From Drilled: Carbon Cowboys
Question Everything
Brian Reed
4.6 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
While we’re heads down working on a bunch of great new episodes, we’re sharing the first episode of the new season of Drilled.
In it, award-winning climate journalist Amy Westervelt exposes how Republican corn ethanol mogul Bruce Rastetter sold "sustainable aviation fuel" to world leaders from North Dakota to Brazil. The problem is, his “clean energy” project does nothing to help climate change.
Drilled: Carbon Cowboys follows the land grabs, pipelines, and political power stopping real progress from being made.
Find Drilled wherever you get podcasts, or at pushkin.fm/plus.
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| 0:00.0 | If you haven't already, I hope you check out our sponsor, Ground News. |
| 0:04.9 | They will take all of the reporting on a single story |
| 0:07.5 | and help you make sense of the ayes that might be present in each one, |
| 0:10.8 | what the agenda might be, and come to a more informed view about what's happening in the world. |
| 0:15.4 | Go check it out at groundnews.com slash question to get 40% off their unlimited vantage plan. Again, that's groundnews. |
| 0:23.2 | com slash question. Make sure to use our link so they know we sent you. |
| 0:30.9 | On the broad side, we take you into the heart of the south with stories that'll surprise you. Bigfoot apparently loves glow sticks. |
| 0:39.3 | He likes to party, I guess. |
| 0:41.3 | Exactly, he's a raver. |
| 0:42.3 | And topics that dig into the muddy margins of history. |
| 0:46.3 | Right, the good, the bad, the ugly. |
| 0:47.3 | It's not clean at all. |
| 0:49.3 | It's so messy. |
| 0:50.3 | Wait a second, this is actually real. |
| 0:53.3 | Listen to the broadside. |
| 0:54.9 | One story every week. |
| 0:57.1 | Exploring the rich traditions of the South. |
| 1:04.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:09.1 | It's Brian. |
| 1:09.9 | On Tuesday, June 16th, I'm going to be live on stage in New York interviewing Ashley St. Clair. Ashley used to date Elon Musk. They have a kid together. And the reason I've been wanting to interview her is she was the target of a terrible harassment campaign by Musk's supporters who used his AI service, Grock, to make all these hyper-realistic, sexually explicit images of Ashley without her consent, including images of her when she was as young as 14. |
| 1:35.3 | These images were spread around X, used to humiliate Ashley, and she's now suing Musk's AI company, X-A-I, for allowing users to do this to her with its product. |
| 1:46.1 | And surprise, surprise, XAI is trying to use Section 230 to shield themselves from liability. |
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