Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media. Welcome to it could happen here. It
Speaker 1: is twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: A lie, it's twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Robert has just pissed everybody off for the last three
Speaker 1: minutes and fourteen seconds.
Speaker 2: That listener, Sophie is gaslighting you. It is still December.
Speaker 1: When they listen to this, it'll be twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: You don't know that.
Speaker 1: I do know that I'm in charge. Okay, moving on,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do some listener questions today, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, give a shout out to each
Speaker 1: member of our team. We have Shrien Lanna Enis, we
Speaker 1: have James Stout, we have Mio Wong, we have Garrison Davis,
Speaker 1: and we have Big Bobby E.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: And we're going to answer some listener questions. Thank you
Speaker 1: for those, to those who have submitted, anybody else want
Speaker 1: to say anything before I start?
Speaker 3: Besides Robert, thank you about half of those.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need to have a chat with yourselves.
Speaker 3: You know who you are.
Speaker 2: I don't think they do. I don't think our listeners
Speaker 2: are very self actualized.
Speaker 3: All right, Sophie, take it away to each of you.
Speaker 1: Any book recommendations for introduction to anarchist history and or theory.
Speaker 2: If I may.
Speaker 4: There's a book called Great Anarchists by Dog Section Press.
Speaker 4: It's written by Ruth Kinner, who's been on the podcast.
Speaker 4: It's got very short bios of different great anarchists. I
Speaker 4: think you will enjoy it. I think you can get
Speaker 4: the PDF for free online. I like to print them
Speaker 4: out and put them in a little libraries a rich
Speaker 4: people like to have in their neighborhoods and red pill them,
Speaker 4: black pill them slowly that way. So yeah, Great Anarchists
Speaker 4: by Dog Section Press from Dog Section Press by Ruth McKinnon.
Speaker 5: My one is kind of it's slightly more specialized, but
Speaker 5: Anarchism in Latin America is a great book. Also, the
Speaker 5: cover is just gorgeous, so you'll have that around all
Speaker 5: the time. But yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 5: Basically it goes country by countries through Latin America and
Speaker 5: talk about allthr anarchist movements and it's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it's not. It's sort of anarchists, I suppose.
Speaker 3: But I've been doing a lot of union stuff recently,
Speaker 3: so I've been thinking a lot about the concept of work.
Speaker 3: So I've kind of returned to this really good book
Speaker 3: Crime Think put out titled Work Very very basic, look
Speaker 3: into sort of like anarchist almost like anti work theory.
Speaker 3: It's just a nice book to interrogate how the concept
Speaker 3: of like work in labor exists in your own head.
Speaker 3: I've appreciated that one through the years.
Speaker 1: Shrine or Robert, either of you.
Speaker 6: I second all those answers. Amazing answers.
Speaker 2: Everybody, Well, yeah, I cannot read, so I'm gonna second
Speaker 2: those answers.
Speaker 3: Robert recommends the book. Isn't it like the No God's
Speaker 3: No Master's a k Press one with the Chaos Star.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot of like old anarchists essays and
Speaker 2: shit starting in like the eighteen hundreds, So if you're
Speaker 2: interested in that kind of history, you can read.
Speaker 1: That all right. Next question. I think this will be
Speaker 1: different depending on the type of episode and like what
Speaker 1: show people are writing it for. But I got several
Speaker 1: different people asking, you know, how long it takes to
Speaker 1: research rate like an average episode, So we're talking like
Speaker 1: not talking like a series such as Garrison's Stop Coop
Speaker 1: City series, but like an average episode where you're talking
Speaker 1: about something and it's a scripted episode, but you're talking
Speaker 1: about something sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean some episodes take months if but an
Speaker 3: average episode, usually if I'm putting it together, it might
Speaker 3: take me like four days from start to completion. Like
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of my of my DeSantis fast Wave episodes.
Speaker 3: Usually you'll have like maybe two days of more research
Speaker 3: and then two days of like well, then like one
Speaker 3: day of like script and then editing that script on
Speaker 3: like the fourth day, and then you record. So yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe around that. I mean, some episodes come together
Speaker 3: faster as some episodes come together longer. It really really varies.
Speaker 6: Shoot shoo, Yeah, I would agree with that timeline. I
Speaker 6: think three to four days sounds about right. I've been
Speaker 6: trying to take an extra day just to read through
Speaker 6: the script like multiple times, just because I've been it's
Speaker 6: just better for like my performance. It's like, where does
Speaker 6: that sounds?
Speaker 1: So? Yeah, I would say, like, uh, when you write
Speaker 1: a script, the worst thing you can do is immediately
Speaker 1: read it after you've finished writing it.
Speaker 6: And I've made that mistake before. I would definitely have,
Speaker 6: so taking time is important.
Speaker 1: Yeah, James, me and Robert, anything you want to add.
Speaker 2: I spent thirty five years preparing for the sheet podcasts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it really depends on the episode. If it's an interviewer,
Speaker 2: I'll spend maybe a couple of hours, you know, studying
Speaker 2: up on everything the person has said. If it's a
Speaker 2: scripted episode, a scripted half hour to forty five minutes
Speaker 2: of the show is generally five to seven pages. That's
Speaker 2: maybe an hour or two to write, and then four
Speaker 2: to six hours of research. Although it kind of depends,
Speaker 2: you know, because a lot of it's based on just
Speaker 2: sort of like ongoing research, right, where whereas like something
Speaker 2: will happen in the news and we'll do some studying
Speaker 2: up on that event. But we're also keeping in touch
Speaker 2: with like like when we have episodes on terrorist attacks
Speaker 2: and whatnot. Like I don't know how to actually like
Speaker 2: lay out how much time goes into those episodes, because
Speaker 2: a large part of it is just the process of
Speaker 2: like keeping up with the way terror is evolving in America.
Speaker 2: We will have beats, right, Like we will have that
Speaker 2: we just keep up with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like we're not counting all the time that we
Speaker 3: spend like in telegram just like watching right, but but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: sure it.
Speaker 4: Second time this year Garrison's found themselves too old to
Speaker 4: understand a youth reference.
Speaker 1: My next question, what conspiracy theory or unsolved mystery do
Speaker 1: each of you believe in?
Speaker 3: The dangerous question? First answer on air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I just want to point out that Garrison
Speaker 1: sent me this question to ask, so there must.
Speaker 6: Be an answer in mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are a Garrison danger Davis?
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I I don't know what what even I'm
Speaker 3: not sure if I believe in anything that would be
Speaker 3: classified as a conspiracy theory, I would have to I
Speaker 3: would have to think on this. Actually, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't believe in it. I fucking love bohemium growth stuff.
Speaker 2: It's like one of the ogs, you know, from the
Speaker 2: beginnings of the Internet, and it just can't get enough
Speaker 2: about people who have just never deviated from the bohemian growth.
Speaker 2: That dude who went there with the combination AR fifteen
Speaker 2: shotgun and tried to destroy Bohemian grove legend. I love
Speaker 2: reading about that stuff. It's nonsense, but it's fun.
Speaker 5: I mean, like I actually have Sorry, oh oh no,
Speaker 5: go please, okay, okay, we'll we're doing We're doing We're
Speaker 5: doing this oneing. Okay, if you if you were on
Speaker 5: the live show, you've heard this. If you were not
Speaker 5: on the live show you have which is that?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: From from the late nineteen seventies until the early nineteen
Speaker 5: eighties when it was busted by the Italian police, the
Speaker 5: Italian government is run by a rogue Masonic lodge called
Speaker 5: the Peach Organization. God, you know, it's propaganda duet, very
Speaker 5: various elements, Okay. So there's this thing going on here,
Speaker 5: there's various elements. Use the Red Brigades as as a
Speaker 5: way to assassinate Eldo Morrow. They take them to a
Speaker 5: hotel that is like it's run by like one of
Speaker 5: the Red Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Is one of the sort of the communist cardinals.
Speaker 5: Is like in this building is like a NATO weapons
Speaker 5: is like someone a NATO weapons dealer, an Italian general.
Speaker 3: Red lasers. I think I see a red laser hovering
Speaker 3: over this is all real. This was this.
Speaker 2: Look, this is the Raises eighty three.
Speaker 5: It's the thing.
Speaker 1: Is the thing?
Speaker 2: Is that? Okay?
Speaker 5: So every conspiracy theory on earth is real, but it
Speaker 5: was only real from about nineteen seventy seven to nineteen
Speaker 5: eighty three in Italy. Like all of them are there
Speaker 5: at the same time, Like during the alder Moro assassination.
Speaker 5: Like the two groups trying to free Elder Morro are
Speaker 5: the Pope on the one hand, and then well I
Speaker 5: actould ask sure. There's there's the Pope who's working through
Speaker 5: an Israeli guy in the castinet, and the other is
Speaker 5: the PFL piece.
Speaker 4: She's got one of them the you.
Speaker 5: Haven't even gotten okay, like one of the one of
Speaker 5: the one of the guys who make sures who make
Speaker 5: sure that the elder Moro dies. Is he's like a
Speaker 5: now one, he's now insane Alex Jones conspiracy guy. Like
Speaker 5: he's on Alex Jones all the time. He was like,
Speaker 5: here's the hostage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's the guy. Yeah yeah, he's a he's
Speaker 2: a regular fixture.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So like the people try to kill it, Like the
Speaker 5: both the US Soviets, independently of each other, are both
Speaker 5: trying to make sure this guy dies.
Speaker 2: Say what the East Germans?
Speaker 3: I the fucking what's it called?
Speaker 5: The bider Mainehoff group, the weird germano.
Speaker 2: Alright, Meanwhile, I am I am a nine to eleven truther.
Speaker 2: Uh in the my god, I don't believe that when
Speaker 2: you call nine to one one it goes anywhere. I
Speaker 2: think I think they're just hooking you up to an AI.
Speaker 2: It's it's a conn people.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, Rudy Giuliani has to pay those uh Georgia
Speaker 1: election workers one hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2: Funny. I feel like he's got that. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 2: like he's got that hanging around. It will be good.
Speaker 1: No, but he literally defamed the ship out of those lovely,
Speaker 1: lovely people.
Speaker 2: He I mean, defamation is like of what he does.
Speaker 3: Okay, new favorite conspiracy theory. Panera Bread made the deadly
Speaker 3: lemonade on purpose as a.
Speaker 2: Whatever who cares wait genocide. That's why see, I fully
Speaker 2: support the lemonade that kills you. I think we need
Speaker 2: more lemonade that kills Pete.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick guide break. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we are back. What are you most excited to
Speaker 1: work on this year? Slashould be a part of create.
Speaker 2: What are we most excited to work on? Next year?
Speaker 2: And I've been stockpiling a lot of and so I
Speaker 2: I got some plans. I got some plans. I got
Speaker 2: some plans.
Speaker 3: Do we believe they or not? That's that's the real question.
Speaker 2: I don't know that that's someone else's job to decide.
Speaker 4: I can tell you from experience that the ATF will
Speaker 4: visit your employer if you conclude instructions on how.
Speaker 2: To make you in your work. It's legal.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, and.
Speaker 2: They'll still believe you.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Garrison.
Speaker 3: I'm planning to attend a whole bunch of more kind
Speaker 3: of occult conferences or paranormal conventions and and get get
Speaker 3: more into the high strangeness world this year. That's that's
Speaker 3: something I'm I'm excited about.
Speaker 6: I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: We're launching a weekly show with Jimmie Loftus starting in
Speaker 1: the spring that I'm very excited to be producing. So
Speaker 1: look out for that.
Speaker 5: I Okay, I've been working on this for a fucking
Speaker 5: year now, but it's coming next year, which is my
Speaker 5: my episodes on the lab League stuff. I have a
Speaker 5: corkboard that makes that entire Italy Doubts corkboard. I've spent
Speaker 5: so many hours talking to epidemiologists. Yeah, losing my mind.
Speaker 5: But it's coming, it will happen. I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 3: You have been talking about these episodes for quite a while.
Speaker 2: Literally a year. Yeah, it's I have agreed to do
Speaker 2: a podcast that is going to be a nightmare, but
Speaker 2: you'll you'll all love it. You'll all love it as
Speaker 2: it ruins my life. And uh, I don't know. Probably
Speaker 2: eventually the Robert E. Lee episodes, we'll get those out.
Speaker 2: You know what I've been doing. I've been working on
Speaker 2: a T E. Lawrence series of episodes so that I'm
Speaker 2: very excited about, amazing Lawrence of Arabia, the guy who
Speaker 2: invented the concept of insurgency. So that'll that'll be good.
Speaker 2: That'll be a good series.
Speaker 4: I hope Robert and I get to go back to
Speaker 4: Amy and Ma and do maybe a visit to some
Speaker 4: different groups. That would be cool. I would like that.
Speaker 4: I'm excited to do more migration stuff. Yeah, spend more
Speaker 4: time and on different parts of the migration journey, because
Speaker 4: I think that's something I've wanted to do for a
Speaker 4: long time, and like I've.
Speaker 2: Seen a lot of people do really shitty versions of it.
Speaker 4: So I'm excited to give you a cracket at not
Speaker 4: doing a cringe, veryeuristic version of that.
Speaker 1: Everyone else have an answer to that, did you answer, Shranny?
Speaker 6: I didn't. I feel like I have two answers, like one,
Speaker 6: I'm not excited at all, because I feel like the
Speaker 6: most when I'm most motivated, it's when i'm the most angry,
Speaker 6: and so I'm not excited for things to make me
Speaker 6: angry and upset, but I am looking forward to I
Speaker 6: think I like when I have people on that are
Speaker 6: like experts or they have knowledge that I don't, and
Speaker 6: so I like the possibility of having more conversations that
Speaker 6: are enlightening, I suppose. And yeah, I also I would
Speaker 6: like to talk more about corn and food that maybe
Speaker 6: I should focus on that, maybe I should focus on
Speaker 6: something could happen here. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's something I
Speaker 6: look forward to, something to be fun.
Speaker 3: We definitely want to do more far animal episode, yes,
Speaker 3: and more food episodes, but no, surely you You bring
Speaker 3: up a good point about how this kind of whole
Speaker 3: show works is that all of the best stuff we make,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, is always related to things that we're
Speaker 3: passionate about, and passion can come in a few forms.
Speaker 3: Anger is something that is a big driver of passion,
Speaker 3: but that's you know, usually less fun. So it's always
Speaker 3: nice and we can be able to cover something that
Speaker 3: we are passionate about, but it comes from not a
Speaker 3: place of anger. But it comes from a place of like,
Speaker 3: like like genuine like intense interest.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like I genuinely love corn. I loved the conversation
Speaker 6: about sheep, So I look forward to the possibility of
Speaker 6: making things not just when I'm like enraged and more
Speaker 6: when I'm like that's a good point. That's a good
Speaker 6: point that passion can can come from different things, because
Speaker 6: I was just as passionate talk about corn than I
Speaker 6: was to talk about an important thing that happened.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I have a specific question that I vetted
Speaker 1: to James ahead of time, which is, do you have
Speaker 1: any stories about meeting fans or listeners?
Speaker 4: I r l.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 4: I've just tepping onto your York and air your trauma.
Speaker 4: Please approach Robert when he's playing groceries. But but yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: do do it.
Speaker 1: Don't.
Speaker 2: He's very ticklish. I am always armed in the grocery store,
Speaker 2: so please don't do That's why you kind of tickle him.
Speaker 2: Don't tick or rubbitt guys. It's weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so loads of people are not loads, but a
Speaker 4: lot of people who have listened to our podcast who
Speaker 4: come to help in a cumber and they're all very nice.
Speaker 4: And I've enjoyed building gorts and making sandwiches and ladeling
Speaker 4: out beans with them immensely, and it genuinely does make
Speaker 4: me really happy because it can like when we do
Speaker 4: the podcast, we see like each other in our little
Speaker 4: rooms and and then it just goes out into the
Speaker 4: ether and you never know who's listening. And so it's
Speaker 4: really cool when people listen and then like show up
Speaker 4: and do something that meaningfully makes the world a better place.
Speaker 4: And that makes me feel very hopeful. And that's another
Speaker 4: like passion I think, Like I think, especially the mutual
Speaker 4: age stuff we've done at the border, it makes me
Speaker 4: feel really hopeful that like we can do things just
Speaker 4: fine without the state and without the resources of Masters
Speaker 4: of capital and without any major sort of orgs or
Speaker 4: like institutions behind us, Like we can just help each
Speaker 4: other and do amazing things. So yeah, when people show
Speaker 4: up for that, it's cool. Slightly weird when they show
Speaker 4: up listening to the podcast and I hear myself in
Speaker 4: their car, it's not okay. But other than that, yeah,
Speaker 4: I try to catch up with those people. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I too would be trying to catch up if I
Speaker 4: had to listen to all the stuff we put out.
Speaker 6: I think it's honestly really cool that people show up
Speaker 6: for that kind of stuff. It makes it makes so
Speaker 6: much of the weird parts of being a podcast host
Speaker 6: worth it when stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's something that that me has been pointing out recently,
Speaker 3: how we seem to be one of in terms of, like,
Speaker 3: you know, podcasts that that that cover the sort of
Speaker 3: things we do. We're our fan base seems to be
Speaker 3: relatively offline in a lot of ways, and a lot
Speaker 3: of a lot of them Actually, a lot of the
Speaker 3: people actually do a lot of real world stuff, which
Speaker 3: is great. Like that's that that That's kind of the
Speaker 3: entire point is that most of the things we talk about,
Speaker 3: there's there's there's ways that you have the power to
Speaker 3: change it in small ways.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's no like large immediate effects, like you solve the
Speaker 3: problem immediately, but there's there's always small things that can
Speaker 3: that can slowly change the tide of many of the
Speaker 3: problems that we discuss every day.
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Speaker 1: And we're back. I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna ask, what's
Speaker 1: everyone's favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 3: Okay, so I I have already talked about my annual
Speaker 3: Batman Returns watch party, which was a great, a great
Speaker 3: success this year. It was a big hit. I made tons.
Speaker 3: I made about probably like four dozen lotcaus.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: We got to.
Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, Robert, you should do this for jobs kind
Speaker 3: of humor.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, what a dub.
Speaker 3: But no, we got we got a nice group of
Speaker 3: people to to google at Danny Dibrito vomiting black U
Speaker 3: for approximately two hours. O. That was a big win.
Speaker 3: It's it's by far the best Christmas movie in my in.
Speaker 6: My no, I agree, it's my favorite one by far,
Speaker 6: and Banger and my family have watched it consistently since
Speaker 6: I was like a child, like but like since I
Speaker 6: was like two years old as old. We just were
Speaker 6: obsessed with it. And I don't remember if you said
Speaker 6: this last year and I already this is like a
Speaker 6: repeat of the conversation. But I agree, that's the best
Speaker 6: Christmas movie I can think of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Michael Keaton, total domination.
Speaker 6: Here we go, best best Batman by miles. He's just
Speaker 6: miles away from So.
Speaker 1: When I was growing up, my parents used to ditch
Speaker 1: my brother and I and go to the Laker game on.
Speaker 3: Christmas and we just explained so much.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so much, Sophie.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, think I love you, I love your parents
Speaker 1: and I and I respect it. But my brother and
Speaker 1: I used to watch like we would spend the entire
Speaker 1: day watching all the like Hobbin and Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings movies.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: Nice, that just feels that feels like Christmas to me.
Speaker 3: Sure, I mean yeah, especially the animated ones definitely have
Speaker 3: that kind of like fantasy jolly kind of feel.
Speaker 1: Totally Yeah, I uh yeah, anybody else.
Speaker 4: I like to watch Love actually, but it's very pretty dreams.
Speaker 4: It's so basic of you, I know, Yeah, I'm secretly
Speaker 4: basic White Lady. Every time I watch it's something else
Speaker 4: problematic that I hadn't previously fought before, And it's getting
Speaker 4: to a point where I should probably stop talking about
Speaker 4: it in public.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now the audience knows who's the biggest wife guy
Speaker 3: on the team.
Speaker 1: Is definitely James. This is a question for Robert, looking
Speaker 1: back on season one, if it could happen here, do
Speaker 1: you still see a second civil American Civil War as
Speaker 1: a likely or plausible event in our near future?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's possible. We're going to
Speaker 2: look back on where we are right now as the
Speaker 2: earlier stages of it. Right civil conflict is pretty widespread.
Speaker 2: I think one of the differences, like, for example, one
Speaker 2: of the big differences with.
Speaker 3: That the Texas California Alliance.
Speaker 2: Yeahour Civil War movie is it's clearly imagining like a
Speaker 2: large scale military conflict. I don't find that particularly likely.
Speaker 1: But you do have.
Speaker 2: One major political party stating that when we take power
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, our guys going to act as
Speaker 2: a dictator. He's going to imprison and execute his political opponents.
Speaker 2: And you have widespread acts of violence and violent threats
Speaker 2: that are occurring as part of a as part of
Speaker 2: the political conflicts that have existed in this country for
Speaker 2: a while. They've all transitioned to being kind of explicitly
Speaker 2: acts of public violence or at least public threats of violence.
Speaker 2: You're seeing this, for example, lot of the discourse surrounding
Speaker 2: what's happening in Gaza, Right, you just had that case
Speaker 2: where like some fucking like grade school teacher threatened to
Speaker 2: cut a student's throat for criticizing Israel. Like the degree
Speaker 2: to which people who are, if you'll forgive the less
Speaker 2: technical term, pieces of shit, feel emboldened to use and
Speaker 2: threaten violence in the furtherance of their political agendas is
Speaker 2: something we may wind up seeing. Is like, yeah, we
Speaker 2: were in it by this point. So again I'm not
Speaker 2: a believer, and a big part of it could happen
Speaker 2: here is like, don't I don't think any mass civil
Speaker 2: conflict in the United States is going to be armies
Speaker 2: fighting over states, right, yeah, because that's that's simply not realistic.
Speaker 2: But I do think we are in what any reasonable
Speaker 2: person would call a mass civil conflict. And you know,
Speaker 2: my big question is whether or not we're going to
Speaker 2: see it as a civil conflict or as an extension
Speaker 2: of a global conflict, which includes outright shooting wars but
Speaker 2: also mass information warfare in this kind of planetary struggle,
Speaker 2: between the idea, at least if not the promise that
Speaker 2: democracy is the kind of goal, and the strongly held
Speaker 2: belief by large groups of people that we need an
Speaker 2: authoritarian system governed effectively by the people who are presently
Speaker 2: in power. Right you are seeing this kind of struggle
Speaker 2: between the idea that we should have a system in
Speaker 2: which people are allowed to pick their leaders and this
Speaker 2: idea that, like the winners of the last twenty years
Speaker 2: of capitalism and politics, should be able to solidify their
Speaker 2: hold forever. So my big question is whether or not
Speaker 2: we're going to come to see where we are right
Speaker 2: now as the early stages of a civil conflict that's
Speaker 2: going to get progressively more violent and have a progressively
Speaker 2: higher body count. Or are we going to see this
Speaker 2: as part of a global military and political struggle that
Speaker 2: is going to kind of shake out the next hundred
Speaker 2: years of kind of the political status quo on Earth,
Speaker 2: and in a similar way to like World War Two,
Speaker 2: you know, more or less laid out the next eighty
Speaker 2: or ninety or something like that.
Speaker 1: I've got two more questions.
Speaker 2: Sounds good.
Speaker 1: First, do you each of you have a favorite episode
Speaker 1: you've put out?
Speaker 2: We're all trying not to say the come episode the
Speaker 2: same time.
Speaker 1: I really have I have some really bad at all,
Speaker 1: I really some bad news. That was the most I
Speaker 1: downloaded episode of Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Everybody loves Look Everybody loves loves talking about come Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Sharine, with you.
Speaker 2: Sorry, soph you've been out voted.
Speaker 1: I'm never I'm never out voted. I have ultimate veto power.
Speaker 4: Guys, struggle was talking about right here on the side disgusting.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's certainly hard to even pick one
Speaker 3: episode just from this year. I mean, but it's the
Speaker 3: com episode. Yeah, I will say the episode was fun
Speaker 3: to put together. I we we really delved into the
Speaker 3: the trenches there that few enough would you say it?
Speaker 3: Would you say it really came together.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm going to answer these questions for each
Speaker 1: of you with each of your work. Thank you, Thank
Speaker 1: you because I'm a professional. Garrison skop Crop City were
Speaker 1: because when just that I really tell I tell this
Speaker 1: sticking out of the time. They're the most amazing storyteller.
Speaker 1: You really feel like you are. You're able to visualize
Speaker 1: everything going on with the words that they say, and
Speaker 1: I think it's an important story that they've been on
Speaker 1: top of since the beginning. I don't think anybody covers
Speaker 1: labor issues in the way that Mia does, and I
Speaker 1: think Mia has really done that in twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: and we'll continue that in twenty twenty four in a
Speaker 1: way that's not being covered in mainstream media. And I
Speaker 1: think that those stories are extremely important and have made
Speaker 1: a significant impact on labor and union culture and strikes
Speaker 1: and fighting for what's right. James Man, it's like I
Speaker 1: want to say, I want to say the work you
Speaker 1: do at the Border, but I really love when you
Speaker 1: talk about things that are silly, and I think they're
Speaker 1: equally as important. But James James talking about sheep and
Speaker 1: the joy that James had when he talked about sheep
Speaker 1: is U is really special.
Speaker 6: But also the work that.
Speaker 1: You've done talking about the word MEMR and helping people
Speaker 1: at the border has been extremely impactful to our listeners.
Speaker 1: Shoe Shoe is a historical almanac to all things in
Speaker 1: the Middle East and has I think educated not just
Speaker 1: the audience but also all of us on things that
Speaker 1: really everyone should know. And I think that she's brilliant
Speaker 1: and I love you. She read Robert.
Speaker 2: Hey Sophie, it's the cup episode, right, That's definitely.
Speaker 1: Not the episode. But it's really hard to pick my
Speaker 1: favorite Robert episode because I record with him like most days.
Speaker 1: But I think that what Robert has done specifically within
Speaker 1: Bastards this in twenty twenty three was really get on
Speaker 1: top of the bastards we're all surviving right now, which
Speaker 1: I think he did a really great job. Talking about
Speaker 1: Andrew Tait, I think he did an incredible job getting
Speaker 1: an episode out immediately about Stockton Rush, the guy who
Speaker 1: killed those people under.
Speaker 2: Really really the hero of the year, right, the guy
Speaker 2: responsible for the great feel good story of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: so much better of a time we need, we need.
Speaker 2: I feel like we could solve most of the world's
Speaker 2: problems with another eleven or so of those subs, and
Speaker 2: that is true, and a similar socioeconomic group.
Speaker 1: On board thom You're definitely not not wrong there.
Speaker 2: I'd just like to say, you know, if you're wondering
Speaker 2: why the New York Times in the Washington Post are
Speaker 2: too big a cowards to do a come episode like
Speaker 2: we did, you know there's an old quote. If you
Speaker 2: want to know who rules, you ask who you can't
Speaker 2: criticize all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying, Garrison. I
Speaker 2: see you, I see you doubting me. But you know
Speaker 2: it's true. You know it's true.
Speaker 1: Anyways, it's our slash no fat.
Speaker 2: All right, that's.
Speaker 1: Should ask another question, But like, really, what's the what's
Speaker 1: the point, what's the point we've climax?
Speaker 2: Guys, sweet, it's oh my god, thank you, James. I
Speaker 2: appreciate the teamwork, James. Someone had to.
Speaker 1: Robert, but my my apologies to Ian for this night.
Speaker 1: We have an edit. But yeah, anybody have any final thoughts, anything, anything, James,
Speaker 1: Do you have anything you want to plug in terms
Speaker 1: of donations or anything?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 4: Actually, uh so we have a fundraiser for what we're
Speaker 4: doing at the border. It would be really lovely if
Speaker 4: you could give us some of your money because I
Speaker 4: have spent all of the money that I have, uh
Speaker 4: and some money that I don't have. It's go fund
Speaker 4: me dot com slash cucumber hyphen migrant hyphen camps or
Speaker 4: TinyURL dot com slash Border aid g FM.
Speaker 2: How do they spell cucumber. That's a good question because
Speaker 2: that's c U M B A.
Speaker 4: So like it's Spanish, but yeah, you can also tiny
Speaker 4: rl slash border aid g f M, TinyURL dot com.
Speaker 2: That's that's an easy one to remember.
Speaker 1: Great, and we'll work tomorrow because this is a daily show.
Speaker 4: Ye.
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