Earth Riot Radio
Hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D, EARTH RIOT is a comedy-infused, music-filled exploration of humanity’s most urgent issue -- the planet’s Sixth Extinction. Made by "Earth-loving urban activists" from The Church of Stop Shopping, this podcast educates, inspires and urges listeners to embrace reality and take action. Featuring “News From the Natural World,” a weekly gathering of climate change’s latest science, and insightful interviews with radical leaders in environmentalism and activism.
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10: What Doesn't Kill Us, Makes Us Watch
Now, we know we must reach out to our old enemy, the Earth!
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9: Our Last Words? Take Us to the EARTH CHURCH!
It's all strange but it isn't too strange until it's actually killing us and OH -- RIGHT -- IT ACTUALLY IS KILLING US. We keep forgetting the Extinction is serious.
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8. Many Strangers Suddenly Necking
Many Strangers Suddenly Necking
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7. Sex, Lies and Glyphosate
The Reverend must refresh his soul with the Exalted Rite of Sacred Embarrassment. He invades the offices of the professionals who spray the forests with poisons like children playing with guns.
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BONUS: Full Conversation with Award Winning En...
Rev. Billy talks with John R. Platt, editor of The Revelator and award-winning environmental journalist.
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6. The Naked Environmentalist
Follow this message and find out where it goes. The words are: “You are being poisoned. Mass death is accelerating from putting carbon in the atmosphere. You can no longer live your life as planned.”
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BONUS: Full Conversation w/ International Peac...
Rev. Billy talks with international peace activists Medea Benjamin & Tighe Barry
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5. Planet Earth Assassinates Putin!
We continue to pretend that the Earth is not a conscious force; that it is not creating the events of our lives -- from a baby's first breath to the melting of the Himalayas.
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BONUS: Full Conversation with Grammy Nominated...
Billy talks with Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and sustainable fashion designer Angela McCluskey.
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4. The Earth Cancels the Environmental Movement
Our activism for the Earth has been so ineffective that we begin to wonder if we know where we live.
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3. Schmucks Run The World, But Then...
Our feelings today are for the Ukrainians, the bewildered children, the families on the highway to the border, and we are even mindful of the young Russian soldiers.
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2: Big Oil Stopped By Radical Happiness
Pernicious emitters of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide are bested by the special power of goodness.
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BONUS: Full Conversation with Environmental Jo...
Rev. Billy talks with celebrated environmental journalist and educator Andrew Revkin
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1: Make a Strong Song to Make the Unstoppable ...
Andrew Revkin, Founding Director of the Initiative on Communication & Sustainability at Columbia University, joins us!
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82: Monster Movie: The 6th Extinction Vs. Sili...
This is the battle for OUR soul. We’re being pulled into the virtual world by billionaire brats who shout at us from their rockets on the edge of space.
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81: The United States of the Sixth Extinction
What would it take to be honest about the hypo-evolution that is sweeping through the biosphere, and biting us in the ass? That intense honesty will require whole communities to be truth-tellers…
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80: Gratitude to the Earth Kills the Carbon-Hea...
Gratitude is a powerful thing -- a physical, practical part of being a revolutionary for the Earth. The emergency of the Earth gives us more and more to be grateful for. Thank you for the Extinction, which teaches us what to do with the lives that we have left.
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79: Our 2022 Resolution? Unconditional Surrende...
In 2022, we will fully participate in Evolution, in which the Earth withdraws our super-predator star status, and proceeds to annihilate our personal identity.
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78: It’s Gaia Time! It’s Extinction Time!
The strongest revolution comes from love. Strategy, ideology, godliness, cleanliness… all those are way down the list. Gaia is giving us the virus because she loves us.
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77: Zombies of Progress Cut Down by 1,000 Trees
Downtown Manhattan’s last big green space for low-income families will soon be luxury towers. New York’s Mayor has used climate change rhetoric to do his dirty work. And now the courts support the violence against the trees.
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76: Extinction Kills Us, Extinction Saves Us
Intolerance is in direct relationship to over-consumption and to the Earth's reaction to our attempt to consume all of life. The Earth's response is to save life, and so... We gotta boogie with the Sixth Extinction!
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75: Accept Extinction. Find Hope in Hopelessnes...
Take a walk in a beautiful forest. The dying and being born is so constant that the place is flickering. We are like that now. Death is a part of life. It's like the sound of skidding tires when you know you are in a car accident. There is something comforting in the inevitability of it.
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74: Jeff Bezos is the Kyle Rittenhouse of Oute...
Jeff is the top emitter of CO2, and he likes the Glasgow agreement, which gives him more time for his waste. Kyle updates hate for the TikTok generation. They leave us with the question, where is our love?
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73: The Way the Wind Blows After Glasgow
And now we're home. The two rock-n-roll busses full of 25 singers were like ecstatic think-tanks all through our 7 city tour of the UK. What were we talking about?
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72: Cancel Christmas. Now It's Happy Earthmas!
The Earth is very clear. All the religions have their year's end holy days but the Earth is telling all of us that we cannot kill others with our carbon heavy buying.
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