Episode Transcript: #593 - Josh Fox
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Hey everybody, my guest today, if you've ever seen the movie Gasland or Gasland 2, the man
who made it, created it, and the best friend of the oil industry, Josh Fox, ladies and
gentlemen. What's up, dude? Thanks for doing this. I really appreciate it. I'm happy to
be here. You know, I put on Twitter and I put on, you know, online on my message board,
people are talking about this, Josh Fox from Gasland Movie, and you either have people who
love you, who are so happy for what you're doing, or there's people, and even people that
don't even have a vested interest in the oil business, that get really aggressive about
like debunking your claims, or calling you a liar, or calling you fraudulent. I think
those people are mostly not people. You think they're fake? I think they're from the oil industry.
Really? I mean, if you really look into a lot of those Twitter accounts, they have like 10
followers, or five followers, or zero followers, and then they, or you have like hyper-conservative
people who like echo those. It's a pro-oil lobby echo chamber.
Well, the hyper-conservative people, that is a, that's a thing that people do do. That's like the
same people that deny climate change, the same people that deny, you know,
There's a direct link there. You see the climate change deniers now having, in this whole new
fracking denial camp.
Right.
And that's been a sustained campaign for the last six years. But it's not so surprising,
considering that when we first heard from the oil industry, everything they said was
untrue. So when they first came to my backyard, right, in Pennsylvania, to lease our land, to