Climate Hustle 2 (GAM273)

### Starring:

Kevin Sorbo, Marc Morano, Judith Curry, Patrick Moore, Richard Lindzen, Ivar Giaever, Tim Ball, Alex Eppstein, Roy Spencer, Mark Steyn, David Legates

## Hosts

Heath Enwright

Eli Bosnick

### Special Guest

Cara Santa Maria

***Climate Hustle 2*** is an amazing "science" documentary hosted by 90s TV *Hercules*.

### **Opening Phrase**

Where each week we watch another terrible movie so you don't have to.

### **How Bad Was It?**

Well, if you liked *Climate Hustle* one, but it didn't have enough deep state crazy and child political props, you will *love* this movie. This is what happened: the people who made *Climate Hustle* one saw *Out of the Shadows* and thought "Aw damn, we've been working way too hard. Look at all this shit! All we had to do was put scary words on the title cards."

### **Best Worst**

* Cara: ...sequel that's basically just the first movie all over again. [Indistinguishable.]
* Heath: ...message from Vimeo on my screen. ["You rented this."]
* Host: ...host. [I'll be in your movie, but I'm not leaving my vacation.]

### **Notes**

* Check out Cara on her website, Twitter, *Talk Nerdy*, *The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe*, and *Fixed That for You*.
* Produced by CFACT (the "Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow"), a group funded by DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund (donor-advised funds which distribute donations to various conservative groups to mask donor identities) was originally scheduled to premiere in theaters on 21 April 2020 from Fathom Events (originally listed as 1 hour 55 minutes), but was postponed due to COVID, and was pushed to a streaming premiere on 24 September 2020.
* Recorded 6 November 2020, while everyone continually pushed "refresh" on the election results.

### **Jokes**

* [Eli: And speaking of racists, now we get our very first shot of Kevin Sorbo, and he is looking *rough*!] [Cara: So wait, remind me who Kevin Sorbo is? Why does he matter?] [Heath: *Hercules: The Legend… Journey Continues*... I don't know—*Hercules*, from the nineties, from bad tv.] [Cara: But why is he so involved with all of this garbage?] [Eli: Okay. So, I'm so excited to share this story with you Cara.] [Heath: What you want to do is listen is listen from *God Awful Movies* episode 271 back to 1, and then back from there to 272.] [Cara: Well, for anybody who's joining us for the first time this week, we're going to get some review.] [Eli: So, KSorbs was *Hercules* in the nineties (you know that), he guest appeared on *Xena* a couple of times (a far superior show), but he was a wooey Hollywood person, right? Classic LA wooey Liberal. But *then*, one time when he was at the chiropractor, they cricked his neck too hard, and he had a stroke.] [Cara: Holy shit!] [Heath: I can't tell if Eli is making up this story or not.] [Eli: No, this is true. While he was recovering from that stroke, he ran out of that sweet sweet *Hercules* money, so he decided to make up that he had seen God, or had a near-death experience, or something vaguely Christian, to do a book tour, or write a book, or be in a movie or whatever. What he didn't count on is Christians have *no* celebrities—before him all they had was fucking Dean Cain—so they jumped on that shit and put him in every Christian movie from 1989 until… whenever the fuck his most recent movie came out. And he has been the… Danny Trejo of Christian movies ever since. And apologies to Danny Trejo for saying that by the way, I know he's a nice guy.] [Cara: Right, because he's great. He's great.] [Eli: But for whatever reason, he now looks like he's been listening to every physical description we've ever made of him on this show, since we started this show, on a loop.] [Heath: He's having a *rough* couple of decades.] [Eli: He's basically going to introduce this movie by saying "Everyone says we're wrong. Cue a bunch of clips of everyone saying this movie is wrong."] (12:50)
* [Eli: So, now we're going to talk about whether or not scientists are being intimidated and threatened… just like in *1984*. Remember how in *1984* the people who disagreed with Big Brother were allowed to make millions of dollars and put out their own bullshit documentaries? Yeah, it's like that.] [Cara: It's almost like these people saw Trump be so successful at the "Art of the Deal"—like, they saw him go "I know what I'm going to do. Anytime anyone levies an argument against me that's legitimate, I'm just going to go I know you are, but what am I?'", and they were like "Holy shit, it works for the President! We could all do it now with impunity!"] [Eli: "This works on thirty-eight percent of the country guys! We have been *working* too hard."] [Heath: "We were doing the rubber-glue thing…. Yeah, that's solid."] [Cara: That's what this *whole* fucking movie is. They're like "It's just like in *1984*", and we're like "You know, *you're* the bad guy in *1984*, right?" You mixed it up a little bit.] (54:24)

### **Interstitials**

* Kevin Sorbo on a Beach (5:28)
* Honest Science Communicator (38:25)
* Little Ted Cruz (1:15:44)

### **Tropes**

* And Then the Apocalypse/Rapture Happens
* Boss in a Bit Part
* Christians Don't Know How the World Works
* Conspicuous American Flag
* Disappointing Christian Celebrity
* Heroes are Villains, Villains are Heroes
* Jingly Keys!
* Looks LIke…
* Name That Movie!
* Reprehensible Moral Message

### **Links**

* Episode on Audioboom
* Episode on YouTube
* Episode on Patreon
* Trailer and Intro Trailer on YouTube
* Film on YouTube
* IMDb

### **Ad Reads**

* Quip: Eli Brushes Heath's Teeth (1:57:25)