Hope in the Hellscape

My voice hasn't been that great for much of this past month, but I've reached the point in time where either I use up some of the 3 hours of time I have for uploading, or I lose it.  So, I figured, what the heck-- we'll do it live!  I had a draft for this episode all written up (core concepts and discussion points determined by me, script fleshed out by ChatGPT) as of June 5th.  So, things were pretty much ready to go.

This episode deals with hope.  That's where we are at the moment.  Things are pretty dark in a variety of ways-- from tariffs, to deportations, to a stolen election that people _still_ aren't talking about, to (as of yesterday) the potential start of a war with Iran.  So, how does hope work?  How can we hope at all?  What type of precedent is there for things to dramatically change for the better?  This episode delves into those types of things-- looking at hope from all these different angles, and explaining how and why you really should feel hope-- and not despair-- in this very moment.