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S8E33: A Strange Marriage with Stephen Soucy

🕑 Added 2024-09-03 00:45:24 +0000 UTC

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Raúl

This episode was taylor-made for me, so sad to do catch-up so late...

Thomas Edwards

Thank you. Inspired to watch Room With a View again last night and it was a tonic for the soul.

Steve

I liked the old fashioned interview style of this episode. More traditional than usual and a good fit for the topic.

Dan Zilic

Yeah, Subutex is something else.

FlyingWaffle

The biggest effects would be on air streams (el nino, etc), which is what can change weather patterns the most. The local communities are the ones who directly observe (or don't) any long-lasting changes in their own area. They don't need the news/scientists/climate change skeptics to tell them what's happening when they can see it for themselves. So I don't know about LA, which seems to have a very quirky micro-climate anyway - mild weather most of the year, mountains nearby, and deserts not that far away... but here, in NYC, in the 90s/early 2000s the winters were way harsher with tons of snow (multiple real blizzards each year), and the summers had long heat waves well over 100F (blackouts were common). Now (for ~15 years) winters are a joke here (hardly any snow), and summers have consistently turned pretty mild (we didn't have any temp above 100F or even in the high 90F in a long while)

Alex Bielovich

He never does

Mike in Philly

Bret, I don’t know if you read these messages but you absolutely have to read Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes and then have her on the pod. She was a big fan of White.

Someone Else

100F is not unusual for LA in September, so you’re kind of proving their point that the media’s coverage of climate change leaves people less informed, not more informed. They might have some wacky theories but their belief that progressive groups and their allies in the media misrepresent the actual likely effects of climate change because they want their programs to get money before other programs like healthcare or infrastructure spending. You see this all the time in stories that report on the likely effects of climate change had nothing been done since the 1970s, ignoring all the mitigating steps taken in the last 50 years to avert the worst outcomes. And you see this in the coverage of every hurricane or heatwave that wrongly suggests their is a direct link between Individual extreme weather incidents and climate change—this is wrong. Scientists can’t attribute individual extreme weather incidents to climate change, only the frequency with which they happen. Which is why it is absurd to believe one heatwave would be evidence that proves the effects or climate change. You should read this for some specific examples: https://www.slowboring.com/p/elite-misinformation-is-an-underrated

M. Nero Nava

I’m in the minority but I found this ep entertaining and stirred an interest in Merchant Ivory

Steven Hamilton

Caught up with ‘The Canyons’ - out of curiosity & was surprisingly impressed (given the scorn).

Erick

Never knew about Merchant Ivory movies , good pod

Erick

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_O0bdHSaiW/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

FlyingWaffle

Nice episode, I didn't know Ivory was American. PS: have Bret and Adam revised their climate 'theories' after so many insane 100F+ days in LA?

Sodaheiress

Great episode, as always!

J.A.

Sorry but this was b o r i n g

Dave Mason

You didn't say more.

Dave

I played at 2x.

Dave

Huzzah!

Dave

Hadn’t heard, but doesn’t surprise if you consider the cost.

AF

Excellent interview! Thanks Bret

Christian Eden

sorta voice you zone out to, lol

Ryan Peck

Random thought: Bret asking Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski on what he thinks of The Eagles

Stevan Popovic

Surprised with the success of certain movies. They did not financially take advantage.

Normaling

Love that there was another FEMME shoutout. Love that film

Steven Hamilton

Once again - ‘rich film directors’…it’s all coming out now. Funny how they’re never forthcoming with this on the way up? Just found out fluffy old John Waters was bank-rolled by his daddy.