Episode Summary

Brooke and Margaret talk about every thing that went wrong this last month, and some good things. Sort of. They talk about more chemical spills, storing water and water filtration, tornadoes, more news on anti trans bills, inflation, super fun fungi, not fun at all guy Trump and his indictment, and how a drone (or satellite phone) could save your life and also make you a vampire.

Host Info

Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. Brooke can be found on Twitter or Mastodon @ogemakweBrooke.

Publisher Info

This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness.

Transcript

This Month in the Apocalypse: March, 2023

Brooke 00:16 Hello and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying ,your podcast for it feels like the end times. This is the March]April installment of our segment This Month in the Apocalypse. I'm Brooke Jackson and with me today is the infamous Margaret Killjoy.

Margaret 00:30 I'm infamous now, what did I do?

Brooke 00:33 Well known for being famous? Oh wait, that's not what that word means.

Margaret 00:37 No. It means famous for bad.

Brooke 00:41 Well, bad means good. [Laughing]

Brooke 00:46 You're bad. This podcast is a proud member of the Channel Zero network of anarchist podcasts. Before we dive into today's episode, we'd like to share a little jingle from another pod on our network.

Brooke 01:08 And we're back. Margaret. How are you feeling today?

Margaret 01:11 I have a toothache and I'm grouchy. How are you?

Brooke 01:15 I'm doing okay. I have intermittent sunshine.

Margaret 01:19 Oh, does that mean it's almost not Pacific Northwest winter?

Brooke 01:25 Well, it's intermittent with like super heavy rains and or hail.

Margaret 01:29 Oh. The weather is much nicer where I'm at.

Brooke 01:32 Yeah, it's Oregon doing its 'hold my beer' weather.

Margaret 01:37 Well, do you wanna hear about some shit that happened this this month?

Brooke 01:43 I definitely do.

Margaret 01:44 A ton of shit happened this month. It's always funny to do these, because there's like all of these huge events. There's like one huge event a week and then it's like they're already out of our collective attention spans. So, on March, 26th, a pipe broke at the Trensio PLC chemical plant near the Delaware River. This is the the Philadelphia spill, right? It spilled ethyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, and butyl acrylate into a creek called Otter Creek. Between eight and twelve thousand gallons of this stuff that is used...It's basically synthetic latex or it's like the precursors, I believe, to synthetic latex.

Brooke 02:21 That's a lot of 'lates' spilled.

Margaret 02:24 Yeah. And one of them is double meth. But, it actually has nothing to do with meth. I'm sorry. So, it ended up not being....well, it was a big dea