“Digging in the Dirt” is a podcast and radio show featured on WPKN (wpkn.org) with climate change experts and activists, promoting organic and regenerative farming techniques, showing the way to grow healthier food in a way that respects the planet’s health. In addition to nationally known movers and shakers in this niche, Kevin loves to feature food authors, local farmers and gardeners pushing the envelope by encouraging us to take personal responsibility, as consumers and gardeners, toward the environment on our properties and urban lots. These guests give us methods, ideas and recipes for creating a better environment for people, our children, animals, insects and the plant life of our planet’s ecology — one backyard at a time.
Adam McKay - Academy Award winning Writer, Director and Jeff Masters Meteorologist Yale Climate Connections
I'm very pleased to welcome my next guest Adam McKay (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570912/)to Digging in the Dirt. Adam is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and director known for creating hit comedy classics and later transitioning to sharp political satires and dramas. At one time he was a head writer for Saturday Night Live. He Directed and co-wrote, The Big Short, earning him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Adam also helmed "Don't Look Up" with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence and he wrote and Directed "Vice" with Christian Bale. I asked Adam here today to talk about his company Yellow Dot Studios (https://yellowdotstudios.com/) and his article in Current Affairs recently… entitled The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization)
Then, I welcome back to DITD Jeff Masters of the Yale Climate Connections. Jeff worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 86-90. He has a Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan. In 1995, he co-founded the Weather Underground weather channel. Jeff is my favorite meteorologist because he gives us a sober scientific analysis of the issues our planet faces. After my conversation with Adam McKay, I thought it would be instructive to talk about some recent current weather events that have occurred. Especially the storms out west in the pacific and closer to home our recent Nor'easter. The resource links on the Yale Climate Connections website that Jeff mentioned… "30 great tools to determine your flood risk in the U.S." (https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/07/30-great-tools-to-determine-your-flood-risk-in-the-u-s/) and "What should you do to prepare for the climate change storm" (https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/what-should-you-do-to-prepare-for-the-climate-change-storm/)can be found here and in my post of this episode of DITD on Apple Podcasts.
14 Oct 2026
Adam McKay - Director "The Big Short" and "Don't Look up"
I'm very pleased to welcome my next guest Adam McKay (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570912/) to Digging in the Dirt. Adam is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer
and director known for creating hit comedy classics and later transitioning to sharp political satires and dramas. At one time he
was a head writer for Saturday Night Live. He Directed and co-wrote, "The Big Short", earning him an Academy Award for Best Adapted
Screenplay. Adam also helmed "Don't Look Up" with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence and he wrote and Directed
"Vice" with Christian Bale. I asked Adam here today to talk about his company Yellow Dot Studios https://yellowdotstudios.com/ (https://yellowdotstudios.com/) and his article in Current Affairs recently… entitled "The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate" (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization)
13 Oct 2026
Jeff Masters - Yale Climate Connections Meteorologist
I welcome back to DITD Jeff Masters of the Yale Climate Connections (https://yaleclimateconnections.org/). Jeff worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 86-90. He has a Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan. In 1995, he co-founded the Weather Underground weather channel. Jeff is my favorite meteorologist because he gives us a sober scientific analysis of the issues our planet faces. After my conversation with Adam McKay, I thought it would be instructive to talk about some recent current weather events that we have had occur. Especially the storms out west in the pacific and closer to home with our recent Nor'easter. The resource links on the Yale Climate Connections website that Jeff mentioned… "30 great tools to determine your flood risk in the U.S." (https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/07/30-great-tools-to-determine-your-flood-risk-in-the-u-s/)and "What should you do to prepare for the climate" change storm" (https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/what-should-you-do-to-prepare-for-the-climate-change-storm/)can be found here and in my post of this episode of DITD on Apple Podcasts.
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