Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change.

Nobel Prize winning climatologist Michael Mann joins us for the third time.

He's that good.

And this is one you'll want to listen to, especially if you have a friend or relative who says,

hey, the climate always changes. We've had ice ages, a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs. There

were palm trees at the South Pole. So these record hot summers we've been having, that's not a big deal.

Well, this episode is for you and for them.

Because Michael has a new book, Our Fragile Moment, which explains why this is a unique moment in the history of the planet,

at least in terms of the human being period.

And we've got some important decisions to make.

And the good news is we know what to do.

Well, we've had an eventful week.

The shutdown we discussed last week with Norm Ornstein was averted for a while anyway in a pretty chaotic and ugly way,

but what's new? Oh, Kevin McCarthy, isn't the Speaker of the House anymore?

I kind of hope that Democrats would make a secret deal with him and give him enough votes to keep them in

there under the condition that he would just do whatever they told him to do. I bet he would

have gone for that. I'm not sure how long it would have remained a secret, but it seems like

the House is in chaos anyway. Well, I hope this gives voters some idea of just how fucked up the House Republicans are

and vote them out next fall.

But, you know, a lot of stuff's going to happen between now and then.

Jim Jordan as speaker.

Oh, I hope not.

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