Mr. Firestein, how are you? I'm good. I had a similar experience to your performance. I was at Six Flags yesterday with my family and they had some dancers. If you work at Six Flags, I'm sorry. But there are some dancers doing a little performance. My son wanted to dance. Oh, man. All the fatties. It was just six fatties up there just going at it. I felt confident. Yeah? Did you? I felt small. I felt like a small man. It was just a bunch of fat ladies breathing into them. I got that little mic, too. So it was like. Oh, they can't get away from it. It was like, jingle bells. Rocking around for Christmas. They bring out chairs for them to sit in. Just sit here and sing, ladies. At some point, I was like, they're going to bring my son up to be a permanent replacement. Yes, yes, exactly.

They said, we've spent a lot of time in Africa, and our band is about saving the planet and bringing the people together for a community. We call this our freedom song, and freedom means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. And I yell out, no it doesn't. For me it's being free who, and she's white. For me it's being free to love who you want to love. Free to be who you want to be. And as long as it's love, it's okay with me. It's a lot of freedom in Africa? Go tell Cody. Well,

I mean, if you ignore the lithium mines or the gold mines or the diamond mines, the drug lords, the war lords, the

slavery. The rest of the planet raping and pillaging and keeping it from being Wakanda. Yes, exactly. If you avoid the UN raping people. Come on. Come on. I am freedom now. Come on. Wakanda, they

had plasma

spheres and Teslas. None of that made sense. And I'm sorry, you cannot change your mind. He just don't get it. He just don't get it, dude. Well, here's someone who gets it the character of billy bob thornton in this new series land man uh this is like a superhero it's one of the best rants in television they have to kind of soften it but right now it's time for the entertainment minute

so

it's the new show uh i think it's called land man yeah and like a spin-off of captain planet

well uh

yellowstone and all that i don't know if you guys are i tune into yellowstone i watched like three episodes ago it's a soap opera so it's not really for me i'm like it's a soap opera kind of on a ranch you know i was expecting something more western but this this rant from billy bob thornton i'm going to play it for you and they have to walk it back a little bit and try and you know try and make it seem like fossil fuels are killing the planet but in 90 seconds very effectively and i'll substantiate it after you watch this i

just

lost the clip you just lost the clip i accidentally removed it what did you do did okay so let me so first off let me set this up then forgive the quality of the clip because paramount will have us removed if we run the original, so it's going to be a little bit grainy. But in 90 seconds, Billy Bob Thorne's character really does sort of deconstruct climate policy as effectively as I have seen it done, minus a couple of caveats. Toolman, do you have that? Almost. Almost. Almost. All right. Almost.

All right. You have 1,000

jumps. Here we go. And here is Billy Bob Thornton. 90 seconds. The best you'll see on TV in recent memory from Landman. Please,

Mr. Allman, tell me how the wind is

bad for me.

All right, bitch.

Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete? Or make that steel and haul this shit out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You want to guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that fucking thing? Or winterize it? And it's a 20-year lifespan. It won't offset the carbon footprint of making it. And don't get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don't have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It'd take 30 years if we started tomorrow. And unfortunately for your grandkids, we have a 120-year petroleum-based infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. And hell, it's in everything. That road we came in on, the wheels on every car ever made, including yours, it's in tennis rackets, lipstick, refrigerators, antihistamines, pretty much anything plastic, your cell phone case, artificial heart valves, any kind of clothing that's not made with animal or plant fibers, soap, f***ing hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats, you name it. Every f***ing thing. And you know what the kicker is? We're going to run out of it before we find its replacement.

It's the thing that's going to kill us all as a species. The

thing that's going to kill us all is running out before we find an alternative. So

here's the thing. They always have to walk it back a little bit. Everything else that he said there was correct about petroleum products. When he said running out, comment below if you're under the age of 30. You may not know this because they sort of abandoned this term, but when we were raised, we always heard the term peak oil. Oh yeah. Peak oil, peak oil, peak oil. That meant we were going to hit peak oil and then run out. To give you an idea, we have been told this. It's been predicted specifically peak oil. Reference available. You can check the link on the sidebar. 1909 was going to be peak oil. Then we were told peak oil would be the 1930s, then specifically 1943, 1971, the 1990s, 2000, then 2020. And if you look at the graph, for some reason we end up with more oil, natural gas, because we have new methods like fracking, offshore drilling, right? More effective methods. We discover new giant springs that exist of oil. So he's wrong about that one thing. But here's something else, too, that people need to take into consideration if you add to it. The first sort of giant leap forward, human civilization, fire. Being able to make fire. And I'm not joking. Being able to make fire, you can now cook meat. You now can actually not just have to worry. You can actually warm yourself, right? That's what advanced human civilization. And then a huge leap was, of course, refrigeration. But you guys may not remember. Okay, if you get rid of oil, do you know why oil was chosen? This is before, by the way, cars. You were burning whale fat. You needed something that could make fire more effective. And so all these cosmetics, it was whale blubber. Would you want to go back to whaling? When you have fire, you advance where that's so important to human civilization is really just combustion, energy, and oil is the most effective way to do that. And by the way, we're not running out so that's why you have it and everything as far as petroleum products if it wasn't that it would be something else you

can't only do it through hemp come on you can't do that by the 20 years it won't even offset the carbon footprint it took to make it that's never been talked to if that is a real step which i don't know fact check that guys in research but if that's a real stat crap, every single one of those doesn't even do anything to offset the carbon to make it. You should be able to see that in real

time soon.