Jul 6, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 11 segments
To celebrate the 250th, we’re looking back at the founding with Tad Stoermer, author of the NYTimes bestseller “A Resistance History of the United States.” Why did the same people who kicked off the…
Tad StoermerGuest
Aaron RegunbergHostMatt DaSilvaHost
It's, I, it is, I think it is worthwhile, everyone who is baking in this heat, to know that, like, this didn't just happen, right? This is a climate disaster created by big oil.
Like, there, there are internal documents and memos from decades ago with big oil people talking to each other, predicting, quote, "Suffering and death due to thermal extremes" from the burning of their products and the climate change it would cause.
They executed a decades-long conspiracy to deceive the public about the, that reality in order to, specifically in order to stop us from taking the kind of solutions that could have alleviated shit like this insane heat.
So anyway, if you're mad 'cause, like, your 4th of July barbecue was ruined or was, like, made miserable because of this, uh, heat wave, or you know one of the, like, thousands of people in Europe who've died over the last two weeks from the heat wave, the h- like, never before seen historic heat wave, you know who to blame.
And the motherfucking ghouls who, like, the actual human beings who ran the companies.
I loved y- you, in your Substack a week or two ago, one of them died, and you [laughs] you, your email about him was truly-
It's, I, it is, I think it is worthwhile, everyone who is baking in this heat, to know that, like, this didn't just happen, right? This is a climate disaster created by big oil.
Like, there, there are internal documents and memos from decades ago with big oil people talking to each other, predicting, quote, "Suffering and death due to thermal extremes" from the burning of their products and the climate change it would cause.
They executed a decades-long conspiracy to deceive the public about the, that reality in order to, specifically in order to stop us from taking the kind of solutions that could have alleviated shit like this insane heat.
So anyway, if you're mad 'cause, like, your 4th of July barbecue was ruined or was, like, made miserable because of this, uh, heat wave, or you know one of the, like, thousands of people in Europe who've died over the last two weeks from the heat wave, the h- like, never before seen historic heat wave, you know who to blame.
And the motherfucking ghouls who, like, the actual human beings who ran the companies.
I loved y- you, in your Substack a week or two ago, one of them died, and you [laughs] you, your email about him was truly-
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