles and 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:38.239 the occasional saber or labris. Behind their booth was a Dreadnaughtus, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.000 one of the largest dinosaurs in history and one of 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:45.280 the largest dinosaurs in Helsinki. Though they ride any sauropod, 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.959 they use the Dreadnaughtis as their icon because its name 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:53.480 means fears nothing. In the banner over their booth. It reads, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.719 joined the Dreadnoughts. We have the highest mortality rate of 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:02.600 any unit in the Internationalist Army. Their spokesperson, a very 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.320 short man with a bright pink afro and brighter pink 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.480 full plate armor, wore a large pin with their slogan, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:15.040 live fast, kill racists, die young. That's right. Their claim 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.680 to fame is that they die a lot. The average 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.760 Dreadnought dies on their second engagement. Of the original thousand 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.480 fighters when the unit was formed in February of this 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.080 very year, only one hundred and twelve are still alive 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.720 in fighting. Their unit, though now boasts more than ten 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:38.160 thousand fighters. I swear to you World War three point 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:43.199 five is a war unlike any other in history. I 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.800 talked with their spokesperson, who introduced himself as Lord Glimmerdark, 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.559 for quite some time. The crux of my questioning was 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:57.319 quite simply, why why advertise based on a high mortality rate? 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.000 Half of you listeners are probably wondering the same thing. Well, 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.719 the other half of you, well, you probably know the 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:08.320 answer in your hearts. Lord Glimmerdark, Glimm to his friends, 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.400 answered honestly and at length, there's a whole lot of 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:16.280 simple answers and also a long answer. The simple answers 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.240 are things like, well, some people feel that the closer 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.080 you push towards death, the more you can feel alive, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.680 or that some people just have a death wish, or 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.480 that every fighter in the Dinah War lived through a 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.840 war where a billion people died, and death is so 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.520 inevitable and it's better for your mental health to embrace that. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.680 I mean, I have a mug for my swag bag 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:45.720 that basically makes that argument. I've built my career on 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:51.120 the idea of radical optimism strategic optimism. I can't encourage 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.200 any of you to join the Dreadnaughts. But oddly, talking 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:59.760 to Lord Glimmerdark, I realized these two positions are not 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.920 a fundamentally at odds as you might think. The Dreadnoughts 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:08.600 are not pushing despair. My position and their position are 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.840 what the theory heads would call in a dialectic with 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:17.000 each other. Radical optimism and fanatic nihilism, as the Dreadnought 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.360 philosophy is called, can work hand in hand to build 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:25.840 a better world. Glimmer Dark argues, fanatihilism is, of course 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:30.520 the long answer to my question, Lord Glimmerdark told me 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.160 about a text I hadn't read in a good thirty years, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.400 a text called We Are All Very Anxious. That piece 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.760 argues that every era of capitalism has had a dominant 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.800 affect that is utilized by capitalism to control its opposition. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.400 Before the first couple of world wars, that affect was misery, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:55.360 just keep everyone too miserable to rise up. After the wars, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.520 until around the turn of the century, it was boredom. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.680 The first century when that piece was written, it was anxiety. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:09.440 Everyone was too anxious to do something. Then after World 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:15.920 War III, it was as thenotonihilism proposes morbid fascination. This 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.400 is now the dominant affect of our times. They call 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.960 it morbidity, though obviously that's a new way of using 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:27.720 that word. Everyone was too obsessed with death to rise up, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:32.280 is the argument there. The problem for capitalism, glim argues, 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.360 is that each affect of each era can be utilized 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:40.480 as a form of resistance as well. The miserable created 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:45.320 the French Revolution, the board created the countercultures of the sixties, 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.320 the anxious started the fight for the future of the 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:54.000 twenty thirties, and the morbid Lord Glimmer Dark said, are 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.600 not afraid to kill Nazis because they're not at all 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.880 afraid to die. They merely wish for their deaths. They 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:06.960 have some sense of purpose. Lord Glimmerdark doesn't think that 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.360 everyone should become Dreadnoughts. Not everyone is going to want 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.240 to dress like a medieval knight, armed with rifle and grenade, 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.879 and ride a titanosaur into battle. They ride the titanosaurs 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.760 like the big dinosaurs, is not specific dinosaurs a type 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.920 of dinosaur. They ride them because they pack as many 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.760 as five people onto each mount. No Dreadnought dies alone, 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.440 is another one of their slogans. Not everyone is going 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.640 to want to join the army of the soon to die. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.360 Most people want to live. I know I want to live. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.119 I do like armor and swords, though I'm hoping a 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.920 more hopeful batch of medievalists pops up soon. In the 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.960 Strange Larp we call this war. When I pushed back 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:54.399 against his points, Glimmer Dark's deep brown eyes gleamed. Indeed, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.760 you could say they glimmered if I'm being honest. I 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.760 told him my work has always been to work to 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.359 accept death, but to use it to inspire a strong 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.840 desire to live, to fight back against death and killing 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:13.320 exactly exactly, he would scream excitedly from time to time, 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.680 even though I was trying desperately to disagree with the man. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.840 It might all be very dialectic, but I've been at 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.040 this for a very long time, and I don't really, 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.320 at the end of it all, know what that means. 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.240 The Dreadnought seemed to have it figured out, though, or 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.040 they've got something figured out. 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Everyone likes to think the war 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.440 on drones is over and done, but that ignores the 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.120 endless work put in by those unsung heroes, the engineers 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.320 under the big war, the Dino War. There's another war, 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:23.440 the drone war, the secret War. It's still going on. 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.920 There's an arms race still happening. The other side builds 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.960 new EMP shielding and gets some murder drone in past 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:34.840 a vish new shield So engineers on our side rush 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.040 to upgrade their EMPs, and then our side builds new 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:41.639 shielding and gets murder drones past their shields, and so 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:45.720 on and so on, forever without the drone fighters, the 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:48.560 people fighting against the drones, we'd be back into the 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.280 horrors of World War three instead of I suppose living 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:56.080 in the horrors of World War three point five. Still, 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:58.600 I had a nice visit with the engineers of the 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.880 California Cooperative, many of whom traveled all the way from 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:04.120 Silicon Valley to show off some of the products they've 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:06.320 been developing for the rank and file soldiers of the 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:11.040 Dino War this year. The latest trend is single use 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:14.960 wearables most likely to save the most lives. There's the 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:19.200 Crab with two bees. It's a belt mounted Vishnu shield 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:23.040 that automatically activates when it detects any autonomous drone within 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:26.440 its range, which is currently ten meters, but they're expecting 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:28.600 to get it out to fifty meters by next summer. 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:32.720 That difference matters, of course, With a ten meter shield 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:35.680 you need just about one for every soldier. With a 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.639 fifty meters shield, you could get away with one per squad. 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.119 I asked the spokesperson for California Cooperative why the product 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:47.680 was called the Crab, and, with usual gen bean's attitude, 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:50.760 they told me, yeah, well, I guess it sounds cool. 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:55.680 Which look, I know, I'm old and groucy, but that's 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:57.680 sort of what you'd expect to hear from someone from 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:04.200 a generation that decided to call itself Jen Beans. That's 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:06.800 the most get off my lawn thing I'll probably say 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:09.280 all podcast I managed to always do at least one 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:11.960 get off my lawn, you dang kids, every podcast I 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:14.320 try not to. I want you to know that, I 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:18.800 want you to know how hard I try. Besides the Crab, 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:21.960 the new hot item is the Goosey. It's spelled like 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:25.200 goose but with two of every letter. I did not 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.680 bother to ask why it's called the Goosey, nor why 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:31.200 it's spelled that way. It's a wristwatch basically, and it 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:35.080 even functions as one until it detects incoming drones, at 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:38.920 which point it activates a two meters shield. Like the Crab, 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:43.320 it's single use. Also like the Crab, though, the Goosey 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:46.440 saves data about the attack, and if you return to 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:49.760 the California Cooperative, they'll extract the data to build better 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:52.720 systems in the future and return it to you recharged 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:55.320 and ready to save your life again. If you don't 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.240 bother to return it. It's still an analog wristwatch after 0:23:58.320 --> 0:24:01.160 it's used up its single charge. They gave me one, 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:04.040 which is sweet because even though I'll never actually be 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:06.480 on the front lines at my age, the thing is 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:09.280 is that kind of everywhere is the front lines now, 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:12.520 and it's even more useful than my new edible wristwatch 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:15.080 that I will never eat. Maybe I'll give the edible 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:20.000 one to someone from jen Beans. I'm skeptical about these 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:23.840 single use personal shields. Drone fighters have struggled with the 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:27.600 same problem for ten years now. Everyone thinks that drones 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:31.639 are over nothing to be worried about. Why log around 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:34.240 a wristwatch or a belt mounted object you assume you'll 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:38.040 never use. Soldiers are famous for ditching everything they see 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:41.879 as dead weight. But still the drone fight goes on, 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:46.560 and the unsung heroes keep building new machines. It was 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:48.960 mid afternoon by that point, and the day was coming 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:51.600 to a close for me. I was grateful for my 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:54.200