It Could Happen Here - Q&A 2025

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

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Order in the court. Justice Robert Evans presiding. I see we have a fine jury here to take questions from the audience of our daily news show, which is also my courtroom. Everybody get it, because I'm a judge now, legally, because that's how the legal system works. All those rumors have finally come true, huh?

No, municipal judge, Garrison, that's not a fed. Okay, okay, municipal, municipal. You're right, you're right, you're right. I will now, for the rest of my life, be able to say, when people ask questions, well, as a man of the law, which I'm very much looking forward to, not only able to say, Robert, but quite likely to say.

Anyway, that's all I got. All right. This is the It Could Happen Here Q&A episode we've got. What are we calling you now, Robert Evans? What's your title? The Honorable Robert Evans. And I actually did get the judge who made me a judge sent me a gavel, but I didn't grab it for this one. So I just used, I have the barrel and lower receiver from an antique sawed-off shotgun that belonged to a bootlegger and I just sort of slammed that into my table. Great.

I'm sure our editor will love that. Yeah. Yeah. But before we broadcast, so you have a sawed-off shotgun. It's not functional. It's been destroyed. I see. I see. Good. Didn't want a little Ruby Ridge moment, yeah. We've got Mia Wong, Garrison Davis, James Stout and the dishonorable Robert Evans. And Sophie Lichterman. Oh yes, it me.

We're gonna do some questions. We posted it on our Blue Sky. If you're not following us on Blue Sky, we are on there. Blue Ski. One does not post on Blue Sky, Sophie. One skeets. I really hope that's not true because that's really embarrassing. Unfortunately.

They really tried to get that off the ground. I don't see anyone actually using skeet. I saw someone using it in French and it was a real moment. Are you skeet? Garrison. Instead of saying send tweet, now I just say send skeet in conversation. Everyone loves it. De-reskeet. Is that a thing? Yeah, I guess you do. I guess conversation. Everyone loves it. Mm hmm. De-re-skeet.

Is that a thing? Yeah, I guess you do. I guess you do. Mm hmm. And we're moving on. I'm just going to throw out some of the questions we received on online. I'm not even going to say the name of the app again, because I'm afraid being labeled as an old garrison's embarrassed by me. I can tell.

I didn't say that. But you thought it. But you thought it. I didn't say that. But you thought it, but you thought it. I didn't think that. You did. Any advice for someone with a desire to do some hobby or freelance journalism in the coming few years? I want to actively fight for equality.

Also, thank you for your questions, everyone. I don't thank you for your questions. I'm actively angry at you for your questions. Yeah, that's why you're the dishonorable. Yeah. Start rich if you want to be a freelance journalist because you'll progressively become poorer. Yeah. I have funded my journal. I love whenever people ask me questions like, how did you convince crack to send you to Iraq? I didn't. I bought plane tickets. Like being an entertainer has always been

what's funded my journalism. I guess my advice would be get really autistic about something problematic. Just like one thing is one thing I get like really into it to the point where it kind of takes over your life. Your personal life starts fading away. It kind of blends into your whole state of existence. And only then will you actually get good at that that thing. Yep. That's my advice. And then you just take one thing at a time. And every few years, you kind of change the scope of the thing

that you're getting really autistic about. But that's kind of how I've rolled. And it's been it's been OK. Yeah. You just finished 36 hours of digging into the life of a school shooter. And I also built the back of my career spending hours and hours digging through the online lives of mass shooters. And you don't have to do that, but you do have to do that thing, which is exactly what Garrison said. You have to pick a very narrow thing and make it your life. And not just a random thing, but like a thing that you think is important and

that people don't, other people don't understand how important it is. And if you make yourself, there's a fellow, his blog is called, we hunted the mammoth, Dave Futrell, who's been covering what we call the Manosphere for like more than a decade before anybody else in journalism was taking it seriously. You got to do that kind of thing. If you do that kind of thing, you build a name for yourself and that can allow you when the thing that you're obsessed on becomes a big story, being burst to have something meaningful to say about it can provide you eventually with the opportunity to cover other things.

Yeah. I think that's good advice. I would say if you want to get started freelancing, it's a good idea to join the IWW Freelance Generalists Union. You can learn a lot from people who are freelancing there. You can learn who not to pitch, which editors are toxic as fuck, which is a surprisingly large amount. Yeah.

You can learn which email to send your pitches to and how to pitch if you're not familiar with how to pitch, which editors are toxic as fuck, which is a surprisingly large amount. Yeah. You can learn which email to send your pitches to and how to pitch if you're not familiar with how to pitch. I also teach sometimes journalism workshops at a community college. So if you have a community college near you, you might be able to get some either free or very cheap sort of advice and the real nuts and bolts of journalism, like sending pitches and stuff like that. Cool. What is the consensus on what the next Trump administration will do on the first day or first

week? All of us just look like we're in pain. Fuck knows, look at the chaos. Bad. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not for seeing good things. There'll be a lot of executive orders that are, you know, probably bad things that aren't great. Yeah, I think that he's going to try to do as much of what he's promised to do in terms of particular not in terms of everything is found in terms of going after immigrants, he's going to do as much of what he's promised to do as he possibly can. Now, that doesn't mean he's going to actually deport millions of people. There are some just practical limitations based on the capacity of the institutions

he'll be using to do this. And he could get, there's a very good chance things will get bogged down and whatnot, but he will try. That's my take. Yeah. I think the other thing that's gonna happen pretty quickly is I think he's gonna start moving on tariffs very, very fast. Yeah. If you're planning to buy a computer, go ahead and grab that fucker now, if you can.

If you're getting anything from overseas, you should get it in the few weeks that you still can. If it has a battery, it may do. I had my annual physical today, because otherwise, our insurance screws us over. And my doctor was like, you should try to get as many, uh, prescriptions filled before the end of the year, before things, things come up just in case. There you go.

And you know, that's not terrible advice. Yeah. I think in terms of executive orders, he will try and further restrict access to asylum, try and further change. There are things he can do by executive order with ICE and CBP in terms of how they operate that he will try and do. It's not impossible that they will try and again immediately mobilize public health law

against migrants like he did in 2020, right? Those things could all be done without congressional support. We made a whole podcast about this, but Stephen Miller has suggested that they might do some of those things. So yeah, not impossible. Probably won't be a great day. Somebody's getting fired the first week.

Last year, probably first day. Yeah, I mean, I've seen the fact that the FBI director is stepping down, pushed as like an act of resistance because it means that Trump now has to actually go through like congress to get it done. I don't know if How much I buy that how much I think that I think a lot of what i'm seeing right now from establishment people and maybe This isn't true of ray because I I did find some of the arguments there compelling but a lot of what i've seen from establishment people in politics is they're scared and just really trying not to make waves.

And I think that's what you're going to see overwhelmingly. I think that he's going to probably probably will not immediately act against the press and in a legal sense as the president, they will do that. But I think he's he's going to, he's already suing differently. And I think that that's going to be kind of his focus there for a while, just because there's a lot on his plate. But I think there will be attempts like to fuck with libel laws and stuff, especially

as things go on. Okay. Several of you have asked about the Android ad free version subscription channel, and I want you all to know that it will happen next year. I have been trying to get this to happen for two years now and for unforeseen reasons, it just keeps getting roadblocked, but it is happening. We're just waiting on a couple final things to get into place. So that will be happening hopefully very soon into 2025. I will update everybody as soon as that's possible. And I'm so sorry

it's taken so long. I want you to know I have worked so unbelievably hard on this. Miserably hard. Yeah, we've seen it. Sophie has. It's been a nightmare. Harder than I have worked on anything else this year. Like, it's been nuts. Yeah.

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on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, we're back. How do you each motivate yourself to write or do your jobs? I get asked that question all the time, but I'll let each of you tackle it. While this is a communally hosted show, I feel like each of you do very different things. So your answers are going to be all over the place. So Garrison. Oh, well, I mean, paying rent's a great motivator. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Understated. This is a big thing that a lot of people who want to be writers, but

have never done it for a living miss is that all of your favorite writers who do it for a living, a big part of how they get over fucking writer's block is they have to pay rent or a mortgage. Yeah. Turns out that helps. It's, it's, it's a quite compelling motivator and sometimes it has required the assistance of, you know, caffeine or other things. I have a variety of playlists to help me in when I'm in like different moods. I definitely will about, you know, maybe twice a month. I just do a complete

like a complete body check to my sleep schedule to get a special project finished and that's just kind of part of the deal. At least in terms of how I work and not not everyone does it this way though. Maybe maybe people are more healthy than me. Yeah, for me. Okay, so the easiest way something gets done is just pure rage. I get really angry at something. I can just do it. Like, it just comes out. The word. Yeah, anger's a great motivator. It's awesome. Yeah.

The other fun one is pure joy at something funny happening. Like, the Shinzo Abe assassination, easiest writing I've ever done in my life. Sometimes it just flows. Yeah. Yeah. Other times, it's just like, there's a deadline, and everyone is counting on me, and I have to get it out,

and I've gotten to the right level of sleep deprivation where I can just do it. That's right like there's a deadline and everyone is counting on me and I have to get it out and I've gotten to the right level of sleep deprivation where I can just do it. That's right. That's right. Yeah but I I also think you know, there's obviously like Health insurance which is sort of a joke given our health insurance, but yeah And then the last thing and this is the sort of the serious one is that like this, you know, I mean, I do some organizing stuff too, but like this, this is the thing that I have to do that can materially affect the world, which is a very, very weird thing to say about a podcast. But I've seen it happen. Right. I've seen all of you go and do things that wouldn't have happened. go and do things that wouldn't have happened. And I've, you know, it's a weird situation, right? Because my motivation for doing this stuff is the chance that you will make the world better. But I've I've seen it happen and I have to continue to believe that the thing that I've been doing for all these years, this project of building a very large hammer and deploying it against our enemies can work and will work.

And that is, you know, that's how I get out of bed every morning Is we're building the hammer and we're swinging it. Yeah That's a great way to put it very large hammer will be a banging name for a podcast. I agree Yeah, there's a there's a great speech in the comic series trans metropolitan about how journalism is a gun that you you wire up to your eyes and your ears and several other organs in order to shoot at the world. And that's, I think a good way to keep yourself doing it when it feels like you're just shouting into a void.

Yeah. I really liked the process of writing. I like telling stories like that makes me happy. Um, and I feel so lucky I can do it for my job. I don't particularly like like receiving trauma, uh, which I also do for a job. Really? Sometimes I can't sleep. So many people trusted me with their stories, especially this year that

they didn't have to, and sometimes a great personal risk. And it's a massive privilege that they trusted me with those stories. And I think I owe it to them to do my best to tell those stories as well as I can. Yeah. And like, as Mia said, it has materially changed the world. Like, the amount of people who listened to our podcast and came to the border to help last year when we really desperately needed help. People who just, like on Sunday night, gave their money, which I know like none of us

have enough money right now to help people who are displaced in Rojava. Like all that stuff really makes it feel like if you tell a good enough story, people will care. That's always what I felt. Like if you could just get people to see it, if people could be there, they would care. And if they care enough, they'll do something. And I've seen that be true with people who listen to the show. And that really makes me happy. So I want to keep doing that. Yeah, for me, it's two part answer. The first part is that I genuinely give a shit about everything that we put out and what we do is not really, while it is a job, it matters so

much and the second part is if I don't do my job the amount of people's lives that that impacts is a lot of fucking people. And I give a shit about each and every one of them. So I'm going to keep doing my job so that everybody else can keep doing their job and maybe we make a difference in this world. This fucked up crumbly world. Robert, did you have anything to add? You were speaking and then I talked.

Did I have, did I already not give an answer? You gave an answer. That's why, but you have anything to add? You were speaking and then I talked. Did I have, did I already not give an answer? You gave an answer, that's why, but you were starting to speak. Oh yeah, I do it for the fame, baby. Great. Next. What episode or episodes were your favorite this year to make or otherwise?

My favorite this year were definitely James's series from the Darien Gap. That was an incredible series. I'm so unbelievably proud of it. Yeah. James had been trying to do that work for a long time and I'm happy that we were able to fund it and James was able to do the incredible reporting that he did. I'm also quite proud of Robert Garrison and I

surviving the RNC and DNC. The RNC was a good time. Like legitimately was a good time. I had a great time. Pulling the worst people in the world. It was the DNC that fucked me up, yeah. Yeah. Same, I was like destroyed emotionally after the DNC.

Yeah. The DNC was really a huge bummer. And then Mia has covered some of the most important labor stories that like nobody covers. Absolutely. Yeah. And like without those, genuinely like nobody covers like small labor stories or big labor stories and she's always on top of that beat. And yeah, I also really just like Robert's don't panic episode.

Something. Yeah. Some great writing my friend. I answered now everybody else has to. I'll start with Mia. There's weirdly a few this year. Cool. I normally isn't. I like the the Boeing ones that was fun. Yeah

the one that was most emotionally impactful for me was getting to interview dr. Julius Serrano who If you haven't listened to that episode go listen to it great book yeah, whipping girl is the book that literally created a bunch of the literally created a bunch of the like like the concept of misgendering is like from that book right like like the language that we use to talk about transness today like is directly her and so few people have ever read the book so few people even know who she is and getting a chance to talk to her was like incredible

and I'm also really happy about the organizing one that I did because I've gotten so many messages from people who were just like, oh wait my knitting is useful to organizing? And I'm like, yes! Yes it is! You're knitting, you're so incredible, staggeringly useful. Yeah, so I'm proud of that one. Yeah, let's take a quick break then. Garrison, Robert, James, you can answer that question. I'm Jason Alexander and I'm Peter Tilden. And together on the Really No Lily podcast, our mission is to get the true answers to life's baffling questions like why they refuse to make the bathroom door go all the way to the floor. We got the answer. Will space junk block your cell signal?

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How about you? Um, I'm proud of doing the Darien ones, I think. Like, I'm so happy that we finally got to a place where, like, we could do that, where we could fund that. Like, I've been trying to do that, like I said, for nearly a decade. And, yeah, it's been hard and it continues to be hard. Like, one of the people you heard from in those episodes got deported last week. And so like it continues to kind of be emotionally difficult, but I really liked how many people messaged me and were like, I sent this to my father, uncle, not

just dudes, aunts and their mums too, I'm sure, and think non-binary relatives, but like, well, maybe not because they had sent it to their right wing relatives and, uh, and they like learned some compassion. That's always what you want to do. Like I said before, you want people to see it so that they care and so they understand it and they don't just get this stupid Fox News bullshit racism stuff. And so yeah, that made me really happy.

The reason we're all different on this, by the way, is because we have not done a come 2024 episode. And if we had, this would have been a much shorter segment. James, let me just tell you, I think we can all look forward to a white Christmas this year. Jesus motherfucking- Is this gonna be coming out after that?

Set him up. It's my own fault. Wow. I guess I'll go now. I'll just,'ll just clean out the aftertaste of that. That was even worse. I think I started out pretty strong with police drones. Even more topical as we record this now, as New Jersey is about to get completely abducted, I think, by alien aircraft. Yeah, there's no one left in New Jersey now. They've all been taken away by these unidentified drones. That actually happened three days ago. It just took a long

time for the rest of the country to notice or care. Bruce Springsteen hasn't made a song about it, so we have no way of knowing. Besides the mass hysteria of the New Jersey drone panic, police drones are a real problem and those are going to be increasingly so. I was happy with my reporting on that at CES. And then I guess, I mean, to echo Sophie, I had a great time at the RNC. It was fun. A sentence I never thought I would say. And particularly the RNC Grindr episode, I still think is pretty good.

It's pretty great. It's a banger. The amount of places that Garrison and I snuck into at the RNC, a time. It was really dangerous too, because I was having to do my RNC research next to Robert and Sophie the whole time. And oh boy, it's like a minefield scrolling through that app. Thanks. An experience to say the least. Any thoughts on the proposed 2028 general strike? How are people feeling about that? I'll start with Mia.

Yeah, I mean, it's a pretty good idea. Like there's definitely sort of, and I'm immediately going into this naysaying a little bit, there's definitely problems with it. It's going to be extremely hard to execute because we just don't have a modern history of doing that in the U S and even some of the successful ones in the last decade that people have pulled off, haven't been that effective. But on the other hand, as something that we, you know, a concrete thing that we have to organize towards that has a bunch of like pretty large unions behind it already, um, I, I did an episode about that a few weeks ago, I dunno, a couple towards that has a bunch of like pretty large unions behind it already.

Um, I did an episode about that a few weeks ago. I don't know a couple of months ago. I don't remember when I did this episode. I'm sorry. I can't remember anything we've ever done, but I think, I think, I think it's a good opportunity to connect a whole bunch of different kinds of organizing together, both in terms of sort of labor and in terms of the support work you need for that. So yeah, cautiously optimistic. Anyone else have anything they want to add? The time to start figuring out those logistics like is now it's not, it's not waiting until

2027. Yeah, I agree, Garrison. I think that the fact that there are serious people who represent serious unions talking about it is part of why it's one of the things that does give me a degree of hope. We're going to have to start working now towards it. It's not going to be simple in any way, shape or form. If they see it coming, they are going to start trying to criminalize things preemptively. If it is something that even looks like a real possibility, they're going to come after it with everything they've got. And it's one of those things where maybe if the midterms go well for Democrats,

maybe Democrats stop that, but it's just as plausible and probably more plausible that Democrats line up with Republicans to attempt to criminalize something like that. Yeah. It's strange to be seeing something like this organized so far off. Like it's not something any of us are familiar with. Which it has to be, to be clear. Yeah, it has to be.

Barring like an actual coup, that's the only way you get a general strike, right? Like either something so earth shattering that everyone's ready to risk it because they're already in danger, or you take the time and you plan that you do it properly. But it's just not something we're familiar with. I love the general strike. I'm always going to support a general strike. I'm excited to see a general strike, but yeah, we have to put in the work now. Yeah.

The only responsible way to characterize the organized left in the United States is a complete and utter failure. Like it has been a calamity for the causes that it, it seeks to, uh, to represent and a lot of that is because of like fucking bullshit online clicktivism. You know, we're all going to do a general strike. Everybody, everybody get ready next week. We're going to do it, you know, shit like that is, is it's just so deeply unserious and if we're going to take the momentum and the energy that exists and the number of people

who are angry and that number of people will be increasing as the consequences of conservative policies hit home by 2028, it has to be something taken deadly seriously by very serious people who are thinking through the consequences and what's necessary in order to make this feasible, you know? And lastly, do each of you have a movie or a book or something you would like to recommend? In 2025, when I finish my book, you should buy it. Yes.

But read General Strike. I've been reading a book called Presente, which is in English, but it's about how San Francisco dock workers blocked a shipment of weapons to El Salvador. And it just seems a very relevant book and they did it to Pinochet as well. It's easy to read and like, it just reminded me how important labor organizing is going to be in the next four years and how powerful it can be too. So I'll give that one a little plug. Excellent.

There's a film called The End Will Be Spectacular, which is about the Kurdish youth movement in Northern Kurdistan in Turkey. It's a really good film, I think, to help you understand the Kurdish freedom movement. And it's worth a watch. It's not like necessarily a happy feel good film, but I think it's worth a watch. If you've recently become interested in that because what you've heard on the podcast. Yeah.

Yeah, I have a couple. So I'm trans fiction piled right now. We're giving you, we're giving you fiction for trans authors. Would you say you're trans fixed? Wow. I walked, I walked right into that one. Like drove directly into it. Like JFK's head into that one. Like drove directly into it like JFK's head into that bullet. Oh my god!

Wow, we spent a lot of time with each other. Yeah, the first one I wanted to talk about is The Gun Runner and Her Hound by Maria Ying, which is the pen name of a couple of authors. Okay, so this is an absolutely unhinged lesbian book about a lesbian crime lord and her new bodyguard, who is also a lesbian, and it rules. There's a whole sort of like post-apocalypse US thing going on, but they're still in like civilized Hong Kong. It's awesome. It's great. It's you need you need war on hinge lesbians in your life. Go read this The the other one is one of the boys. This is forthcoming is we want to release May 13 2025 by Victoria Zeller and it's about a trans girl who's like the kicker on her football team and

She has to like leave the team because she transitions But then the team needs her back because they don't have a kicker and it's it's fun. It's a good time. So you should you should get that when it comes out. Yeah so I'm actually right now in the middle of a book that I found myself surprised by how much I've liked it's called when Paris went dark. of Paris under the Nazis. That is a really fascinating social history by Ronald Rosebottom that I found very emotionally affecting, especially in light of some things going on. And yeah, just kind of a fascinating look at the psychology of an entire people, kind of grappling with what's about to happen to them in the

wake of the failure of the French army and then what happens next. And then I would also recommend Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr, which is one of the books about T.E. Lawrence that I cited in the T.E. Lawrence episodes. If you are at all interested in the realities of needing to fight an insurgent war. Here, I guess just two recent things I've enjoyed. Finally finished the Steppenwolf by Herman Hess. Yes, I enjoyed that deeply. It kind of it kind of picked my picked my Twin Peaks, the return brain.

So that was that was pleasant. And for a more recent release, Luca Guadagnino's new movie, Queer, adapting the short story by William S. Burroughs, I found this movie to be utterly fascinating and transfixing, to use the term from me. Robert. I don't have much else to say about it, because I would rather people just watch it and take away what they want to themselves, but it got me thinking a lot about the lack of meaning

inherent to identity and why I hate the term queer bodies. So yeah, good movie. Awesome. I just have one movie to recommend and it's one I one of my favorite movies of all time. The original 1973 72 73 73. The Wicker Man not the fucking

Nicolas Cage version the original version. And if you have a local theater that plays old movies a lot of times they'll play it in theaters and I highly recommend that experience. It's really fun, especially at the end. I see it in theaters or watch it at least once or twice a year and vibes are good. Yeah, that's it for our Q&A episode. Thanks for submitting and goodbye.

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