Podcasts
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The Future of Movies — In the Tank Podcast #522
Podcast -Hollywood is at a breaking point—and audiences can feel it. On In the Tank Podcast #522, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, S.T. Karnick, and Donald Kendal dig into what’s reshaping movies and TV right now: DEI-era gatekeeping, studios quietly changing course, shrinking opportunities for creators, and the growing role of AI in entertainment. They’re […] -
EPA Exits Climate Alarm Business – The Climate Realism Show #185
Podcast -The signs are all around us. The climate cult is losing its grip on our politics and culture. -
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Good News: Climate Cult In Decline — The Climate Realism Show #184
Podcast -The signs are all around us. The climate cult is losing its grip on our politics and culture. The UN’s climate conference, COP30 in Brazil, was a flop that even the alarmist cheerleaders in the legacy media could not ignore. A major paper justifying radical climate action was just retracted. The Sierra Club is shedding […] -
Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Frauds – In the Tank Podcast #521
Podcast -“Woke” and its pushers continues to be exposed for the ugliness, fraud and tyranny their policies unleash on the rest of us, all over the world. We’ll cover how the architect of Jaguar’s disastrous rebrand has finally been canned, and Rep. Aftyn Behn’s loss to Matt Van Epps in Tennessee reveals her and her party […] -
Foolish Fossil Fuel Phase-Out — The Climate Realism Show #183 (Guests: Tony Heller and Craig Rucker)
Podcast -The latest annual UN climate conference, COP 30, is coming to a close. Already a failure, the delegates of doom who gathered in Brazil decided that they needed a serious goal to cap off the conference. What did they come up with? Nothing less than the coming up with a concrete roadmap for the complete […] -
Ill Literacy, Episode 182: Measuring the Man (Guest: Jonathan W. White)
Podcast -In Episode 182 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Jonathan W. White, co-editor of Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln. -
The Rise of Zohran Mamdani and Socialism in America – Heartland on the Lars Larson Show
Podcast -On November 20, 2025, Donald Kendal, director of the Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center at The Heartland Institute, was a guest on the Lars Larson Show. He was asked to be on to talk about the election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, and a new Heartland Institute Rasmussen Reports […] -
Who’s Really Driving Up Your Thanksgiving Grocery Bill? — In the Tank Podcast #520
Podcast -Thanksgiving is approaching, but grocery prices seem to just keep getting higher. We will discuss what causes food costs to rise, and how it can be stopped. A new exclusive from the Free Beacon reports that George Soros gave a quarter million dollars to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which works with advertisers for […] -
Worst COP Ever? — The Climate Realism Show #182 (Guest: Chris Martz)
Podcast -Is COP30 shaping up to be the worst UN climate conference ever? The 30th Conference of the Parties is underway in the Brazilian jungle — some of which was cleared and paved to bring the private jet-set and bureaucrats into the venue. And just days in, the whole thing is already descending into chaos. A […] -
How Do We Fix This? — In the Tank Podcast #519
Podcast -America’s great exodus from major cities and entire states keeps accelerating — and the election of socialist Mayor Mamdani in New York City is only speeding things up. Yet polls show young Americans becoming more favorable toward socialism, even embracing ideas like government-run grocery stores. What does that say about our culture, our education system, […] -
Climate, Energy, and the Election— The Climate Realism Show #181
Podcast -Both Democrats and President Trump wanted to make Tuesday’s off-year elections the “Energy Election.” And it was not a good night for Republicans. Left-wing climate media say this is proof voters oppose Trump’s roll-back of “green” energy mandates and subsidies. Is there any truth to that? On Episode #181 of The Climate Realism Show, we’ll […] -
They Voted Blue No Matter Who – In the Tank #518
Podcast -On Tuesday, New York City elected a trust-fund communist as mayor. New Jersey, which seemed to be trending red, put a scandal-ridden Democrat in the governor’s mansion. In Virginia, voters rejected a black Republican conservative woman over a woke former CIA spook who pledged to force girls and women to endure biological men in their […] -
NEVERMIND: Bill Gates Recants Climate Doomerism — The Climate Realism Show #180
Podcast -After years of funding and fueling climate panic, Bill Gates has done an about-face. In a new 17-page memo released ahead of COP-30 in Brazil, Gates admits that rising temperatures will “not lead to humanity’s demise” and urges the climate community to drop its “doomsday outlook.” This marks a stunning shift for one of the […] -
Night of the Democratic Socialists! — In the Tank Podcast #517
Podcast -Are Democrats holding SNAP funding hostage to keep the Schumer Shutdown alive? The In the Tank crew dives into the latest Washington tricks — and whether major reforms are long overdue. As the Democratic Party embraces openly socialist candidates, we ask: are there any moderates left? On UNHINGED, the team rants about Christmas displays popping […] -
Joe Rogan, Climate Realist — The Climate Realism Show #179
Podcast -Joe Rogan just hosted climate scientists Will Happer and Richard Lindzen — and the results were explosive. For more than two hours, they dismantled the core claims of climate alarmism in front of Rogan’s massive global audience. Here is the link to the appearance on Joe Rogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt32chvO_iY&t On Episode #179 of The Climate Realism […] -
Do We Need An AI Bill Of Rights? – In The Tank #516
Podcast -The AI Revolution is happening at an incredible speed. New AI products, like OpenAI’s Sora 2, continue to push the envelope and blur the lines between reality and fabrication. And as this revolutionary technology continues to advance and integrate deeper into our daily lives, serious questions are emerging about power, control, and human rights in […] -
The Global Climate Tax NARROWLY Avoided — The Climate Realism Show #178
Podcast -The United Nations narrowly avoided approve a new tax on carbon-dioxide emissions from shipping today. Their goal was to raise at least $10 billion a year and put it in a new “Net Zero Fund” to “mitigate negative impacts” on nations supposedly suffering because of climate change. Trump threatened nations who supported it with punitive […] -
CNN Declares Men Are a “Disease” — Yes, Really – In The Tank #515
Podcast -The government is still shut down, and Democrats are warning that the expiration of Obamacare subsidies at the end of this year will make healthcare unaffordable for millions. But that’s not true. While the system certainly needs reform, the real problem lies deeper than temporary subsidies. The Heartland crew will break down what needs to […] -
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Why Obamacare Was Never Affordable — A Candid Look at the 2025 Health Care Stalemate
Podcast -Health economist Devin Herrick joins AnneMarie Schieber to break down the fight over Obamacare subsidies behind the government shutdown, what happens if they expire, and how free-market reforms could reshape health care—from $2 million drugs to Costco’s new Ozempic plan. -
Where Are All the Hurricanes? (Guest: Joe Bastardi) — The Climate Realism Show #177
Podcast -In September 2025, no hurricanes made landfall in the United States — the first time that’s happened in a decade. What’s going on with this year’s hurricane season? We ask WeatherBELL Analytics’ Joe Bastardi, one of America’s best hurricane forecasters, to share his insights. In Episode #177 of The Climate Realism Show, The Heartland Institute’s […] -
Blue State Chaos — In the Tank Podcast #514
Podcast -Are Democrat-led cities spiraling out of control? Weeks of unrest, weak law enforcement, and rising violence are testing the limits of left-wing policies. In Portland, ANTIFA attacks ICE facilities by night while petty crime dominates by day. In Chicago, local leaders defend policies that fuel gang violence and lawlessness. As the Trump administration vows to […] -
Has the World Given Up on Fighting Climate Change? — The Climate Realism Show #176
Podcast -When The New York Times starts to wonder if the world has given up on fighting climate change, maybe it’s time to believe them? The paper’s “Climate Forward” event the other day featured a New York Times staffer sounding forlorn that we’ve missed “the one chance we have to save the one planet we’ve got.” […] -
Government Shutdown Standoff: What’s Really at Stake? — In the Tank Podcast #513
Podcast -The United States government has shut down once again as Democrats demand the reversal of major spending cuts while Republicans and President Trump refuse to back down. At the same time, the ADL is facing growing backlash after its “Glossary of Hate” targeted groups like TPUSA, prompting even the FBI to distance itself. Meanwhile, Chicago […] -
Why the U.S. Should Skip the UN’s COP30 Climate Summit — Interview with James Taylor
Podcast -The UN is gearing up for COP30 in Brazil, where global elites will once again lecture the world about “climate catastrophe.” But behind the rhetoric lies hypocrisy: bulldozing the Amazon to host the event, while new science shows the rainforest is actually thriving thanks to carbon dioxide. In this interview, Heartland Institute President James Taylor […]