1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media book Club book Club book Club. Hello 2 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: and welcome to Cool Zone Media book Club, the only 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: book club where I do the reading for you and 4 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: sometimes I do the writing for you, like this week. Well, 5 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: this week is yet another episode of Dino Wars, which 6 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: means that we are going to read to. 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:34,279 Speaker 2: You podcasts from the future. That's right, we have been 8 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 2: sent podcasts from Cool Zone Media twenty fifty five. That's 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: thirty years in the future for those of you who 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 2: are in the year twenty twenty five. But then if 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: you're listening to this further in the future, it'll be closer. 12 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 2: That's how numbers work, and time, which marsh is only forward. Anyway, 13 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 2: here's the episode, Hello and welcome Nicoles on twenty fifty five, 14 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 2: How to Survive the Dino Wars. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, 15 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: and this week we're bringing you something special. This week 16 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 2: we're bringing you a report from across the Iron Curtain, 17 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 2: from inside Nazi occupied Spain from the Catalonian Resistance. It's 18 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 2: near impossible to get information in and out of curtained 19 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 2: regions of the world, most of which are under permanent 20 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 2: conditions of Vishnu shielding. This report then, like I just said, 21 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 2: is something special. We received it on microfiche, one of 22 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 2: those technologies that was extinct before I was born. But 23 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 2: then again, we make use of a lot of technologies 24 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 2: and animals that were extinct before any of us were born. 25 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: This report was handwritten in code and then photographed and shrunk, 26 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 2: then tied to the wing of a pigeon. That pigeon 27 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 2: flew from Barcelona to Toulouse, where partisans recovered it, dkode 28 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: it and then passed along part of it to cool 29 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 2: Zone Media for us to read it to you. Well, 30 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 2: there was a lot more information besides what I'll be reading, 31 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 2: information about troop movements and all of that, but obviously 32 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 2: that's not for public consumption. That information stayed in to 33 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 2: lose where partisans are entrenched and holding back the Iberian 34 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 2: Phalanx at great cost and with great valor. This, then, 35 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 2: is a report from outside of Barcelona from our own 36 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:36,119 Speaker 2: anonymous correspondent. As you all are quite aware, cool Zone 37 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 2: Media works with a number of anonymous correspondents. One of 38 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 2: our dearest is a person who writes under the name 39 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 2: Mix Bunny Face Murder. When spelled out of course it's 40 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: just mix and then the bunny face emoji and then 41 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 2: the dagger emoji. That's how you know they're a zoomer. 42 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 2: For a while, Mixed Murder would read their own reports 43 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 2: and we'd run it through a voice changer. But all 44 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 2: of that changed two years ago when Nazi quantum computers 45 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 2: starting to be able to decrypt that stuff, and three 46 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 2: of my friends were killed. I mean a lot more 47 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 2: than three people were killed, but you know, in a 48 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,239 Speaker 2: time of mass death, you sometimes focus on the ones 49 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: closest to you. Anyway, All of this is to say 50 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 2: that other hosts, those of us who aren't anonymous, have 51 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 2: started voicing Mixed bunny Face Murder's work. Of course, one 52 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 2: of us would have to voice it anyway, because you know, 53 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 2: it showed up a microfiche, but that's besides the point. 54 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 2: The show is, of course, more or less family friendly. 55 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 2: If you want to hear the entire uncensored version of 56 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 2: the report, with all of Mixed bunny Face Murder's usual 57 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: sexual antics included, you'll have to check out our sister podcast, 58 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 2: Under the Pants and under the Ground. That episode will 59 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 2: be out soon. We're arguing in our signal chat right 60 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 2: now about who gets to record the more explicit version 61 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 2: of this tale. This report is titled in Bed with 62 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 2: the Dreadnaughts sixteen weeks in a Catalonian camp, surrounded by 63 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 2: hotties and brontos, and it's the first reporting any of 64 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 2: us have gotten out of Eastern Spain in half a year. 65 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 2: But first, before we get to that, there's one more 66 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 2: thing I want to talk about. That's right, I want 67 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 2: to talk about Dino Cadence. Dino'cadence is the academy for 68 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 2: dino riding, and I'm willing to bet that if you 69 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 2: can hear this podcast, there is a Dinocadence studio opened 70 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 2: somewhere near you. Not only are they the fastest growing 71 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 2: training program for riders and texts, they're also cool Zone 72 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 2: Media's biggest sponsor. And this week we would like to 73 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 2: tell listeners that Dinocadence has not forgotten its roots as 74 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 2: an exotic dinosaur dance troupe. In fact, thanks to all 75 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 2: of your support, Dinocadence is going on tour. That's right, 76 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 2: the world's finest burlesque sex show Circus Act is going 77 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 2: on tour to raise money for the Fight. Look them 78 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:01,919 Speaker 2: up up on your favorite apps or sites for dates 79 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 2: or tickets Dinohkaidence would like to remind all listeners that 80 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 2: while exotic dancers will be performing sexual displays on or 81 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 2: near dinosaurs, they will not be performing sexual displays with dinosaurs, 82 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 2: and the audience member who requests such a thing will 83 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 2: be escorted out immediately, so without further ado. Well, there 84 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 2: will likely be further ADO during the ad breaks, but 85 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: without immediate further ado. Here is my reading of the 86 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 2: safe for work ish version of in Bed with the 87 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 2: Dreadnoughts sixteen weeks in a Catalonian camp surrounded by hotties 88 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 2: and brontos by mixed bunny face murder. According to the 89 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 2: twenty fifty four report from Pew Pew Anti Fascist International Polling, 90 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 2: the number one reason why people join in internationalist army 91 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 2: or militia is to impress potential romantic or sexual partners 92 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 2: twenty eight percent of people. This just edges out saving 93 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 2: humanity from fashism at twenty seven percent, followed by to 94 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 2: get out of the house twelve percent, and well, I 95 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 2: was going to die soon anyway eleven percent. Other interesting 96 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 2: reasons include personal revenge for the death of a loved 97 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: one eight percent, for the glory of the new God 98 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,359 Speaker 2: Shalam Swartzbard point three percent for the glory of the 99 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 2: old gods point six percent, and I want to know 100 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 2: what it's like to kill someone point five percent. So 101 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 2: how did I wind up in Catalonia, trapped behind the 102 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 2: iron curtain? Wishing I'd known ahead of time that Catalonian 103 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 2: is a different language than Spanish. Well, I was with 104 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 2: the plurality. You see. I met this cute SIS girl 105 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 2: last year when I was reporting on the Internationalist Science 106 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 2: Convention in San Diego. And for any older listeners, we 107 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 2: should be clear that I'm using CIS in the ironic 108 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 2: sense developed by Jen Beans, where if you mark someone 109 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 2: as SIS when you're actually implying that they might not 110 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 2: be SIS, but without actually fully disclosing whether or not 111 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 2: they're SIS or trans, because it's not your business. She 112 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 2: was with the CNT, the anarcho Syndicalist Union with the 113 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 2: cute red and Black hats, and she was presenting on 114 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 2: the impact of sarrotergia like dinosaurs with flippers and shit 115 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 2: that live in the water on the climate changed warm Mediterranean, 116 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 2: which is what her doctorate was on. I figured I 117 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 2: didn't have a chance in hell at impressing her by 118 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 2: learning how to spell sarrogia and our emails. But maybe 119 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 2: I could impress her by doing some reporting on the 120 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 2: Catalonian Front, one of the hottest hot spots in the 121 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 2: whole world. Three point five. So me and my mediocre 122 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 2: Spanish packed ourselves into a troop transport carrying Maganesta forces 123 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 2: from San Diego to Barcelona, and I landed into a 124 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 2: city transformed. But first you should let yourself be transformed 125 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 2: by these ads. Do you love true crime? Do you 126 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 2: love biospawn? 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Warning the Council for 132 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 2: Accomplishing the impossible task of engaging in ethical warfare was 133 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 2: unable to independently verify that all the former Nazi scientists 134 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 2: interviewed for the show did so of their own free will, 135 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 2: Some or all of the testimony could have been coerced 136 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 2: under torture. The Council for accomplishing the impossible task of 137 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 2: engaging in ethical warfare. Would like to remind listeners that 138 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 2: testimony coursed under torture is less likely to be accurate 139 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 2: than testimony produced by repentant ex fascists. You know, times 140 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 2: sure are tough right now, what with the you know everything, 141 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 2: and I'm tired of everyone promising them you know how 142 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 2: to fix everything. That's why I drink Tough Times Tea. 143 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 2: Tough Times Tea makes absolutely no claims that their products 144 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 2: offer any medical or psychological benefits. They are not trying 145 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 2: to tell you that they're going to fix everything. There 146 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,439 Speaker 2: isn't even any caffeine. It might literally just be random 147 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 2: pine bark they put into little baggies and package of 148 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 2: cubes and mail to your house because these are tough 149 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 2: times and tea companies have to sell something, but real 150 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 2: tea is getting harder to find. Tough Times Tea is 151 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 2: absolutely just random pine bark collected from the front yard 152 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 2: of the Sole proprietorship. Independent studies are currently underway to 153 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 2: determine if Tough Times tea is actually worse for you 154 00:09:39,440 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 2: than drinking plain hot water. And we're back. You've heard 155 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 2: my reports on an Archo Syndicalis Catalonia on this show 156 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 2: before back before the Iron Curtain fell over the Iberian Peninsula, 157 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 2: or rather before that curtain extended all the way to 158 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 2: the eastern coast. You've heard me talk about the black 159 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 2: and red banners that are just fucking everywhere, hanging from 160 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 2: every building like it's all the set piece for some 161 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 2: old movie or something. You've heard me talk about the 162 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 2: communal meals that are served around the clock for free 163 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 2: to all comers in seized hotels, where people play music 164 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 2: and the social life of the city takes place when 165 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 2: it takes place inside. I showed up in the summer, 166 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 2: and twenty fifty four was, of course the hottest year 167 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,719 Speaker 2: on record, which isn't a surprise since every year or 168 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 2: two is the hottest year on record. But anyway, it 169 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 2: was hot as hell, so most social life took place 170 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 2: inside because the average day there was over forty degrees. 171 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 2: That's one hundred and four to you heathens in America. 172 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 2: You heard me talk about the arrogasaurs that wander the 173 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 2: streets covered in red and black barting. The aragosaurus has 174 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 2: become the de facto mascot of Spanish and arcosyndicalism. It's 175 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 2: named after the province of Aragon, and why did they 176 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 2: name their mascot after the province of Aragon. Well, all 177 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 2: throughout the twenty forties, of course, the Iberian Peninsula was 178 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 2: in revolt. Aragon, Catalonia, and the Bosque Country were, of course, 179 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 2: three of the most powerful internationalist strongholds, and Aragon declared 180 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 2: for an arcosyndicalism in twenty forty nine. Well. They also 181 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 2: declared for it in twenty twenty nine, twenty thirty four, 182 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 2: twenty thirty seven, twenty forty, twenty forty four, and twenty 183 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 2: forty eight, But in twenty forty nine it stuck for 184 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 2: a while. Catalonia and the Bosque Country rushed to follow, 185 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: and the revolts spread. Aragon was also the first to 186 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 2: fall when the Fascis took Aragon in twenty fifty two. 187 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 2: They took it heart. Of the one point five million 188 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 2: people living there, fully four one hundred thousand were killed, 189 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 2: roughly two hundred thousand joined the fascist forces in another 190 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 2: five hundred thousand fled to Catalonia. The Battle of Terragoza 191 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 2: has captured the world's dark imagination, so much so that 192 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 2: it gave the world a new style of art, the 193 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 2: dark imagination or just let escura in Spanish. The Dark 194 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 2: imagination is large scale, often many of the pieces are 195 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 2: meters on the side. The focuses on the suffering of 196 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,079 Speaker 2: the living at the hands of the biospawn, often using 197 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 2: the gray scale color scheme from Pablo Picasso's Guernica and 198 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 2: mixing Cubism with realism. Usually either the primary subject is 199 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 2: rendered in a Cubist style while the background is more realistic, 200 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 2: or vice versa. The actual battle, the Battle of Terragoza, 201 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 2: was quite simply one of the worst things that has 202 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 2: happened in human history. There have been higher death counts, 203 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:01,839 Speaker 2: there's been greater malice, but Terragoza was the first city 204 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 2: of its size to be torn asunder by half mad, screaming, 205 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 2: tortured hybrid humans. It was the Iberian Phalanx that first 206 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 2: weaponized biospahn built from humans, and the people of Terragoza 207 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 2: who did not escape in time were hunted down and 208 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 2: ripped apart limb from limb, turning the city into a 209 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 2: surreal landscape of brick and bone. The C Andt's militia, 210 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,599 Speaker 2: bolstered by allies from every left of fascist political persuasion 211 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 2: from France, Italy and Morocco performed heroically. Within hours of 212 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 2: the initial onslaught, they shifted their focus from holding the 213 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 2: city to defending the exodus of its population. Later, captured 214 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 2: intelligence confirmed their suspicions. The fascists were not attempting to 215 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 2: capture the city to rule it, nor even to exterminate 216 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 2: its population. The fascists were attempting to capture the city 217 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 2: in order to turn it into an open air research prison, 218 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 2: to perform terrace experiments upon its people, to turn them 219 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 2: into biospawn. General Alafonsa Bueneventura fell in the fighting in 220 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 2: a live stream moment that will live forever in our minds, 221 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 2: she with the rest of her polycule, covered the retreat 222 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 2: of her soldiers. As the four lovers were swarmed by shriekers, 223 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 2: She drew out a grenade and they all held hands. 224 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 2: She shouted something as she pulled the pin. We don't 225 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 2: know what she said, not really, it was lost to 226 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 2: the din. Some people looking at her lips, thinks she 227 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 2: shouted Viva Anarchia. Others believe it was Viva Aragon. You'll 228 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 2: be shocked to know that people whose primary allegiance is 229 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 2: to Anarcosyndicalism believe the former, while those who favor Aragonian 230 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 2: independence as their primary concern believe it was the latter. Certainly, 231 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 2: Alaphonsa believed in both causes, but Occam's Razor says that 232 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 2: it was Viva Anarchia, and so it's people fled and 233 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 2: aragon fell. Why was I telling you all of this? 234 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 2: Oh right, the dinosaurs. The Aragonosaurus has been the mascot 235 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 2: of the Iberian Revolution ever since, in memory of the 236 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 2: wasteland that is now patrolled by fascists. If you ever 237 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 2: want to flirt with a Spanish revolutionary a little too aggressively, 238 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 2: just at the edge of actually insulting them, call the 239 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 2: Aragonosaurus a brontosaurus. In English, we pretty much call anything 240 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 2: with four legs and a tiny head and a long 241 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 2: neck a bronto, But in Catalonia that's blasphemy. I spent 242 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 2: months living in and reporting on Barcelona. The revolution had 243 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 2: a sort of carnival air as social barriers broke down 244 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 2: and everyone became friends, comrades, and lovers. I never saw 245 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 2: my marine palaeontologist's friend again. Sadly, I've heard she's probably 246 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 2: in Italy now continuing her research in a place not 247 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 2: under such dire threat. The aquatic dinosaur support we get 248 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 2: here even under blockade has certainly been essential, so I'm 249 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 2: grateful to her, But that hasn't stopped me from well 250 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 2: joining in the festivities, so to speak. For the first 251 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 2: month or so I was there, I lived with a 252 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 2: polycule of internationals and a building that was squatted even 253 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 2: before property was collectivized in the city. I had some 254 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 2: good times with them, but I'm not really built for 255 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 2: polycule life. There are so many nights you don't want 256 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 2: to play Warhammer forty k and I found myself out 257 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 2: at the bars looking for something a bit more novel. 258 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 2: But I bet Margaret wants to do a family friendly 259 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 2: of this report. Yes, yes, I do, so. I won't 260 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 2: get into too much detail about all of that just here, 261 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 2: But what I bet Margaret does want to do is 262 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 2: cynically transition to ads in the middle of this important 263 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 2: update about world affairs. Sure I'd love to. This podcast 264 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 2: is proudly sponsored by the International Rice Harvesters Union. Are 265 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 2: you a rice harvester? 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That's right, 274 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:37,640 Speaker 2: after thirty some years, we finally got someone to give 275 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 2: us money to talk about potatoes. Potatoes are good. You 276 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 2: can grow them at home. You probably should grow them 277 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 2: at home because food shortages are a constant source of 278 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 2: suffering across the world. Grow your own survival garden with potatoes, 279 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 2: and we're back. During the day, I studied the anarcho 280 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 2: syndicalist movement, and I talked to its organizers about lessons 281 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 2: they've learned and what they wanted the rest of the 282 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 2: world to know. If I survive all of this, I 283 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 2: might turn that into a book. There's a big if 284 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 2: there about the surviving all of this. Ever since the 285 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,959 Speaker 2: Phalanx took Aragon, the demons of Hell have been at 286 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 2: our door. The Vishnu shields went up, and they've stayed 287 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 2: up because force equalization favors the defender. The exodus or 288 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 2: lepikina ritorata. The little retreat happened a couple months ago. Now. 289 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 2: It was a beautiful action, performed perfectly. The Mediterranean was 290 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 2: swarming with biospahn, horrid murrhman creatures and zombie sharks and 291 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 2: just some of the worst things imaginable, Pleaseeosaur riders and 292 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: the CNT Navy, alongside the decent sized chunk of the 293 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 2: Irish Republican Navy, fought back the shrieking in the sea. 294 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 2: Most citizens, even the non combatants, and what does that 295 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 2: word even mean anymore. I'm a reporter and I carry 296 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 2: an ar fifteen. Most people elected to stay Barcelona, they swear, 297 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 2: will not become another Terragoza, considering a rather large chunk 298 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 2: of people here themselves fled Terragoza or Aragon. More broadly, 299 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 2: it's not an empty statement when they say that. But 300 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 2: researchers and engineers fled, bringing with them a decent chunk 301 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 2: of the cloning factories of the city, since those don't 302 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 2: work under vish new conditions. And there are many, many 303 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 2: people who rely on electricity for their work and their 304 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 2: wartime contributions, or even the just their day to day 305 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 2: physical health and survival. Tens of thousands of people loaded 306 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 2: into boats and sailed off for it Italy, and we 307 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 2: did not lose a single civilian boat or civilian Three 308 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 2: Irish and five sea and te ships went down, but 309 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 2: nearly every one of those sailors was rescued. There are 310 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 2: seventeen martyred heroes of the little retreat. I watched the 311 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 2: whole thing from the roof of a beachside motel, with 312 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 2: the rest of the press relying on actual binoculars and 313 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 2: telescopes instead of the drones I was used to using. 314 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 2: The shrieking was overwhelming for hours until it wasn't until 315 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 2: the sailors beat back the half living monsters of the sea, 316 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 2: until the tide washed red. And I'm not being as 317 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 2: hyperbolic here as you might imagine. The whole sea didn't 318 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 2: change color, but blood and bodies washed up for weeks 319 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 2: after the battle. The night of the battle, I took 320 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 2: six of those Irish Republican sailors home with me to 321 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 2: show them a little bit of syndicless hospitality. They drank 322 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 2: in honor of their friend they had lost that day. 323 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 2: Chuvaan was her name. I drank in honor of her too, 324 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 2: but it wasn't alcohol that I wanted going down my throat. 325 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 2: And then at this point, Mick's bunnyface murderer hand wrote 326 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 2: the code for an eggplant emoji so that it too 327 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 2: could be encrypted and then decrypted, even though it's an 328 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 2: audio medium. I only managed to file one report after 329 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 2: the Vishnu shield went up, a now peer reviewed preliminary 330 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 2: study on the sexual cultural differences of Irish Republican volunteers 331 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 2: and Catalonian and arcosyndicalists and the compatibilities of the two. 332 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 2: I did a lot of research for that study, got 333 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 2: a special chair to sit in the corner and observe 334 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 2: my subjects and everything. I got that study out look 335 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 2: forward in the Journal of Applied Sexuality. It should be 336 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 2: out by the time that you read this. But that 337 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 2: was it. The Iron curtain came down fast. The Falalaxi's 338 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 2: naval blockade has proven impenetrable to any but the canniest 339 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,199 Speaker 2: of deep sea divers. The ar armies arrayed around us 340 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 2: are far too great for the brave few soldiers who 341 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 2: remain in Catalonia. So far we've repelled every attack, but 342 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 2: Catalonia is a land under siege. It will not survive 343 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 2: without international support. We desperately need someone, anyone, to attack 344 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 2: fascist Spain while they are busy with us. Most of 345 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 2: the fighting isn't in Barcelona. Sure, occasionally a terror unit 346 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 2: of the enemy will sneak in some zombies or some 347 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,959 Speaker 2: terrible biospawn monsters, but the population here is armed and organized, 348 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 2: so those biospawn are neutralized quickly before they can do 349 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:44,239 Speaker 2: too much damage to people or morale. Most of the 350 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 2: fighting is in the countryside. I decided to embed myself 351 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,879 Speaker 2: with an international unit of mostly American and British stegosaurus 352 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 2: riders who call themselves the thag Hags, after the phagamizer, 353 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 2: the spiky bit at the end of a stegosaurus's tail. 354 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 2: They are led by Captain Simmons, a black British chap 355 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 2: who has taken to wearing a pith helmet ironically and 356 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:10,919 Speaker 2: smoking a pipe earnestly. He's truly a wonderful man and 357 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 2: monogamously married before anyone asks, who cares deeply about the 358 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 2: people under his command, and even more about the stegosaurs. 359 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 2: We rode off to the front under a hail of 360 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 2: confetti and flowers. I cried, look, lots of stuff make 361 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 2: me cry. I cried writing about that polycule clutching the grenade, 362 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 2: yelling something or other with their last words. I cried 363 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 2: watching the battle as people fled the city. I even 364 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 2: cried during the festivities after the battle. The thag Hags 365 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 2: number only two hundred people and eighty seven stagosaurs, but 366 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 2: there were eight thousand of us marching out of the 367 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 2: city that day to the front. Many of the Irish 368 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 2: Republican Volunteers were there with us, as were a thousand 369 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 2: pan Affanists who'd been defending the city for years at 370 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 2: that point and had been preparing to head home but 371 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 2: have been trapped by the Iron Curtain. There was also, curiously, 372 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 2: a unit of Dreadnoughts. I don't know if you've covered 373 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 2: them on the show before. I haven't been able to 374 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 2: listen for a while now. I'm sorry about that, but 375 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 2: they're this unit with a rather unique selling point. They 376 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 2: boast the highest mortality rate of any unit in the 377 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 2: Internationalist forces. Their recruitment materials proudly declare that the average 378 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 2: Dreadnought dies in their second engagement. They marched in their 379 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 2: medieval armor beside or astride their massive war soars. It 380 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 2: was strange to be in their company. They're like a 381 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 2: walking Memento Morii. I determined that once we got to 382 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: the front I would get to know some of them 383 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 2: a little bit better. There's something incredibly seductive about death 384 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 2: and about those who straddle the line between life and death. 385 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 2: I don't really know if in French they actually call 386 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 2: orgasms little deaths, but if they do, it makes sense 387 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 2: to me. So we marched out of the city, out 388 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 2: to the camp at the place. I can't tell you, 389 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 2: and I can't tell you how long it took us 390 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 2: to get there, but eventually we got there. We got 391 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 2: to the front. As for what I saw while I 392 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,880 Speaker 2: was there, the audience is going to have to wait 393 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 2: another week unless Cool Zone Media has changed its schedule 394 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 2: since I've been gone. And that's it for part one 395 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,399 Speaker 2: of In Bed with the Dreadnoughts by Mixed Bunny Face Murder. 396 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 2: We'll be back with more of it next week, Okay, 397 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,399 Speaker 2: Margaret in twenty twenty five. Here just letting you know 398 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 2: that if you like my writing, you might like my 399 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 2: upcoming book, The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. If you 400 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,439 Speaker 2: heard me read a book called The Lamb Will Slaughter 401 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 2: the Lion to Robert Evans here on cool Zone Media 402 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,159 Speaker 2: book Club. Well, this book, The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice, 403 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 2: is a sort of prequel to that one. It's technically 404 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 2: the third in the series, and it's going to be 405 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 2: kickstarted soon March twenty twenty five, and you can sign 406 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 2: up for notifications by searching the Immortal Choir Kickstarter. Because 407 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 2: no one's ever going to remember the full title of 408 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 2: my books, because that's the way I title my books. 409 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,919 Speaker 2: I name them things like the Barrow will send what 410 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 2: it may. Anyway, if you search the Immortal Choir Kickstarter 411 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 2: and go to the pre launch page over there, you 412 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 2: can click a little like tell me about when it 413 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 2: goes live button, and you should because then you'll know 414 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,639 Speaker 2: about it when the kickstarter goes live, and I'll have 415 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 2: audiobooks of all three Daniel Kaine books available through that kickstarter, 416 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 2: I believe too. 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