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1315: Growth, carbon, death / Ben Ehrenreich

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Writer Ben Ehrenreich on his article "We're Hurtling Toward Global Suicide" for The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/161575/climate-change-effects-hurtling-toward-global-suicide

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0:00.0

Have you ever heard the music of Raymond Scott?

0:04.0

He's the guy who wrote all the Looney Tunes music.

0:08.0

And when you listen to it, performed, not on Looney Tunes. It's pretty amazing.

0:16.8

You're welcome, Neil. Thank you. This is hell.

0:35.0

quick update from yesterday at the end of the show.

0:37.0

A quick update from yesterday at the end of the show. I was talking about how a

0:46.8

political

0:48.8

Memorabilia was found a piece of political memorabilia was found in my brother's home. The piece is a button that says

0:55.6

President Quail. Now I know why I voted for Clinton which is a really, really pathetic sentiment, seeing as how President George

1:06.5

H.W. Bush didn't die until 2018, so there was never going to be a President Quill. But I said that I think that the president of quail, I think the word quail here, the name quail is misspelled.

1:18.0

And I didn't want to jump to the conclusion that it was because I was afraid that I was just having a little bit of dyslexia, but in fact it is misspelled.

1:26.3

It's about Q-U-A-L-Y-E instead of Y-L-E which makes this button even more ridiculous because Democrats made so much fun

1:35.0

of Vice President Quayle misspelling potato.

1:40.0

I hope you are not like me and that you did not fall for the Biden administration's cruel April

1:46.5

Fool's day joke of canceling student debt to a million who have defaulted on their loans in reality. It's actually only six weeks of debt forgiveness as in you

1:55.6

don't have to pay until the end of September. I thought all my student loans

2:01.4

were suddenly just canceled.

2:04.2

Jesus, I hate.

2:05.2

That's not cancelling, that's delay.

2:07.0

Yes, yes, I hate April Fool's Day.

2:10.4

I really hate April Fool's Day,

2:12.2

especially when the Biden administration polls one of those on me.

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