Episode 247 is the calling code assigned to Ascension Island, an isolated volcanic island.

In 1947, the Roswell UFO incident occurred, which was when the US Army recovered a flying disc from

a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, and became the center of extraterrestrial conspiracy theories.

I was abducted by aliens and they used an ALPROB on me.

And then I realized they were just speaking my language.

Welcome to the 247th episode of The Prob G Pod.

In today's episode, we speak with Bill McKibbin, a contributing writer to the New Yorker and the

Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College.

We discussed with Bill the state of climate change, specifically how he ended up

in such a precarious position. Precarious means fucked for those of you out there who weren't

pedantic. We also hear about Bill's latest book, The Flag the Cross and the Station wagon.

A grand American looks back at his suburban boyhood and wonders what the hell happened.

Bill has a nice way of kind of couching all of this in fairly, I don't know, easily digestible terms.

Okay, what's happening? Some big shakeups in the world of media. Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News.

Okay, there you go. I don't think I've ever seen a full episode of Fox News or Tucker

Carlson. I was on actually Tucker show. I believe in going on Fox. I used to go on a lot.

It was fine. No big shakes. Anyways, as always, I've managed to figure out a way to bring this back

to me. In addition, not to be outdone on the left as we need balance in the universe for every

action. There's a reaction. Don Lemon was asked it from CNN and Jeff Schell, the CEO of NBC

Universal, is stepping away due to an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company.

Okay, there you go. Fox News said Carlson in the network have agreed to part ways

and that his last program was Friday, April 21. However, it's apparent now that Carlson was fired

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