Hello and welcome to this Year in the Apocalypse. Maybe future Inman added some cool effects in there, but if future Inman didn't add some cool effects in there, I hope that was fun and cool. Anyways, and welcome everyone to Live like the World Is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. I'm one of your hosts today in Mineriwind and I have with me here Miriam. How are you, Miriam?

Well, I'm not great, but I'm gonna do the thing because that's what we do. And those effects sounded amazing, I bet.

Oh, thank you. I bet they sounded so fucking cool. Okay. That weird little Tangen. I recently saw some fucking punk rock legends, Sinhasin, and they were so incredible and they. I don't think they had any. There was no reverb going in on their mics and they were just like naturally like doing these crazy vocal reverb effects with their just raw ass voices and they're awesome. Shout out, Sin Hasan. Uh, yeah, that's. That's what I gotta say. And now that that tangent's over about vocal effects. So on this episode of Live like the World is Dying, we are doing our yearly roundup called this Year in the Apocalypse, where we talk about all of the terrible, but also all of the hopeful things that happened in the last year that we're kind of highlighting from like a lot of the this Month in the Apocalypse sections that we do. And we normally have a full cast for this, but it is just Miriam and I today because everyone else is on a secret mission and you get to decide what that mission is in your.

Honestly, we've already said too much. You should not even have mentioned the secret mission. Definitely don't bring it up again. Do not mention anything having to do with heists, tunneling, all of that. Really, let's just not get into it and don't worry about it.

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I mean, I think that is. That is the New Year's situation. Right? We are at the end of a long, hard slogan, and we have to go forth and do another long, hard slog. And the thing that makes the long, hard slog worth doing is the fact that other people are doing it with us and they're doing a good job and. And there's work worth doing. But on the other hand, fuck this shit. So, you know, we're right there with ya and we're gonna get through this. So let's start with the fuck this shit so that we can get to the. Let's keep at it.

Yeah, to sort of highlight some things that at least I have talked about this year, on this month in the apocalypse, we've seen kind of massive attacks to infrastructure, including systems that provide disaster relief and medical care. So in addition to the kind of Massive battle for affordable health care for anyone that isn't a billionaire. Healthcare for queer people has been severely attacked this year, I feel like. Also it's funny, I feel like the, the people are having like the memes of like Bill Clinton saying like, like the debt is going to be like erased in 2010 or whatever. You know, I feel like, I feel like that meme right now where I'm like, things have been worse than ever this year. And I'm like, I'm pretty sure I said that last year too because every year things are getting worse, it turns out. But the attacks around healthcare for queer people, there's been a lot of infrastructural things like cutting off funding from organizations that provide care, as well as legislation that puts age restrictions on care one big infrastructural kind of like thing that happened this year. Doge was only this year and I had a really hard time like reckoning with that. I was like, that was, that feels like it was like two years ago. It was in January.

This has been a long one. I think we can all agree this, this year felt like at least a decade, just more, more. And I think that's part of the, that's just because so much terrible shit happened that it's like surely this couldn't all have happened in one year. But it did. And hey, if you're listening to this, you're still here despite all that. So good job on you.

Yeah, yeah. In a little roundup of like specifically like anti queer legislation that was passed or introduced or is currently in various congresses this year, there were approximately 616 anti queer laws in the U.S. 262 of these pieces of legislation were defeated, 74 passed, and 269 are currently in some kind of like advancing phase in like various like state legislative bodies. And these laws range from medical restriction stuff with schools, expressive freedoms and religious freedoms, which I didn't dig enough into what that meant. So I don't, I can't say what, what exactly that means. But in general we're seeing a lot of, just a lot of weird, weird, weirder and scarier things. And my takeaways from it are that I think a lot of legislative bodies know that they cannot just kind of like outright ban things. And so they are attacking infrastructure that makes them convenient or possible for people to access like funding to medical care facilities, for example. We're seeing this with like some of the like federal level attacks on abortion access where they're going after like things like FDA Regulation or FDA approvals for, for different drugs that provide abortion access.

Right. And this is also something that they're doing in terms of like the government's war on vaccines by changing, you know, govern, you know, FDA recommendations around stuff. They don't actually legislate away access to those vaccines, but they do make it harder for people to get coverage for those things through their health insurance. So it's, yeah, it's. To what you're talking about, it's, it's not about outright banning the thing necessarily, but it is about making it much harder for people to access.

Yeah. And I think it's like there have been those court cases around like local like judiciary clerics, like denying people queer marriages. You know, I, you know, I really hope that something, I really hope funny things happen around that. You know, I don't know what those funny things could be, but I'm sure we could all imagine a funny thing.

God, I can imagine so many funny things.

Yeah. In another sphere, traveling to the US has become incredibly more complicated for people with visas coming under much more scrutiny and screenings happening, including social media, social media presence, views on Trump and views on whether you think Palestine gets to not get fucking genocided. With many European governments posting travel advisories, especially for queer people. A Scottish MP has also broached the idea that visas for people fleeing the Trump administration may be necessary. The cost of a lot of work visas has also skyrocketed while Trump has been offering these like gold card visas or like residency cards to people for the low, low sum of $5 million.

Jesus fucking Christ.

I feel like it's like the, if you don't want people to call you a dictator, don't do dictator shit.

Like, it's so embarrassing. I mean like, I'm not, I'm not ready to, I'm not, I am no longer prepared to argue with people, you know, who think that dictator is the wrong word here. Like I, this is, this is not the issue but like the cartoonishness of this guy, the. I'm the people I feel really sorry for. I mean, obviously I'm, I'm being facetious here, that my, my actual sympathy is with people genuinely impacted by all this, but including, you know, everybody. But you know, okay, let me start over. There are many, there are many victims of, of what Trump is doing. But the, like, I think neglected group of victim that people aren't talking about are all the fiction writers who for years have been told that they are being too heavy handed with their villains. Right? That like, that's not realistic. That's not what a real bad guy would do. A real bad guy would pretend to be a little bit of a good guy. A real bad guy wouldn't just go around being like, it's me, the evil dictator who wants money and racism more, you know, and, and like, in fact, all of the fiction writers were being so subtle. They were, they were just like, playing with, you know, building, building like little, little castles of, of feathers and spun sugar with their subtlety while the, while the actual reality is just crashing through like a cinder block. Like, what up? It's the evil guy doing evil. And I think we owe fiction writers an apology. I would apologize to Margaret, our dearest fiction writer, were she not currently busy with the thing that we're not talking about. Hope she's staying safe. I know she's not really scuba dive scuba certified, but I'm sure, I'm sure it'll be fine. The underwater portion is brief.

In a weird thing that I've been seeing on social media a lot is people critiquing this. People who have never read Animal Farm critiquing an adaption of Animal Farm that is like, more specifically oriented towards capitalism and people and people on really both, on many sides of, or many parts of the spectrum of critiquing it who have clearly never read Animal Farm and clearly don't know what's up with George Orwell, which is that George Orwell was against authoritarianism on any side.

Misunderstanding George Orwell has been a, a real top activity for, you know, years. People love misunderstanding George Orwell. It's, it's, it never goes out of style. My critique of the, of the Animal Farm movie is that based on the trailer, it looks very ugly. Like, it just does not look well animated, which is a shame.

That is a shame.

But I don't know. I'm not, I'm not an animation expert. It did not look nice to me. Like, did not look like the kind of animation I enjoy. We'll leave it. You know, that's subjective. It's my own personal taste. Whatever.

Yeah, your own personal beef. I don't. This isn't really a good joke. I just mentioned.

I loved it.

I just mentioned a thing that is produced on an animal farm. This isn't a joke in the area of kind of like the climate or disaster. This past year, we've seen things like massive flooding in Texas and Alaska, as well as extreme wildfires in Canada, Japan, Korea and Los Angeles. With, you know, like, I think it's like millions of hectares of Forest disappearing. This year we also have the ever rising heat conditions on the planet. I didn't really think about this one until I was reading about it, but wind, wind has like drastically increased in just like across the planet. And you may think well what are the impacts of wind? Well the UK and like Ireland like specifically experienced like this massive wind event this year with Ireland experiencing 114 mile an hour winds and a lot of cities in the Rockies in the US experiencing record amounts of winds which were linked to contributing to wildfires and other storms and like dust storms and like highway pile ups which is like not one that I would have thought. We're also seeing the ever increase of superstorms. There's this like horizon that people have been talking about for a while which is that like a Category 6 hurricane might exist or might be coming. And Hurricane Melissa really like edged on the, edged on that this year producing 252 mile an hour wind which is 1 mile per hour short of like a record. The record being that this like gust in Australia that was recorded that was 253 miles an hour. But this was in a tropical storm cyclone. So it was like in terms of like the amount and power of the storm it, I think some people are like this is the, this is the most powerful wind gust recorded with 185 mile an hour winds when Hurricane Melissa hit landfall on, in Jamaica. As far as heat goes, more than 3,000 daily high records were broken in the US in like a two week period in June this year and that's just in the US in June. As far as other places, heat related deaths are on the rise with Europe. Europe reported 16,500 deaths that were linked to, that were heat related deaths that were linked specifically to climate change. With India reporting over 4,000 heat related deaths in 2025. And these are, these are all deaths that are specifically linked to, to climate change from single degree averages being higher. People have been talking about this for years at this point. But India and Pakistan are kind of on track to really question the limits of human survivability in terms of the amount of heat that they're experiencing. With some scientists saying that India might be an unlivable place in 2050. You there Miriam?

Oh yeah, no I'm there. I'm just. Sorry, no, I'm in a despair pit. It's, the reception isn't as good in my despair pit as it, as it is outside of it. So let me, let me climb back out. But yeah, fuck yeah, it's, it is it is horrendous. And the people and organizations with the most power to do something about it are the ones most committed to continuing and making it worse.

Yeah, with like the US's policy on like climate change. Like didn't they like, they like, they like exited some, some climate pacts or something this year, I think.

Yes, sure did.

Yeah. Yeah. Great, great, great. I feel like, as you were saying, like kind of like the, we've passed a point where like people are pretending or like holding up any facade of like not just doing like overt authoritarianism. You know, like the facade is. The facade is gone. I do have a little bit of good news that's mixed in with some bad news. I was confused about this one because I was like, wait, didn't this happen a while ago? But some good news in terms of repression. A judge in Georgia formally dismissed the RICO charges against all 61 stop cop city defendants after months of legal challenges. I thought this happened a while ago, but I guess there was kind of like months of legal challenges and then the like formal like, nope, they're dismissed, it's done. Just happened on December 30th, I think.

Yeah, that definitely qualifies as good news.

Yeah. But five people are still facing domestic terror related charges. I'm not going to get into this a whole lot, but as per old coverage, there is the whole air quotes antifa as a domestic terror group designation as well as more air quotes antifa groups in Europe getting added to the foreign terrorist organization list. And we're already seeing the effects of some of this legislation against the Prairie Land defendants. It's all weird and terrifying. I feel like this one I don't have as a lot to say on because we've said so much about it already. So that's kind of my big rap on bad shit that happened this year. Miriam, do you have any thing to contribute to the weird fucked up list of fuckery that's happened? This is such a weird question. I'm sorry.

Well, my beat for this particular episode was not weird fucked up shit. I'm here to talk about good stuff because that's what I was told to talk about. But yeah, there was a lot of bad this year. Too much bad to talk about in one episode. You know, apart from the legislation you mentioned and the climate disasters, there's the ongoing genocide in Gaza which has continued despite ceasefire. People keep acting like the ceasefire is still happening despite ongoing murder, the crackdown on, on immigrant immigrants and people perceived as immigrants in the United States. There's more Bad shit. Like, oh, AI. Like, there's just a lot of bad shit. I. I was not prepared to go into all of that, but I did want to say all of that, that that's happening before I get into my allegedly optimistic section. So. To get into my allegedly optimistic. No, it is actually optimistic. I'm doing my goddamn best here. It's 2025. How optimistic do you think we can be? No, pretty optimistic. Not optimistic. Optimism is the wrong word. Right. It's not about being like, everything is fine, actually. It's. It's about being like, the reason that. That. The reason that we are doing resistance is because everything is fucked. And here is what that resistance looks like. So to get into that, there's been this narrative sort of throughout, I think, throughout Trump's second term, that opponents of the regime are overwhelmed, demoralized, and inactive. And that is true about the Democratic Party, but that's because they're not actually opponents of the regime. It is not true of the people who are actually the active opponents of the regime, which are not politicians, but on the ground, ordinary people, both people who think of themselves as activists and people who don't. And those people are responding to the needs of their families, neighbors, and communities. And that work continues. And they continue because they have to continue. So the most. I think, sort of the most heartening thing that we've seen have been the anti ICE protests. And what's been really encouraging about that is that we have not been seeing. I mean, there have been, like, big marches where people are like, we got a permit to march down the street with a big sign that says, we don't care for this business with ICE at all. Thank you. You know, that has been happening, but what's also happening is people shutting down ICE raids by showing up and preventing them physically. That's cool and good, and it will continue, and it has been effective. We have seen people physically impeding ICE agents in their work. We have seen people alerting neighbors to the presence of ICE to allow them to get away. We have seen people shaming and harassing ICE agents, both on and off duty. The hotel protests in some cities where ICE has operated have been really effective, where people just find out where ICE agents are sleeping and make sure that ICE agents can't sleep. That's really cool and good. And it does actually impede the ability of ICE agents to. To do the harm that they are trying to do. We've. We've seen entire raids called off because of this. So it works, and people are doing it and that's great to go back to stuff you can't believe was this year. Remember the, Remember Tesla?

Yeah.

So another really effective and cool form of protests were people targeting Tesla dealerships for protests. People making their thoughts known to people driving Teslas. You know, and this is obviously because of the mo, the wealthiest man in the world, that guy, what's his name.

You know, who makes history, forgets it honestly. May your name be forgotten.

May your name be fucking erased, whoever that is. Anyway, did you know that he said that people vandalizing Teslas was Quirt Trans violence.

What?

Oh, well, you know, he, he got his transphobia mixed up with his other bullshit. He just loves transphobia so much. He does it all the time. But insurance companies actually like increased the amount that they would charge to insure Tesla's. The cybertruck was a dismal failure. It's all, you know, and that is happening because of people's actual reaction to these cars existing. And the guy who makes them existing, not makes them, let's be real, he's never fucking made anything. The guy who owns the means of.

Production here, the guy who larps as like some fucking inventor. Engineer, Yep.

God, that fucking guy. We've also seen, you know, the mutual aid movements that arose during the early days of the COVID 19 pandemic have continued to fill the gaps left by government services left by capitalism. And in many ways those, those groups have been developing new and, you know, increasing communities and ability to respond to people's needs. I did an interview a little while ago with the Astoria Food Pantry that I think is a really great example of that. There's other, other, many, many other examples, including one near you listener, if you would like to get involved with that and if there isn't, that's just an opportunity for you to go ahead and get it started. These are the types of groups from which that street based resistance arises. So that's also something to think about. Get involved with your shit. Other cool stuff. We've seen some really interesting organized labor fights this year. We've seen a lot of attempts to organize specifically. I've been seeing a lot of it in different coffee chains including Starbucks, Pete's and Blue Bottle, which like that's all the fancy coffee chains I think anyway, lots of workers organizing, lots of that going on. That is also great. I'm not going to, you know, there's attempts to organize within like rideshare organizations, all kinds of like every, every worker is better off with a union. And we're seeing People recognize that. And we're seeing people like actually push for that. And we're seeing it happening on a level that is not like necessarily the biggest, the, the big sort of business unions. If, if you sort of. To understand the distinction, like, we're seeing more stuff that is actually about workers getting together to assert their rights more so than like workers aligning themselves with like an organization that is not the one they work for, but that is also one that has its own sort of thing going on, if that makes sense. And these groups don't just help people fight for better working conditions. They are also like, really active for other forms of social change. One really interesting example that I wanted to put forward is we did this year. Again, I can't believe this was this year, but we saw a push by the WNBA this past year with women in the, in the WNBA wearing shirts saying pay us what you owe us with the logo of their union. And the interesting thing about the WNBA union is that they have been supportive of queer people and queer athletes for a really long time and are like one of the groups out there that is fighting against the anti trans athletes narrative. And this is stuff that like, when it, it can feel like everything is bad and, and nobody is pushing back. A lot of the groups that are pushing back are the groups that you might not automatically be expecting to be pushing back. Groups that are not, do not exist specifically to say, push for the rights of queer athletes, but that push for the rights of athletes and that are interested in protecting everybody and, and standing for. For things really worth standing for. So that's good. We've seen a lot of data centers be defeated in local places, you know, in locations where they were attempting to build new Data Centers in 2025. This is according to Datacenter Watch.org I have not been citing my sources up until now. I should have been doing that. Datacenter watch.org reports that $64 billion worth of data center projects have been either blocked or delayed by local oppos the past year. So that's pretty cool. I said a good number. There are a lot of bad numbers in this episode. There's more bad numbers out there than there are good numbers, in fact, numbers. Who even asked? Anyway, I been given the task of trying to bring some optimism, so that's what I'm doing. But the main thing that I think is like, important to focus on in looking at things, in trying to find the optimism is, is that there is more bad shit in the world than the human mind can comprehend. Like, you are not, as an individual, equipped to sit in front of a screen and take in the amount of suffering and harm that is happening in the world. But what you are extremely equipped to do is to get together with a group of people and do something good. And that is both achievable and the only thing that is going to help. So, yeah, fuck this.

Yay. Yay. Yay. Yeah. To talk a little bit about, like, hope, you know, to talk a little bit about some things I think are being are that are getting done that are, I think are really fucking cool is like, this is a broad claim, but I. This is a broad assertion, but. And I can't cite a source on it, but I feel like it's probably true, you know, it feels true, at least with widening. Historically with, like, widening repression. You also see widening resistance and something. Which is a crazy claim, you know, but I'm. I'm claiming it. I'm asserting it. And some things that I've seen this year are like, we, you know, this. The show started as this, like, preparedness podcast. And our broadness of, like, the scope of that has been incredibly broad. And, like, a lot of times we talk about stuff that is, like, is this related to preparedness? And I'm like, I think related to preparedness because it is about connecting and it is about building networks and it is about, like, building resilience to all of the horrible things that we're talking about. I have seen this year a lot of people have conversations that they weren't having last year about preparedness and these, like, broad senses, having gatherings to talk about, like, how to have more resilient networks and little communities. I've seen people put a lot of intention into spaces, into building infrastructure, and into, like, putting on events that, like, bring people in. I've also seen the ICE stuff is, like, ice stuff and the ongoing genocide in Palestine have polarized society in a way or exposed a polarity in society that I think already existed where people are more broadly resisting fascism. And that is really cool to see, like, seeing people come together over, like, a shared hatred of ICE or, like, a shared belief that a genocide is going on. And, like, there are some really simple things that are starting to, like, bind people together in ways that, like, I was struggling to see before, where I feel like. I feel like a lot of, like, you know, anarchists, whatever, probably, like, like, used to, like, maybe feeling like the people. I'm going to call them doom criers. Like, people standing on the side of the road with, like, the End is near or like, whatever signs, you know. And I'm seeing more widespread support of all of these different forms of resistance. And that is. That is really cool to me. Or just like a more shared view on like, well, maybe it is fucked up to like, repress trans people. Or like, maybe it is fucked up to like support a genocide. Or maybe it is fucked up to support, like, watching your neighbors get hauled away by like Gestapo, like cops and ICE officers, you know?

Yeah. I mean, I think, I think we are seeing people, like more people find that their threshold for inaction is being exceeded.

Yeah. And more people finding that their voices matter and that the little things that they do can matter. And that's really cool to me. Miriam, in the next year, what sort of things are you hoping to do in 2026 to like, build. Build resiliency or resist despair?

I'm gonna say I'm. I'm really trying to like, lean into despair as fuel. I'm just like, at this point, fuck it.

Yay. Is.

Is kind of my whole approach. It's shit is really bad. And that's why we got to do the stuff. And the stuff is both things that I think will be directly helpful. And it's also things like spending time with friends and community and you know, doing things that feel healing and restorative to me and also doing anything that I think, you know, any. Anything that feels helpful, however small. And like, that's. That's where I'm at right now is it's despair as.

Yeah.

As fuel. Just like, well, gotta. Gotta do it because everything's fucked. You know, Despair is not a. So now we don't do anything. Now we lie down. Now we give up. Now we really gotta. Now we really gotta do it.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm really hoping this year to do some like, I think like, so in like talking about this, like, kind of widening, there being widening support for like, more radical ideas, I think like another kind of crucial part of. Of the puzzle is like, building broader, wider communities or like even like working on repairing fractures within communities. I feel very excited about that and it's silly, but like, I think a big way to do that is like to just put on events that bring people together and not just events that are like, let's figure out how to respond to this fucked up moment of repression, but let's figure out how to come together with joy and hope and fun. I feel really excited about trying to do more things like that. And I kind of want to highlight some things that like, before we before we go, that we pitched some of these questions to our Patreon subscribers, and they had some really heartwarming things to say that I really appreciated. Like, for instance, we. This year, we heard about someone who, like, is trying to build, like, a more alternative. Like, like, instead of fleeing a place, they kind of hunkered down and were like, how do we make this better for people who are here and who aren't going to leave. And has been doing some, like, cool, like, scouting, like, kind of, like family scout stuff, which I think is really fucking cool. And we're maybe going to do an episode at some point in the future about, like, like, you youth scouting movements, which is, I think, just really cool.

Yeah, we saw some really cool stuff happening just in our Patreon of what people are doing, where they are that I also found really encouraging and made it feel like, oh, maybe the stuff that we're doing here is also worth doing.

Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like we've been talking about this on the show for a while, but it's like, one Patreon subscriber described their town being hit by a flash flood. And one thing that they said was super helpful was already having built trust in relationships with each other, which allowed them to organize hundreds of volunteers to do things like muck out people's basements and save people's homes, which is just really fucking cool.

Yeah, this. This stuff we're always saying works.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I feel. I mean, whatever. It's, like, based on, like, it's based on, like, having done, seen, and experienced things. But it's, like, always cool to, like, see it, like, like work out in practice, you know, like in the future, you know?

Yeah, it's. It's good to see.

Yeah, yeah. And I actually want to. I feel like the last thing I want to say is, like, quoting one of our Patreon subscribers, which I hope is fun for you. Despair comes easy, but so does gratitude. I find a lot of comfort in taking care of my community and being taken care of in turn. I know it doesn't resonate with everybody, but it's been really helpful to me to think along the lines of hope is a discipline. Maybe I don't feel hopeful hardly ever, but the way I live can be rooted in the belief that something better is coming, and it's coming from us.

Damn, that's amazing. I love that.

Yeah. Thanks, Georgie. Thanks for some inspiration, but I think that's about probably all we have time for today in our this year segment. Any parting words Miriam for next year.

Good luck out there. Shit sucks. We're gonna, we're gonna be there also. To the rest of our team, you're doing great wherever you are. You have about another 45 seconds in there, so do hurry, whatever's happening.

Yes. Complete your mission and shout. A big shout out to our listeners this year. Thank you so much for supporting the show this year. This is an entirely listener supported podcast and we have been able to have it be a weekly podcast because of people supporting it. Some fun little landmarks. We have over 2 million listens. It's like, well, in the, like 2 million, like well above 2 million listens at this point.

That sounds, that sounds fake.

It sounds fake, but it's true. And I think we're about to hit our like 200th episode pretty soon, which is also really exciting and incredible and just endless gratitude to everyone who has listened to and supported the show in any way.

Thank you.

We also wanted to let people know that just like we did last year, we're going to be taking a little bit of a break in January from releasing new episodes. We are going to be releasing some, I guess, reruns of older episodes that we'd love for people to either go back and revisit or if you're a new listener to the show and haven't like delved into the, the old logs of years ago at this point, then you get some fresh years on them. So we hope you enjoy that. And we will have this month in the apocalypse at the end of January and then some new episodes starting in February hopefully. So stay tuned. And we just have a lot of exciting stuff coming up from Live, like the world is dying and also from Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness this year that we hope you check out new zines, new books and new podcast endeavors because we can't get enough podcasting. So stay tuned. Thanks so much for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, then build networks of resiliency in your communities and just continue to do everything that you can to experience joy, fight despair, and most importantly, resist fascism. Also, if you enjoyed this podcast, then you can support it and you can support it by supporting our publisher, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, which you can do in a variety of really fun ways. You can check out tangledwilderness.org where we have a bunch of books, zines, merch, we have Live like the world is Dying shirts. You can get all kinds of cool [email protected], role playing games, or really just one role playing game. But we might. We're definitely going to have more in the future. You can also check us out on [email protected] Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness where for a variety of tiers of support you can get access to different things. Like you can get a cool zine mail to you every month anywhere in the world. And you're too late at this point for our big giant sized January mailer, but I promise we're going to have even cooler stuff coming out in the future, so check that out. You can also sign up for our Acknowledgments tier where we will thank or acknowledge a thing of your choosing and I have to say for like the last year and like all time before and all time going into the future. Thank you so much to these people who just have made this show possible as well as all of our patrons and all of our listeners. Thank you so much and we would especially like to thank this is a fun I love that one of our the Immortal Choir Kickstarter backers wanted us to shout this out. Fuck yeah. Awesome. Thank you Cool Zone Media. Thank you. Be kind and talk to strangers Na Ulixi and Alder Tikva's favorite Stick the Waterfront Project Nico the KO Initiative Groot the Dog the Black Trowel Collective Dolly Parton and Edgar Mallin Poe Accordions Experimental Farm Network arguing about what to Shout Out Tenebris Press Potatoes Staying Hydrated Brought to you by Hannah Simone Weil thank you Blackbeard I hope the Pirate maybe I don't know if Blackbeard was cool or not. Probably Mixed review Thanks Ivy Rockstar the Astoria Food Pantry the Athens People's assembly of Athens, Georgia Opticuna TSNB baby Acab and her three great pups Sarah Mr. Craft your Canadian friend Mark tiny nonsense the Golden Gate 26 the Ko Initiative the incredible Ren Arai Alexander Gopal A Future for Abby Hue and He Max the Enchanted Rats of Turtle Island Lane Castor Chooses Love Karen the Canadian Socialist Rifle association the Massachusetts Chapter of the Socialist Rifle Association Farrell in West Virginia Blink Cat Shulva, Jason, Jenny and Phoebe the Cats Aiden and Yuki the Dog Sunshine Amber Ephemeral Appalachian Liberation Library Portland's Hedron HackerSpace Boldfield the People's University of Palestine Julia Carson Lord Harkin Community Books of Stone Mountain, Georgia Princess Miranda, Janice and Odell Ally Paparuna, Milica, Theo, S.J. paige, David, Dana, Micah Kirk, Chris, Micaiah, Nicole and Tikva the Dog and the Incredible Hoss the Dog thanks so much for everything. We really couldn't do it without you. We hope that everyone's doing as well as they can with everything that's going on in the world. And we will see you next time, Sam.