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Aside from the... obvious, these past seven months have been pretty great. And you? 

KC & JP were not going to do an episode about COVID 19 because it felt like a media grab. But then they realized Maximum Carbon Sinkhole is buried too deep into the weird that even though the rest of the world is now soaking in it, they haven't reached MCSH depths, yet. Plus, a pandemic that is shutting down major US cities is kind of, like, a thing that might actually cause A) societal collapse and B) a drastic draw down of emissions. Plus, it's hilarious in that whole fan-hit-by-shit kind of way. Pandemics of the last 100 years all have the same cause. Where our resilience has been ahead. Where it's been behind. What's the upside of coronavirus? AFTERNOON NEWS UPDATE with Candice Baker and Peter Lapin (0:00:01) NEWS CONFERENCE with Florida Secretary of Health, Safety, Hepatitis Transmission, Gas Pump Veracity, Kava Bars, and Invasive Reptilians (0:51:19)

Collaboration! A whole episode of your feedback loops... including an email inspired intro of extremely vulgar and lowbrow taste. Keep 'em coming: carbonsinkhole@protonmail.com

KC & JP sit down to talk about all the great feedback loops they've gotten but instead are too high to stay on task and end up talking about the christmas episode, climate change, chemical exposure, the christmas episode, autoimmune diseases, obesity, capitalism, environmental collapse, societal collapse, the christmas episode, art, community, gardening, the christmas episode, pet obesity, fragrance, the christmas episode, collaboration, veganism, cats, and the christmas episode. Title inspired by: Unlistenable by Steel Pole Bath Tub released in 2002 but all their albums are good. You should also listen to Milk Cult & Tumor Circus

KC is on one and comes out blazing in Roger's defense. JP would like to remind everyone Roge' is the spokesman for not-doing-the-end-of-the-world. This dank recording was thought lost to the vapors - until now. A few months back, Extinction Rebellion put Roger in time out. XR's conflict resolution process is corporate AF. Eye on the prize, people.

Dedicated to all the Non-Holiday practitioners. Break tradition. Especially when Rudolf's got Lyme. And he's not going to get better... unless you listen to this show. Featuring: Bray Wright, Daphny H. Adams, JB, Toronto Scott, Dasklein (Baby Boomer Fighter at Large), KML, Dick Blister — and of course, JP & KC. MAXIMUM CARBON SINKHOLE'S MINIMUM CARBON CHRISTMAS Royalty Free Music Credits (many thanks! full credits at https://maximumcarbonsinkhole.com/minimum-carbon-christmas-special-break-tradition-kill-christmas ): "Christmas Hip Hop" (by Soul Prod) "Christmas Trap" (by Loud Paq) "Old School Hip Hop Beat - Jingle Bells Remix" (prod. Beatowski) "Dark Christmas Soundtrack - Santa's Tricks" (by Myuu) "Jingle Bells (Dark Piano Version" (by Myuu) "Jingle Bells Dark Remix" (by Chris Hayes) "Carol of the Bells" (by Myuu) "Santa Is Coming To Town" (by Nicolai Heidlas)

KC and JP discuss how adaptation is more than learning how to live on a warmer planet. It isn't just about retreating from the rising seas, the burning forests, the flooded plains, or the spreading aridification. It's about our emotional response to the knowledge that everything we know, everything we take for granted—clean water, clean air, ample calories— will become scarce. But more than that, the plants and animals that we relate to. The wild beings that have inhabited this planet with us will leave us behind. Alone. We just might be the lone monoculture on planet Earth. Nothing good comes from that. And knowing it hurts. So we laugh. We cry. But we try to laugh more. And get high. EPISODE SPONSOR: Venice's Soggy Slices ( 01:31:00 ) KC's RANT: Koala Bear Chlamydia ( 00:00:01 ) PLANT OF THE EPISODE: Unidentified Mint that smells and tastes like Trix cereal.

Come soak in the weird with KC & JP as they set out to give newer listeners a fully baked thesis. Of what? That question remains unanswered. However, they dive right into our impending extinction crisis and try their best to keep from being pulled under by using the best tool in the climate-change-stress toolbox: humor. What IS CO2's contribution to things like mysterious meowing cats and cannibalistic serial killers? EPISODE SPONSORS: Sunny Day Tanning ( 00:23:13 ) Vegan McDonald's ( 00:32:57 ) BREAKING NEWS: Mass Transit Vacuum Carbon Capture and Sequestration Infrastructure Tragedy ( 00:36:20 )

Is isolation a bad thing? What if you don't identify with the humans around you? Is emancipation from the human race inevitable? Come join in on the fun while KC & JP discuss their feelings of living among the plants and animals and KC's further drift away from society. EPISODE SPONSORS: -Dick Blister's Used Mattress Emporium (00:00) -Enabler App (01:00:00)

Our man on the inside shares his view from the fall 2019 Extinction Rebellion protests in London. Have the protestors meaningfully connected with the result of what they're asking for? After a few days on the street with XR, JA tells us what's good, bad, and weird about XR. JP & KC wonder what, if any, lessons can be applied to the US. JA makes contact with the Fairy King. JA gives the double bird to "the" Queen and her golden chariot (which KC and JP are surprised to learn is real).

The end of the world needs a comedian. 4:24 "How Can You Be That Cynical? (Grist Bingo)" 17:41 "$2 Bills" 19:34 "The End of the World Needs a Comedian" 20:29 " Not Scared of Cannibals... or Anarchists" 22:04 "Jobs Aren't Real" 23:25 "Feminism and Climate Change" 44:34 "Welcome to the Co-Dictatorship" 49:17 "Yeah, Well..." 52:11 "Garden, yes. MPDG, no."

So you're fifteen and just realized the planet is undergoing its sixth mass extinction and you've got two papers due, a math quiz, your parents are riding your ass for you to participate in more extra-curricular activities so you can go to your Dad's alma mater. What do you do? KC & JP try to answer that question and others posed to us and the intertubes by woke teenagers and explore how to drop out before you've dropped in. GRANOLA SHOTGUN POST REFERENCED https://granolashotgun.com/2019/05/16/24-58/ Plant of the Episode: Toothache Plant AKA: Acmella Oleracea, Paracress, Sichuan Buttons, Buzz Buttons (our favorite), Ting Flowers, and Electric Daisy SKITS: KC the Substitute Teacher ( 01:00:32 ) Teenage Market Garden ( 01:09:53 )

O-thou dearest SCIENCE, what may we do to earn your salvation?! KC was kicked out of Catholic school for asking too many questions; now 'science' keeps asking the wrong ones. A rubric for better science. KC & JP have lost their faith. Plant of the Episode: - Red Malabar Spinach (Basella Alba) EPISODE SPONSORS: - Dick Blister's Used Mattress Emporium (01:11:17) - Glyphosate for Breakfast (01:01:39) SPECIAL SHORT: - Beavis and Butthead Do Gardening (27:40) SAMPLES: - Leonardo DiCaprio from "Ice on Fire" - Daphne Zuniga, Bill Pullman, & John Candy "Spaceballs"

KC & JP discuss how to navigate our current dystopia. Did you know you were living in your favorite dystopian trilogy? Our current world has all the ingredients: human misery, squalor, oppression, disease, poisonous food, noxious air, contaminated water, and of course, too many fucking people. It's easy to get distracted by collapse rabbit holes, but dropping out doesn't mean prepping for the (corporate) zombie apocalypse. It's more about living meaningfully, right now. Resilience is a bonus. But that's easy to forget. News Broadcast: Alex Hothouse of hothouseprisonwars.org 0:53:06 Behind the Scenes: KC & JP get a boat 01:12:30 Plant of the day/week/month: Longevity Spinach

So you want a wartime effort? Ready for sacrifice? KC & JP walk through what a wartime effort would really look like. Food rationing. Healthcare rationing. Tire rationing. ELECTRICITY rationing. Unlike the New York Times, there is no fucking around in the sinkhole. Plant of the day (week): Pink thing also known as Spider Flower Wartime Effort Slogan Focus Group 0:43:30 Amazon Prime Final Shipment 0:52:25

It's nearly impossible to try to build a sustainable life in an unsustainable world. Do you do the best you can even if that means irrigating your garden with water contaminated with lead? Fuck. JP surprises KC with 11 recent WTF moments which create some self-skepticism, some laughs, some anger, but mostly facepalm moments. Episode Sponsor: FLAVORCHEM! Sword-Fork-Spork - 10:09 Wasabimallows - 51:41

Dropout with Jasmine Dale, because she and her husband Simon never really did the first world, anyway. LINKS: http://beingsomewhere.net/

KC & JP visit their bioregion's annual pink moon celebration to get some tips on how to survive this clusterfuck.

Mission: go put your hands in the dirt and grow some shit. Gardening is the most impactful direct action you can take. Feeling despair? Broke? Sick? Tired of signing petitions and marching and taking place in sanctioned protests? Stick your boot in the ground and drop in some seeds. Eat the food around you. Drop out. For reals. INTRO: Paul Harvey 2035: So God Made a Fuck You Gardener (0:00) GARDENING OLYMPICS BROADCAST (1:07:17) JA from the UK also dropping some knowledge (44:20 & 1:24:12)

Sure, art is dead... or something. But what role can marginalized (cough) artists play in helping visualize what's ahead? No matter where or what calamities arise, creative thinkers will be needed. 12:12 JA from the UK reveals the truth about Banksy 31:23 NPR Gross Air Weekend: Terri Fresh speaks with Elka Bellweather on her new book "My Year Running Free with the Wolfkittens." 45:54 Bill Burr's an Environmental Champion of funny. 01:10:25 NPR Morning Edition: The Blue Line that has ravaged a community. *episode photo courtesy JK from the CA taken in the AK