E303. Nature Is Non-Partisan - Benji Backer

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

Conversations with people from all walks of life.

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Benji Backer, author of The Conservative Environmentalist, sits down with Bridget to discuss how environmentalism became a partisan issue in America and what he’s doing about it. They talk about the politicization of environmental issues, his road trip around the country in an electric vehicle, water scarcity and its solutions, the problem with data and AI centers, how every energy source has a massive tradeoff, the surprising fact that Texas is number one in solar and wind technologies, and why trying to mandate one type of of energy in an area where it won’t work is not the solution, yet politicians keep trying it. They also cover bipartisan approaches to environmental solutions, realistic and cost-effective measures, nuclear energy, the homesteading and healthy eating trends, how nature belongs to everyone, trying to show peopel that people energetic choices can save you money, the role of government, and why the climate alarmists are worse that the climate deniers.

Sponsor Links:

- Check out Caliber the strength training & nutrition coaching program that's completely personalized to you. Get $100 off the first three months at caliberstrong.com/walkins

- Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs. Get 25% off today.

- Check your media bias. Read the news from multiple perspectives. See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources with Ground News. Click here and get 15% off.

- If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at phetasy.com

This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.phetasy.com/subscribe

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm with Benji Becker everybody welcome.
0:03.4	It's great to be here in person we finally are doing this.
0:06.0	I'm so glad we're doing it in person.
0:08.0	I was like this is the first time we met this is like the first 10 minutes we've met in our
0:11.4	life.
0:12.4	I know I came in hot.
0:13.0	You did.
0:14.0	We were dancing.
0:16.0	We were talking about lawyers and Russia.
0:19.0	So it was very calm start here.
0:21.0	There was a lot of news that dropped that Benji and I had to
0:24.8	catch up on and we yeah as I came back from Dallas so I have that like three hour
0:30.4	drive you know where you're kind of spinning out a little yeah you're a little
0:33.8	bit uh that's like like yeah manic but also like drives are I feel like the best part of my day
0:40.7	every day like I just be like all self-driving cars I'm like but I like
0:44.1	driving I love driving like that's my favorite thing in the world I
0:47.6	I love driving I drove all when I first started Fettisey which was initially it was
0:54.8	supposed to be it started as a greeting card company and a t-shirt
0:58.4	card yeah cards that say what the other cards are thinking it was supposed to be
1:01.5	like irreverent greeting cards. I still have it all
1:04.7	trademarked. It's just, and I still have greeting cards and all the ideas, but I was very, I was like 26.
1:11.6	How old are you? That's my age okay so you're doing much better than I was a 26.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Conversations with people from all walks of life., and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Conversations with people from all walks of life. and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.