Rollie Williams

Announcing: Climate Town @ SF Sketchfest 2025

Hey Patreon,

Whelp, a few months ago we applied to do a show at San Francisco's annual Sketchfest Comedy Festival and against all odds, they booked us! So now we've gotta get our act together so we can host an absolute banger of a live Clima...

One Week Down

Dear Patreon,

There's two ways about it, the election didn't go the way I was hoping. If the past week of political appointments and posturing is any indication, the next few years are going to be pretty rough at the federal level.

To...

October Town Hall(oween) - TODAY at 3pm EDT

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Join us today at 3pm EDT for a very haunting 5th installment of our monthly Patreon Town Hall series.

We'll be catching you up on all our thoughts going into next week's election, answering questions, and running through ...

iOS Billing Update (don't worry, we have a workaround)

Hi Future Patrons!

The delightful overlords at Apple have decided that starting in November, all new memberships purchased through the iOS Patreon App will be charged an additional 30% App Store fee in addition to the cost of ...

This Thursday: October Town Hall(oween)

There's nothing spookier than the week leading up to election day and what better way to address that elephant (graveyard) in the (haunted) room than with a terrorfying end-of-the-month October Town Hall(oween) Event.

We'll be catching you u...

Behind the Scenes: The 2000 Election Video

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Happy Halloween/fingers crossed for the voters of the United States. Here are some behind-the-scenes moments from the latest episode all about the 2000 Bush v. Gore election, and its implications in future elections. It's mostly...

This Thursday 10/24: Texting Our Exes Livestream

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We're hosting something a little funky tomorrow - a YouTube livestream hour of swing state voter outreach. Join Rollie as we text our exes (and uncles, and old college roommates) who live in key voter swing states. According to ...

Behind The Scenes of the 2000 Election Vid

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Thank you all for watching our newest episode about hanging chads, the electoral college, and the importance of voting for the planet this November<...

September MEGA Town Hall/Q&A - TODAY at 3pm EDT

<TRUMPET BLARES>

Hello Patreon!

Join us today at 3pm EDT for our 4th installment of our monthly Patreon Town Hall series. We're excited to chat more about A) the topics of this week's episode or B) Something else. It's a veritab...

This Friday: September MEGA Town Hall & Q&A

When it rains it pours, we're closing out NY Climate Week right with our September Town Hall AND ALSO Q&A Session this Friday at 3PM EDT.

We’ll be diving deeper into this week’s episode, answering your questions (episode related or o...

New Episode Premiere Today!

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We've got a hot one for you and it's going live at 12:15pm EDT!

This episode is a throwback to the 2000 presidential election, a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of the electoral college, what happens when vote counts bo...

An assistant editor in the edit bay

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I've got a hot one coming out either tomorrow or Wednesday, and it covers a topic I've been thinking about for like 5 years. I won't spoil anything, but the song "Who Let The Dogs Out" makes a few appearances.

AND speaking...

Patreon August Town Hall - Tomorrow at 5pm EST

Hear Ye Hear Ye,

We're hosting our monthly town hall tomorrow at 5pm EST and it's going to be ... VAGUELY ELECTION THEMED! We've been preparing some US Election-related content for the fall and are excited to hear from all of you! Are there ...

Water Episode Q&A - Thurs 8/15 at 2pm EST

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We're gonna have our post-episode live Q&A Thurs 8/15 at 2pm EST about the video we just dropped all about water use in animal agriculture<...

New Episode Premiere! Water & Animal Agriculture

Helloooo Patreon!

We've got a brand new episode coming out today, and you're never gonna believe this, but I actually made this one specially for you. It's going live at 12:30pm EST today.

This episode is about water and animal agric...

FRIDAY 8/9 5-7pm EST - Call Rollie on the Climate Town Landline

Hey Patreon!

The rotary dial phone works like a charm, and it'll be plugged in and active for a little Friday happy hour. Call in tomorrow Friday 5-7pm with any and all questions, comments, suggestions, or even crank calls. Hit me up on the ...

A(nother) Video From Chicago

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I hope all is well in your neck of the woods. We've got not one, not three, but TWO videos in the edit bay right now, including a very fun collaboration video we just filmed with our new friend and S-tier commentary YouTuber 2024-07-27 12:37:27 +0000 UTC View Post

The Sweatiest Episode On Record

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I hope all is well. Lately we've been cranking through another 35+ minute episode about animal agriculture through the lens of water usage in the American West. Animal ag was one of the most requested episode topics, and we're b...

Join Us Monday for Monthly Patreon Town Hall #2

Hey Patreon,

I hope all is well on this (insert day you're reading this). For me it's a Saturday afternoon and it just went from hot rain to unbearably sunny and humid. Brooklyn is a delightful place.

ANYWAYZ, we're doing the seco...

The Climate Town Landline Is Open

UPDATE: I'm heading out of the office! Thanks for the calls today - I be answering intermittently this week, but feel free to leave a message!

We've got a working prototype of the Climate Town Landline. Feel free to give me a call when you...

The Climate Town Phone Line Has Arrived

The deadline to get to 5,000 Patrons is over! Did we make it? Sort of!

Our goal was 5,000 paid patrons. We got to 4300, and ... I ROUNDED UP!

So we now have a rotary dial phone in our office. I'm hooking it up with a number, and by ne...

A mutiny on set and a shout out

Hey Patreon,

I hope all is well - we finished our fast fashion/merch video but we shot a quick on-set check in and a shout out to a thrift store and I wanted to drop that footy here on Patreon.

1) If you're ever in the Brooklyn area, r...

Join us TODAY for a live chat episode premiere on our Patron-only Discord channel

Hey Climate Town fam!

Just wanted to give you a heads-up that we're premiering a brand new episode today (at ~1:30pm Eastern), and for the first time ever, we'll be doing a live chat in Discord during the premiere! All tiers are welcome to j...

Video Premiere, Merch link & Live Discord Chat

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We've got a hot one for you going live at 2:15pm EST. This one is all about how fast fashion has made the merch industry into a real (in some cases literal) trash fire. It's kind of a sequel to our first fast fashion video, and ...

Filming the desk shots of the newest video

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I hope all is well! This week is a big editing week for me (the upcoming video drops next week and is currently clocking in at a very responsible 26 minutes and change). We had to grab some pickup shots at the desk for the outro...

CUT FOR TIME: Jacked Movie Stars

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I hope you're having a great Friday, and that your weekend is full of possibilities and closeup magic. <Dove flies out of your screen>

OKAY, so I've got the new episode in the edit bay, but while you're waiting, I wa...

Monthly Patreon Town Hall #1

Dear Patreon,

I hope you've been enjoying the extra patreon stuff we've been dropping since we revamped our page. Fingers crossed for the official climate town hotline. We've got more coming today, but I just wanted to announce the first Mon...

The final Inconvenient Talk Show

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Okay, I got clearance to post some photos, so here goes: I got to do a comedy show in character as Al Gore with actual Al Gore as the special guest. It was part of the Climate Reality Project's leadership training in New York la...

A big week at the Climate Town offices

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I hope all is well. Last week was quite possibly the craziest week in Climate Town history, and I've gotta get clearance to post a bunch of stuff from one of the events, so that will be its own post. IN ANY CASE, here's a quick ...

The first post-release Q&A

Hey Patreon,

The new-and-improved page is officially launched and this coming Wednesday (April 3) at 4pm Eastern, the Climate Town team will be hosting our first ever live Post-Episode-Release Patreon Q&A™. It’s already being called ...