Reverend Billy Radio

Billy is the pastor of "The Church of Stop Shopping" in New York City. Although his church has tens of thousands of members, Billy is "a preacher with an unknown god". He is not Christian, but wears a priest's collar and televangelist's hair. His followers shout "Earthalujah!" and "Change-a-lujah!" on the sidewalks. He started the show while locked down in NY, with death raining down on the skyscrapers. He likes to stop preaching suddenly and play music. In his show, "The Fiery Eagles of Justice", a jazz trio that is hard to fathom, and "The Stop Shopping Choir" a 35 voice chorus of trespassing activists - help the reverend slide into his next sermonette. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers."It's an act! It's an art! It's almost a religion!"  ---Constance Hays, the New York Times

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Episodes

• 65: The Earth Sends Wildfire, Stops Tar Sands Pipeline

  Friday, August 27, 2021

  29 minutes

  Shopping let’s call it. Consuming too much, and doing it by burning of fossil fuels. What does the Earth say about this?

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• replay 47: Wild Dreams of A New Begining

  Sunday, August 22, 2021

  29 minutes

  There’s a massive counter-intuitive job up ahead, a gift from the Earth that we can’t refuse. The Extinction is a mysterious process of death and life, and it is not a product. It's not something we’ve done before in our Consumer society.

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• 64: Enbridge & NYC Cops & Bayer say: YOU’RE VIOLENT!

  Friday, August 6, 2021

  29 minutes

  Toxic pesticide execs & murderers of Black people & lobbyists for oil companies dirty-trick peace activists by calling them violent.

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• 63: Prophecy: The Earth Will Flip the Culture Over

  Friday, July 30, 2021

  29 minutes

  With the gov’t, corporations, army and church abandoning us, we have the Earth’s dangerous evolution as our future.

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• 62: Big Oil & Winona LaDuke’s Potatoes

  Friday, July 23, 2021

  29 minutes

  We have despair and confusion now. We activists are trapped between Big Oil and Very Big Natural Disasters.

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• 61: Branson and Bezos and Musk, Oh My!

  Friday, July 16, 2021

  29 minutes

  Sandy and Nemo and Elsa, Oh My! Corona and Britney and Trump, Oh My! Fire and Flood and the Earth, Oh… oh…

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• 60: New Natural News & The Earth Goes To Washington

  Friday, July 9, 2021

  29 minutes

  Current News Segment and some archival material

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• 59: The Earth Calling Faraway Towns

  Friday, July 2, 2021

  30 minutes

  To You, We are Earthers. We live in a radical little town called Earthalujahville. We shout Earthalujah! as we walk down our imaginary streets. We're working on a manifesto, a living document as guidance while the 6th Extinction rolls over us. There i

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• 58: Assuming the Eco-Sexual Position

  Saturday, June 26, 2021

  29 minutes

  Earth would be our lover except for totalitarian consumerism.

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• 57: The Sacred State of Exalted Embarrassment

  Saturday, June 19, 2021

  29 minutes

  how to personally challenge the totalitarian consumer society.

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• 56: Racism Changes Climate Makes Extinction

  Friday, June 11, 2021

  29 minutes

  John Sims, Afro Dixia and The Earth

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• 55: The Strange Intelligence Within Every Natural Disaster

  Friday, June 4, 2021

  29 minutes

  We demand that our storms and floods and fires - be explained back to us from the news and the “experts” as inanimate events, as if nature had a mechanical breakdown.

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• 54: Your Children’s Children from 2044

  Saturday, May 29, 2021

  30 minutes

  This is the 6th Extinction. It is raising our children. The kids are walking toward us straight out of a wall of flame.

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• 40: Got a Vaccine for the 6th Extinction?

  Friday, May 21, 2021

  29 minutes

  the vaccines vs the variants

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• 53: Robert E. Gylphosate

  Friday, May 7, 2021

  29 minutes

  All of the plastic we ever used is still here.

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• 52: Get Out! Monsanto-Bayer Banished from New York

  Friday, April 30, 2021

  29 minutes

  The Black Institute and The Church of Stop Shopping Celebrate

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• 51: A Hard Earth Day's Night

  Friday, April 23, 2021

  29 minutes

  The guilty verdict in Minnesota comes down as Earth Day cries out. Can we live on the Earth without killing it?

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• 50: Survive Extinction! Imagine That!

  Friday, April 16, 2021

  29 minutes

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• 49: Plant a Seed, See the World

  Wednesday, April 7, 2021

  29 minutes

  Corporate media would never ask: “How do we enter into evolution as the Earth accelerates in the 6th Extinction?” Well, never mind: We'll ask the question ourselves.

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• 17 Revisited: Extinction and the Urban Hipster

  Wednesday, March 31, 2021

  29 minutes

  People are hypnotized by their own style during mass death, a fatal kind of masturbation.

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• 48: Peaceful Activism as Radical as Death

  Wednesday, March 24, 2021

  29 minutes

  We promise: We will change our activism for the Earth. We’ll be as radical as the fires and floods, as extreme as the 6th Extinction that makes its way toward us.

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• 47: Wild Dreams of New Beginnings

  Wednesday, March 17, 2021

  29 minutes

  We are struggling for the Earth, fighting the fossil culture. Then again, we humans can accept that the 6th Extinction is real. Our wild dream. This powers up our politics like nothing else.

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• 46: Tenderness During Extinction

  Wednesday, March 10, 2021

  29 minutes

  The “end of life as we know it” is coming quickly, with the pandemic an early sampling.  There is a solution for us, but it means entering an unfathomable forest, a world.

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• 45: Climate Revolution 4 Dummys

  Wednesday, March 3, 2021

  29 minutes

  Life has to be taken back, seized, re-possessed. Life is not negotiable. It is something we need. We need life, well, to LIVE.

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• 44: Is the Sixth Extinction Our Secret Kink?

  Wednesday, February 24, 2021

  29 minutes

  The accelerating Sixth Extinction is all around us. We sense it but don’t admit it. It is governing our behavior. We dare not speak its name.

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• 43: Your Promised Land or Mine?

  Wednesday, February 17, 2021

  29 minutes

  The most glorious social movements have a way of enforcing isolation on activists. We pixelate our way through the unjust wilderness and lock down - exhausted.

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• 42: The Earth Goes to Washington

  Wednesday, February 10, 2021

  29 minutes

  Chaos, corruption, finger-damning as the empire goes down. What is graceful and always remains in the heart of the capitol?

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• 41: Radical Forgiveness for Q'anon Cops

  Wednesday, February 3, 2021

  29 minutes

  Is hatred forever?  Congress seems to say damn right.  But hatred is hard work.  A famous American puritanical distraction. And the Earth won't wait for us.

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• 40: Got a Vaccine for the 6th Extinction?

  Wednesday, January 27, 2021

  29 minutes

  The virtual world is where the apocalypses went. In the actual world, the extinction that is now underway is merely real. But download the special effects. It's amazing!

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• 39: We Put the Odd back in God

  Wednesday, January 20, 2021

  30 minutes

  Inauguration Day and we all take the oath. We put our collective hand on the Bible and the Judge is surprised. Our hand is endangered wetlands our fingers are greasy snakes. Our hand is on the Bible, we put the Odd back in God.

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