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Join environmental activist Jack Gescheidt & activist filmmaker Skyler Thomas as we rip into a hot new environmental or wildlife or animal rights topic 9am (PT) every Tuesday (11am Central, 12 noon ET) dealing with the Big 4 Cs: climate crisis, cows, capitalism and corporate corruption.
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SPECIAL GUEST: George Wuerthner (Jack is on Jury Duty)
Sky-Jack Podcast #77: 9am (PT) Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
George Wuerthner is an ecologist who has authored almost 30 books on American landscapes, wildfire, and wilderness areas. He has been studying predators for four decades. In particular, he’s been involved in wolf restoration efforts in Montana, and for years lived near Yellowstone National Park where he is a licensed guide.
CLICK TO WATCH 9am (PT) Tues., May 12th Sky-Jack Podcast
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How Cow Ranching Increases Wildfires
Sky-Jack Podcast #76: 9am (PT) Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
If you fear (or even freaked out about) the heightened risk of wildfires in California, and the rest of the increasingly arid American western states, you’re now being taught to fear forests — in order to justify cutting them down. It’s called forest “fuels reduction,” “management” and “thinning” of course, not what it really is, which is deforestation or logging.
Demonizing dense, healthy, natural forests is now done by all the government agencies, which have been corrupted by timber industry dollars. Forests are demonized as “overgrown” “fuel loads.” And, voila! — now you’re terrified of Mother Nature. This isn’t just pseudo-science, it’s ecocidal propaganda.
READ MORE about wildfire: https://www.TreeSpiritProject.com/wildfire
Another culprit in this propaganda War on Nature is again that ubiquitous, normalized, human scourge-on-Earth, cattle ranching, which is also a major driver of deforestation.
On our next Sky-Jack, we burn holes in all this widespread, incendiary non-science.
CLICK TO WATCH 9am (PT) Tues., May 5th Sky-Jack Podcast
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Answering Viewer Comments LIVE: Debunking Point Reyes Rancher Propaganda
Sky-Jack Podcast #75: 9am (PT) Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
Skyler received lotsa comments on his video, “Debunking Point Reyes Propagandafest,” about the rancher-centric “Open House” which was created primarily to appease local beef ranchers and dairy farmers who are fighting mad about no longer being able to get massive tax breaks on the public land of a national park unit while polluting and degrading that land. The nerve of those damned feds to turn off the free public milk money spigot to a handful of millionaire business owners who are used to sucking the public teat!
So we”ll respond to as many of these comments as possible during this, our next live show.
Come hear our responses to or type in a new follow-up question during the show. It’s gonna be fun!
CLICK TO WATCH Tues., April 21st Sky-Jack Podcast
Entitled ranchers & dairy welfare queens come a courtin’ (the feds)
Sky-Jack Podcast #74: Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
“Give us back our ultra-cheap, TAXPAYER-FUNDED public national parkland!”
That sums up the point of the big, busy beef & dairy ranchers’ oh-poor-me “Open House” community meeting last Thursday (4/16/26) evening. Hosted by the National Park Service and the Nature Conservancy, with Special Guest, the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.
But we regular citizens —who don’t abuse cows for our livelihood and expect the federal government to subsidize our failing businesses — turned out for their performative cowshitshow too.
We pile into onto this topic.
CLICK TO WATCH 9am PT, Tues., April 21st Sky-Jack Podcast
Dairy cow & beef ranchers insatiable appetite for public land.
Sky-Jack Podcast #73: 9am (PT) Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
We have to have the talk. Again. About Point Reyes ranchers and their relentless hunger for Point Reyes National Park — and ALL public lands.
Their craving for money, by sating the public’s addiction for dairy products and beef (cow flesh), extends outward from this one SF Bay Area park to the rest of the country. (Or perhaps it’s the other way around.)
Tune in to LEARN what you can do about it, THIS WEEK, if you live in the SF Bay Area.
CLICK TO WATCH 9am PT, Tues., April 14th Sky-Jack Podcast
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Attack of the Zombie Ranchers Once More Again
Sky-Jack Podcast #72: 9am (PT) Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
Not really alive, but definitely not dead, the Point Reyes ranchers have risen again, walking the halls of government. And talking to breathe life back into the corpse of their dying “small, historic, multi-generational, organic-certified, polluting, climate-heating, animal-torturing” businesses.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Point Reyes without thousands of for-profit cows fouling the land and water with manure.
Again yet again, still, more, incessantly, they’re telling the public — and a complicit and/or gullible media — that this (and any/every) national park desperately needs cattle operations to “restore” thousands of acres of land their cattle operations trampled, desiccated and manure-polluted for over a century.
We visit this boneyard of bovine bodies and B.S., and call out the ghouls.
CLICK TO WATCH 9am PT, Tues., April 7th Sky-Jack Podcast
With 2 Special activist Guests: Lia Wilbourn & Sky Jack Morgan
Sky-Jack Podcast #71: April 1st, 2026
4 vegan activists walk into a bar fight – 2 special guests — vegan activists SkyJack Morgan & Lia Wilbourn — join us (Skyler & Jack) for this special Wedneday, April 1st Edition.
With 4 Fantastic Activists cookin’ in the kitchen, we couldn’t agree on just one topic for discussion. (“Why Won’t Vegans Just Shut the F**k Up?,” was one idea…) So join us for a rollicking show while we’re all on the verge of WW3, waiting for Ai to solve humanity’s mess??…
We’ll f**k around and you’ll find out this is no April foolin’.
88,000,000 lbs. of CA cow manure is “unaccounted for!”
Sky-Jack Podcast #70: March 24th, 2026
We often go on about the massive amount of manure that comes from cows on dairy and beef ranches. Whether it’s in Point Reyes National Seashore park just north of San Francisco (near “Sky-Jack’s” home base) — or everywhere else cows are used to make food and clothes for humans ignoring environmental pollution.
We’ve witnessed first-hand how manure is ignored by Pt. Reyes ranchers, even as they promote so-called “regenerative ranching” their “clean coal” of the dirty cattle business.
Turns out the bull’s sh*t is even more widespread than we knew, and that many farms in California drastically under-report the amount of cow manure they dump into waterways each year — about 44,000 tons worth.
We stick our noses into this mess. Pour yourself a glass of organic milk, cook up a juicy free-range steak and join us, won’t you?
CLICK TO WATCH 9am PT, Tues., March 24th Sky-Jack Podcast
Everything’s Political
Sky-Jack Podcast #69: March 17th, 2026
SPECIAL GUEST, fellow vegan activist podcaster, Sky Jack Morgan, joins Skyler & Jack to cover a myriad of topics, but especially the increasing difficulty of leaving politics out of all the other topics. So we don’t.
Sky Jack Morgan’s own show has gradually become increasingly political, so we discuss why this evolution, for his podcast, and the inevitability of it for our shows too.
CLICK TO WATCH Tues., March 17th Sky-Jack Podcast
Regenerative Organic Certified Bullsh*t®
Sky-Jack Podcast #68: March 10th, 2026
Well, it turns out you CAN just make this sh*t up. You gotta hand it to cattle ranchers: they do have big balls. In for a penny of BS, in for several million more pounds of methane & manure.
Case we’ll point to: Niman Ranch is now “certifying” its “organic, regenerative” trademarked brand of beef, in effect claiming to cool the climate by coating even more land with… climate-heating cattle.
We’ll also report on the latest cattlemen’s effort to torpedo the deal which paid them millions to relinquish their robber baron leases at Point Reyes National Park. Once again, they’re angling to take the money — and stay.
CLICK TO WATCH Tues., March 10th Sky-Jack Podcast
Calfschwitz: Hell on Earth for baby cows
Sky-Jack Podcast #67: March 3rd, 2026
Grimmius Cattle Company in California’s Central Valley (south of Fresno) boasts the largest number of baby cows in the state: 200,000 bovine souls, all separated from their mothers just days after birth.
Trucked in from dozens of smaller “farms,” Grimmius ‘processes’ all these calves in various ways… then trucks them back to those “farms” to be milked — or off to their deaths for meat.
Grimmius is the missing link between “small family farms” which meat-eaters and milk-drinkers think are good, and the giant feedlots most people think are bad. We expose this grim story and what it says about the industry. And us.
CLICK TO WATCH Tues., March 3rd Sky-Jack Podcast
Cow Wars: The Cattle Empire Strikes Back
Sky-Jack Podcast #66: Tues., Feb. 24th, 2026
For years, the science has shown that raising cows for human consumption — beef & dairy businesses both large and local — are massive contributors to global warming, ocean dead zones, deforestation and more.
But the cattle empire is fighting back, including, more recently with the, uh, bull of “regenerative ranching.” It’s the “clean coal” of the cattle industry, claiming that what’s awful for land, waterways and the atmosphere is actually good for the planet.
You gotta give ’em credit for being absolutely shameless in their outright lies. The industry’s disinformation campaigns are disseminated internationally — and right here in the SF Bay Area. We show and hear some examples sure to entertain…
CLICK TO WATCH Tues., Feb. 24th Sky-Jack Podcast
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Beauty or the Bestiality?
Sky-Jack Podcast #65: Tuesday, Feb. 17th, 2026
The persistence of industry propaganda
What do you see — and think and feel — when you drive by rolling green hillsides with happy, black & white “Ben & Jerry’s” cows munchin’ on grass beneath blue skies? Think it’s a food system as pretty as a picture?
If so, we bet you don’t know the brutality beneath this surface. You owe it to yourself — and to those “happy” cows — to learn the carefully hidden truths. On our next Sky-Jack. The truth will set them free.
CLICK TO WATCH Tues., Feb. 17th Sky-Jack Podcast
A Point Reyes Park COW UPDATE:
Still here today. Still here tomorrow.
Sky-Jack Podcast #64: Tuesday, Feb. 10th, 2026
14 months ago an historic settlement was reached, all parties agreeing that ranchers would surrender their leases in this national park — AND BE PAID MILLIONS of dollars. Which would finally, after a century+ history of massive manure and methane pollution.
With less than 2 months to go to the April 2026 deadline to vacate, hundreds of cows are still fouling the public’s land, water and air.
And even if/when these hundreds of (“beef”) cows go, The Nature “Conservancy” (which put up $30-40 million to pay these polluters to leave) plans to bring in MORE cows to, they claim, “restore” the damage done by cows in the first place. WTF?
Tune in for our update and bring your questions.
CLICK TO WATCH Tues., Feb. 10th Sky-Jack Podcast
Ai Robots Will Fix EVERYTHING!
Sky-Jack Podcast #63: Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026
New technologies will solve all our problems. This time. Really.
An increasing number of tech billionaires like Bill Gates and Sam Altman are jumping on the Musk-Trump huckster train, selling you the moon and the stars (and Mars). They promise that their new and future technologies will solve all our problems if only we all take their word for it, buy in and invest in them.
Wealth disparity, overwork, wealth and job creation, even the climate crisis, world hunger and war — all gone! These are all problems that will be solved for us by our tech innovations, especially Ai, a higher, non-human intelligence that will do our human bidding.
Are you buying it yet this time again?
CLICK TO WATCH Tues., Jan. 27th Sky-Jack Podcast
Animal vs. Human Intelligence – Who’s Actually Smarter?
Sky-Jack Podcast #62: 9am Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026
Animal vs. Human Intelligence – Who’s Actually Smarter?
A new ‘revelatory’ study about a cow who has learned to scratch herself with a broomstick is blowing the big minds of animal intelligence researchers — while simultaneously revealing how biased, anthropocentric and well, just plain dumb, we humans can be.
As a book on this topic puts it in the title, “Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?” The answer is still, “mostly not.” Join us as we flex our big, superior human brains and try to prove we’re not as stupid as many of our fellow humans are about how smart animals really are.
CLICK TO WATCH Tues., Jan. 27th Sky-Jack Podcast
The World Is Not Enough — for Cattle Ranchers
Sky-Jack Podcast #61: Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026
If you’ve been listening to our show, you know we often (continually?) call out beef & dairy ranchers in Point Reyes National Park for how much they pollute — and for not giving a hoot about it. And also for their bald-faced lying about their dirty, killer business.
This week we broaden our reach, delving into a new Pro Public report. The rot is not only deeper than you thought, it’s waaaay more widespread too.
If you care about the environment, or if you just care about your MONEY, learn the truth about just how big the cattleman’s load of bull is.
CLICK TO WATCH Tues., Jan. 20th Sky-Jack Podcast