Climate Change, Pickleball, Moxie

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Learn more@edwardjones.com. I'm Jane Pauling and this is Sunday morning. Searing heat, massive wildfires, catastrophic flooding, unequivocal evidence, the United Nations says that climate change is real and that human activity is its primary cause. So how bad can it get. According to some scientists the possibility of worldwide societal collapse, or even eventual human extinction isn't out of the question. It's a harsh warning to say the least.

And yet this morning. Tracy Smith finds there's still reason for hope from the raging fires of the West, 95, 1200° to the killer released and all the mud between climate scientists are afraid the summer of 22 is but a preview of what's to come. 20 years from now we will look back on December 2022 and we will wish that we had discovered does not exaggeration whatsoever.

There may still be reason for hope way forward coming up on Sunday morning.

It's been around for more than 50 years, but Luke Burbank will explain why pickle ball is suddenly center court. If you combine the liens of tennis.

The simplicity of ping-pong and throwing a wiffleball you get this the fastest growing sport in America.

That's why people love the sport right under answer little aggression little competitiveness mix at all in a ballplayer.

Okay, you go game on picking up pickle ball head on Sunday morning. Nancy Giles has no shortage of moxie. As you'll see in her tale about a beloved beverage by that very name sets down talks with filmmaker and now novelist Michael man David Martin introduces us to a former Marine who kept his word. The Thai snow reports on the Sandy Hook parent search for justice plus opinion from author David Sedaris and more. It's Sunday morning, August 7, 2022 and will be back after this and spend the summer weather extremes. The world over, prompting some to warn that when it comes to climate change the future is now. Tracy Smith has been looking at the urgency of the issue and explains how we still can stem the tide in Las Vegas, Nevada. It's come to this around here. Climate change has helped make water even more scarce.

So under a new Nevada law rat got to go when we look at outdoor water use in southern Nevada landscaping foreign weight is the largest water user and of that, it's grass.

The cities already pulled up about 4,000,000 ft.² of grass on public property.

So far this year because thirsty green parkways or something. They just can't afford anymore. Says Bronson back of the Las Vegas water Authority this grass behind you is going the grass that you see behind me is not long for this world. In fact, within the next couple of months to a year. This grass will be completely eliminated and it'll be replaced with drip irrigated trees and plants. Possible broken and every trip counts so water waste investigators also known as water cops patrol the neighborhoods, taking note of who was watering when and how much of it goes down the drain living through the summer of 22 has made climate change harder to deny whether here in bone dry Nevada or in the Caribbean rampant seaweed growth is choking beaches or Kentucky where too much water created a tragedy that still unfolding, but it seems there are still those who could use convincing that climate change has become a climate emergency you suggesting these weather anomalies can continue, but just continue worse. I think were on the verge of a major climate shift. Hollywood scientists have been hounding the climate alarm for decades, but last spring. Some real scientists chained themselves to a Los Angeles bank in protest over the lack of action without so so do you feel like you're sitting on all this science and you're trying to share with the world and no one is listening to exactly are you climate Peter calamus, a NASA scientist and father of two says that we should be scared to death about the climate.

Right now I think about if your house is on fire. The adrenaline you get the product and that saves your life because you get out of the house and put the fire you want people to freak out. I do want people to freak out.

I don't think people are freaking out about. There's not enough public urgency over this. For starters, he wants people to know what the world is going to feel like in Somers to come so if this summer is so ridiculously hot. What is next summer to look like in general is a trend going on 20 years from now we will look back on December 2022 and we will wish that we had discovered, we will wish it was the school does not exaggeration whatsoever and for the most part, the scientific community is behind him the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change report is basically the last word on where we stand, and that word is grim says report lead author Sarah Birch tell me the bad news coming out of this report. The bad news from the intergovernmental billing climate change is that we are not on track. Currently to limit warming to less than 2° and this is that limit that we sets that scientists have told us is important because it helps us to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

So 2° of warming. What is that even mean we asked Neil Degrasse Tyson to lay it out for us. How many degrees way was the Ice Age 20,000°: 8° colder Ice Age glaciers reach all the way down to the United States of America degree makes a huge difference in your life what you have to degree to you or me to degrees. Who cares, it matters. It matters 8° colder glaciers reach St. Louis 2° warmer losing our coastline take up a little higher I don't even want to be around to see that if the ice caps melt how high the waters get from the ice caps water levels of the oceans will rise and reach the left elbow of the statue of liberty.

That's her left arm holding the document.

I don't even want to think about their Tyson and astrophysicists to split some of his cosmic perspectives into a new book says our planet's future might be written in the stars or at least in our planetary neighbors venous is basically the same size as Earth's surface gravity might turn out just like earth, something bad happened on venous runaway greenhouse effect is 900°F on venous and I did the math on this. You can cook a 16 inch pepperoni pizza on the windowsill in three seconds that a benefit to this, perhaps, but I want to know what all make sure turned their because we are turning those same mobs on earth artificially – but that does not bode well for the future of life on earth, but especially civilization built over the past 10,000 years.

The relative stability in our client is even if more and more people believe were headed for disaster and polls seem to show that they do see is actually doing something about it and fast, so just put do we know what we need to do absolutely. We know we need to move our electricity away from coal and highly polluting fossil fuels and towards solar and wind. We know what we need to do to our buildings to make them more efficient.

We need to insulate them.

We need to keep them with heat pumps instead of using natural gas: oil we need to use clean electricity and such TV is laundry list of really practical solutions that we know will work in accelerating the uptake is the trick. Now the challenge Congress is inching toward legislation that will provide billions in tax incentives for clean energy and more. But for now we learn to adapt and in Nevada it means more than just pulling up grass Lake Mead, one of the main water sources in the region is drying up faster than ever the white bathtub ring shows just how much some of the intake pipes that carry water downstream like this one are already sticking out above the waterline.

But if the lakes water level drops too low to flow downstream or becomes what's known as a dead pool. The people in southern Nevada have a plan. They built this little lake level pumping station near what used to be the waters. These massive pipes connect to a new intake almost a drain at the very bottom of Lake Mead so they'll be able to keep pumping water until the last available drop water authority chief John Ensminger you guys could see this coming that you had to do something absolutely wouldn't have a crystal ball to know that we needed to prepare to protect our community. And while scientists can see the worst of what lies ahead. They also can see a way forward. Dr. Sarah Birch why do you still have the flip side of that coin is that over the last 10 years. We've also seen evidence of real sustained greenhouse gas reductions tells me as we have a roadmap we have the technologies, the policies, the actions already at play that we need to get what we want to go follow the road.

And the faster after a long road same rich human race. What you think we can all band together and solve the problems with joint ourselves last weekend's drone strike that killed Al Qaeda leader. I'm on Al-Zawahiri was the first conducted by the United States in Afghanistan since the American withdrawal almost one year ago as that anniversary approaches were taking a look back at those difficult days to begin.

Here's David Martin here's the chaotic end of America's war in Afghanistan doesn't look any better.

In reference this was a collapse of American morals and how we treat our allies was a collapse of American competence or ability to execute this mission for Ackerman reserve for combat tours in Afghanistan, both with the Marines and the CIA.

The collapse was also personal. Suddenly I'm right back in the war and I thought I left the door you'd been away from the war for a decade making a living as a writer. Now he has written a book about America's longest war called the for fact five arch church structures you have Bush, Obama trump Biden in the for fact that them all is the tell them the Tony Bennett outlasted the greatest superpower looking to take their revenge on the afternoon she would sided with the American war that had begun before the iPhone existed was imploding in an endless stream of viral video file.

She could hear the collective voices of all of these Afghans believe we told them crying out for help. So Ackerman became part of the digital network of veterans working to get Afghans out that was involved in efforts to cut probably over 200 people out US troops are taking control of the airport in Kabul in afternoon swarm the gates looking for some way anyone get past the guards and onto a plane would be the equivalent of going to a Rolling Stones concert walking to the back and getting the band call you up on stage. The notion of notes on the van, or someone re-guarded the gates. Ackerman's network text of them photos with arrows pointing where to look for specific Afghans with handmade signs of pastor freedom for this man and his family. Most of them were strangers. All of the more desperate. This is her lease is something for us. Please save my kids like the man Ackerman calls Aziz once worked for the US government and was now sending anguished voice messages about his drift of the Taliban want good cults who would buy Taliban because they're looking displaced by please hold my home street by street looking for us. All the families in condition there so scared kids so so scared or something like that. So what you think the chance low Doraville album Bob happened that the advocate that shut everything suicide bomber slipped into the crowd and killed 13 Americans in an estimated 170 after four days later, the last American soldier flew out of Afghanistan. Ackerman could do little more than tell Aziz he was sure that he sent me this text message you did your best and more than you are the superhero of our family. I think it's our luck to die by telegraph.

Then Eckman heard about a flight leaving from Mazar-e-Sharif halfway across the country to the north of the mountains along Drive this is you will agree this is me in the green please go as quickly as you can okay sir, you need to hurry. All flights are leaving today.

Hurry. Aziz sent videos of the drive north you made it to Mazar-e-Sharif into certain this is the place and doesn't do the next day and days and weeks of passing he is in safe houses is really just a wedding hall and he sends me this video he sort of stays in this limbo for about a month and then one night I knew that he was manifested for a flight and I went to bed and I woke up in the morning and he sent me this. Aziz and his family had made it out of Afghanistan and into a refugee center encoder safe at last from the Taliban.

We got all the stuff for kids. I have no idea how to time I'm done. Everyone you America because we never dreamed such a thing with their love mercy. Thank you, thank you for everything.

I was amazed that after going through the ordeal that he had been through seeing how disastrously it all ended his impulse was to thank us and he says I think every single American. Aziz now lives in California with his wife and children were not using his real name, and he does not want to be interviewed on cam because he still has family in Afghanistan.

Just because we've decided as Americans to turn the page. That doesn't mean that the page gets turned for all the people who are still in Afghanistan are all the Afghans who come to America, whose families Michael Mann Miami vice is all the rage a few decades back there been no shortage of successful movies here since now he's trying something new and telling ourselves down all about it were pretty close to where you're staying warm Oscar-nominated Hollywood director Michael Mann is been in Italy long enough to develop morning routine and find caliphate mode and a man is shooting his latest film Rory the city is the birthplace of Enzo Ferrari and his company named fast cars and good food city like this one is a real challenge to understand what life is like if you're living challenge is to get so deep into this specific regional because people like the morning devotional called detail obsessed director has made a career of prompting audiences to feel for the characters in his films. Whether it's the last remaining member of the Mohican tribe the plight of the tobacco industry whistleblower in the insider times that was there was the collective stress we filled the taxi driver realizes his passenger is an assassin collateral viewers deep into the world of undercover detectives in Miami. My flashing series produced in the 1980s brought filmlike storytelling TV man is particularly adept at making movie goers empathize with some of the most unsavory characters, including those in his celebrated bank robbery film wipers is a complex and rich in detail as yours is what why late film critic Roger Ebert complemented men's writing and directing of the heist film calling his characters eloquent, insightful and poetic. What is it about this criminal underworld that fascinates you so much nothing in particular what they were drawn to drama and dramas come forth what you say I buy a couple coffee. There was plenty of both in heat that 1995 movie starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, following Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd had a worn-out way for living there for 25 years I thought I knew it like I did not know her away so we publish more locations know I am 94 and five heat than any other film before shot menses.

He went out with police answering emergency calls every weekend for six months preparing for that film.

We know you as a director making a bit of a career turn or twist it may be perceived as it was for me is that is not really a Taurus is really the fulfillment of something I want to do for so long. He's written his first novel heat to along with co-author Meg Gardner which is being released this week.

They always try to go very deep. Here's why you are the where you are, so that there's a whole what the movie is a splinter system fragment writing a book. Let him go deeper concocted new pre-quilt and sequel to the movie.

I will wanted to do more with the three-dimensional understanding of his people. The past but also project them into into the futures that they might have wanted to have the cinematic drive films one. While you were writing.

There was something freeing about the ability to write to invent just with your pan ring and dangerous find yourself worried something about a bursal quicksilver greatest but it didn't have lighting.

It's a piece of crap. I find that really struggle myself up over him and get him in stadium develops heats characters. Equally, the one played by Val Kilmer and the types of crimes evolve to you made a lot of different types of movies but have made a career in making violent graphically violent.

I'm wondering how you see actual violence and grace of violence in America today.

I'm not smart enough to analyze the complex inner reactive nature of violence that's happening. I do believe it's a combination of many many different factors. They home run the state of education inthe ropelike phenomenon of life.

This is your avatar doing this you doing it but you are behind a lot of violent movies. Is there any responsibility that you feel I go gratuitous benefit, gratuitous sentimentality, gratuitous violence, gratuitous for the bank robbery in heat is scary.

It is not all. While I wish I was one of those guys you will not see who we stinking to pass to it for when becomes a movie but he knows who direct this book you've written is article 3 book deal.

If I understand correctly, you are setting up quite body of work that then you plan to direct all yes your 79 all healthy and strong as the Boeing 16 hour days. Does being 79 push you to work harder or do not think at all about age process to be more careful about what I will dedicate my time to time, somewhat successful, but 100% successful event. Now he's dedicating his time to Ferrari will feature film is director per usual he's going deep learning the city.

The company and its cars hearing you talk about cities like this when I motor like Los Angeles where you shop for he that sounds really more that you're a an academic researcher, but thought you was a direct of trying to create a fabric of reality. This is complex and believable as you experience your own reality where you're from, take out with Gareth this week Stephen Law ally of Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to Senate races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. Georgia is right up there with New Hampshire's products to New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take out with major Gareth on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts podcast.

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It's a good news on the ball. Anyone Luke Burbank serves up a story about our fastest growing sport. It all started more or less out of necessity. The inaugural day was this very ball. Oh well.

This is the cause in football you can sue safety plays so the bat was around or wherever both the ball is with the grab will bill Joe David McCallum remembers back in 1965 when a couple of neighborhood dad's here on Bainbridge Island, Washington Bill Bell and Joel Prichard were looking for something, anything to keep their board kids entertained that some pieces of wood, plastic ball and a badminton court so they made up a game on the spot and named it pickle ball. The pickles version of the Navy is that pickles would run around here. These bushes and grab the ball so they named it after the dog, but there's also some speculation that pickles was born after the game was invented which would make it impossible it would.

While the origin of the sports name might be complicated. The game itself was actually pretty simple.

They came up and down the badminton court which had a raise that ping-pong paddle and wiffleball and start trying to hit the ball on the Lord, the net. The game applicable Scott Stover and his wife Carol own the house and the court where the sport was invented they grew up spending their summers just down the road and watched like David McCallum as pickle ball took off within their tiny island community and it started growing very small, but they needed paddles. Not everybody is a bandsaw in the basement so they would call Barty to get paddles. Barney was David McCallum's dad credited as the sports third founder by day, he ran an envelope company by night, he started making with his sons help pickle ball paddles for a growing fan base first on the island and then the wider world, which is where Doug Smith came the best thing we could do Creole to have a demonstration court and then get teachers out there.

Doug's task was to try to convince PE teachers to add pickle ball to their curriculum, which meant going to teaching conferences and letting them try it for themselves. The teachers would be playing all during the conference. The plan took time but worked taking pickle ball from a game with a funny name invented in someone's backyard what is currently the fastest growing sport in America by some estimates, nearly 5 million people in the US have taken up pickle ball that's having a profound cultural effect from the repurchasing of many tennis courts to how retirement communities are being built to the themed restaurants and of course hypercompetitive pro leagues. Generally core is a pickle ball Hall of Famer along with her doubles partner Alex Hamner is one of five national championships. I have exactly 0 championships that last time I played 30 years ago during racket sports class at Nathan Hale high school in Seattle. I figured I'd get a refresher. Jen now ends of the game say the secret sauce of pickle ball is that anyone can learn the game start having fun 30 minute so Sunday morning producer John Goodwin and I decided to test that theory.

We had a few victories and a lot of defeat and also a lot of fun. Not bad for a game invented by a couple of desperate dad that's now taking the nation by storm Steve Hartman has an incredible tale of lost and found they we brought him home before they had children all year before they were even married Jason Liz McKendry of Annapolis, Maryland saved. This was their baby.

A cat named Ritz coming up with a are your kids. At least he was until 2006 when Ritz bolted out the apartment door down the stairs and never returned. We spent months, you know, looking all around talk of the shelters and yet everything that we tried. When did you finally give up really give a exact. She still has his lost pet poster felt like it never happened any be forgotten, and I can and so her sliver of hope remained through that decade and into the next and into the next 16 years came and went until 6 miles from Jason's old apartment building woman found a stray cat living in this trailer park. The cat was in such terrible shape. She brought it over to this veterinary office to be put down before doing so as a standard feature that skin the cat for microchip that very moment, Jason got an automated text Ritz has been found to be a mistake thinking they recycle the microchip number she's upstairs and she overhears me what say he's been gone for 16 years. I think this was possible yet, there he is the recordholder. Note that United because of the microchip has ever been lost longer today, despite two bum legs Ritz is on the mend.

He already has his favorite chair picked out and is now enjoying the attention of the brother and sister you never do. Ritz has a very sweet demeanor which means he may have been a house cat. At some point, but there's no telling all we know for certain is that for 16 years. Ritz was lost, but hope was never Nancy Giles tells us about a beverage with Moxie there's scope there's Pepsi there's 7-Up in the state of Maine. The soft drink, they celebrate is Moxie will Moxie actually outsold Coca-Cola nationally in the 1920s and gave us a new word for word marks is an English-language meaning plucking verve and strength.

Few people know that that word came from drink Marilyn Lewis enjoy spreading the word about his favorite drink at the Moxie Museum in Union, Maine, birthplace of Dr. Augustin Thompson, who began selling his Moxie nerve food in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1885. What were some of the claims of things that can cure your nervous exhaustion of manhood imbecility. I like to say everything from halitosis to hangnail Moxie was actually the Viagra you know Jim palmar wrote the book on Moxie mocks Israel sort of heyday was early 1900s. Every major city in America had a large billboard about Moxie sides of buildings Moxie logo. These advertisements that on the head Moxie in magazines wherever there was a marketing sort of presents. Moxie jumped in and was part of that will. It was a marketing blitz at the time Moxie songs celebrity endorsements Moxie gain Moxie candy something called a Moxie horse Mobile is a horse mounted on her chassis that somebody sat on role around the country every summer with a two-year break for coded folks from all over have gathered in Lisbon Falls, Maine to celebrate Moxie with decor possible Moxie memorabilia and Moxie ice cream Moxie you have Moxie and you have Moxie Moxie symbol is a simple as that. By now you're wondering what Moxie taste like well it's hard to describe but that doesn't stop anyone from trying Coca-Cola called it tastes like a rocket. I presently drop off. So there you have it. A soft drink that inspired a word and according to Moxie enthusiasts might be just what we need today for this country needs is plenty of Moxie as you write an Austin Texas a decision in the trial of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for years now, has insisted that the 2012 massacre of 26 students and staffers at Sandy Hook elementary school was a hoax to help us make sense of what it all means Martha Tyson are so Sunday June on Friday jewelry in Texas. Alex Jones his own home state unanimously decided to punish him, to the tune of $45.2 million on top of the 4.1 million. They had already ordered him to pay to Scott Lewis and Neil slid the parents of six-year-old Jesse Lewis, who died in the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in 2012. I don't know if we look at all sides play devils advocate from both sides, but I mean it's as phony as a three dollar bill with this is what the defamation lawsuit was all about Alex Jones's regular rants on his info wars website at Sandy Hook was a hoax staged that none of the 20 dead children or their parents were even real shed use ancient static completely fake with doctors in my view manufacture. Jesse was real. No, the road to a reckoning for Alex Jones has been as ugly and wild ride is last week's trial turned out to be excellent. Describe the assessment. Death threats he had other Sandy Hook victims families have faced because it looks Jones, his followers believed him wrong and apologize in one of several stunning moments in court last week suddenly contrite Alex Jones admitted he had lied real is expose CBS News legal analyst Ricky claimant's job is to make you get chills another of those moments. The revelation Jones's lawyer mistakenly sent the other side years of text messages proving he lied phone records. Jones claimed under oath didn't exist. Now if interest to the January 6 committee that prosecutor will record in this case and say this is someone who committed perjury. How much trouble is he really in trouble like a sideshow to the drama inside outside the courtroom.

Jones cried witch hunt for his company. Free-speech systems filed for bankruptcy. Jones's marriage is Saturday is very successful forensic economist Bernard padding testified that Jones and his company are actually worth between 135 and $270 million and that he's been shielding money and shell companies.

Pettengill told the jury. Alex Jones main menu shows no will. Scott Lewis and Neil Heston see the money they hoped would be a deterrent with stop Alex Jones and others profiting from spreading lies probably Texas's punitive damages that $45 million is likely to be knocked way down Alex Jones next week. But Jones still faces other trials in Texas and in Connecticut where lies may prove much more expensive is to speak with change. The information age lies and misinformation. This subterfuge, the falsity I don't know yet, but please start time for something completely different summer travel tip from author David sedan's thought.

I know who I got my coping from, but in the end, I have no idea someone in Alaska I'm guessing that's okay.

If you've never been. You should only for the wildlife. One afternoon in Kodiak. A pilot offered to take me up in his coffin -sized plane. Give me a tour when you interested enhanced. I'd already seen more eagles than I could count, so I answer bears not really congregating this time of year, he said, but I fly over my parents house and you could see that instead. So I did many of the towns I went to their that was no place to buy a necktie go to a restaurant to the grocery store and everyone was dressed to kill something and then bathed in its blood peoples yards had piles of junk in them old water heaters, outboard motors, I mentioned this to someone. She explained that everything had to be shipped from the lower 48.

Things were expensive and hard to procure so people tended to hold onto them in case they were one of their neighbors needed it for spare parts thing I never understood about Alaska was a sense of community.

The people there have it exist everywhere.

On some level if one of my New York neighbors needed me to run to the grocery store I would if their apartment flooded. I offer up my spare room for a night but were not in the wilderness together when not hundreds of miles from the nearest emergency room. So it's a good thing. I can't cope with air and then returned to New York where hospitals are like eagles you get sick of them, at least in my neighborhood only I won't need one. My coping was like a mild cold. The only thing I brought home from Alaska that in a beautiful bracelet man in Anchorage gave me no reason he just did all it takes are a few great people to convince you that everyone in the entire state is wonderful pilot who showed me his parents house. The stranger at the airport Jewish woman in Juneau named Libby he referred to herself as one of the frozen chosen.

I'm telling Alaska I got thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning progress and crazy time once final point is we need people in the best way to protect good people. Final season Millstream exclusively on