It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: The Battle of Ogre Hill

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

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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. Coolzone Media Hello, and welcome to Coolzone Media. you don't have to do the reading for your book club, because I do it for you. And what you're reading in your book club right now are missives from the future. That's right, Cool Zone media itself has reached back out from 30 years in the future to bring us reports on the Dino War. Here's where we're at. Hello, and welcome to Cool Zone 2055, how to survive the Dino Wars. I'm your host, Margaret Killjoy, and today we are continuing our report from our very

own Mixed Bunnyface Murder, who is currently trapped behind enemy lines in besieged Catalonia. We're all praying for you, Mixed Bunny murder. Or you know, fighting for you. Which is generally even better than praying. Although I guess I'm podcasting for you, which is probably somewhere in the middle of those two in terms of efficacy. Actually it's closer to praying because it's really just kind of hoping someone else intervenes. Well there goes my moral high ground. Anyway, where we last left our stalwart non-binary horny journalist, they'd shown up in Catalonia just

before the Vishnu Shields went up. They saw the exodus of Barcelona, where everyone who relied on electricity for their anti-fascist work or their, you know, being alive, was rescued by boat over to Italy. Then Mick's bunny face murder went off to the front, embedded with the notorious thaghags, the stegosaurus riders, but noticing those undeniably sexy dreadnoughts out of the corner of their eye. But before we talk about that, I want to talk about something else that is undeniably sexy. Riding dinosaurs into battle against the worldwide threat of fascism. Which you can learn to do by contacting our number one sponsor, Dino Cadence.

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Now back to Mick's bunny face murder story. A dino camp is a strange place to be, it turns out. I can't give you too many details because the art of war is the art of deception. But I can tell you that it feels like living in a zoo. It's funny how quickly you get used to de-extincted animals. Being around stegosaurus' andociraptors doesn't feel entirely unlike being around rhinoceroses and chickens, especially since both Stegosaurus and rhinoceros are more or less impossible to spell. And there's not really chickens at zoos, but let's imagine. So you feel like you're in a zoo,

only instead of tigers and bears, it's saber-toothed tigers and arctodusses. So tigers and bears. Just bigger and toothier. I have to admit, I have long had my doubts about the efficacy of our animal friends in war before. Why do we resurrect long extinct animals only to throw them in front of enemy fire? Do we resurrect long extinct animals only to throw them in front of enemy fire? Is there a reason besides, it looks cool to ride an up-armored Ankylosaurus? Why not just use dum-dum tanks and machine guns and humans, all of which also operate alright under Vishnu conditions? It's been a nagging question at the back of the mind of probably a solid third of the

anti-fascist world. No one wants to question it too openly because no one wants to pick fights right now with anyone who isn't a fascist and we all know morale is a terrain of struggle. But look I've had my doubts about the efficacy and also the ethics of using dinosaurs in war. I no longer do. Dinosaurs are effective in modern non-electric warfare. They saved our lives at this camp, in fact. And as for the ethics? It's a messier question, but the thing is, it's not really ethical to send anyone into war, yet war is here whether we wish it was or not. If we are to stop the destruction of the last remaining ecosystems and the animals in those ecosystems,

then all of us need to fight together, human and animal alike. Are there power dynamic problems? Absolutely. The same as there are between different humans in a war. We just do the best we can. Maybe that's enough. Maybe it's not. On the journey out to the front, I spent a lot of time with a particular unit of fag hags.

Like every little micro-click in this war, they've got their own name, the Sons of Aragorn. It's five men, three of whom are trans and one of whom is an omni-man. Look, I struggle to keep up with all the new genders, but as I understand it, it's a way of identifying as not a man in the modern sense, but instead the medieval sense of when you're comparing man to beast. It sounds problematic to me, but I'm in my 30s, so what do I know? The sons of Aragorn are obviously named after Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, but they're also named in a different tradition.

There was this indigenous North American anarchist who was most active in the 1990s and the 20 aughts, named Aragorn, whose parents had named him that and everything, because his parents were hippies. He was a contentious fellow. named Aragorn, whose parents had named him that and everything, because his parents were hippies. He was a contentious fellow. He made a lot of frenemies. But he laid a lot of the groundwork for some anarchist political theory that has meant a lot to a lot of people in the years since his passing. He died in the year 2020, and in the 2040s, his particular brand of cantankerous anti-fascism

found a new following. The Sons of Aragorn started off as a motorcycle club actually in the US. Most of its members expatriated to Catalonia during the independence struggles there. But the name stuck in English even though they mostly speak Catalan in the unit now. I wound up friends with the Sons of Aragorn and I'll have you know I didn't even do it because I was trying to sleep with any of them. But in the end, I slept with all of them, and you can listen to more

details about that in the full uncensored version of this report, over on Under the Pants and Under the Ground. A Stegosaurus unit usually has seven members, five humans and two Stegosaurus. Riding a Stegosaurus is a particular skill. They're often considered the hardest ground-based dinosaur to ride because you have to ride lying flat, hidden between the armored plates. It's like bull riding, people say, but I've never ridden a bull and I've never ridden a Stegosaurus. Though I have ridden a stegosaurus rider, but I can't tell you about that because family-friendly

podcast is if telling you about the horrors of war is better for young listeners than telling them about some of the most fun you can have before you die in the aforementioned horrors of war. But you know what else is apparently family-friendly? Advertising. Just in the middle of telling you a serious story, just cutting away to things that require critical thinking in order to reject. That's somehow family-friendly.

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or wherever you go to find your podcast. podcast or wherever you go to find your podcast. Most rideable dinosaurs fill a niche somewhere like cavalry and pre-modern warfare. They're big scary mounts dinosaurs, but at the end of the day, they're conveyances for armed riders. It's the riders who do most of the fighting. Not so for Stegosaurus riders. Each dino is equipped with a deadly thagomizer on the end of its tail, making them just about the deadliest of the quadrupeds in this war.

Since they are both fast and stable, they are excellent at countering zombie hordes. So the writer's job basically is to hold on and direct where the thing goes. The other three members of the unit are support. You generally have a designated sharpshooter, a combat veterinarian, and a scout, any of whom are prepared to serve as backup writers should it become necessary. Because they work and fight as a unit, kill counts are measured collectively across the entire unit. The Sons of Aragorn are currently in second place among the Thaghags, with 79 confirmed zombie kills, 6 confirmed human kills, and 2 confirmed unclassifiable biospawn kills. The latter were two pseudo-giants that they took out in what gets called

the Battle of Valinor. Because the unit with the highest kill count gets to name the battle after it's won. In all that fighting, they've lost one human, private Gimli, and one Stegosaurus, Firefoot. Which is also apparently a Lord of the Rings reference. They promised me that. Firefoot was a horse in Lord of the Rings that carried some horse rider guy. They explained it to me like six times, but you know Lord of the Rings fans.

Nothing they say makes sense. The only fag hag unit with more kills than the Sons of Aragorn is the Eldian Wall, who are at 94 zombies, 13 humans, and one unclassifiable biospawn. They're a larger unit, though, of 7 humans and 4 stegosauruses, so it's not really fair to compare them directly. Or maybe I'm just bitter because the Eldian Wall is so famously clickish that they only speak elvish with each other, which doesn't even make sense because their name is a reference to an anime and

not Lord of the Rings. And they only speak a dialect that they develop themselves. So even if you learn Elvish, you can't talk to the Eldian wall. They don't hang out with anyone. And yes, I'm bitter because I think their veterinarian is very cute. But none of them will be friends with me. So I'd fallen in with the sons of Aragorn and they had watch duty. because I think their veterinarian is very cute, but none of them will be friends with me. So I'd fallen in with the sons of Aragorn and they had watch duty the first night I was there alongside one of the mother hens.

So I'm just sitting there kind of bored because you're not allowed to talk much while you're on watch. In the chair next to me, this older trans woman named Marta, one of the aforementioned mother hens, idly scanned the horizon with a night vision monocular while 17 little velociraptors played at her feet. Nearby, my friend Eomer, the Omni-Man, is leaning against a stegosaurus named Guillermo the Pony. It's a hot night, which probably goes without saying because it's the 2050s and I'm on

the Iberian Peninsula. I'm trying to read The Fellowship of the Ring in Catalan to impress my friends, but it just isn't doing it for me. I couldn't get through it in English either. Then Guillermo hears something, lifting its head suddenly and alert. Stegosaurus's remarkably sharp ears. What do your elf ears hear? Eomer whispers to his dino friend.

Guillermo points with his nose off towards the horizon. Eomer signals to Marta, who stands up and gestures at her terror chicken children. She makes a circle gesture and points in the direction Guillermo is looking. The velociraptors take off, quietly running full tilt towards the horizon, disappearing over a nearby hill.

I hear a scream, a human scream, which is cut off short. A few minutes later, the murder chickens return, dragging two men behind them. No, not men. Nazis. I say that not to dehumanize them. Nazis are verifiably human. I actually recommend verifying this yourself. You can cut them up and count their organs. I say that they are not men, that they are Nazis, to deny them their masculinity.

What is a man discourse seems to switch around like every three years, but I am with the feminist masculinist thinker Ambrose Gutfish in what he said in 2047 during a speech at the conference for the reclimative abolition of human gender in Amsterdam. He said, quote, what is a man? If we refuse to accept that there is a good gender and a bad gender, then we are forced to reckon with the idea of positive masculinity. It's hard to do because most of the traits associated with positive masculinity, guarding, caring, accepting risk on the behalf of others, positive like non-coercive leadership, etc.,

can just as easily be offered to positive femininity. Both the idealized woman and the idealized man are protectors and providers. So how can these be distinct masculine and feminine traits? The answers become recursive. Well, it's masculine guardianship when a man does it. Rather than fight this complication, we ought to embrace it. There is no such thing as a man and therefore we can create man in our own image. To that I say a man is a guardian but a respectful one. A man is a nurturer

not a controller. A man seeks to help others become their best selves by providing a safe environment for people to discover themselves, become themselves. The fact that you could define a woman the same way is immaterial. A man is equal to every other person of every gender and does not accept artificially imposed hierarchical authority. A Nazi, therefore, cannot be a man." Is this a semantic argument? Yes. Do I believe it?

Also yes. Does my opinion about what counts as a man matter since I'm not one myself? No. Was I thinking all of this while watching tiny little dinosaurs drag two uniform members of the Iberian Phalanx on a hot Catalonian night? Oddly, yes. One of the soldiers was alive still and was screaming bloody murder into the night. The other was dead. Both were by uniform and equipment, scouts, a sniper team. One velociraptor showed

up about two minutes later dragging an anti-materiel rifle slowly by the muzzle, a.50 cal, these days mostly used to snipe dinosaurs. Marta walked up to the surviving soldier. Will you talk? She asked. No, he answered. Do you have a god? She asked. Yes, he said.

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If you like witty women, then this is your tribe. With guests like Corinne Stephens. I've never seen so many women protect predatory men. And then me too happen. And then everybody else want to get pissed off because the white said it was OK. Problem. My oldest daughter, her first day in ninth grade get pissed off because the white said it was OK. Problem.

My oldest daughter, her first day of ninth grade, and I called to ask how I was doing. She was like, oh, dad, all they were doing was talking about your thing in class. I ruined my baby's first day of high school. And slumflower. What turns me on is when a man sends me money. Like, I feel the moisture between my legs

when a man sends me money. I'm like, oh my god, it's go time. You actually sent it? Listen to the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast every Wednesday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you go to find your podcast. And we're back. After Marta slit the man's throat, she looked up at me, visibly shaken. His last words could have been, Amen, she said.

Only then did I notice the Saint Maranus pendant around her neck, a patron saint venerated by a growing number of trans folk Catholics. Later I discovered why she'd killed him instead of taken him prisoner. This was absolutely against standing orders. Essentially a growing number of soldiers have started a campaign against torture. The Nazi said he wasn't going to talk, and it was quite likely that coercion would have been used. So she killed him.

The first thousand or so soldiers who performed the sort of mercy killing were court-martialed out of the internationalist forces. But this only made the movement stronger, and command has largely given up on enforcing this rule. Their argument is, essentially, if we torture our prisoners, how are we better than the fascists that we face? Others have argued that torture is nothing compared to the evil performed by the other side, who take not just the living, but also the dead, and make them suffer. I didn't have time to ask Marta much about her decision, and whether or not her folk

Catholic faith tied into that decision. Because even before the velociraptors returned with their prey, A.O. Murrins set about waking up the camp. It was good that he did, because 10 minutes later, the zombies crested the hill. And for the first time in my life, I saw battle. According to war propaganda standards, I'm supposed to tell you that it was somehow both terrible and glorious. That men proved their mettle, women proved their worth, and non-binary folks proved their,

I don't know, noteworthiness. According to literature standards, I'm supposed to tell you that it was the worst thing in the world. That I shit myself with fear, and everyone cried to their mothers as they were dragged away to their doom by the unfeeling undead army What's fucked up is that? Both of these things are true. Well, I didn't shit myself in fear. I actually learned that I'm alright in a crisis

Compartmentalizing terror deep into my belly so that it can wreck me later But there was terror and there was glory and I… I maybe enjoyed it a little bit too much. Maybe there's something wrong with me. Or maybe I'm just well suited for the world I live in, the world of war. Because there is no outside in a worldwide revolutionary war. A Nazi zombie attack? A classic one.

Like the one we were in, it has a few stages. First, the scouts. A sniper team or two. They report on sentry location and are meant to kill a few of the largest dinosaurs. Marta's minions took those two out. Then the runners. The screechers. These are a sort of half zombie, half biospawn.

Look I am not actually sure how they're made or exactly what the difference is between a zombie and a biospawn, but these things are whatever. These creatures, like their name implies, they run and they screech. They are shock troops. A few hundred came out of the hills shrieking in pain. They are not particularly effective combatants. They're just there to demoralize people. The camp didn't demoralize. Within moments the machine gun nests were staffed and pikes filled in the gaps.

Dino riders get most of the cred and most of the action. Once again, Mixed Bunny Face Murder has hand encoded the code for an emoji, in this case a winky face. But in World War 3.5, like every war ever, infantry does most of the work. Shriekers are no match for machine guns. Then came the artillery. Mortar shells dropped all around us, blowing holes in tents and people. Our own returned fire. Mortar shells dropped all around us, blowing holes in tents and people.

Our own returned fire. Dead bats, unholy flying biospawn, came shrieking down through the sky. Pterodactyl riders went up after them, and the big cats leapt into the air, bringing the bats down. Out on the horizon, the horde shambled towards us. Many still wore internationalist uniforms. Somewhere in that hoard, most likely, was someone I'd known, someone I'd cared about, who'd fallen in battle and been resurrected to fight against us.

Machine guns opened up, of course, but many of the nests went silent as mortars found them. Everywhere machine guns went silent, the thaghags went to work. Stegosaurus' ripped through the enemy ranks. It was chaos. It was hell. I shouldn't have enjoyed myself. There is something fundamentally broken in my head. Then, last of all, came the enemy. The real enemy. The people. the Iberian phalanx rode into war on horseback in signature style, with lance and rifle and fucking conquistador helmets and huge Christian nationalist flags waving a big ol' cross held at the front. For a moment I thought we were lost.

For a moment I imagined what it would be like to be killed by zombies and then resurrected as one. For a moment, I was scared. Only a moment. See, the Phalanx's tactics have grown stagnant by that point. They'd had so much success elsewhere that they'd routinely underestimated our numbers, our morale, our training. Our camp was fairly well naturally protected by the hills, but there was one obvious weakness, one obvious direction from which to attack. It had been planned that way on purpose. There was a second camp tucked away into the hills where our own shock troops

lived, the Dreadnought Camp. So while we were dealing with the screechers and the mortars and the horde, the Dreadnoughts were waiting. When the Phalanx crested the hill, riding noble and tall on their destrières, I don't know what a destriere is but it sounds like a fancy word for a horse, so we'll go with that. They thought they were walking into victory or at least into an even fight. Never, ever get into an even fight. You fight either when you know you're going to win or when you have to. If it's an even fight, you don't have to and you shouldn't. They started towards a certain we were tied up with their biospawn.

They started towards us, certain we were tied up with their biospawn. The dreadnoughts came crashing in on their flank, war horns blowing, swords rattling, rifles blazing, sauropods screaming, and just annihilated them. A woman in full medieval armor dove off a dinosaur's neck from 20 feet in the air and crashed into the soldier carrying the cross. Within 20 minutes, the phalanx was routed. Raptors big and small, mounted and riderless, ran them down. Our victory was absolute. Much to the dismay of the dreadnoughts, only six out of their 600 died in the fighting.

Even the swan diver limped away from battle with nothing more than a sprained shoulder. Their dreams of Valhalla will have to wait for another day. There's a saying among the troops here that it's bad luck to brag about your own deeds. That if there is boasting to be done, it ought to be done by your comrades instead. So I'll tell you only that while a reporter's job is to report, it's easier to report when you're not dead. A shotgun served me better than a pen that evening. A unit of four artillerians got the highest kill count that day.

They were a unit of grouchy old veterans from the Basque separatist movement who had a penchant for explosives and mortars. They called themselves the Basque separatist movement who had a penchant for explosives and mortars. They called themselves the Basque Space Agency, I guess cuz they like blowing Nazis as high into the air as possible. Given the honor of naming the battle, they called it the Battle of Ogre Hill. And I don't have access to the Internet, so I don't know what that means. As for what happened in the aftermath and where we stand today and how I fell in with the dreadnoughts, I suppose you're gonna have to wait for another episode of, actually,

I don't know what Margaret named this current series because this is a one way communication thing where I write encrypted notes to her. So let me just try and guess what Margaret named this. It's gonna rhyme, but it's not gonna be very clever. Cool Zone 2055, now is our chance to thrive. Did you name it that, Margaret? That would be just like you. You're no Killjoy. And now here's Margaret.

We're done with the quoted part. Thank you. That's it for Cool Zone 2055, how to survive the Dino Wars, which is a perfectly cromulent name. Thank you very much. And if you enjoyed this podcast, I want you to go back 30 years in the past to when I released the third book in the Danielle Cain series. That's right, it was in 2025, I believe. I think it was March 2025 that I put out, the Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice.

No, wait, that's when we kickstarted it. And did you know that even before that, people could sign up for notifications on Kickstarter about when the Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice would be released. And in order to do so, they would just have to have Googled, immortal choir Kickstarter, and they would have found it and then signed up for notifications. And wouldn't that have been great? I hope that 30 years ago in 2025, people did that. Anyway, catch you all next week. 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 iHeard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can find sources for It Could Happen Here, updated monthly, at coolzonemedia.com slash

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