Climate Change Therapy BlockRadius

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast that once used to be about climate change, got sidetracked in 2020, but is trending back towards climate change for 2021, thanks to the divine intervention of vaccines for Christmas. On today’s (12/22/20) episode, host Hank Felsman reconvenes the March 2020 COVID-19 emergency podcast roundtable - the urban planners Lars Mikelson, Robert Ball, "Pseudonym" Fix, and Jean Laundice - to recap the year that is so indescribable it has already become its own adjective, and to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including:

3:00 – A round of introductions

8:30 – January 2020

25:00 – February 2020

35:30 – March 2020

46:45 – April 2020

1:00:15 – May 2020

1:15:00 – June 2020

1:26:45 – July 2020

1:32:30 – August 2020

1:46:20 – September 2020

1:57:15 – October 2020

2:04:50 – November 2020

2:20:45 – December 2020

Bonus links cited:

Konrad Steffen, Glaciologist - Obituary: https://www.ipcc.ch/2020/08/14/obituary-konrad-steffen/

Al Schmidt, Philadelphia County Board of Elections Commissioner- Feature: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/magazine/trump-election-philadelphia-republican.html

Climate Change 2020 Year-in-Review: https://graphics.reuters.com/ENVIRONMENT-2020/WARMING/qzjpqdadnvx/

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we force ourselves to talk about climate change, an enormously important topic that, curiously, we don’t spend an enormous of time talking about in real life, other than, of course, the haven of this podcast. On today’s (12/14/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes Atom Bauerstein onto the program, with spot appearances from Hank’s Brother (between bites of pizza) in a sidekick role, to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including:

6:15 – How Atom thinks about climate change in his day-to-day life

13:50 – Waste management in the live entertainment business, featuring brief digressions into the subjects of grand pianos and - name-drop alert - Senator Cory Booker

18:00 – The last time Hank, his brother, and Atom were together in person, in early March 2020, two weeks before the bars closed

22:40 – Summer 2021 predictions, including the difference between bringing back live sports and live music festivals

30:45 – Getting tested for COVID-19

34:25 – Segment: Talk About It, featuring New Jersey, climate change, aliens, and more

47:25 – The first time hearing about climate change, featuring An Inconvenient Truth and South Park

52:00 – Atom hijacks host duties and interviews Hank about climate change, the Green New Deal, and more

1:05:10 – More climate change

1:15:00 – Music break, or a break to talk about music

1:09:00 – A failed segment about entertainment that should have been cut for time

1:24:30 – Segment: Guess that Weezer Song, feat. Atom Bauerstein, ex-bassist of Lame Duck Demolition and, more relevant to this segment, of the Weezer cover band Ace

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where, in a perfect world, we would spend hours and hours worrying about climate change, but in 2020, just want to be able to spend the holidays with our families again. On today’s (11/17/20) special edition Decision 2020 follow-up episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes back his Cousin Jeremy, Senior Political Analyst at BlockRadius.net, to revisit their last conversation, the 2020 Election Preview Special Edition (Climate Change Therapy, Ep. 26), check in on each other’s well-being, and discuss climate change, the state of American democracy, and unrelated topics, including:

6:45 – Good news for climate change policy

12:30 – A good question about the difference between executive orders and legislation. Cousin Jeremy attempts to explain. Hank presses, bullshits, spitballs. Clearly more research needs to be done!

22:20 – A day-by-day play-by-play of Election Week experiences, Tuesday to Saturday

43:00 – Trump refusing to concede and Republicans standing with him

53:30 – A transition to Biden (as a podcast subject, if not yet as certified President-Elect)

57:20 – The thing about these mail-in ballots

59:20 – Predictions for the next 64 days

1:02:20 – Free speech, and calling the free press “fake news”

1:05:15 – Rapid-Fire Questions, featuring unrelated topics

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we talk about the greatest anxiety-inducing global problems of our age, starting with climate change, as a form of mutual therapy for both podcast guest and host. On today’s (10/29/20) special edition Decision 2020 episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes his Cousin Jeremy, a Washington insider and Senior Political Analyst at BlockRadius.net, onto the program, to discuss the imminent 2020 Election, climate change, and unrelated topics, including:

5:20 – How Cousin Jeremy thinks and talks about climate change in his everyday life

9:30 – The 2016 Election

18:00 – The 2020 Election forecast: polling, rust belt swing states, voter turnout and demographics, etc.

25:20 – The candidate that reminds Hank of the KFC Double Down

27:00 – The southern swing states

31:00 – The counterintuitive impact of COVID on voter turnout

37:45 – When we will know the winner

43:50 – Rapid-Fire One-Word Reactions

48:00 – Segment-within-segment: Executive Branch Nepotism

52:00 – The 2020 Presidential candidates on climate change

58:00 – Fracking, and the important distinction between banning it and phasing it out to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

1:08:30 – Climate Change Fact & React, featuring the majesty of whales

1:16:00 – A new segment called Talk About It, featuring climate change and more

1:30:00 – Rapid-Fire Questions

1:35:45 – How to stay sane and hopeful, while still staying informed

1:40:30 – Thanksgiving 2021

1:42:00 – Final predictions for 2020 Election swing states

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we talk through our worries about climate change, the great problem of our age, as a form of therapy for both podcast host and guest. On today’s (10/27/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes his Uncle David, a writer-actor-green thumb-black belt and full-time uncle onto the program, to discuss climate change and unrelated topics, including:

5:00 – How Uncle David talks about climate change in his daily life in the Hudson Valley, featuring ash trees, ticks, geese, water chestnuts, and more

12:45 – New York City-inspired climate change musings

21:00 – Moby-Dick

30:00 – Seeing bears and bald eagles in his backyard

33:00 – Segment: Climate Change Fact & React, featuring crab-eating macaques, literacy rates, and more

40:00 – Chopping wood and carrying water, as a climate change “therapy”

48:45 - Plants

58:00 – The most beautiful things seen in nature

1:01:00 – Segment: Rapid-Fire One-Word Reactions

1:03:00 – Writing vs. acting

1:14:30 – Linking art to climate change

1:25:25 – Uncle David’s top travel destination, post-COVID vaccine

1:28:30 – Hank shares a disturbing dream he had last night and solicits an interpretation

1:33:45 – 1970s nostalgia

1:38:00 – The moon landing, Vietnam, and the Cuban missile crisis

1:40:45 – Grandpa’s time in the army during WWII

1:44:30 – The record-breaking 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season

1:48:45 – How this story ends

1:52:15 – Tips for being a better listener

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we honor our conscience by furthering the dialogue about the greatest problem, perhaps, that humanity has ever faced - climate change - while allowing, quite generously, for digressions down rabbit holes of much more immediate, local concerns. For example: the coronavirus. On today’s (6/25/20) episode, Hank welcomes his boss (at his real job), the legendary Philadelphia business leader Beverly Harper, onto the program to discuss climate change, COVID-19, the George Floyd protests, and unrelated topics, including:

5:05 – The effect of COVID-19 on climate change

9:00 – How the news and civil discourse have changed since the good ole days of Dick Cavett

14:00 – The removal of statues and monuments, such as the Columbus statue in Philadelphia

20:25 – How slavery and colonization was taught in schools when Beverly was a student, and teacher, in the 1960s

27:45 – The George Floyd protests, reasons for optimism, and 1960s comparisons

37:00 – Defunding the police

42:25 – A new segment called Beverly Reacts!

48:30 – A question from our only listener, steering the topic back to climate change

58:20 – Starting a small business in 1969, as a black woman without a business background, and then growing it into the successful business that Hank works for today

1:11:00 – Beverly’s family history, including a house immortalized in the National Museum of African-American History & Culture (nmaahc.si.edu/jones-hall-sims-house)

1:13:00 – Leading the charge for minority and women-owned business legislation in Philadelphia in the 1980s

1:29:00 – Schools and unrelated topics

1:41:00 – Former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo

1:43:35 – Former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell

1:45:55 – Music

1:49:00 – The impact of COVID-19 on transit

1:53:30 – Advice to young people for remaining hopeful and optimistic in 2020 and beyond