It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Reports From the Dino War: The War in Review

Episode Date: December 8, 2024

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We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative journalist, and this is my journey deep into the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a player boy, my doll. He was like, I'll take you to the top, I'll make you a star. To expose an alleged predator and the rotten industry he works in. It's honestly so much worse than I had anticipated.

We're an army in comparison to him. From Novel, listen to The Bunny Trap on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You should probably keep your lights on for Nocturne. Tales from the Shadow of the Sun. Join me, Danny Dre, and step into the flames of fright. An anthology podcast of modern day horror stories

inspired by the most terrifying legends and lore of Latin America. Listen to Nocturnal on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey everyone, it's John, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the BlackFatFilm Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated.

Woo chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey Show, Angelicaasso and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Fam podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts, girl. Ooh, I know that's right. Welcome to Decisions Decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed and conversations get candid.

Join your favorite hosts, me, Weezy WTF. And me, Mandy B. As we dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often taboo topics surrounding dating, sex, and love. That's right. Every Monday and Wednesday, we both invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives

dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. With a blend of humor, vulnerability, and authenticity, we share our personal journeys navigating our 30s, tackling the complexities of modern relationships, and engage in thought-provoking discussions that challenge societal expectations. From groundbreaking interviews with diverse guests to relatable stories that will resonate with your experiences, Decisions Decisions is going to be your go-to source for the open dialogue about what it truly means to love and connect in today's world. Get ready to reshape your understanding of relationships and embrace the freedom of authentic connections.

Tune in and join the conversation. Listen to Decisions Decisions on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline Podcast, and we're kicking off our second you get your podcasts from. Callzone Media Book Club, Book Club, Book Club, Book Club It's the Callzone Media Book Club, the book club where you don't have to do the reading because I do the reading for you. Except this month at Cool Zone Media Book Club. We're doing something a little different.

You see, we here at Cool Zone Media received a missive from the future. Episodes of our own podcasts from 30 years from now, from the year 2054. And we're happy to share them with you. Welcome back to Cool Zone 2054, Reports from the Dino War, your weekly source for everything World War 3.5, everything from the World Civil War, or as we like to call it, the Dino War. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and this week is our once a year recap of where we are in the year of our Lord 2054 and how we got here. Don't worry, next week we'll be back with all your favorite on the ground reporting, but this week we're going to speed run the last, I don't know, 10 years or so of world history. We're two years into

the Dino War and it is worth understanding what got us here. Or as General Lichterman always says, you can't know what direction you're going to go if you don't know what direction you were already going. But first, it wouldn't be the year 2054 if we didn't shout out our most generous sponsor, Dino Cadence. If you're serious about learning to fight from reptile back, you need to get with Dino Cadence, the fastest growing franchise of combat schools in the internationalist world. If you want to save the world, get your butt into a saddle and learn how to kill

Nazis today. Enrollment is free, but spots are limited, so apply now. Dino Cadence. Now where were we? World War III. For the 120 years between World War II and World War III, people figured World War III would end all life on Earth. It would be the last war ever. For the whole second half of the 20th century, yeah, yeah, some of us are old enough to remember the 20th century, people lived in fear of nuclear Armageddon, figured the next war would be nukes dropping this way and that way, end of the world as we know it. Turns out, no. No one really wanted to blow up the entire world as it happened.

World War III didn't kick off as a hot war until the autonomous weapon platforms got going in earnest. We didn't get a nuclear war. We got the AWP war, the Op War, the Six Month War, the Robo War, World War Terror, Long 2044. Call it what you want. We here at Coolzone Media track the roots of World War III to all the usual sources. The long Russian stalemate in Ukraine, the Palestinian genocide, and the failed Turkish annexation of northeastern Syria. After the US formally left both NATO and the UN in 2041, and the world's premier military power saw its economy fall into a tailspin, there was a terrifying power vacuum. November 2043, or Murder Month as our own

Robert Evans probably shouldn't have called it, saw world leaders, CEOs, human rights activists, and media influencers all assassinated at a terrifying rate. Some of those people all mourn, some of them I won't. Then all of December was eerily quiet. Then, with the fireworks of the new Year, the war started in earnest. Turkey invaded Kurdistan. Germany rolled tanks into Poland again, though to be fair this time it was to liberate the country from Russia. The US invaded

Mexico and Ireland. Mexico invaded the US. The second Chinese Revolution kicked off, taking them out of the fight more or less completely, all in one week. It was a four way war. The US and its proxies like Israel and the UK were at war with the EU, were at war with BRICS minus China, were at war with the US. And of course, the Alliance of the Global South declared war on, quote, anyone who attempts to station troops, material, or infrastructure in any of our territories. Which meant they were at war with everyone else too.

That's how the war looked if you zoomed out far enough. On the ground, it was just a war of machines versus people. If you're old enough to listen to this podcast, you're old enough to remember the war, and you probably don't want to be reminded in detail. So we're not going to linger too long on those six terrible months. It was nasty. Drones everywhere, killing all kinds of people. Despite all the claims world leaders made about the higher moral standards of artificial

intelligence, all the claims made of the precision targeting available to autonomous drone swarms and quadruped AWPs, it was the civilians who got it the worst in the AWP war. Same as always. All four sides of the war targeted journalists, doctors, and civilian engineers with at least as much ferocity as they targeted enemy soldiers, drone programmers, and drones. More than a hundred years ago, during World War I, the anarchist Dada artist Hugo Ball spoke prescient words, quote, The war is founded on a glaring mistake. Men have been confused with machines.

As true in 2044 as it was in 1916. That's the quote you so often hear attributed to him these days. But a year earlier, he said something similar, yet fantastically, fatally wrong. In 1915, he wrote, quote, The war is based on crass error. Men have been mistaken for machines. Machines, not men, should be decimated. At some future date, when only the machines march, things will be better. Then everyone will be right to rejoice when they all demolish each other.

If the machines had only fought the machines, the world would be a better place and so many of more of our friends would be in it. It is, of course, simply terrifying how efficiently machines can kill without resorting to nuclear weapons. A billion dead. That's never happened before. A billion dead. The population of the Earth didn't even hit one billion until the year 1804. And 240 years later, a billion people died in six months. What a great place to transition to ads. I've been doing this for 33 years now and it never gets old transitioning to ads in inappropriate places. Are you tired of your militia-issued saddle slipping while you're on the march?

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I went on a journey deep into the heart of the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a playboy, my dog. Lingerie, topless. I said, yes, please. Because at the center of this murky world is an alleged predator. You know who he is because of his pattern of behavior.

He's just spinning the web for you to get trapped in it. He's everywhere and has been everywhere. It's so much worse and so much more widespread than I had anticipated. Together, we're going to expose him and the rotten industry he works in. It's not just me. We're an army in comparison to him. Listen to The Bunny Trap on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, I'm Danny Trejo. Won't you join me at the fire and dare enter

Nocturnum, Tales from the Shadows, presented by iHeart and Sonora. An anthology of modern-day horror stories inspired by the legends of Latin America. From ghastly encounters with shapeshifters, to bone-chilling brushes with supernatural creatures. No! Bone-chilling brushes with supernatural creatures. I know you. Take a trip and experience the horrors that have haunted Latin America since the beginning of time. Listen to Nocturne, Tales from the Shadows,

as part of my cultura podcast network, available on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Hey everyone, it's John also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Ooh, chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people

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New episodes every Thursday. Hi, I'm Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast, and we're kicking off our second season, digging into how Tex Elite has turned Silicon Valley into a playground for billionaires. From the chaotic world of generative AI to the destruction of Google search, Better Offline is your unvarnished and at times unhinged look at the underbelly of tech from an industry veteran with nothing to lose. This season I'm going to be joined by everyone from Nobel-winning economists to leading journalists

in the field, and I'll be digging into why the products you love keep getting worse and naming and shaming those responsible. Don't get me wrong, though. I love technology. I just hate the people in charge and want them to get back to building things that actually do things to help real people.

I swear to God things can change if we're loud enough. So join me every week to understand what's happening in the tech industry and what could be done to make things better. And we're back. Forty million soldiers were killed in combat. Two hundred million civilians were killed by bullets and bombs and mortars and mines. Five hundred million people were taken to their grave by the deer flu. The rest, of course, died of hunger and thirst and lack of access to medical care. A billion people, about 10% of the human population died in 2044, and I am certain that includes someone you know.

Only six nukes went off over the course of the war, killing about a million people. A tenth of a percent of the total war dead. Washington DC, Tel Aviv, St. Petersburg, those cities simply aren't there anymore. Two more blasts went off at weapon facilities in Pakistan. And of course the sixth blast was the Idaho incident, when a white Christian nationalist organization called God's Hammer failed to prove the superiority of the white race, stealing a warhead from a US facility only to accidentally detonate it in their own compound outside of Wallace, Idaho. It was civilians who suffered under the war

and it was civilians who ended it. Vishnu Frayer Elohim or VIFI for short was an international consortium of engineers from every side of the war that met in secret and developed the suite of weapons that rendered autonomous weapon platforms obsolete. Most famous of these of course are the of weapons that rendered autonomous weapon platforms obsolete. Most famous of these, of course, are the two weapons that ended the war. In April, they unveiled the Tactical EMP, a weapon that destroys electronics without harming life or non-electrical infrastructure. At the end of May, they released the first prototype of the Vishnu Shield, a static EMP field that can shield an entire geographic area from electronics that can run for hours at a time on a

shockingly low amount of power. By month four of the war, soldiers from every army, both enlisted and officers, regularly mutinied and deployed tactical EMPs supplied by VIFI, stationing themselves at population centers and attacking drones from every army. By month six, the Vishnu Shield had been deployed by desperate civilians in nearly every country in the world, and the war ground to a halt. The governments of India, the Scandinavian Federation, and what's once more called Palestine, were immediately overthrown, while every government in the world, especially those of the major belligerent powers,

faced crises of legitimacy that they have yet to recover from. So ended World War III. For eight years or so, we had something resembling peace. Very few cities opted to keep their Vishnu shields running full-time, of course. Modern life, especially in an era of extreme heat, requires regular access to power. Although clockmakers have advanced some amazing new marvels, like the self-powered clockwork insulin pumps,

Helsingborg, Sweden was the largest municipality to declare itself a non-electric space by a three-quarters majority vote of its citizens. And 10 years later, it remains the most famous large-scale example of conscious deindustrialization and is a hub for the neo-Luddite movement. And we're not just saying that because their tourist board is one of our sponsors. For eight years after the war ended, journalists and ideologues called World War III the last possible world war. I might have slipped up and said as much

on this very show. Danil informs me that I said it on our August 6, 2047 episode, the one where I went to that new anarchist pacifist town in Germany that they named Omelas, built in the ruins of Munster. It's a good episode anyway, it gets into the deep radical history of that city, and also has clips of me asking like 15 German pacifists in my really bad German why the hell they named their town after a thought experiment about how not to have a utopia. World War III was the last possible war because it was a war between states that was ended by the courage that the people themselves, both civilians and soldiers, had to stand up to those states.

It was the war that declared for once and for all that people power was more powerful than state power. How could you have a war without a state? How could you have a war without the ability to deploy electronics on a modern battlefield? Where there's a will, there's a way. Much like there's a way for me to transition to ads right now. I didn't just bring up Helsingborg because their tourist board is one of our major sponsors of the show. I promise you. But they are. Are you tired of the electrical life? Tired of doom-scrolling? Tired of

online dating? Do you long for the simple life? Tired of doom scrolling? Tired of online dating? Do you long for the simple life? The good life? Do you dream of chopping wood to heat your apartment? Working cooperatively to meet your needs without the hub and the bub of the modern world? But you still like city life? Do you want to spend your evenings at tea houses and saunas, talking of the issues of the day through word of mouth? Helsingborg, Sweden is the largest de-electrified urban area in the world.

And the Scandinavian Federation is open to all immigrants regardless of national origin. Thanks to the wonders of Fast Turnaround Vinyl, you can even keep up with your favorite podcasts on only a two-day delay from the electrical world. Helsamborg, come on over. Remember to write Cool Zone Media on your visa application where it asks where you heard of them to help support the show. Do not consider moving to a vision-shielded area if you rely on a pacemaker or other electrical aids.

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a sign up for all users within certain jurisdictions. GORGAS cannot guarantee that your dating match is not a Nazi assassin. Use GORGAS at your own risk. We want to speak out, we want to raise awareness and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn and I'm an investigative journalist. When a group of models from the UK wanted my help, I went on a journey deep into the heart of the adult entertainment industry.

I really wanted to be a playboy, my dog. Lingerie, topless. I said, yes, please. Because at the center of this murky world is an alleged predator. You know who he is because of his pattern of behavior? He's just spinning the web for you to get trapped in it. He's everywhere and has been everywhere.

It's so much worse and so much more widespread than I had anticipated. Together, we're going to expose him and the rotten industry he works in. It's not just me. We're an army in comparison to him. Listen to The Bunny Trap on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome. I'm Danny Trejo. Would you join me at the fire and dare enter? Nocturnum, Tales from the Shadows, presented by iHeart and Sonora. An anthology of modern-day horror stories inspired by the legends of Latin America.

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A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Woo chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey Show, Angela Carrasso and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Fam podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Alpha Podcast

or wherever you get your podcasts, girl. Ooh, I know that's right. Curious about queer sexuality, cruising and expanding your horizons? Ooh, I knowy's Cruising Confessions. Sniffy's Cruising Confessions will broaden minds and help you pursue your true goals. You can listen to Sniffy's Cruising Confessions, sponsored by Gilead, now on the I Heart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday.

Hi, I'm Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast, and we're kicking off our second season digging into how Tex Elite has turned Silicon Valley into a playground for billionaires. From the chaotic world of generative AI to the destruction of Google search, better off-liners are unvarnished and at times unhinged look at the underbelly of tech from an industry veteran with nothing to lose. This season I'm going to be joined by everyone from Nobel-winning economists

to the leading journalists in the field, and I'll be digging into why the products you love keep getting worse and naming and shaming those responsible. Don't get me wrong, though. I love technology. I just hate the people in charge and want them to get back to building things that actually do things to help real people. I swear to God things can change if we're loud enough, so join me every week to understand

what's happening in the tech industry and what could be done to make things better. Listen to Better Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts. Check out betteroffline.com. And we're back. World peace couldn't last. It probably never will. Some people say that World War 3.5 started in Mexico in 2050, five years into the Magenista and Zapatista revolt against the cartels. Suddenly a huge chunk of the ostensibly democratic government stopped siding with the cartels and

started siding with the rebels, and an all-out civil war broke out. Other people say that World War 3.5 started in the Turkish regions of Kurdistan when, in 2051, the YPJ announced the expansion of the Roshavan Project and declared for democratic confederalism, joined by Iranian feminists and other leftists from across Swana, just as the Turkish government collapsed under the weight of popular protests in favor of multiculturalism, only to pave the way for the far-right Grey Wolves to ascend into power in about half the territory of the former country. Still others say that World War 3.5 started in Idaho

when those buffoons blew themselves up with a nuke, becoming martyrs to ultra-nationalists of every stripe around the world. None of whom, I am sad to say, have thus far followed the specific tactical precedent set for them by God's hammer. It's made for a good update of the old follow your leader graffiti. That graffiti which used to feature a stencil of Hitler blowing his own brains out, and now features a stencil of Henrik Ollefsen, that's not his real name, he was born Tony Rossi in Brooklyn, New York, holding a nuclear bomb and staring at it incredulously. World War 3.5 is the first world civil war, or the first world revolution, depending on

how you look at it. Civil war and revolution are functionally synonyms. No longer are nation states duking it out with other nation states like the 20th century, nor are nation states duking it out with non-state actors like the early 21st century. This war, our war, is a war between nationalism and internationalism, a war in the heart of every country on earth. Still, it's hard to fight a modern war without modern technology. So I don't pin the start of World War 3.5 on the Magenistas and the Zapatistas in Mexico. I don't pin it on the Democratic Confederalists in Suona. I don't pin it on the Accelerationist Bozos and Compounds in Idaho.

I don't pin it on the Baltimore Commune. I don't pin it on the Pan-African Alliance for Democracy and Cooperation. I don't pin it on that bizarre Red Brown Alliance in Russia, the new Soviet Red Army. I don't pin it on El Poder del Pueblo. I don't pin it on the new CCP. I pin the start of World War 3.5 on a group of scientists working in Helsinki, Finland. I pin it on the people who started cloning dinosaurs. We've covered the rebirth of dinosaurs numerous times on this show before, of course.

If you'd like to hear us talk about it in more depth, I recommend a few episodes. July 2052's four part, The Rise of the Dino Rider series gets into it in more depth. But of course, Garrison Davis's excellent, Why Are All the Pterodactyl Jockeys Gay as Hell from February 2053, remains one of our most listened to episodes ever. And Molly Conger's episode of Weird Little Guys from December 2047

about Aldous Bentley III presages the whole thing. So just saying, more detail is available. But in short, let's see. I've been writing history podcasts for almost half my life now and one thing I've learned is that whenever there's a single person credited for this or that scientific or ideological achievement. It's never the full story. Helmi Koskinen is the name you'll hear most often though. They call her Petriana Aete, the mother of beasts, the most famous molecular paleontologist in the world, which would have been an easy title to wind up with 20 years ago, but is competitive as hell these days.

But let's be honest, the reason she's remembered more than her team is that she served as the spokesperson for Cold Lab Cooperative and that she was gunned down on television the day she announced the first successful de-extinction of a dinosaur. A Triceratops named Trike, which then gored her assassin as the world looked on. March 13, 2049. You probably know where you were that day. Cold Lab Cooperative wasn't in the war business. They were in the climate change adaptation business.

But the technology they developed with substantial contributions from Koskinen, who was certainly more than a talking head, absolutely changed the game on cloning. Pedants will tell you that what they do isn't cloning at all, but ex- genesis. But that name never really stuck. Not in the popular imagination. Soon labs all over the world were de-extincting animals of every sort. Soon after that, labs all over the world were cross breeding humans

and animals into what are called biospawn, and even resurrecting living tissue. Though of course to date no one has brought back a human corpse that retained anything in the way of personality, intelligence, or memory. And soon enough after that, we went to war. At the council in Lagos, the confederated democratic territories agreed to a very specific set of limitations on the use of ex vivo genesis. Only previously existing animals could be cloned. No monsters, the rule states.

The Lagos Accord was soon agreed upon by people all over the world. Other people, of course, refused to listen. And by 2052, the world civil war began in earnest. On our side, the internationalist side, we have brave dino riders wielding non-electric firearms. On the enemy side, the nationalist side, there are zombies resurrected from the dead, shambling across the fields of battle to eat everything in their way. There are soldiers twisted and crossbred into nightmarish creatures ravaged by pain and

rage. There are hideous, crawling biospawn the size of houses that shriek and sob their way towards their objectives, ridden by cruel masters who steer them through city streets with hooks and prods. For the first few decades of the 21st century, it was out of vogue to conceive of things as either good or evil. But this war, the Dino War, it's a war of the living versus the liminal. A war of freedom versus tyranny.

A war of kindness versus cruelty. A war of dinos versus zombies. A war we're going to win. And yeah, those of us at Cool Zone Media, we're biased. That doesn't mean we're wrong. We're not winning right now, to be honest. Nor are we losing. The fighting is fierce all across the world.

New national borders creep up and collapse every day. And it's hard to keep up with exactly how everything is going. There are only a few true strongholds on either side. Nigeria, the Scandinavian Federation, the Free Territory of California, and coastal Argentina are firmly in the hands of the internationalists and have been since day one. Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Johannesburg? They're on the other side. That's it for our recap. We hope you join us again next week for another episode of Cool Zone 2054, Reports from the

Dino War, where I'll be giving you my report back plus some live coverage from Helsinki Dino Con. And just here for plugs at the end. I still have my substack going. It is 30 plus years going strong. Margaret Kiljoe can find me on substack. And also my 74th Danielle Kane book is coming out very soon, early next year in fact, after I restarted the Danielle Kane series in 2025. Danielle Pletka It could happen here as a production of Cool Zone Media. For more podcasts from Cool Zone Media, visit our website, coolzonemedia.com, or check us out on the iHeartRadio app, Apple

Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can find sources for It Could Happen Here updated monthly at coolzonemedia.com slash sources. Thanks for listening. We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. Thanks for listening. the industry he works in. It's honestly so much worse than I had anticipated. We're an army in comparison to him. From Novel, listen to The Bunny Trap on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You should probably keep your lights on for Nocturnal Tales from the Shadow of Rath. Join me, Danny Drehowick, and step into the flames of right. An anthology podcast of modern day horror stories inspired by the most

terrifying legends and lore of Latin America. Listen to no turning on the I heart radio app Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Hey everyone, it's john also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast, a podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Oh, chat this year, we have had some of our favorite people on, including Kid Fury,

T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey show, Angela Carras and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Fam podcast on the iHeart Radio app, have a podcast or whatever you get your podcast girl. Ooh, I know that's right. Welcome to Decisions Decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed

and conversations get candid. Join your favorite hosts, me, Weezy WTF, and me, Mandy B. As we dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often taboo topics surrounding dating, sex, and love. Every Monday and Wednesday, we both invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. Tune in and join the conversation. Listen to Decisions Decisions on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple

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