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2 / The Final Countdown

Special guest Forrest Palmer joins us to discuss a whole lotta collapse, collapse, collapse. In the first segment, we riff on Trump getting the 'rona and the recent presidential debates. In the second segment, we do a reading of ⁠Indi Samarajiva⁠'s essay I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There, and discuss the implications of the text, including the fact that we are currently living in a collapsed society in the United States.

Timeline:

00:00–02:05: Intro

02:05–28:03: Trump gets 'rona, Presidential Debates

28:03–1:39:26: I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There

Episode Notes:

The intro and transition features audio from ⁠Trump's Twitter⁠, the song ⁠The Final Count by Europe, and audio from ⁠Rocky⁠ ⁠4⁠.

The outro features audio from Brent Terhune's video ⁠"Trump Got Covid."⁠

We read ⁠Indi Samarajiva⁠'s essay I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There

3 / ELECTIONMANIA SUPER EPISODE

1 / Livin' On A Prayer