It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: In Bed With the Dreadnaughts

Episode Date: January 19, 2025

Margaret from the future reads a report from behind the Iron Curtain in fascist-occupied Spain.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

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Starting point is 00:02:26 Hello, and welcome to Cool Zone Media Book Club, the only book club where I do the reading for you. And sometimes I do the writing for you. Like this week. Well, this week is yet another episode of Dino Wars, which means that we are going to read to you podcasts from the future. That's right.
Starting point is 00:02:46 We have been sent podcasts from Cool Zone Media 2055. That's 30 years in the future for those of you who are in the year 2025. But then if you're listening to this further in the future, it'll be closer. That's how numbers work. And time, which marches only forward. Anyway, here's the episode. Hello, and welcome to Cool Zone 2055. How to survive the Dino Wars.
Starting point is 00:03:16 I'm your host, Margaret Killjoy, and this week, we're bringing you something special. This week, we're bringing you a report from across the Iron Curtain, from inside Nazi-occupied Spain, from the Catalonian Resistance. It's near impossible to get information in and out of curtained regions of the world, most of which are under permanent conditions of Vishnu shielding. This report then, like I just said, is something special. We received it on microfiche, one of those technologies that was extinct before I was born. But then again, we make use of a lot of technologies and animals that were extinct before any of us were born. This report was handwritten in code and then
Starting point is 00:04:03 photographed and shrunk, then tied to the wing of a pigeon. That pigeon flew from Barcelona to Toulouse, where partisans recovered it, decoded it, and then passed along part of it to Cool Zone Media for us to read it to you. Well, there was a lot more information besides what I'll be reading, information about troop movements and all of that. But obviously, that's not for public consumption. That information stayed in Toulouse, where partisans are entrenched and holding back the Iberian phalanx at great cost and with great valor. This then is a report from outside of Barcelona, from our own anonymous correspondent.
Starting point is 00:04:46 As you all are quite aware, Cool Zone Media works with a number of anonymous correspondents. One of our dearest is a person who writes under the name, Mix Bunnyface Murder. When spelled out, of course, it's just Mix and then the bunnyface emoji and then the dagger emoji. That's how you know they're a Zoomer. For a while, Mix murder would read their own reports, and we'd run it through a voice changer. But all of that changed two years ago,
Starting point is 00:05:15 when Nazi quantum computers started to be able to decrypt that stuff, and three of my friends were killed. I mean, a lot more than three people were killed. But you know, in a time of mass death, you sometimes focus on the ones closest to you. Anyway, all of this is to say that other hosts, those of us who aren't anonymous, have started voicing mixed bunny face murders work.
Starting point is 00:05:38 Of course, one of us would have to voice it anyway, because, you know, it showed up a microfiche. But that's besides the point. This show is, of course, more or less family-friendly. If you want to hear the entire uncensored version of the report, with all of Mick's bunny-face murders, usual sexual antics included, you'll have to check out our sister podcast, Under the Pants and Under the Ground. That episode will be out soon.
Starting point is 00:06:04 We're arguing in our signal chat right now about who gets to record the more explicit version of this tale. This report is titled In Bed with the Dreadnoughts, 16 Weeks in a Catalonian Camp Surrounded by Hotties and Brontos. And it's the first reporting any of us have gotten out of Eastern Spain in half a year. But first, before we get to that, there's one more thing I wanna talk about. That's right, I wanna talk about Dino Cadence.
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Starting point is 00:07:59 one reason why people join an internationalist army or militia is to impress potential romantic or sexual partners. 28% of people. This just edges out saving humanity from fascism at 27%, followed by to get out of the house, 12%, and while I was gonna die soon anyway, 11%. Other interesting reasons include and, well, I was gonna die soon anyway. 11%. Other interesting reasons include personal revenge for the death of a loved one, 8%.
Starting point is 00:08:31 For the glory of the new god, Shalom Svartzbard, 0.3%. For the glory of the old gods, 0.6%. And I wanna know what it's like to kill someone, 0.5%. So how did I wind up in Catalonia, trapped behind the Iron Curtain, wishing I'd known ahead of time that Catalonian is a different language than Spanish? Well, I was with the plurality. You see, I met this cute cis girl last year when I was reporting on
Starting point is 00:09:02 the Internationalist Science Convention in San Diego. And for any older listeners, we should be clear that I'm using cis in the ironic sense, developed by Jen Beans, where you mark someone as cis when you're actually implying that they might not be cis, but without actually fully disclosing whether or not they're cis or trans, because it's not your business. She was with the CNT, the anarcho-syndicalist union with the cute red and black hats. And she was presenting on the impact of Sarotergia, like dinosaurs with flippers and shit that live in the water.
Starting point is 00:09:34 On the climate changed warm Mediterranean, which is what her doctorate was on. I figured I didn't have a chance in hell at impressing her by learning how to spell Sarotergia in her emails. But maybe I could impress her by doing some reporting on the Catalonian front, one of the hottest hot spots in the whole world 3.5. So me and my mediocre Spanish packed ourselves into a troop transport carrying Maganista forces from San Diego to Barcelona, and I landed into a city transformed. But first, you should let yourself be, uh, transformed by these ads?
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Starting point is 00:15:39 the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you go to find your podcast. And we're back. You've heard my reports on anarcho-syndicalist Catalonia on this show before, back before the Iron Curtain fell over the Iberian Peninsula. Or rather, before that curtain extended all the way to the eastern coast. You've heard me talk about the black and red banners that are just fucking everywhere, hanging from every building, like it's all the set piece for some old movie or something. You've heard me talk about the communal meals that are served around the clock for free to all comers in seized hotels, where people play music and the social life of the
Starting point is 00:16:25 city takes place when it takes place inside. I showed up in the summer and 2054 was of course the hottest year on record, which isn't a surprise, since every year or two is the hottest year on record. But anyway, it was hot as hell, so most social life took place inside, because the average day there was over 40 degrees. That's 104 to you heathens in America. You heard me talk about the Aragosaurs that wander the streets, covered in red and black barding. The Aragosaurus has become the de facto mascot of Spanish anarcho-syndicalism.
Starting point is 00:17:01 It's named after the province of Aragon. And why did they name their mascot after the province of Aragon. And why did they name their mascot after the province of Aragon? Well, all throughout the 2040s, of course, the Iberian Peninsula was in revolt. Aragon, Catalonia, and the Basque Country were, of course, three of the most powerful internationalist strongholds. And Aragon declared for anarcho-syndicalism in 2049. Well, they also declared for it in 2029, 2034, 2037, 2040, 2044, and 2048. But in 2049 it stuck for a while. Catalonia and the Basque Country rushed to follow, and the revolt spread.
Starting point is 00:17:39 Aragon was also the first to fall. When the Fashions took Aragon in 2052, they took it hard. Of the 1.5 million people living there, fully 400,000 were killed. Roughly 200,000 joined the fascist forces, and another 500,000 fled to Catalonia. The Battle of Terra Goza has captured the world's dark imagination, so much so that it gave the world a new style of art, the dark imagination, or just la escura in Spanish. The dark imagination is large-scale art, often many of the pieces are meters on the side, that focuses on the suffering of the living at the hands of the biospawn, often using the grayscale color scheme from Pablo Picasso's Guernica
Starting point is 00:18:28 and mixing Cubism with realism. Usually, either the primary subject is rendered in a Cubist style while the background is more realistic or vice versa. The actual battle, the Battle of Terra Goza, was quite simply one of the worst things that has happened in human history. There have been higher death counts. There's been greater malice.
Starting point is 00:18:51 But Taragosa was the first city of its size to be torn asunder by half-mad, screaming, tortured hybrid humans. It was the Iberian phalanx that first weaponized biospawn built from humans, and the people of Terra Goza who did not escape in time, were hunted down and ripped apart limb from limb, turning the city into a surreal landscape of brick and bone. The CNT's militia, bolstered by allies from every left of fascist political persuasion from France, Italy, and Morocco, performed heroically. Within hours of the initial onslaught, they shifted their focus from holding the city
Starting point is 00:19:29 to defending the exodus of its population. Later captured intelligence confirmed their suspicions. The fascists were not attempting to capture the city to rule it, nor even to exterminate its population. The fascists were attempting to capture the city in order to turn it into an open-air research prison, to perform terrible experiments upon its people, to turn them into biospawn. General Alifantza Buenaventura fell in the fighting in a live-stream moment that will live forever in our minds. She, with the rest of her polycule, covered the retreat of her soldiers.
Starting point is 00:20:08 As the four lovers were swarmed by shriekers, she drew out a grenade, and they all held hands. She shouted something as she pulled the pin. We don't know what she said. Not really. It was lost to the din. Some people, looking at her lips, think she shouted, Viva Anarchia.
Starting point is 00:20:28 Others believe it was Viva Aragon. You'll be shocked to know that people whose primary allegiance is to anarcho-syndicalism believe the former, while those who favor Aragonian independence as their primary concern believe it was the latter. Certainly, Alaphonse believed in both causes, but Occam's razor says that it was viva anarchya. And so, its people fled and Aragon fell. Why was I telling you all of this? Oh right, the dinosaurs. The Aragonosaurus has been the mascot of the Iberian Revolution ever since, in memory of the wasteland that is now patrolled by fascists.
Starting point is 00:21:09 If you ever want to flirt with a Spanish revolutionary a little too aggressively, just at the edge of actually insulting them, call the Aragonosaurus a brontosaurus. In English, we pretty much call anything with four legs and a tiny head and a long neck a bronto, But in Catalonia, that's blasphemy. I spent months living in and reporting on Barcelona. The revolution had a sort of carnival air as social barriers broke down and everyone became friends, comrades, and lovers. I never saw my marine paleontologist friend again, sadly. I've heard she's probably in Italy now, continuing her research in a place not under such dire
Starting point is 00:21:48 threat. The aquatic dinosaur support we get here, even under blockade, has certainly been essential, so I'm grateful to her. But that hasn't stopped me from, well, joining in the festivities, so to speak. For the first month or so I was there, I lived with a polycule of internationals in a building that was squatted even before property was collectivized in the city. I had some good times with them, but I'm not really built for polycule life. There are so many nights you don't want to play Warhammer 40K, and I found myself out
Starting point is 00:22:20 at the bars looking for something a bit more novel. But I bet Margaret wants to do a family friendly of this report. Yes, yes I do. So I won't get into too much detail about all of that just here. But what I bet Margaret does want to do is cynically transition to ads in the middle of this important update about world affairs. Sure, I'd love to. paid more. The International Rice Harvesters Union would also like to say to all workers everywhere, join a union, just not ours. It's for rice harvesters. This podcast is sponsored by Maggot Meat, the only meat substitute made out of maggots.
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Starting point is 00:27:24 Listen to the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast. Every Wednesday. On the Black Effect Podcast Network. The iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you go to find your podcast. And we're back. During the day, I studied the anarcho-syndicalist movement, and I talked to its organizers about lessons they've learned and what they wanted the rest of the world to know.
Starting point is 00:27:53 If I survive all of this, I might turn that into a book. There's a big if there about the surviving all of this. Ever since the phalanx took Aragon, the demons of hell have been at our door. The Vishnu shields went up and they've stayed up because force equalization favors the defender. The exodus or La Piquinia Riturata, the little retreat, happened a couple months ago now. It was a beautiful action, performed perfectly. The Mediterranean was swarming with biospawn, horrid mermen creatures and zombie sharks, and just really some of the worst things imaginable.
Starting point is 00:28:32 Plesiosaur riders and the CNT Navy, alongside a decent-sized chunk of the Irish Republican Navy, fought back the shrieking in the sea. Most citizens, even the non-combatants, and what does that word even mean anymore? I'm a reporter and I carry an AR-15. Most people elected to stay. Barcelona, they swear, will not become another Terra Goza.
Starting point is 00:28:57 Considering a rather large chunk of people here themselves fled Terra Goza, or Aragon more broadly, it's not an empty statement when they say that. But researchers and engineers fled, bringing with them a decent chunk of the cloning factories of the city, since those don't work under Vishnu conditions. And there are many, many people who rely on electricity for their work and their wartime contributions, or even just their day-to-day physical health and survival. Tens of thousands of people loaded into boats and sailed off for Italy. And we did not lose a single civilian boat or civilian.
Starting point is 00:29:36 Three Irish and five C&T ships went down, but nearly every one of those sailors was rescued. There are 17 martyred heroes of the little retreat. I watched the whole thing from the roof of a beachside motel with the rest of the press, relying on actual binoculars and telescopes instead of the drones I was used to using. The shrieking was overwhelming for hours, until it wasn't, until the sailors beat back the half-living monsters of the sea, until the tide washed red. And I'm not being as hyperbolic here as you might imagine.
Starting point is 00:30:12 The whole sea didn't change color, but blood and bodies washed up for weeks after the battle. The night of the battle, I took six of those Irish Republican sailors home with me to show them a little bit of syndicalist hospitality. They drank in honor of their friend they had lost that day. Siobhan was her name. I drank in honor of her too, but it wasn't alcohol that I wanted going down my throat. And then at this point, Mick's bunny face murder hand wrote the code for an eggplant emoji so that it too could be encrypted and then decrypted, even though it's an audio medium. I only managed to file one report after the Vishnu Shield went up, a now peer-reviewed preliminary study on the sexual cultural differences of Irish Republican volunteers and Catalonian
Starting point is 00:31:01 anarcho-syndicalists and the compatibilities of the two. I did a lot of research for that study. volunteers and Catalonian anarcho-syndicalists and the compatibilities of the two. I did a lot of research for that study. Got a special chair to sit in the corner and observe my subjects and everything. I got that study out. Look for it in the Journal of Applied Sexuality. It should be out by the time that you read this. But that was it.
Starting point is 00:31:20 The Iron Curtain came down, fast. The Phalanx's naval blockade has proven impenetrable to any but the canniest of deep sea divers. The armies arrayed around us are far too great for the brave few soldiers who remain in Catalonia. So far, we've repelled every attack. But Catalonia is a land under siege. It will not survive without international support. We desperately need someone, anyone, to attack fascist Spain while they are busy with us. Most of the fighting isn't in Barcelona. Sure, occasionally a terror unit of the enemy
Starting point is 00:31:58 will sneak in some zombies or some terrible biospawn monsters. But the population here is armed and organized. So, so those biospawn are. But the population here is armed and organized. So those biospawn are neutralized quickly before they can do too much damage to people or morale. Most of the fighting is in the countryside. I decided to embed myself with an international unit of mostly American and British stegosaurus riders who call themselves the thaghags, after the Thagomizer, the spiky bit at the end of a Stegosaurus's tail. They're led by Captain Simmons, a black British chap who
Starting point is 00:32:33 is taken to wearing a pith helmet ironically and smoking a pipe earnestly. He's truly a wonderful man and monogamously married before anyone asks. Who cares deeply about the people under his command and even more about the Stegosaurs? We rode off to the front under a hail of confetti and flowers. I cried. Look, lots of stuff make me cry. I cried writing about that polycule clutching the grenade, yelling something or other with their last words.
Starting point is 00:33:04 I cried watching the battle as people fled the city. I even cried during the festivities after the battle. The Thag Hags number only 200 people and 87 stagasaurs. But there were 8,000 of us marching out of the city that day to the front. Many of the Irish Republican volunteers were there with us, as were a thousand Pan-Africanists who'd been defending the city for years at that point and had been preparing to head home, but have been trapped by the Iron Curtain. There was also, curiously, a unit of dreadnoughts.
Starting point is 00:33:44 I don't know if you've covered them on the show before. I haven't been able to listen for a while now. I'm sorry about that. But they're this unit with a rather unique selling point. They boast the highest mortality rate of any unit in the internationalist forces. Their recruitment materials proudly declare that the average dreadnought dies in their second engagement. They marched in their medieval armor beside or astride their massive war sores. It was strange to be in their company. They're like a walking memento mori.
Starting point is 00:34:16 I determined that, once we got to the front, I would get to know some of them a little bit better. There's something incredibly seductive about death and about those who straddle the line between life and death. I don't really know if in French they actually call orgasms little deaths, but if they do, it makes sense to me. So we marched out of the city, out to the camp at the place I can't tell you, and I can't tell you how long it took us to get there. But eventually we got there. We got to the camp at the place I can't tell you. And I can't tell you how long it took us to get there. But eventually, we got there. We got to the front.
Starting point is 00:34:50 As for what I saw while I was there, the audience is going to have to wait another week unless Cool Zone Media has changed its schedule since I've been gone. And that's it for part one of In Bed with the Dreadnoughts by Mixed Bunnyface Murder. We'll be back with more of it next week. Okay, Margaret in 2025 here, just letting you know that if you like my writing, you might like my upcoming book, The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice.
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