Episode Summary Carrot and Margaret talk about all things hiking, including thru-hiking and ultralight hiking. They talk about how to choose the right gear for the right purposes and how to minimize the impacts of long distance hiking on your body. They go through the complications of bringing dogs on long hikes and how to stay safer around grizzly bears. They also spend a good deal of time critiquing The Last of Us while developing a theory on how to hybridize many hiking strategies to develop ...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast 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 c...
Apr 07, 2023•55 min•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Margaret and Agatha talk about mutual aid in Ukraine and Agatha's experience trying to go there to fight in an anti-authoritarian platoon, but ending up doing a bunch of mutual aid supply distribution work instead. They talk about he intricacies of relief work and some of the special circumstances in Ukraine. Heavy content warning on this episode. Towards the end of the episode around 46:00, Agatha starts to tell a really intense story about being in a war zone. Around 56:00 is w...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Janet and Margaret talk about sustainable foraging, herbalism, wild tending, constructive ethics on why you might choose not to wildcraft, ways to impact your food intake in small but meaningful ways, unlearning extractive tendencies when harvesting food and medicine, and upholding indigenous wisdom around wild tending. Guest Info Janet (she/her) is an herbalist and teacher at the Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine. Janet can be found on wordpress at Radical Vitalism The sc...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Brooke talks with Alissa and Alex about horrors of the legal system. She walks through both of their legal ordeals from the circumstances of their targeting, arrests, court appearances, and current statuses. Alissa and Alex were both arrested separately in connection to violence from the far Right. Guest Info Alissa Azar (she/they) is currently in need of support to retain legal services. You can find her fundraiser at https://donorbox.org/help-alissa-get-proper-legal-defense . Y...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Brooke, Casandra, and Margaret talk about the war in Ukraine and how Russia is not doing great, the train derailment in East Palestine, anti trans bills, Adderall shortages and meth, the return of Big Chicken, long covid as potential auto immune disease, further bans on abortion drugs, drought, floods, earthquakes and the US's top priority: shooting million dollar missiles at balloons. Host Info Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . Ca...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Brooke and Carla talk about parenting as radicals and youth autonomy, but more importantly, they talk about adult supremacy, the history of it, the ways it influences all of our lives and strategies for confronting it as parents and non parents. They breakdown childism, and talk about how the most important thing you can do is listen to the youth and how community is once again the answer to many societal woes. Guest Info Carla Joy Bergman (She/they) is a writer, producer, podcas...
Feb 24, 2023•59 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Brooke, Casandra, and Margaret talk about some laws that the ATF just imposed and how you might soon be a felon, some bizarre tax proposals that have been in the works for the last quarter of a century, and check in our old friend, the Colorado River in This Month in the Apocalypse. Host Info Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . Casandra is just great and can be found at Strangers doing awesome layouts, and Brooke can be found on Twit...
Feb 10, 2023•56 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Margaret and Nadia talk about harm reduction, what it is, how it relates to community preparedness, strategies for including harm reduction in your preparedness routines, and a little bit of history and legality as relates to different kinds of drug use. Guest Info Nadia works with Next Distro and can be found at https://nextdistro.org/ Host Info Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers i...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Brooke and Margaret recap the passed year of horrifying events, from climate collapse, to inflation economics, to developments with Covid, mass shooting, why the police continue to suck, culture wars, bodily autonomy, why capitalism ruins everything, as well as a glimpse of what could be coming this next year both hopeful and dreadful in This Year in the Apocalypse. Host Info Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . Brooke is just great a...
Jan 13, 2023•59 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Margaret and Casandra talk with Cindy Milstein about what anarchism actually is, why you should try it, possibly for life, the many horrors of fascism, and once again why community is all too important. They also talk about Milstein's new book from Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, "Try Anarchism for Life." Guest Info The guest is Cindy Barukh Milstein (they/them). Milstein can be found on Instagram @ CindyMilstein on Twitter @CindyMilstein , on Wordpress at CBMilstein.wordpress...
Dec 30, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Brooke and Casandra talk with Why We Fight author, Shane Burley about conspiracy theories, false consciousness amongst the right, how mythos get built to influence how people think, and how the root of a lot of conspiracy theories is anti-semitism. Guest Info Shane Burley can be found on Twitter @ Shane_Burley1 , on Instagram @ ShaneBurley , on Mastodon @Shane_Burley, and on Patreon at www.patreon.com/ShaneBurley Host Info Casandra rocks. Brooke can be found at Strangers helping ...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Summary Margaret and Ellie talk about building a better culture around guns, the importance of gun ownership for community and self defense, some basic tenets of firearm safety, ideas around conflict deterrence, some problems with our current gun culture, consent and guns, mental health and guns, and unsurprisingly how community might be a big piece of the answer to maintaining better gun culture. Guest Info The Guest is Ellie Picard and she is a hand gun instructor with Arm Trans Women....
Dec 02, 2022•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode Summary Margaret and Smokey talk about ways to go about mental first aid, how to alter responses to trauma for you self and as a community, different paths to resiliency, and why friendship and community are truly the best medicine. Host Info Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org , or on Twitter @ TangledWild a...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode Summary For this episode of This Month in the Apocalypse, Brooke, Margaret, and Casandra chat about more horrible things and some ways to work through some of these problems. They talk about supply chain shortages, corn, ways to keep your house warmer without using a ton of energy or resources, dubious debunked how warming myths that also might burn it down, and a thorough introduction to hurricane preparedness. Host Info Casandra can be found on Twitter @ hey_casandra . Ma...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode Summary For this This Month in the Apocalypse episode Brooke, Margaret, and Casandra all researched different topics and discuss them. Margaret talks about climate collapse, droughts, floods, wildfires, the cost of wheat, and the dangers of rising humidity for wet bulb temperatures. Casandra talks about Monkey Pox, rises in other viral and vector borne illness, and discovers why rain might actually be a bad thing for your food. Brooke talks about student loan forgiveness an...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode summary Andre and Margaret talk about a lot of things. They talk about recycling/reusing/remelting plastics, turning them into fuel, setting up solar power systems, setting up DIY internet, intranets and mesh networks as well as some concepts dealing with solar punk and hydroponics, and of course how most things can be easily analogized to baking a cake. Guest Info Andre can be found at www.anarchosolarpunk.substack.com , or on Twitter @ HydroponicTrash or on TikTok @ Hydro...
Aug 26, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode summary Margaret talks with Paige, who works in composting and humanure systems, about how to set up systems for disposing of food and human waste, different kinds of systems that can be used including worm composting, and the importance of thinking about the scale and purpose of your system. Guest Info Paige can be found on Twitter @ badcompost Host Info Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . Publisher Info This show is p...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode summary In this new monthly segment, members of the Strangers Collective discuss current events as they relate to community preparedness. If you're watching the news and wondering what's going on with inflation, supply chain shortages, the heat "wave", or Q'anon talking about space lasers and the black holes that are causing all of this, tune in. The group breaks down the mechanics of inflation, why prices are what they are, why we're seeing shortages, and ways you can prep...
Jul 29, 2022•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode summary: Margaret talks with Mixael from the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective about access to different medical technologies, biohacking access, and how the medical industrial complex complicates that. They talk about the importance of being able to audit medical access and ways you can build medical infrastructure in your own communities. They talk about old projects like the DIY Epi Pencil as well as new projects they are revealing, which include new ways to access medicin...
Jul 22, 2022•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode summary Margaret and Casandra talk about some of the basics of preparedness and how to get started even if you don't have a lot of money or skills. They go through their lists of things they always consider when preparing for crises, whether that be a natural disaster, "the bomb", food shortages, inflation, the further advancement of Fascism, or any of the other of the various multi-faceted horrors contributing to our slow apocalypse. They talk about community preparedness ...
Jul 15, 2022•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode Summary: Mo, a criminal defense/movement lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild, talks about how Grand Juries are used by the State to destabilize communities, and what your options are for resisting them if you are issued a subpoena. Margaret and them talk about the importance of not cooperating with Grand Juries and how you can be an eternal badass...i mean protect yourself and your community by resisting them. They also talk about the most important legal strategy: Hope....
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode summary Margaret talks with Elle, an anarchist and security professional, about different threat modeling approaches and analyzing different kinds of threats. They explore physical threats, digital security, communications, surveillance,and general OpSec mentalities for how to navigate the panopticon and do stuff in the world without people knowing about it...if you're in Czarist Russia of course. Guest Info Elle can be found on twitter @ ellearmageddon . Host and Publisher...
Jun 17, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode summary Margaret talks with two people who work with the Bay Area Doula Project. They talk about different kinds of abortions, histories of abortion methods, different kinds of self-managed abortions, clincal and procedural abortions, pharmacological methods vs herbal methods, and abortion access. Guest Info Bay Area Doula Project can be found on Instagram @BayAreaDoulaProject or on Twitter @ BAPDtweets Host and Publisher The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter @m...
Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode summary Margaret and Casandra talk about the importance of learning mediation skills, what mediation is and what different processes look like. Guest Info The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org . You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness . Links Mediate.com The Little...
May 20, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode summary Guest info and links The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at Tangled Wilderness You can support the show on Patreon . Referenced Texts: > Fitzpatrick's Dermatology, 9e > Taylor and Kelly's Dermatology for Skin of Color, 2e > Sanford Guide To Anti-Microbials > UpToDate: > UpToDate – Evidence-based Clinical Decision...
May 06, 2022•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Episode summary Guest info and links . The guest Jason Sauer can be found on twitter @jasonrsauer . He is involved with another podcast, Future Cities, that you can find wherever you listen to podcasts. The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . You can support this show on Patreon at patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness . Transcript Margaret Hello and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels ...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Yellow Peril Tactical can be found on Instagram @yellow_peril_tactical , Twitter @YPTActual , and Patreon @yellow_peril_tactical . You can listen to their podcast The Tiger Bloc Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . You can support her and this show on Patreon at patreon.com/margaretkilljoy . Transcript Margaret Hello and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for w...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . You can support this show and others on Patreon at patreon.com/ strangersinatangledwilderness. Transcript Margaret Hello and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. I'm your host, Margaret Killjoy, and also welcome back to the show. It's been several months since I put out the last episode and you'll be shocked to know that's because a...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Notes Margaret talks to Casandra about canning, drying, and other means by which to preserve food. The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy . You can support her and this show on Patreon at patreon.com/margaretkilljoy . Transcript Margaret Hello and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the End Times. I'm your host, Margaret Killjoy. And this episode we're going to be talking about food preservat...
Sep 27, 2021•59 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast 
