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In episode 1592, Jack and Miles are joined by the producer of The Puzzler, Jody Avirgan, to discuss… COP28 Continues To Make A Mockery Of Our Climate Crisis, George Santos Is Now On Cameo Because Of Course He Is, Update on Private Equity - Renting Alone Is Too Expensive For Gen Z, Millennials, And Gen X, Bass Pro Shops: Worst Store In America? And more!

1. COP28 Continues To Make A Mockery Of Our Climate Crisis
2. It’s Big Oil vs. Science at the U.N. Climate Summit
3. George Santos Is Now On Cameo Because Of Course He Is
4. George Santos Is on Cameo, Charging $200 a Pop for Birthday, Holiday, and “Gossip” Videos
5. Sen. John Fetterman trolls Bob Menendez with social media video recorded by George Santos
6. John Fetterman paid George Santos $343 for a Cameo to troll Bob Menendez
7. Update on Private Equity - Renting Alone Is Too Expensive For Gen Z, Millennials, And Gen X
8. Investors are purchasing more single-family homes than ever
9. Why the Road Is Getting Even Rockier for First-Time Home Buyers
10. Bass Pro Shops: Worst Store In America?
11. Garth Brooks Releasing New Album ‘Time Traveler’… Exclusively Through Bass Pro Shops
12. Goldman Sachs’ investment in a gun retailer puts it in an awkward position
13. Bass Pro Shops Pulls Offensive Gun From Shelf
14. Why Have So Many Cities and Towns Given Away So Much Money to Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's?
15. Bass Pro Shops accused of discrimination, racial slurs
16. Cities Still Subsidize Bass Pro Megastores Despite Questionable Returns
17. Goldman Sachs finally gets comfortable with guns

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In this episode, Ralph and Luc delve into what the oil companies knew about CO2’s impact on the climate, and how they lied to you to sustain their fossilized business model – even if it risks drilling us into oblivion… This argument will soon be heard in court as part of a series of lawsuits against Big Oil.

We start by looking into the history of scholarship on this issue, dating back to the 19th Century.
We highlight the record of what the oil companies such as Exxon and the American Petroleum Institute were saying behind closed doors – and contrast this with their contemporaneous public statements.

Sources:
• If you would like to read California's lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP and the American Petroleum Institute for deceiving the public for decades, you can access it here:
https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FINAL-9-15-COMPLAINT.pdf

• We quote from the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt; How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.

• We also sample a couple clips from the 2014 documentary derived from it, also titled Merchants Of Doubt, directed by Robert Kenner and co-written by Kim Roberts.

• We cite reporting from this 2017 article from the Center for Public Integrity: “The United States of Petroleum” by Jie Jenny Zou, accessible at

https://apps.publicintegrity.org/united-states-of-petroleum/

• You can read Edward Teller’s “Energy Patterns of the Future” 1959 Presentation at the Energy and Man conference organised by the American Petroleum Institute in full here:
https://www.planetaryhealthforbusypeople.com/whats-now-and-whats-new/edward-teller

• We sample a couple clips from the 1981 British TV documentary by Thames Television called “Warming Warning”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMjnvfkeJJ0&list=PL7WD0g9dS3jlkXemuiPdoj4RF416JTpn6&index=3

• We read from Exxon's 1982 internal primer on the CO2 "Greenhouse Effect", which was made accessible thanks to reporting by Inside Climate News in 2015, and is accessible here:
https://insideclimatenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1982-Exxon-Primer-on-CO2-Greenhouse-Effect.pdf

• We also read from the oil companies' advertorials, as highlighted in a 2017 research article: "Assessing ExxonMoblil’s climate change communications (1977-2014)" by Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f

• We refer to elements from the 2021 book The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E Mann.

• We also cite the 2023 Science article "Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections" by Geoffrey Supran, Stefan Rahmstorf, and Naomi Oreskes:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063

• We excerpted a clip from Naomi Klein's June 2023 appearance on the podcast "The Audit", hosted by Dave Anthony and Josh Olson on David Sirota's Lever Network, which you can listen to in full here:

https://www.levernews.com/the-audit-the-climate-change-misinformation-machine

(This episode is also available as a video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/muNF_1mC3FI )

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Description: Many people have never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC – but for 50 years, the group has been the driving force behind some of the most extreme policies in this country. Behind closed doors, ALEC brings corporate lobbyists and state politicians together to draft and vote on model bills that aim to free corporations from regulations, regardless of the impacts on people and the planet. Labor law, environmental law, health and safety, voting — no cause is off-limits. Our guests say ALEC and its wealthy pool of funders are a real threat, but there are ways to take action and progress has already been made. In 2023, a diverse coalition of groups, including Greenpeace, Color of Change, the Center for Media and Democracy and more, is calling out the anti-democratic impact of ALEC by using the hashtag #50YearsOfHarm. Congressman Ro Khanna of California's 17th Congressional District, a leading progressive in the House, and Lisa Graves, Executive Director of True North Research and President of the Center for Media and Democracy, two of the preeminent national watchdog groups investigating dark money, join Laura Flanders to unpack it all. And in her closing commentary Laura fills us in on the other side of the story in state houses: the Democrats' have their own project in place these days. But is it any match for ALEC?

“ALEC recognizes that on many of these issues, there's a 70, 80, 90% consensus against them and they're trying to distort the democratic process by the use of big money.” - Ro Khanna

“ I still believe that for many people, not all people, knowledge is power, facts matter, and knowing who the real special interests are behind this [legislation] can help expose and block them.” - Lisa Graves

Guests:

Lisa Graves: President of the Board, Center for Media & Democracy; Executive Director, True North Research

Ro Khanna: Congressman California's 17th District

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During this episode, the Hyundai Ioniq6 EV is reviewed, the future of Big Oil is discussed on a global scale, and digitizing freight as a solution is considered by one firm. 

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SUMMARY: Does a hundred-year obsession with enemas prove that there is a time and place for plastic?

 SOURCES:

Dixon, Laurinda S. “Some Penetrating Insights: The Imagery of Enemas in Art.” Art Journal, vol. 52, no. 3, 1993, pp. 28–35. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/777365. Accessed 24 July 2023.

 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/754099/
Etymology of blow smoke up your arse

Pic of tobacco resuscitation kit
 https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.26323343?searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DTobacco%2Benema&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Afea60907615ef5c269b24e6fc8cbaa1d

Holy enemas! Drive the devil from your body with holy water up your arse! (BAKKERS BUTT)
 https://onlysky.media/ahall/jim-bakkers-holy-water-enemas-scandal/

https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(19)30500-3/fulltext

 https://bcmj.org/special-feature/special-feature-tobacco-smoke-enemas

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Big Oil wants you to think climate change is a lifestyle issue, says environmental campaigner Tzeporah Berman on Climate Curious. Tune in to learn why oil companies want us to sit home, blame ourselves and focus on plastic straws. Instead, let's get curious!

Enjoyed this Climate Quickie? Listen to our full-length chat with Tzeporah on why fossil fuels are the new weapons of mass destruction – everyone has them, but nobody needs them. 

Check out Tzeporah's latest article, Canada is on fire, and big oil is the arsonist.

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Fossil fuel profiteers don’t deserve a moment of peace. The youth-led group Climate Defiance is using direct action to expose the politicians most responsible for the climate crisis and compel them to act with the urgency this crisis deserves.

I spoke with Rylee Haught – the group’s student recruitment lead – just a day after Climate Defiance shut down Joe Manchin’s keynote address in protest of the Senator’s role in greenlighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline. We talk about Manchin’s fossil fuel interests, the success of this action, and the other incredible actions the group has organized, including their successful blockade at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

We also discuss: 

        Senator Joe Manchin’s profiteering off of fossil fuels

        Disruption as a strategy

        Disruption vs working within the normal channels

        How to shut down a board meeting or other event

        Sit ins, blockades, and other tactics

Calls to action:

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Get involved through their website / sign their Pledge of Resistance

Support by donating!! As Rylee says in the episode, “We are a Small scrappy group of Gen-Zers, so definitely send us some funds if you can!”

Shoutout to bartender Jesse Torres for crafting the Climate Defiance cocktail! This is such a special drink to honor the work of this group of young, determined climate activists!


Climate Defiance Cocktail 

This is a riff of a riff on the Corpse Reviver no. 2. It’s a bright and refreshing cocktail and a delightful drink for any occasion or time of day. Serve it on the rocks with soda for an even lighter option. 

Climate Defiance Cocktail 

22ml  Tequila blanco

22ml  Giffard Blue curaçao 

22ml  **Don Ciccio Cinque Aperitvo bianco 

22ml  Lime juice 

Optional: Mezcal rinse 

Method:  Pour all ingredients except into a shaker and shake well with ice. (Optional: Rinse a coupe or martini glass with mezcal and dump out any excess.) Strain into the rinsed glass and garnish with a maraschino cherry. 

** The Don Ciccio Cinque can be substituted with any other light colored am

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In this episode, Ralph and Luc listen to a stand-up routine by comedian George Carlin about environmentalists. We engage with Carlin’s pontifications and his ingenious framing by providing context from a scientific perspective. We also gesture at disarming some of his cynicism while steering clear of fully explaining away what made his take comedic in the first place.

This episode contains 4 brief excerpts from George Carlin's "Jammin' in New York" special.

Erratum: we said microplastics were found in the blood of 99% of people tested – in fact, plastic was found in the blood of 17 of 22 subjects tested (77%).
• original article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258
• and a write-up in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/microplastics-found-in-human-blood-for-first-time.

On this inaugural episode, Ralph and Luc briefly describe the practice of greenwashing, with examples ranging from:

• BP's popularisation of the carbon footprint, to 
• the labels on water bottles, to 
• Volkswagen evading emissions tests, and 
• the practice of carbon offsets…

The noise from oil trolls, oil bots and Big Oil astroturfing has become deafening. Their aim is to overwhelm the climate movement - and thoroughly confuse the public - by posting vast amounts of misleading information and spreading crazy conspiracy theories as well as general nonsense, in very large volumes. They are a naked attempt at pushing Big Oil's agenda of perpetuating fossil fuels irrespective of the very high risk they pose to society's very survival. The Angry Clean Energy on what they are; what to do about them in an environment where Big Oil's obscene 2022 "profits" will likely power them into hysteria mode; and how this is consistent with Big Oil recently dropping any pretense about their goal of stalling - and then reversing - the energy transition.   

86% of everything trapped in our atmosphere comes from three things: oil, gas, and coal AKA fossil fuels, so why has the phrase been strangely invisible in global climate negotiation and climate policy? Here to explain is Tzeporah Berman, the chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation Treaty Initiative.

Enjoyed this quickie? Listen to our full-length chat with Tzeporah on why fossil fuels are the weapons of mass destruction – everyone has them, but nobody needs them.

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We all know we’re in a climate emergency, but what’s the timeline looking like? Here to share a prediction of what the next seven years will look like is Mark Campanale, the founder of non-profit think tank, Carbon Tracker Initiative. Tune in to learn how we can solve this, and why there’s so much to look forward to in our lifetime, including free energy!

Listen to Mark’s 30-minute interview on Climate Curious, ‘How to make big oil go bust’.

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In episode 1374, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, writer, and actor, Paige Weldon, to discuss… Time for the Mainstream Media To Misread The Election Results--Overall Analysis, Fetterman Analysis, Trump (Most Likely) Announced…How’s Everyone Feelin' Over There on the Right? This Year’s Climate Summit Brought To You By Coke And Big Oil and more!

1. Time for the Mainstream Media To Misread The Election Results--Overall Analysis
2. Fetterman Analysis
3. Donald Trump’s Presidential Rerun
4. Pompeo says expected Trump announcement won’t affect his own 2024 plans
5. Republicans cringe as Trump 2024 approaches
6. This Year’s Climate Summit Brought To You By Coke And Big Oil
7. World’s Largest Climate Crisis Conference Sparks Controversy After Serving Meat
8. Dry in the desert: Cop27 delegates get a taste of food and drink scarcity
9. Coke Is a Sponsor of the Climate Summit in Egypt. Some Activists Aren’t Happy.
10. COP27: Activists 'baffled' that Coca-Cola will be sponsor
11. Coke could help save oceans from plastic — by keeping its promise
12. Coke's COP27 sponsorship doesn't go down well with green groups
13. 'Explosion’ in number of fossil fuel lobbyists at Cop27 climate summit
14. COP27 awash with fossil fuel representatives, research shows

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John Cortines had a plan to become a millionaire by age 30 and retire by age 40. He had all the spreadsheets and the “Big Oil” job to prove it. But while pursuing his MBA at Harvard Business School, John took the class “God and Money,” where he ended up writing a term paper that became a book—and it changed his life forever. He began studying God’s Word to answer the question “How much do we need to give?” John ended his exploration with the question flipped to “How much do we really need to keep?” In this Faith Driven Entrepreneur Podcast episode, we talk to John about the book that he co-authored, entitled, ‘God and Money: How We Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School.’ Listen in as John shares practical tools for how Christ-following business leaders can give biblically and responsibly. 

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The modern medical system demonizes natural medicine while promoting “a pill for every ill.”  In episode 56, Joel and Sina discuss how this system was created and why it led to the death of natural medicine and the birth of Big Pharma and Rockefeller medicine. 

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