This week, journalist and activist <a href="https://naomiklein.org/">Naomi Klein</a> joins Dave and Josh as a special guest to look under the hood of several PragerU “educational” videos that offer a conservative spin on the topics of climate science and green technologies. Klein, who has authored several influential books (including <a href="https://thischangeseverything.org/book/">This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate</a>), points out how the fossil fuel-funded groups behind videos like these have shifted tactics in the years since COVID, moving from a strategy of “hard denialism” to one that centers on the rhetoric of “personal freedoms.”Here are the PragerU videos discussed with Naomi Klein this week:<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/climate-change-what-do-scientists-say">Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say? (2016)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/whats-the-deal-with-the-green-new-deal">What's the Deal with the Green New Deal? (2019)</a></li>
</ul>Dave and Josh also have a lengthy discussion about the recent <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/lost-tv-show-culture">Vanity Fair exposé detailing the culture of fear that surrounded the actors and TV writers on the landmark mystery series Lost</a>. The article sheds light on many of the same toxic Hollywood workplace issues being raised in the current Writers Guild of America strike. (Here's TV writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s <a href="http://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/final_statement.pdf">follow-up statement</a> responding to the article.) If you’d like to support this show, head over to <a href="http://www.levernews.com/audit/">www.levernews.com/audit/</a> and leave a tip for Dave and Josh. To get access to Lever Premium Podcasts, and all the other benefits of a paid subscription, click <a href="https://www.levernews.com/lever-premium-podcasts/">here</a>. A transcript of this episode is available <a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/d59a79dd/transcript">here.</a>

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