Bill McKibben
Star Trek: The Pod Directive
Star Trek
4.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week on Star Trek: The Pod Directive, Tawny and Paul meet up for a quick chat before Paul dives in solo with renowned environmentalist and professor Bill McKibben. From rainstorms and earthquakes on Risa to a quest to save two whales, Star Trek has always paid attention to issues of the environment, and McKibben has taken note. Together, Paul and Bill talk through issues of Global Warming, what makes environmentalism so crucial, and what Star Trek has done right that we can actually do and apply here in the real world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Star Trek the Pod Directive. |
| 0:08.7 | I am one of your hosts, Paul F. Tompkins. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm the other one of your hosts. I'm Todney Newsome. What's going on? |
| 0:14.7 | What's going on as Marvin Gay once asked us musically? |
| 0:18.0 | Do you think you ever got an answer? |
| 0:19.6 | I don't know. I feel like in concert, |
| 0:21.9 | he definitely should have said, all right, I'm going to sing the song. And then afterwards, I will get |
| 0:26.6 | some answers. We're going to bring the house lights up. And then you will tell me what is going on. |
| 0:31.9 | Yeah, I bet people had a lot of thoughts. I mean, those are turbulent times. These are turbulent times. |
| 0:36.8 | We could sing what's going on over and over and probably still never get a satisfactory answer. |
| 0:40.7 | Why do we have to live in the turbulent times? |
| 0:44.6 | What was the point of the previous turbulent times if we're still doing this? |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah, when do we get to smooth air, Captain? |
| 0:53.5 | I'm sick of going through a little chop. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.8 | I don't want the flight attendant seated right now. |
| 1:00.4 | I want beverage service. |
| 1:03.3 | Do you remember that guy, the JetBlue guy, who quit by getting on the loudspeaker? |
| 1:08.1 | I think he said, fuck you in everybody. |
| 1:12.2 | What? |
| 1:12.7 | Yes. |
| 1:13.4 | This was a flight attendant on a jet blue flight. |
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