Okay, hey, I'm Matt, I am Shane's editor and I live in Dallas and if you haven't heard,

Texas is like breaking records with this winter storm. I'm out of power. It's 5.30 am right now and I haven't had power since like Sunday.

Which is just ironic because this episode is about how to prepare for a climate change and I definitely feel like I could have done a pair of jobs.

I should have bought a generator when I could. Texas could have been more prepared as well. It seems like we overestimated how much energy we could produce and underestimated just how bad the weather could actually get.

They started doing rolling blackouts to try to save resources for the grid. But initially they were only supposed to last like 15 minutes.

But 15 minutes turned into 8 hours, turned into 12 hours. I mean, there's people who haven't had power for days. It is pretty outside though. That's the cool part.

It's kind of a strange feeling walking around outside at night. You just see all the candles and the fireplaces. There's no lights. There's no TVs. There's no street lamps. It's just white. Anyway, hopefully we get power back. So I can get this out. But it's a really great episode. I enjoyed it. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did.

The power just came on. The power just came on. I got to go upload the podcast.

Hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast today. I'm excited for my guest David Hogue is joining me today. He's he's been the host of 20 science

specials on PBS is Nova five time Emmy award winning technology and science correspondent for CBS Sunday morning and the New York Times best selling author of Pogue's basic series.

So David, here's here's what happened. Your publicist sends me this book. I'm really excited. I get the gist of it. It arrives. I see the thickness of this thing right and it's it's a it's 550 pages or something like that. And I have a reading list of a mile high as I'm sure you do as well. I have a bunch of I have to write a quote for a guest's upcoming book.

And in every day, I'm looking at this thing. I'm like, oh my god. Finally, I'm like, you know what? Let's just wing it. That's what I said to your publicist. And then I crack open your book after we schedule this. I'm like, oh my god, I could have read this. This is this is the most plainly worded. This is what you've done here is incredible. This book how to prepare for climate change a practical guide to surviving the chaos. There's two I read a lot of science books.

So usually when they're this big, whole bunch of jargon, I'm learning neural science 101 through 103 in in footnotes to understand what the heck is going on. And and my gosh, all right, I'll take one more whack at the extended phenotype and see if I really fully understand it this time. And then I, yeah, I've read a book this thick about insect genitalia before.

The most jargony book I've ever. I've ever read and and and and then normally when I see a book, this plain spoken doesn't say anything at all. It's it's a bunch of like wishy washy stuff. I'm not getting anything out of it. Right. Your book has this incredible. You've somehow distilled and condensed just this incredible.

incredible amount of information on just page after page of I was read just even the intro my my job was dropping with some of the some of the information that you were sharing so clearly this is this is at a level.

The seventh grader could read this this book and and tell their parents all about what they need to do in terms of gardening and and how to build their deck or whatever.

And this is absolutely cheers to you. This is this is terrific. This is I hope that all of my listeners check this out and aren't as intimidated by the size of it as I was.

So why don't you introduce yourself a little bit. Sure. Yeah. So I'm David Pogue. I've been a long time tech and science reporter for the New York Times for 13 years and then Nova for 10 years on PBS and most often these days on CBS Sunday morning.

And yeah, this book. I mean, you're right. I feel like this book is sort of a departure both for me and in the bookstores the bookshelves.

There are most of what we've heard about how to cope with climate change is how to mitigate climate change like how to stop it.

And there's like many, many, many, many books and articles about how to make your carbon footprint smaller.

And that's really important. We should all do that. You know, fly less eat less red meat driving electric car. Very important.

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