Welcome to Fitzdog Radio, your intrepid host, Happy Earth Day.

Everybody, I'm taping this on Earth Day, April 22nd.

And a little toast, I want to make it my Earth Day toast to my father-in-law, Joel

Covell, who's no longer with us, but he was a very influential environmentalist he published probably published a dozen books in his life.

Very esteemed college professor had a chair at Bard University and one of his books which what was it called

uh hold on I wrote it down somewhere.

I can't remember.

But anyway, it was a big book, not only here, but like all over China.

It was like really influential.

He used to go to China and lecture

and edited a newsletter for environmentalists.

Anyway, this guy really walked a walk.

He had a, he had like this house in Woodstock, New York,

and he wore the Birkenstocks, and he was like me unshaven.

Had a fucking, which would call it, and instead of a toilet he had a compost, he shit right into a compost.

But he lived, he lived the life.

And he, he, when he died, he had

died, and when he died, he had requested

that his body not being bombed

because it's bad for the earth.

And so we took him, he was put in a wicker basket with flowers and leaves and

stuff thrown all over him and then we carried him into the woods.

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