Rollie Williams

New video alert: Premiering at 3:15 ET

Hey friends,

It's finally done! We're premiering the latest Climate Town episode The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry featuring Not Just Bikes today at 3:15pm EST and I'm so excited for the first ever crossover extended universe episode. We're trying out the ol' YouTube pre...

Screen grab from the upcoming Patreon bonus video

When I made the gas stoves video, I listened to the absolutely cursed 'Cooking With Gas' rap maaaaaaaybe 100 times. Certainly 50. In any case, it was too much and that hook burned its way into my brain. 

The Edit Begins (the first collabo dabbo video)

Hey everyone,

As always, thank you so much for the LUDICROUS amount of support, I just wrapped filming the first ever collaboration video (which I will henceforth and exclusively refer to as a collabo dabbo). The edit is coming along nicely and once I trim out the stunning amount of footage...

Climate Town Year In Review

Dear everyone,

I hope you are enjoying your end-of-year festivities, and for those of you that have covid (statistically, 85% of us), I hope you are sequestered safely and absolutely taking the virus to the cleaners. Since this is the inaugural year of the Climate Town Patreon page, I wante...

Hiring A Social Media Manager - Do you know anyone?

Due to an overwhelming amount of support from all of you, Climate Town can now hire someone to run our social media accounts. We're talkin' your twitters, your instagrams, your TikToks, that kinda thing. By hiring some hot shot social media manager, we'll be able to expand our reach while simulta...

We're gonna do a Climate Town Discord channel

Hey there everyone,

I hope all is well. I'm currently working on not ONE, not THREE, but TWO new Climate Town episodes including the first collabo dabbo (collaboration) episode. I think it's gonna be ... pretty cool. 

A few of you fine people suggested I make a Discord c...

Just some outtakes from the gas video

Hey! Wow, here we are again. Okay, well if you saw the latest video, this video will make a lot more sense to you. THAT BEING SAID, who am I to say how you live your life.

New video up!

Hello friends,
There's a new video up! Thanks so much for all your support and please enjoy the longest video I've ever made for this channel. I'm gonna go take a nap.
Love,
Rollie

An update from set - New video coming soon

Hey there,
Just wanted to drop a little clip from the set of our last video. This one is about gas, and not the fun kind.
Love,
Rollie

That escalated quickly

Dear Patreon Subscribers,

Thank you so much for the absolutely unbelievable amount of support you've given me over the past few months. I really truly can't thank you enough. If you're new to the page, it's at least a little likely that you subscribed because you saw the latest video about ...

New Video! - Fast Fashion is hot garbage

Hey friends,

I just dropped the new video and boy oh boy is there a lot of footage of me walking around in a suit. I've got some outtakes coming atcha soon, but for now, here's the stuff that made the final cut.

Love,

Rollie Williams

A low-key talk with Dr. Kate Marvel

Hey all,

If you're interested in a mostly-though-not-exclusively-about-climate-change talk I had with Dr. Kate Marvel (NASA, Columbia University, Scientific American), check out the latest episode of Sweatpants: A Low-Key Climate Podcast. It's much lighter than most climate change content y...

Climate Town Town Hall #4 (8/22/21 @ 2pm)

Dear members of Climate Town,

I am continually blown away by your support and I would like to invite you to the fourth Climate Town Town Hall this Sunday, August 22nd from 2pm to 2:40pm EST. Basically I wanted to just say hi, give everyone an update on what I'm working on, and have a brief ...

New Video Up! Exxon Lobbyist Caught on Camera Going Full Cartoon Villain

Hey everyone,

Thanks for being patient on this one, I just uploaded the latest video about an ExxonMobil lobbyist getting caught on camera getting absolutely stung by Greenpeace Activists. I'll be doing a Climate Town Town Hall next week to talk about the IPCC report and say hello. I really...

For The Record, I Have Seen The Matrix

Hey everyone,
Today was pretty blazing hot in Brooklyn, but my cameraman and I had a shoot scheduled, so we baked our brains for a few hours while filming a video that should come out this week. We also had a little Matrix moment that I wanted to share which then devolved into a heat-induced d...

I got interviewed about Climate Town and it was really fun

Hey everyone,
I'm toiling away on what I think will be a real spicy banger of a video, but I took a break yesterday to do a quick interview with Travis from the Travis Cheddar YouTube page. He aske...

Episode 2 with Dr. Gavin Schmidt (Director of NASA GISS)

Well hello,

I just wanted to drop a line to say hello and to give you a quick update. I took a trip back to Colorado for some family stuff, but episode 2 of this new podcast I'm doing just dropped and boy did I get to talk to a cool guy. Dr. Gavin Schmidt called in from a turkey farm and we...

Getting some glamour shots with the oil equipment

Hey everyone,

First of all, thanks so much for subscribing to the Patreon. I really appreciate your help producing these videos, and I want to ensure I'm making it worth your while, so here's a little update: Yesterday I drove out to an oil field to get a picture with some of these oil pump...

It's up!

Hey friendos,

The latest episode of Climate Town just dropped. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed various parts of making it. I had to go through a bunch of corporate reports and that part kinda sucked, but it was worth it. Lemme know what you think, and remember! You are alw...

And I'm not leaving the apartment until it's done

Hey fam,
Either there will be a new video out this week or someone needs to send a search party.
Love,
Rollie 

An Interview with Dr. Kate Marvel and Al Gore*

Hey everyone,

I hope all is well! Please enjoy this exclusive interview clip with NASA's Dr. Kate Marvel. It's from my live comedy show and also features comedian and writer Michael Cruz Kayne (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert). I'm also there behind the Al Gore impression if you can some...

New podcast and some upcoming videos

Hey friends,

After taking a little break to graduate followed by a month of sitting at my computer and suffering from a crippling writers block, I am very happy to announce I'm officially over the hump and am now capable of stringing sentences together! It feels fantastic.

Firstly fir...

Climate Town Town Hall #3 (5/9/21 @ 3pm)

Dear members of Climate Town,

I would like to cordially invite you to the third Climate Town Town Hall this Sunday, May 9th at 3pm EST. It's nothing fancy, just an opportunity to meet everyone, talk about the climate crisis, go through some of the video topics I'm working on, and remind eve...

Graduation day

Hello Patreon subscribers,

Let me first say how grateful I am to have had your support over the past 3 months. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect so many people to be interested in helping me make these videos. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Also, I just friggin graduat...

A little throwback to a seasonal joke from my old show

Hello Patreon Supporters,

I appreciate the absolute molasses out of each and every one of you. Here's a clip from my old live comedy show called "An Inconvenient Talk Show" where I used to play Al Gore and do climate change-themed jokes with scientists and comedians. We're not currently do...

A little shout out video to Geothermal Energy (via University of Colorado)

Hey Patreon supporters,

First of all, thank you so much for subscribing to the channel and bearing with my slow release schedule while I'm finishing grad school. I was recently asked by the University of Colorado to work with some of their students to create a short form piece of climate ch...

New Video Up!

Hi everyone,

At long last, here's that video I spent so long on. I appreciate your patience, and just to make sure you get your money's worth, I made sure to take all my editing cues from Zack Snyder, so this thing is like 19 minutes long. 

I think the next few will be mercifully...

Sneak preview of the next episode

Hello there,

I just wanted to say hi and that a new episode of Climate Town will be out shortly, but since it's been a few weeks since the last episode I just wanted to export a quick couple of minutes to give you a sense of what this one is about.

Love,
Rollie

P.S. If you ha...

Climate Town Town Hall #2 (2/28/21 @ 3pm)

Dear members of Climate Town,

I would like to invite you to the second Climate Town Town Hall this Sunday (2/28/21) at 3pm EST. I'll have a few things planned to talk about, but mostly it's just a place to say hi and zoom in from whatever country/state/unincorporated anarchist jurisdiction ...

An Interview with Dr. Geoffrey Supran and Al Gore*

Hi Patrons,

I hope you've had a good week. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your support and upload a little patreon-only clip from a live comedy show I used to do before the pandemic hit called, 'An Inconvenient Talk Show.' It was a talk show hosted by a strung out Al Gore and fe...