11.11-The Three Days of Red
Added 2025-01-20 02:46:37 +0000 UTCAn uprising that was literally an uprising...
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Bloody Sunday mentioned!
Vincent Calabrese
2025-03-12 16:26:56 +0000 UTCMethinks this is a result of over-reliance on the neutron guns, what with the large number of settings available on a gun (which are theoretically nonlethal but in practice not so much)
Carmack Sanderson
2025-01-27 06:37:19 +0000 UTCWow. Nice writing Mike!
Nathan Burroughs
2025-01-27 03:39:52 +0000 UTCDang just clicked the reference to the “Mons (Mountain) cafe” reference to the Jacobins? Buckling up for clashes with liberal nobles and Space Valmy.
Duncan Fraser
2025-01-26 18:04:35 +0000 UTCMike, this was truly epic! This whole story should be a movie. Well done!
Wil Holden
2025-01-25 03:48:37 +0000 UTCHey man down if you are
Steven Whisler
2025-01-24 11:25:39 +0000 UTCSo you're saying there's a market for a "The Nights of the Red Table" podcast that just reviews and discusses the Martian Episodes of Revolutions....
Matt Robold
2025-01-24 06:52:06 +0000 UTCMy lord… I just listened to this episode for the third time. What a master class in storytelling. Mike, you’ve outdone yourself. I can’t even begin to imagine how much fun this was to write, how thrilling it was to record it, and just how rewarding it must be to know that people are getting to experience this - unlike your other podcasts - without knowing anything about the events or the outcome. Bravo, sir, bravo.
Dan Hess
2025-01-24 01:30:30 +0000 UTCPart of me wonders if it's been so long since mass demonstration in this universe that they've forgotten basic crowd control. This would explain the lack of tear gas, riot shields, etc.
Alex LordThorsen
2025-01-22 00:13:27 +0000 UTCI was listening to this on my morning walk and when they declared strike i just yelled out in total excitement STRIKE!!!! Awesome episode!!!
Aurora Levinson
2025-01-21 19:21:40 +0000 UTCIncredible episode today!!
B. Parazin
2025-01-21 01:00:49 +0000 UTCMake sure you bring enough bread to hold out brother
Pat Foley
2025-01-20 23:14:47 +0000 UTCYeah can't help but feel a little bad for Ava Zhang. Damned if she did, damned if she didn't
Carmack Sanderson
2025-01-20 16:51:48 +0000 UTCI’m sure you’re jammed on time Mike, but it would be really really cool for you (or a producer or someone) to do a post-episode breakdown a la what game of thrones or succession used to do, where people can break down and discuss the episode, talk about what they see coming etc etc I know these require a lot of work already but I am really loving this season and find myself wanting more
Steven Whisler
2025-01-20 16:17:33 +0000 UTCThis was a fantastic episode. Wow
David Higuera
2025-01-20 16:08:59 +0000 UTCAlso, Mike, you missed an (intentional?) opportunity to conclude the episode by saying: "The Three Days of Red had begun with a fight over malfunctioning latrines, and ended with a massive sh*tstorm"
John Woolley
2025-01-20 13:08:47 +0000 UTCI listened to this on my podcast app and got the free version with a midroll ad. Anyone know where I find the RSS link to the ad-free version? Mike said it's on the Patreon but I can't find where. EDIT: Found it, it's in the 'Listen in other podcast apps' section under the 'Membership' tab on the Revolutions page. I can only find this on the web version though, not sure if there's a way to get at it from the app.
John Woolley
2025-01-20 12:42:39 +0000 UTCA lot went on so I can't blame it being overlooked, but it's still a shame Mike wasn't able to insert the origin of "Were there fans?" For Earthers who've never gone spaceside, you know fans, those propeller blades designed to push fresh air around a room and produce a cooling sensation without the need for Central AC or Climate Scrubbers. Well in closed systems as human life needs spaceside to survive their effectiveness are pretty limited and thus not really bothered with, Climate Scrubbers being more than capable of regulating a comfortable temperature, especially on Phos-5 colonies where even the older less efficient models had little reason to worry about energy costs. Fans were a novelty sometimes included in Shipper smuggler packages rather than a necessity for comfortable existence. Local conditions can overpower this however, and so it was in the stockades. With the appalling overcrowding, natural human body heat - not to mention body odor - overwhelmed the standard climate scrubbers, leaving each cell hot and stinky. Some B-Class administrators received requests from stockade security commanders to dispatch portable scrubbers to try and deal with it, but these requests were outright ignored, save for the single example of Stockade Prime, the only topside stockade where the S and A-Class annulled were awaiting reinstatement - the only stockade that wasn't even overcrowded, by the way. So to cope with the conditions, a mixture of chatlogs and security footage confirm that Stockades 2, 3, 8, 17 and possibly the entire 20-series used smuggled fans in a vain attempt to push the air around and cool the place off. Despite the pentabytes of data and research however, the question of whether Stockade 7 used fans hasn't been answered, and as we all know various dramatic recreations of the Revolution have taken different sides on whether fans were present. So why is this question so often added as a sidenote in Areological Historiography? Because of the black channels turning it into a meme. When word percolated to the Martians that a latrine backfire was what sparked the revolt in Stockade 7, a lot of commentators were curious to know if these Earth novelty cooling devices were present at the scene. Some were more specific, they wanted to know if the discharge reached some of the fans, seemingly with the authoritative belief that this would explain the entire revolution. Memetic Scholars who specialise in Pre-Crisis expressions attribute this to a once-common expression on Earth about latrine waste hitting a fan to express a significant and negative development in a situation, which is probably true, but this expression saw little use on Mars given the little sanctioned need for fans. The most common legend for why Martians started making overt references to this obsolete expression, which would be like a Byzantine Senator declaring that "It's come to the Triarii", is around the time things were spiraling out of control around Stockade 7 a sanctioned livestream/groupwatch of an historical satire film (not vid, film, this was pre-digitisation) of Zucker, where a moment of crass humour involves a character saying the obsolete phrase, then a visual demonstration of human excrement literally being thrown into a working fan. This coincidence of destiny meant it was on more than a few Society of Martians members' minds when the black channels started picking up what was happening. And then with every twist and turn in the revolution you get at least a few snarky comments asking "Were there Fans?" It helps that Shipper comlogs shortly after the Mutiny broke out also had otherwise serious conversations comparing it to the Battle of the Line asking if fans were present, proving the fraternisation between Space Shippers and the Martian Black Channels. And so was born "Were there fans?", the solar system-wide expression which started as a moment of absurdist black humour in the time of a crisis but evolved into its current meaning of "what caused this?". There was also the less popular "fans in the stockade" to represent a meaningless gesture that does nothing to really resolve a problem, but somehow "deckchairs on the Titanic" seem to have reasserted itself. Weird what a living language chooses to preserve and what goes the way of the Smart Toothpick.
RMS Oceanic
2025-01-20 09:28:20 +0000 UTCGreat episode, Mike, but if you want this to feel like a canon Revolution you need to do a mea culpa on a butchered name before long
Smooth Shrek
2025-01-20 05:05:25 +0000 UTCHe teased this this whole time, just as good as I thought it would be, worth the wait
Bill
2025-01-20 03:44:16 +0000 UTCYES. For obvious reasons I’m saving this episode for no particular reason whatsoever to listen to tomorrow (Monday) instead of consuming any sort of real news of the day.
Dan Hess
2025-01-20 03:05:11 +0000 UTCWe *always* do these things in three days.
socketface
2025-01-20 02:50:32 +0000 UTC
