LIVE IN LA: Telling the Climate Story with Adam McKay and Omar El Akkad

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Y'all - this is a good one. Trust us. It'll make you laugh, it'll make you reflect, it'll inspire...it might even give you that special WITHpod brand of existential crisis. Our second stop of the fall tour brought Chris Hayes to the stunning Theatre at the Ace Hotel with screenwriter and director Adam Mckay along with debut novelist Omar El Akkad. The question at hand - how can we use art and pop culture to properly convey the urgency of the climate crisis? How can storytelling break through the noise and get to the beating heart of the collective struggle our planet is in? And how will future generations think about the way we are meeting this moment? Like we said, maybe a teensy existential crisis. But we promise, you'll laugh a lot too. >> CHICAGO! We're releasing general admission standing only tickets for our Live WITHpod November 12th with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi. Buy tickets here! RELATED: American War by Omar El Akkad The Great Hack The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: The Uninhabitable Earth with David Wallace-Wells (March 5)

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0:00.0	I've actually had conversations when gotten to know a lot of the climate scientists like
0:04.5	Michael Mann and McKibbin, Bill McKibbin.
0:07.8	And the one question I always ask them, I always say, is it possible we're so far outside
0:14.2	the zone of what we know is going to happen or so far outside the zone of known science
0:19.3	that there is a trigger moment with all of this.
0:22.3	And one day we do wake up and there are seagulls flying across the sky and everything is
0:27.8	tipped and every one of them says yes.
0:31.0	And that's the scariest thing I've ever, ever heard.
0:34.8	Hello and welcome to Wise Is Happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.
0:41.1	Well, we've got a special one today.
0:42.7	I'm here in the studio in New York and I am very excited to present today's live with
0:48.2	pod from Los Angeles.
0:49.5	It's the second date on our fall with pod tour, the first one with Ted Cruz in Texas.
0:54.1	This was live in Los Angeles at this incredible then you call the Ace Theater Hotel, which
0:58.4	is in a part of downtown Los Angeles where there were a bunch of old movie theaters from
1:02.3	the kind of like glory days of the cinema.
1:05.1	And I think a lot of them have sort of fallen into to see some of them have been refurbished.
1:08.3	This is one of those.
1:09.6	So if you can imagine just like, you know, one of those old style movie theaters with like
1:13.8	an ornate facade and a big billboard outside and like these big plush red seats and there
1:18.6	are a thousand people in the room.
1:21.0	And it was just an incredible atmosphere.
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