A New FIFA Ultimate Team Podcast aimed at more casual players. Hosted by @AverageFIFADad and former FIWC Champion @ChrisyBullard. Each episode will concentrate on the current goings on in Ultimate Team, including tips, player reviews, SBC guides and sharing any transfer market investments. If you're tired of Prime ICON and TOTY player reviews, then join us for more of an average players point of view.
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The Climate Pod is a wide-ranging conversation with leading experts on the politics, economics, activism, culture, science, and social justice issues at the heart of the climate crisis. Hear from guests like Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Al Roker, David Wallace-Wells, Katharine Hayhoe, Adam McKay, Bill Nye, Robert Bullard, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Ted Danson, Gina McCarthy, Paul Krugman, and many more. Hosted by Ty Benefiel. Opinions expressed by the host and guests are their own.
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Send us a text We're back after the pre-order week and we've got a bumper Pod discussing our thoughts on the game so far, casting our eye over RTTK Team 1 and letting you know what SBCs are worthwhile and which ones aren't! Rant is in the title, and there won't be any prizes for guessing which host has not been happy with what they've experienced s…
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Ed Begley Jr. On His Life in Entertainment And Climate Activism
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For 57 years, Ed Begley Jr. has been in literally hundreds of your favorite movies and television shows. And during those years, he's also established himself as one of the most prominent voices in Hollywood on environmental sustainability and climate action. Now, he’s with a new memoir, To the Temple of Tranquility…And Step On It!, which recounts …
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Send us a text An extra emergency Pod for your ears this week as the FC 25 Launch Pitch Notes were released earlier today and there is so many huge changes that we just had to convene to discuss them. Are the changes good, bad, or a bit of both? Support the showBy Chris Denny/Chris Bullard/DaSweatyBanana
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Send us a text This is our first proper look at some of the strategies that you can employer in the early hours of the Web App release, as well as the early access on the 20th. This is the most exciting and fun time of the game cycle, so let us get you ready for release! Support the showBy Chris Denny/Chris Bullard/DaSweatyBanana
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Send us a text We'll be honest, this week, we didn't really know what to talk about, so here's a Pod about some stuff! Including the new Icon batch FC 25 a 99 Rated team update and a bonus rant at the end! Support the showBy Chris Denny/Chris Bullard/DaSweatyBanana
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Send us a text It is time to do our annual look back at this year's game and reflect on where it will sit in the pantheon of FIFA/EAFC games. It is a lengthy Pod, but we're off next week, so think of it as a 2 in 1 deal! Support the showBy Chris Denny/Chris Bullard/DaSweatyBanana
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Send us a text This week we have a look at the FC 25 UT deep dive and try and interpret how the new FC IQ will work in practice with one of the hosts with full Beta access desparately tries not to say too much! Speaking of Beta's AverageFIFADad and ChrisyBullard compare overall feelings of the FC 25 Beta and DSB and ChrisyBullard discuss differing …
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Send us a text This week we're looking at the Rush and Clubs Pitch Notes and discussing how well we think Rush will work in relation to it's predecessor. We also have a look at the Futties Team 3 and discuss if some of these Player/Icon SBCs are really worth it with some of the players on offer in this season higher level rewards. DSB also gives us…
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Send us a text It's been a long time coming, but we have finally returned after our summer break, which was only supposed to be 3 weeks! This week we are focusing on the FC25 Gameplay Pitch Notes and looking back on the Festival of Football promo as a whole, as well as assessing how Futties is going! All this and A LOT of Pack Luck King entries to …
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Will The Climate Movement Handle The Pressure Of 2024? (w/ Rev. Lennox Yearwood)
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The climate movement faces mounting pressure in 2024. Record-setting temperatures and extreme weather disasters continue to devastate over a turbulent summer. Prominent plans to roll back environmental regulations and stiffle climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives have movement leaders pushing back on attacks. Is the climate movement able to…
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Fragile Insurers, Risky Mortgages, and the Climate Crisis (w/ Prof. Pari Sastry)
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In 2008, the world economic system was rocked by a financial crisis that stemmed from risky mortgages being securitized and sold as safe investments to unknowing investors. Misaligned incentives, unpriced risk, deceptive selling practices, and a lack of regulatory scrutiny throughout the financial industry led to the Great Recession, the consequenc…
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How To Win Climate Arguments And Influence People (w/ Dr. Genevieve Guenther)
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Bad actors continue to push fake talking points to obscure the truth on climate change and slow down action. So how we combat these common myths and inspire people to do more? That's the focus of today's show and a new book by our guest, Dr. Genevieve Guenther. In her new book, The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fig…
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Highways Are Horrible For Climate Change. How Does The Problem Keep Expanding?
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For 70 years, building out and expanding American highways have been core parts to the entire US transportation project. But the initial effort to connect cities and states has created gigantic problems in the subsequent decades. Instead of fixing many of these critical issues, too often we see cities and states double down on the problem and make …
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Send us a text We're back to give our views on the Euros content that we've had and ask the question of if there is any point to playing Champs anymore. We also have a very IRL feel to the pod as we give our views on various elements of the Euros tournament so far. Support the showBy Chris Denny/Chris Bullard/DaSweatyBanana
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US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on America's Clean Energy Mission
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President Biden campaigned on the promises of producing 100% of America's electricity with clean energy resources by 2035 and getting America's economy to Net Zero emissions by 2050. Since President Biden took office, the US Congress has passed the Bi-partisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPs and Science Act - all aime…
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Grief, Racism, and the Climate Crisis (w/ Mary Annaïse Heglar)
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Mary Annaïse Heglar is back on the show to discuss her new book "Troubled Waters", a fictional account of a young Black woman in Mississippi that uses direct action against the fossil fuel industry as a healing mechanism for her own grief, while also learning about the grief and trauma that her own grandmother carries with her from her days at the …
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Send us a text DISCLAIMER - This Pod was recorded on the 4th of June, prior to confirmation of Euro 2024 game mode, etc. we will be back soon with our view on the content that is coming during the Euros! In this Pod, we bring the long 7 weeks of TOTS to a close by reviewing what is quite possibly the worst TOTS promo that we've ever had! Support th…
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What Will The Future Of Climate Denial Look Like? (w/ Tad DeLay)
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The climate movement is used to fight denial. Few who do this work escape the need to push back against critics claiming that human-created carbon dioxide emissions don't cause dangerous warming. But as the crisis becomes more clear and everpresent, it's time to expand our definition of climate denial, argues author Tad DeLay. In his new book, Futu…
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We Need More Climate People (w/ Tom Steyer)
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Hundreds of billions of dollars have already been invested in clean energy projects in America since the Inflation Reduction Act was passed in 2022. With that level of spending, clean energy jobs are on the rise, meaning there's never been a better time to start a career focused on combating the climate crisis. The variety of roles in clean energy …
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Send us a text We're back after our escapade to the Nuttin but a FUT Thing podcast and we're casting our eyes over the Serie A TOTS and it's Bully's turn to rant as he makes the point the EA have ruined TOTS! Support the showBy Chris Denny/Chris Bullard/DaSweatyBanana
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The Complex Threat Of Sea Level Rise (w/ Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney)
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This week, two Pultizer Prize-winning reporters join the show to discuss their new investigative series, “The Drowning South," and how the threat of sea level rise is causing a number of complex problems in America's southern coastal cities. The Washington Post's Chris Mooney, a reporter covering climate change, energy and the environment, and Brad…
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Send us a text It's time for us to address the Red Elephant in the room and boy to we address it! Not much else to say other than strap in boys, this ones a rant-y one! Support the showBy Chris Denny/Chris Bullard/DaSweatyBanana
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Groundbreaking Economic Study Suggests Greater Climate Damages (w/ Dr. Adrien Bilal and Dr. Diego Kaenzig)
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In 2018, economist William Nordhaus won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy model, which was the first neoclassical growth model to incorporate the impacts of a warming planet on the global economy. While celebrated for its economic innovations, the DICE model and its outputs have been criticized…
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Is Climate Anxiety Keeping People From Having Children? (w/ Dr. Jade Sasser)
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Over the past five years, there have been several studies showing how the climate crisis is impacting major life decisions. Whether it’s where to live, how to invest, or what to study, young people today are being forced to confront a climate-worsened future and decide what’s best for their personal situation given the very public failures of leade…
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Send us a text It's a special Pod this week as there is the debut of a new member of the Podcast family, and of course, it is also Bundesliga TOTS week. We break down the 2 squads as well as going through our various trials and tribulations from the Premier League TOTS week. All this on top of news of 2 Brad Luck King belt changes and the return of…
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Why Is Climate Change Missing In Our Movies? (w/ Anna Jane Joyner and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson)
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Popular films have massive influence over our culture. It's where we go to see the biggest stories on the biggest screen. It's where we go to see Nicole Kidman do that weird commerical before the film starts. Movies are really, really important. So, why isn't the climate crisis, one of the defining issues of our time, on the silver screen more ofte…
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