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Can an Anti-Oil Advocate and Hollywood Actor Find Common Ground?

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Season
2
· Episode
6
August 26, 2026
With
Grant Bixby
&
Jim Meskimen
Can an Anti-Oil Advocate and Hollywood Actor Find Common Ground?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzHue6VKDE
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What They Talked About

One fights offshore drilling. The other plays an oilman on TV.

Anti-oil advocate Grant Bixby and actor Jim Meskimen sit down to see what they can actually agree on.

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Grant Bixby

Anti-oil advocate

Jim Meskimen

Actor
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