Climate Change Therapy

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast that once used to be about climate change, got sidetracked in 2020, but is trending back towards climate change for 2021, thanks to the divine intervention of vaccines for Christmas. On today’s (12/22/20) episode, host Hank Felsman reconvenes the March 2020 COVID-19 emergency podcast roundtable - the urban planners Lars Mikelson, Robert Ball, "Pseudonym" Fix, and Jean Laundice - to recap the year that is so indescribable it has already become its own adjective, and to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including:

3:00 – A round of introductions

8:30 – January 2020

25:00 – February 2020

35:30 – March 2020

46:45 – April 2020

1:00:15 – May 2020

1:15:00 – June 2020

1:26:45 – July 2020

1:32:30 – August 2020

1:46:20 – September 2020

1:57:15 – October 2020

2:04:50 – November 2020

2:20:45 – December 2020

Bonus links cited:

Konrad Steffen, Glaciologist - Obituary: https://www.ipcc.ch/2020/08/14/obituary-konrad-steffen/

Al Schmidt, Philadelphia County Board of Elections Commissioner- Feature: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/magazine/trump-election-philadelphia-republican.html

Climate Change 2020 Year-in-Review: https://graphics.reuters.com/ENVIRONMENT-2020/WARMING/qzjpqdadnvx/

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we force ourselves to talk about climate change, an enormously important topic that, curiously, we don’t spend an enormous of time talking about in real life, other than, of course, the haven of this podcast. On today’s (12/14/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes Atom Bauerstein onto the program, with spot appearances from Hank’s Brother (between bites of pizza) in a sidekick role, to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including:

6:15 – How Atom thinks about climate change in his day-to-day life

13:50 – Waste management in the live entertainment business, featuring brief digressions into the subjects of grand pianos and - name-drop alert - Senator Cory Booker

18:00 – The last time Hank, his brother, and Atom were together in person, in early March 2020, two weeks before the bars closed

22:40 – Summer 2021 predictions, including the difference between bringing back live sports and live music festivals

30:45 – Getting tested for COVID-19

34:25 – Segment: Talk About It, featuring New Jersey, climate change, aliens, and more

47:25 – The first time hearing about climate change, featuring An Inconvenient Truth and South Park

52:00 – Atom hijacks host duties and interviews Hank about climate change, the Green New Deal, and more

1:05:10 – More climate change

1:15:00 – Music break, or a break to talk about music

1:09:00 – A failed segment about entertainment that should have been cut for time

1:24:30 – Segment: Guess that Weezer Song, feat. Atom Bauerstein, ex-bassist of Lame Duck Demolition and, more relevant to this segment, of the Weezer cover band Ace

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where, in a perfect world, we would spend hours and hours worrying about climate change, but in 2020, just want to be able to spend the holidays with our families again. On today’s (11/17/20) special edition Decision 2020 follow-up episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes back his Cousin Jeremy, Senior Political Analyst at BlockRadius.net, to revisit their last conversation, the 2020 Election Preview Special Edition (Climate Change Therapy, Ep. 26), check in on each other’s well-being, and discuss climate change, the state of American democracy, and unrelated topics, including:

6:45 – Good news for climate change policy

12:30 – A good question about the difference between executive orders and legislation. Cousin Jeremy attempts to explain. Hank presses, bullshits, spitballs. Clearly more research needs to be done!

22:20 – A day-by-day play-by-play of Election Week experiences, Tuesday to Saturday

43:00 – Trump refusing to concede and Republicans standing with him

53:30 – A transition to Biden (as a podcast subject, if not yet as certified President-Elect)

57:20 – The thing about these mail-in ballots

59:20 – Predictions for the next 64 days

1:02:20 – Free speech, and calling the free press “fake news”

1:05:15 – Rapid-Fire Questions, featuring unrelated topics

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we talk about the greatest anxiety-inducing global problems of our age, starting with climate change, as a form of mutual therapy for both podcast guest and host. On today’s (10/29/20) special edition Decision 2020 episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes his Cousin Jeremy, a Washington insider and Senior Political Analyst at BlockRadius.net, onto the program, to discuss the imminent 2020 Election, climate change, and unrelated topics, including:

5:20 – How Cousin Jeremy thinks and talks about climate change in his everyday life

9:30 – The 2016 Election

18:00 – The 2020 Election forecast: polling, rust belt swing states, voter turnout and demographics, etc.

25:20 – The candidate that reminds Hank of the KFC Double Down

27:00 – The southern swing states

31:00 – The counterintuitive impact of COVID on voter turnout

37:45 – When we will know the winner

43:50 – Rapid-Fire One-Word Reactions

48:00 – Segment-within-segment: Executive Branch Nepotism

52:00 – The 2020 Presidential candidates on climate change

58:00 – Fracking, and the important distinction between banning it and phasing it out to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

1:08:30 – Climate Change Fact & React, featuring the majesty of whales

1:16:00 – A new segment called Talk About It, featuring climate change and more

1:30:00 – Rapid-Fire Questions

1:35:45 – How to stay sane and hopeful, while still staying informed

1:40:30 – Thanksgiving 2021

1:42:00 – Final predictions for 2020 Election swing states

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we talk through our worries about climate change, the great problem of our age, as a form of therapy for both podcast host and guest. On today’s (10/27/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes his Uncle David, a writer-actor-green thumb-black belt and full-time uncle onto the program, to discuss climate change and unrelated topics, including:

5:00 – How Uncle David talks about climate change in his daily life in the Hudson Valley, featuring ash trees, ticks, geese, water chestnuts, and more

12:45 – New York City-inspired climate change musings

21:00 – Moby-Dick

30:00 – Seeing bears and bald eagles in his backyard

33:00 – Segment: Climate Change Fact & React, featuring crab-eating macaques, literacy rates, and more

40:00 – Chopping wood and carrying water, as a climate change “therapy”

48:45 - Plants

58:00 – The most beautiful things seen in nature

1:01:00 – Segment: Rapid-Fire One-Word Reactions

1:03:00 – Writing vs. acting

1:14:30 – Linking art to climate change

1:25:25 – Uncle David’s top travel destination, post-COVID vaccine

1:28:30 – Hank shares a disturbing dream he had last night and solicits an interpretation

1:33:45 – 1970s nostalgia

1:38:00 – The moon landing, Vietnam, and the Cuban missile crisis

1:40:45 – Grandpa’s time in the army during WWII

1:44:30 – The record-breaking 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season

1:48:45 – How this story ends

1:52:15 – Tips for being a better listener

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we honor our conscience by furthering the dialogue about the greatest problem, perhaps, that humanity has ever faced - climate change - while allowing, quite generously, for digressions down rabbit holes of much more immediate, local concerns. For example: the coronavirus. On today’s (6/25/20) episode, Hank welcomes his boss (at his real job), the legendary Philadelphia business leader Beverly Harper, onto the program to discuss climate change, COVID-19, the George Floyd protests, and unrelated topics, including:

5:05 – The effect of COVID-19 on climate change

9:00 – How the news and civil discourse have changed since the good ole days of Dick Cavett

14:00 – The removal of statues and monuments, such as the Columbus statue in Philadelphia

20:25 – How slavery and colonization was taught in schools when Beverly was a student, and teacher, in the 1960s

27:45 – The George Floyd protests, reasons for optimism, and 1960s comparisons

37:00 – Defunding the police

42:25 – A new segment called Beverly Reacts!

48:30 – A question from our only listener, steering the topic back to climate change

58:20 – Starting a small business in 1969, as a black woman without a business background, and then growing it into the successful business that Hank works for today

1:11:00 – Beverly’s family history, including a house immortalized in the National Museum of African-American History & Culture (nmaahc.si.edu/jones-hall-sims-house)

1:13:00 – Leading the charge for minority and women-owned business legislation in Philadelphia in the 1980s

1:29:00 – Schools and unrelated topics

1:41:00 – Former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo

1:43:35 – Former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell

1:45:55 – Music

1:49:00 – The impact of COVID-19 on transit

1:53:30 – Advice to young people for remaining hopeful and optimistic in 2020 and beyond

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we once forced ourselves to talk exclusively about climate change, but have since pivoted to worrying mostly about the coronavirus. On today’s (5/21/20) episode, Hank welcomes the New York City psychiatrist (turned COVID-19 front-line hospital worker) Danny Santa on to the program, to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including:

2:45 - Danny’s experience working in a New York City hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic

26:40 - How Danny used to think about climate change, before the pandemic, and how he thinks about climate change now

36:00 - Eco-anxiety and “rethinking hope” (Recommended reading: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending)

49:00 - Comparing the intelligence of humans today with the intelligence of humans centuries ago

52:15 - Spirituality/religion and climate change

1:00:00 - “The Last Dance”

1:05:45 - Leisure in NYC during the quarantine, including walking through Central Park, running by the river, and biting the bullet to go visit one’s parents

1:09:45 - Segment: Which came first? Feat. Which came first: the circle or the sun? And: Which came first: the use of wood for fire or for shelter?

1:17:35 - Final thoughts, how we can combat COVID, treatments, testing, predictions for the reopening of restaurants, and predictions for the development of a vaccine (i.e. hope)

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we once forced ourselves to talk exclusively about climate change, because it seemed so necessary then, but have since pivoted to focusing our discourse on the coronavirus, if only to give us all a break from TikTok and Tiger King. On today’s (4/15/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes onto the program the sports business/communications mastermind Joe Ozo and the “essential item” (beer) distribution strategist Hirsch, to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including:

2:15 - Introductions

5:00 - The impacts of the coronavirus on Rolling Cases

9:00 - The current contents of our COVID bunkers

13:15 - The prospect of having sports again in 2020, including a hot take of Hirsch’s that will leave your mind blown

28:30 - Baseball’s proposal to play all games in a biodome in Arizona, including the TV payoff, the massive risk of confining everyone to a presumed safe location that paradoxically becomes a petri dish, and what a “season” might actually look like

47:30 - The Red Sox and Astros cheating scandal conspiracies, featuring a classic Hirsch rant about living in the stone age

54:00 - Alternatives to live sports, in the time of COVID

59:00 - Joe Ozo pays tribute to Dr. Anthony Fauci

1:02:20 - Predictions on the return of sports

1:22:00 - Final thoughts

1:24:30 - Bonus segment: the NFL Draft next week

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy with Hank Felsman, the podcast where we used to talk about climate change, but for weeks now have been unable to talk about anything but the coronavirus. Until today! Today, we talk about something else, something very special. Indeed, on today's episode (4/1/20), we reveal the results of the highly competitive BlockRadius New Logo Design Contest (BRNLDC)! And there's one more treat for you. Not only do we reveal the results, but we also do so joined remotely by none other than the top two BRNLDC finalists themselves: the Philly-renowned urban planner & designer Z Nalywayko and the fabled NYC starchitect A Cooke. Just like you, they too will be hearing the results for the first time.

4:00 - Contestant introductions, feat. A Cooke, Z Nalywayko, and Z's personal PR person, his girlfriend M Danny Lynn

7:45 - A Cooke and Z Nalywayko discuss their final designs and their design process

16:45 - Voter pseudonyms

23:20 - Reactions to the results!

49:50 - The coronavirus

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy. On today’s (3/18/20) episode, host Hank Felsman and architect Robert Ball call up their friend and colleague Lars Mikelson, who in turn calls up their friend and colleague "Pseudonym" Fix, to talk about climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including:

3:30 - 1:09:20 - The coronavirus. Who are we kidding? The whole time, we just talk about the coronavirus.