Get ready for the absolute longest, craziest, most intense Climate Town video we've ever attempted. It's all about natural gas, and it's coming to a screen near you very soon (or it's already out depending on when you see this!) Crazy how time works.
Clocking in at a blistering 40-minutes, clear your schedules and get ready to get a double dose of natural gas.
Join me in the live Yo...
2024-03-27 15:37:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patreon
We’ve got some exciting news to share - after years of being a scrappy, low-budget operation, Climate Town is finally ready to continue being a scrappy, low-budget operation, but with one additional full-time employee: an Associate Producer!
(We’re hiring!)
It’s still pretty wild to me that I’ve got a YouTube channel that has actual literal empl...
2024-03-26 14:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patreon,
i hope all is well. We're hard at work on the longest video we've ever made (7 weeks of pretty blunt force research, 5 days of shooting, and now it's getting bolted together in the edit bay). In the meantime, we're gonna be increasing the patreon offerings by adding some new tiers.
Watch the video for the whole deal, but basically we've currently got one tier which is "...
2024-03-02 20:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patreon,
I hope all is well. Climate Town just got a really nice writeup in the New York Times for doing climate and comedy, and I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who supports us right here on patreon. Without you, we never would have been able to take the time...
2024-02-09 16:36:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patreon!
I hope everything is going great. We're hard at work on the next Climate Town episode, but I wanted to drop a little behind the scenes video about the editing part of the process. It may not sound very interesting or sexy, but it makes up for all that by being very tedious and technical. This particular edit bay BTS comes from the 2024-01-30 17:23:06 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patreon,
I hope all is well. I am SO pumped for this year's videos - we spent a lot of time figuring out which episodes we really wanted to do in 2024 and I think they're are gonna be some hitters in there. Also some INTERESTING collaboration episodes with UNPREDICTABLE guests. Go ahead, TRY to guess. You never will. And if you do, I'll deny it.
ANYWAYZ, I hope you had a chance t...
2024-01-26 17:22:29 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patreon!
Wow 2024 is already off to a red hot start. We've got a new part-time video editor and I asked her to take a crack at chopping together a little behind the scenes vid from the Chicago parking meters video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDx6no-7HZE). If you haven't watched it yet, this will ma...
Dearest Patreon,
I hope you're all having a very nice holiday where ever you've decided to spend it. Back in 2016, Nicole Conlan (Daily Show, The Climate Denier's Playbook, Climate Town) and I made a little video about the concept of Santa making a list. Here it is again, back from the video archives. Coming in at 2 minutes and 28 seconds, it will be one of the shortest videos I've ever m...
2023-12-23 17:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patreon,
I hope everyone's December is going well. Here's the last episode of the 2023 season, "Saudi Arabia's Secret Plan To Keep Us Hooked On Oil." It premieres today (12/19) at 1:15pm EST. If you're reading this and it's AFTER that time, feel free to watch when the mood strikes. If it's BEFORE that time and you want to jump on the live chat with me over on YouTube, I'd be SO happy to...
I don't know where you'll be on December 16th, but if it's anywhere near Denver, Colorado then COME ON DOWN TO THE CLIMATE TOWN LIVE SHOW at The Bug Theatre. I'm gonna be home for the holidays, and it just so happens that my good friend Nicole Conlan (writer for The Daily Show, CoHost of The Climate Denier's Playbook, and Climate Town EP) is also from the Denver area. We decided it would be rea...
2023-11-30 17:40:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patreon!
I just hit publish on the latest video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDx6no-7HZE
It's premiering at 1pm EST today and it's a sort of companion piece to the parking lots episode we did back in July. I seriously thought we were gonna do ONE ten-minute parking video, and it ...
2023-10-30 16:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patreon,
I hope all is well - I just wanted to drop a quick check-in before hunkering down on this timeline. Zoom in on the big chunk for what should be a self-explanatory clip titled, "Hotdog Teleportation".
I just got back from the painfully beautiful state of Colorado. I was asked to host the Mountain Towns conference, which is where a bunch of elected officials from small m...
2023-10-24 15:10:06 +0000 UTC View PostA few months ago I found myself in Chicago at the same time as math YouTuber Matt Parker, and we decided to fire off a quick double feature episode about a very unfortunate deal that Chicago made with Morgan Stanley. It's in the edit bay now, but I wanted to give y'all an update on this mini episode.
Best,
Ro...
Hey Patreon,
I just wanted to give you a little Climate Town update and get a couple of sketches from the previous live show off my computer. This past week was Climate Week in New York — they let me host a panel for Rewiring America and be on a couple of panels for Save The Humans and Redwood Climate Communications and it was great to get to meet & talk to a bunch of other climate ...
2023-09-23 14:07:29 +0000 UTC View PostDuring one of our shoot days, we walked past an elementary school with a dumpster out front. It was FULL of perfectly functional desks and chairs. We grabbed one to use as a prop, and then were immediately conscripted into about half an hour of dumpster diving. Check it out, and check out our latest episode if you haven't already.
I did some tuning up after the live show and here is the new and improved episode about big oil influence in public schools! If you're around for the premiere at 12:45pm EST, give it a watch with me in the live chat, otherwise it'll be out and available anytime after that today.
I had a fun time making this one and we have a fun little behind the scenes clip coming atcha tomorrow wherein ...
2023-09-12 16:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Well we had our live show and it was an absolute blast. Thanks so much for coming out to it, we'll have a lot of footage from the show shortly but for now here are a couple of out-of-context pictures that will not explain what the show was about, but will give you a sense of chaos that I always feel on the day.
Special thanks to performers Ena Da, Peter Smith, guy-with-physics-degree who ...
2023-08-31 18:14:05 +0000 UTC View PostDear Patreon,
I hope your week is going well. I just wanted to say a quick thank you for supporting Climate Town and give you a quick heads up for stuff to check out in August. We've been really pounding the pavement recently, and for some reason it's all coming out this month.
1) August 8th (ALREADY OUT) - The 4th installment of 2023-08-10 22:24:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings all, I'm so happy to announce the second Climate Town Town Hall. Come on down to The Bell House in Brooklyn for an absolute barn burner of a show. Patreon members get a deep discount on the ticket price by using code "HERB".
When: August 23rd, Doors @ 7pm, Show starts @ 7:30pm
Where: The Bell House- 149 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Who: You plus me plus a bunch of comedy per...
I now present, the LONGEST Climate Town video we've ever made. It was a labor of love and is the first video to break the 30-minute mark. I worked pretty hard on this one, so please enjoy at your leisure.
This premieres at 11:15am EST today (Monday), so if it ain't playing, you were just too quick for it.
Love,
Rollie
Hey patreon!
I hope all is well in your neck of the woods. It's very very hot here in Brooklyn. I just took my backpack off to discover an exact sweat backpack replica on my shirt. It was gross.
I wanted to check in to give you all a little update on what's been cooking up at Climate Town. I'm happy to report: It's quite a lot.
1) One of the TWO episodes we're filming this mon...
2023-07-06 15:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post
It's with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to my last grandparent. Phyllis was 100 when she passed away this past Memorial Day, and I'm really sad to lose her. She married two pilots in her lifetime and found a way to merge two families into one. She will be missed.
Have a great rest of your day and say hi to a loved one for me today. (Not like ... from me, it's still from you, just think...
2023-05-30 19:07:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons,
I hope all is well. A million thank yous if you were able to make it out to the live show, and 500,000 thank yous if you didn't. Here's a clip from the Climate Town Town Hall Live that proves once and for all a public comments section doesn't necessarily have to end in tears or bloodshed. The next show is gonna have EVEN MORE weird audience involvement.
We're working h...
2023-05-25 19:43:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear patrons,
The big Bell House show went off without a hitch and almost no one was the wiser that I got 3 hours of sleep the night before. A huge thanks to everyone who came out to the show, it was really packed in there and double thanks to the people who had to stand the whole time. We'll have plenty of footage from the evening in case you missed it because you don't happen to live in...
2023-05-11 12:10:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello,
I hope all is well. We’re working on the next episode and the live show but I just wanted to show you a little something else we’ve got cooking up: shirts.
Premise: shirts are incredibly hard to do without a lot of international shipping and promoting fast fashion. So what if we only use 2nd hand shirts or rejected garments that were gonna be thrown away or used for...
2023-04-27 16:17:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I missed dropping this one on Earth Day, but I've got a hot new video for you now at a special new time: Sunday.
It'll drop at 12:15pm, but if you get to this later than that, it's already out.
Looking forward to seeing you on the chat if you're around! Grab a big cup of coffee and hunker down for a real barn-burning, door-busting, rip-snorting episode.
Here's the link b...
2023-04-23 14:45:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
If you're in the New York area, come on down to a very special live comedy show at The Bell House Show in Brooklyn NY. It's May 8th (Monday) Doors at 7:00 PM, Show at 7:30pm.
Price - $10 for you if you use the discount code "herb"
Link to buy ticket: htt...
One of the only things isolation is good for is having the time to go back through old footage, and much to my surprise I found a primordial version of a climate comedy video from 2015. I was doing sketch comedy videos with my friend Nicole Conlan (https://www.instagram.com/thenicoleconlan) and if we thought of a...
2023-03-20 00:10:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Whelp, the ol' coronavirus decided to stop by Climate Town to see the sights, ride the rides, and eat some of that delicious Climate Town funnel cake. I'll be typing away in isolation for the week, but it turns out I had a lot of computer work to do, so I'll be really getting down to some brass tacks. It may actually mean some more Patreon content because I'll be digging through my old hard dri...
2023-03-17 20:19:39 +0000 UTC View PostDear Patreon,
We're working on a couple of fun* videos at the moment, but the good folks at The Climate Museum asked us to do a little live performance and that sounded like a lot of fun** to me. We also hit up the booking director at a delightful venue called The Bell House in Brooklyn and they also gave us a spot, so now we've got TWO live events on the agenda.
We're gonna film th...
2023-03-14 16:23:48 +0000 UTC View Post