Hey, everyone. My name is Sammy Roth, and I'm the climate columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

I wanted to let you know about a new podcast I'm hosting called Boiling Point. Every Thursday,

we talk about the most important story in the world, the climate crisis. I've been having an

amazing time learning from activists, biologists, even bagel entrepreneurs. Some of it's

scary, some of it's hopeful. Most of it is somewhere in between. If that sounds interesting

to you, give it a shot. Search for Boiling Point in your podcast app or on YouTube. In the meantime,

though, here's one of our most recent episodes. Our guest was Esteban Gast.

He's a climate comedian, and if that sounds like a contradiction, I promise you, Esteban

is extremely funny.

For sure, global warming can be depressing, but that is exactly why we need humor.

Anyway, Esteban will fill you in more.

He'll tell some jokes, too.

Here's the episode. This is an LA Times Studios podcast. If you don't think climate change is funny,

you probably haven't met Esteban Gast. Gass lives in Los Angeles, and he's the comedian in residence at Generation 180, a clean energy advocacy group. Basically, he tells jokes about climate change.

I know, it sounds crazy, but you have got to hear some of his stuff. Listen, check this out.

Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act. The next one is Inflation Reduction Act. And you're like,

I love how priorities have shifted. I love that they were like trying to sell it. And they're

like, should we save the earth? And people were like, ah, too partisan. And they're like,

should eggs cost less? And they're like, pass it.

And that's, get in there.

The first time I heard Esteban was at a show last year in Santa Monica.

I could not stop laughing.

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