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Hey, everybody. Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode. So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch if you want. If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you, but you can make your own decisions.

Hey, everybody. Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode. So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch if you want. If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you, but you can make your own decisions.

Hey, everybody. Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode. So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch if you want. If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you, but you can make your own decisions.

Welcome back to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about it happening here, which is, you know, these days normally about the fact that it's happening here. But today we're here to talk about a show where it happens somewhere else, a place that people aren't yet, but may one day be in the future. We're talking about the Martian Revolution with the great Mike Duncan of the Revolutions podcast.

Welcome back to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about it happening here, which is, you know, these days normally about the fact that it's happening here. But today we're here to talk about a show where it happens somewhere else, a place that people aren't yet, but may one day be in the future. We're talking about the Martian Revolution with the great Mike Duncan of the Revolutions podcast.

Welcome back to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about it happening here, which is, you know, these days normally about the fact that it's happening here. But today we're here to talk about a show where it happens somewhere else, a place that people aren't yet, but may one day be in the future. We're talking about the Martian Revolution with the great Mike Duncan of the Revolutions podcast.

Mia Wong joining me on this interview. Welcome to the show, Mike. Thank you very much for having me. So let's talk about this because, you know, I've kept up and been listening to revolutions for years. And I started seeing messages earlier this year that like Mike Duncan is doing this fictional revolution podcast on the Martian revolution.

Mia Wong joining me on this interview. Welcome to the show, Mike. Thank you very much for having me. So let's talk about this because, you know, I've kept up and been listening to revolutions for years. And I started seeing messages earlier this year that like Mike Duncan is doing this fictional revolution podcast on the Martian revolution.

Mia Wong joining me on this interview. Welcome to the show, Mike. Thank you very much for having me. So let's talk about this because, you know, I've kept up and been listening to revolutions for years. And I started seeing messages earlier this year that like Mike Duncan is doing this fictional revolution podcast on the Martian revolution.

And it seems to map really, really closely with a lot of stuff that's happening right now in the United States. And I'm wondering kind of to what extent did you anticipate that being an initial reaction to this when you started really finally laying down like the text for these episodes? I did not expect that at all.

And it seems to map really, really closely with a lot of stuff that's happening right now in the United States. And I'm wondering kind of to what extent did you anticipate that being an initial reaction to this when you started really finally laying down like the text for these episodes? I did not expect that at all.

And it seems to map really, really closely with a lot of stuff that's happening right now in the United States. And I'm wondering kind of to what extent did you anticipate that being an initial reaction to this when you started really finally laying down like the text for these episodes? I did not expect that at all.

Yeah. Welcome to the club. Yeah.

Yeah. Welcome to the club. Yeah.

Yeah. Welcome to the club. Yeah.

Well, that's what's so interesting is because, yeah, so much of the initial, as you imagine it, the opening stages of the Martian revolution in your series are based on a guy who is a, quote unquote, partly an autodidact.

Well, that's what's so interesting is because, yeah, so much of the initial, as you imagine it, the opening stages of the Martian revolution in your series are based on a guy who is a, quote unquote, partly an autodidact.

Well, that's what's so interesting is because, yeah, so much of the initial, as you imagine it, the opening stages of the Martian revolution in your series are based on a guy who is a, quote unquote, partly an autodidact.

like a dude who is raised believing that his ideas are good because they're his ideas and that he can kind of jump into any field of human endeavor and make things work better than the people who have been studying and working in that field for their entire lives. And he just starts changing everything based on his whims.

like a dude who is raised believing that his ideas are good because they're his ideas and that he can kind of jump into any field of human endeavor and make things work better than the people who have been studying and working in that field for their entire lives. And he just starts changing everything based on his whims.