Maximum Carbon Sinkhole

KC and JP soak in the sinkhole. Are you screaming too? Internally or externally? Both? Any of that working? What the hell are we doing?

ALL HAIL: worms

Green-anarchy vs. nihilism vs. eco-grief vs. adaptation vs. green-revelationism vs. guilty-remnanting vs. sinkholing.

SERMONS: (0:00 & 25:00)

SLAM HYMNS: both read by Wikus/Dick Blister (20:00 & 40:52)

PLANT OF THE WEEK: Candy Corn Vine

By request, KC & JP attend Al Gore's quarterly earnings report / sales motivation training / career retrospective (?) called, AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER. What's Al Gore been up to this last decade? Yelling in the wrong direction.

UK CORRESPONDENT: JA

LOCAL NEWS: Tipper Gore's Latest Crusade Against Podcasters (19:20)

EPISODE SPONSOR: Al Gore's Reality (39:12) | A very potent indica/sativa mix

SAMPLES: 2 Live Crew "Face Down Azz Up" | WDEF TV from 4/22/1986 | '85 US Senate Hearing with PMRC feat. Al Gore & Dee Snider from Twisted Sister (Dee, come on Maximum)

Special Thanks To:

Alice Donut

"Tipper Gore"

Donut Comes Alive (1988)

In a "Post IPCC World," KC and JP ponder the mechanisms of changing our culture, if that's even possible. Aside from political & economic climate change mitigation arenas, climate researcher Alan Robock says we also need to change our "culture," but who controls it, and how is culture defined?

PRESS CONFERENCE: United Nations Engineering Defense Council (35:10) [thanks JA & CJ]

PLANT OF THE WEEK: Roselle (aka hibiscus)

EPISODE SPONSORS: Trixie's Hard Yogurt (0:00), Sir Richard Musk's Latest Scheme (19:00) [thanks Robin & Damien], & Dick Blister's Tommy's Termites (1:00:30)

Have a seat at our table for some end-times parenting lessons. Go on location for CCR's birthday. Cheer him on as he berates adults.

EPISODE SPONSORS: Frigart-Bell Heaven's Gate Memorial Charter School (8:45) & Bill Cummings for School Board (12:34)

KC & JP break their delusional solar-salesman — whose hope for a "fix" is not uncommon. Then, in the two weeks since the UN's IPCC report has rightfully freaked everyone out, take a tour of the best vaporware headlines keeping us stupid.

EPISODE SPONSORS: Domino Financial (5:00)& Dick Blister's Used Mattress Emporium (23:40)

KC & JP extend the War on Christmas to include canceling fake Halloween decorations. Jeff Bezos personally delivers your packages; squirrels are our new shamans. Tips for detoxing from the machine. An intro to phenology, not the bad kind.

READINGS FROM: Ground Truth; A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home by Mark L. Hineline

EPISODE SPONSORS: Dick Blister's Used Mattress Emporium (10:50) & New Realities (35:20)

What is hope? What are we hoping for? Who is behind this false hope? What's keeping us stupid and placid? JP and KC talk about losing their hope in Portland circa 2006.

KILL THESE WORDS: solution, fix, save, manage

READINGS: CONFESSIONS OF A RECOVERING ENVIRONMENTALIST by Paul Kingsnorth

EPISODE SPONSORs : Eco-Buddy — Your path to a cleaner consciousness & The NRA

Arctic sea ice — who needs it?! KC & JP celebrate yet another human achievement. Tour recent, arctic headlines and their origins as science "fiction." KC tells her bear-encounter stories.

Readings from MADDADDAM by Margaret Atwood & WE'RE DOOMED, NOW WHAT? by Roy Scranton.

Weaponize the bears. Leo: go on Maximum.

EPISODE SPONSOR: Operation Bearlift: Turn your dead loved-ones into food. [Fresh bodies only.]

In the aftermath of hurricane Florence, we wonder why anyone is still surprised. Then we tour North Carolina's North Topsail Beach where homes are already coming down (pre hurricane) due to sea level rise. JP takes aim at that fucking CNN graphic. KC remembers the cannibals of hurricane Irma.

Hello and welcome.

EPISODE SPONSOR: The Reelection Campaign of Tim Thomas