Welcome to the Last American Bagabond.

I have a very important show today planned.

It's discussing a conversation that is just in every possible conversation anywhere under the sun,

even though seemingly unrelated to most of it.

And that is in regard to the

climate change conversation. And I, there's, there's a lot of discussion being had around this and the

overlaps. And I wanted to bring on somebody that I greatly respect, as you all know, and somebody's

been researching this topic for a really long time and really kind of throw some of this at him

and get his perspectives on where this all really lies.

Because there's so much information around this topic.

And I've done my research in a lot of it, but it's such a deep topic.

It's important to bring someone into this that's been doing this research for a very long time.

And that, of course, is James Corbett.

How are you today, James?

I am doing great, Ryan.

Thank you for having me on. And I even remembered to unmute my microphone when I started talking. Fantastic. I'm always making those mistakes myself is what I was saying, not you. But I'm glad to have you on today because, you know, I think you and I've even talked about having this exact discussion for a while now, just because of how obvious this is being used. And my audience is my opinion very well.

But I've, I've point out my shortcomings in this topic all the time. You know, there's a lot of

scientific discussion here that I will happily point out that it's, you know, a lot of it's above

my head, things that I haven't researched a lot. And so I know, a lot of it's above my head,

things that I haven't researched a lot.

And so I wanted to have you on to kind of dive into this and suss out some of the core points of this.

But the first thing I want to just get into right out of the gate is ask you in general,

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