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Spoiler propaganda for Mike Walters:

Woe.begone is a podcast that centers on time travel and what people do with it. Mike Walters is the protagonist of this podcast. within woe.begone, there is a time travel concept that mike and his friends refer to as "iterations." Iterations are, incredibly dumbing this down, versions of people from a certain period of time. in woe.begone, an iteration can be made using a preset on technology to take a person from 1 second prior 1 second into the future and now theres two of them. these iterations can be "consolidated" back into the same person but otherwise continue to exist unless killed or corrected by using time travel technology to make it so they were never made with the technology.... woe.begone itself as a podcast has a lot of ideas about what it means to be a person, so consolidation isn't actually that simple of an idea. Mike Walters eventually comes to the belief that he calls "iterative personhood" which means that he believes iterations of himself removed through time are worth empathy and consideration, and that they aren't all exactly what he thinks of as "himself." This is visibly true in many ways.

When Mike forms his time travel organization "base" with his friends, two versions of himself from the future provide him support via the project known as "satellite base." These versions are referred to as mike and Michael. Michael decides one day (for a myriad of reasons) that he is going to be a cowboy. I can't explain it any other way than that, but Michael isn't the only one that just decides to pick up a persona and start acting differently from the rest of Mike Walters. Another iteration, "Mdawg" is depicted as acting like a laid back hippy, for example. Oftentimes, in Mike Walters's circle these iterations serve different roles, like the other half of the two from the future, who is sometimes also referred to as "Latvia mike" to keep things straight. Latvia mike takes it upon himself to be "the reasonable one" of the mikes, believing the Mike Walters of the past (mikey) and the one in his future (Michael) to be incapable of this. Michael himself tries to be the strong one and protect everyone as well.

In woe.begone season 17, a concept is introduced. A new type of consolidation known as "cross consolidation." Cross consolidation is a special type of consolidation of iterations that while also having other new capabilities creates an effect between the iterations that have been consolidated that instead of being/feeling like one person, the end result is someone that feels like two+ people, one possibly leading more than the other and switching back and forth. This is audibly shown by switching voices and speech patterns, even if in the reality of the show the other people don't hear it that way. many people have viewed this season with a more plural reading, and I agree that its a very intriguing way to view it and mike himself. theres a lot more I could say but I don't have my woe.begone analysis license so we're keeping it like this. end rambling listen to my badly done not the best of the evidence rushed audio clips three.... and vote Mike Walters...