Podcasts
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Hurricane Season Preview with guest Stan Goldenberg – The Climate Realism Show #161
Podcast -Hurricane season has begun, and while it’s quiet so far, what kind of year can we expect? The Heartland Institute welcomes back Stanley Goldenberg—one of America’s leading hurricane forecasters—to find out. We’ll also tackle the week’s Crazy Climate News: Greta Thunberg’s latest publicity stunt, a proposal to nuke the ocean floor for “carbon capture,” Trump […] -
Hurricane Season Preview with guest Stan Goldenberg – The Climate Realism Show #161
Podcast -Hurricane season has begun, and while it’s quiet so far, what kind of year can we expect? The Heartland Institute welcomes back Stanley Goldenberg—one of America’s leading hurricane forecasters—to find out. We’ll also tackle the week’s Crazy Climate News: Greta Thunberg’s latest publicity stunt, a proposal to nuke the ocean floor for “carbon capture,” Trump […] -
Fiery But Mostly Astroturfed – In The Tank #498
Podcast -Riots are once again breaking out in California, all the way to Chicago and East coast cities. The National Guard is on the streets of LA to handle violent protests against ICE, and it seems there is evidence that these multi-day protests are anything but organic. Similar protests are planned around the country this weekend, […] -
Straight Talk: Climate Q&A Marathon with guest Chris Martz – The Climate Realism Show #160
Podcast -We get so many great questions in each episode of The Climate Realism Show that we decided to dedicate a whole episode to it. Well, all of it but our coverage of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, of course. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling (again) for the censorship of climate realists, another […] -
Climate Realism Gains Ground in Europe – Live from Budapest! – The Climate Realism Show #159
Podcast -The Heartland Institute and Heartland UK/Europe have been in Poland and Hungary this week, meeting with leaders of the conservative movement and top politicians. Opposition to Net Zero in Europe is real—and growing. Just a few years ago, even right-leaning public figures were reluctant to publicly oppose the Big Green agenda, and hardly ever spoke […] -
The Big Beautiful Bill – In The Tank #497
Podcast -Join The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken, S.T. Karnick, and Jim Lakely as they dive into Episode 497 of the In The Tank Podcast. This episode explores timely and provocative topics, including the Democrats’ ongoing quest to find their own version of podcast superstar Joe Rogan—can they cultivate a voice that resonates widely in the digital […] -
- Health Care News
Why Republicans Dropped the Ball on Medicaid Reform
Podcast -The “Big Beautiful Act” turned into a big disappointment for Medicaid reform. Instead of adding ways to improve Medicaid benefits, like cutting non-medical spending, Republicans caved. Work requirements and eliminating provider taxes will help, but the failure to fix Medicaid spending now creates major debt headaches just a few years down the road.AnneMarie Schieber, managing […] -
- Health Care News
Hospitals Rejecting Medicare Advantage: What’s Really Going On?
Podcast -Are hospitals locking out Medicare Advantage enrollees? Find out the likely real reason behind the shutout and why we should be worried if MA can no longer compete with traditional fee-for-service Medicare. Join AnneMarie Schieber, managing editor of Health Care News, and Devon Herrick of the Goodman Institute Health Blog as they discuss the latest […] -
Climate and Energy in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill – The Climate Realism Show #158
Podcast -Donald Trump achieved a major political and policy victory on Thursday when the U.S. House of Representatives passed what he calls his “Big Beautiful Bill.” The less-creative name is the budget reconciliation bill, which presidents for years have used to implement large parts of their agenda. (That’s how we got “Obamacare.”) The bill includes many […] -
LIARS! How the Legacy Media is Destroying America – In The Tank #496
Podcast -The legacy media that half this country relies on to inform them about the world is irrevocably broken. For the past five years, they’ve lied constantly to cover up the biggest political scandal of the century: that Joe Biden has been in accelerating cognitive decline since before he was sworn in as president.Of course, it’s […] -
SHOCK CLIMATE REPORT! Urban Heat Islands Responsible for 65% of Global Warming — The Climate Realism Show #157
Podcast -A new study from the University of Alabama in Huntsville addresses the question of how much the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is responsible for the higher temperatures at weather stations across the world. Dr. Roy Spencer and Dr. John Christy have spent several years developing a novel method that quantifies, for the first time, […] -
“Grok is this true?” – In The Tank #495
Podcast -The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen just completed another polling study—this one asking people how worried they are about AI and what should be done about it legislatively. To no one’s surprise, people are worried and think the government has a responsibility to get ahead of it. We’ll also cover the way people can fool even […] -
71% of Dems Want Elon Imprisoned – In The Tank #474
Podcast -The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports released a new poll showing that 71% of Democrats support Elon Musk being IMPRISONED for his DOGE work. This insane position is held by 80% of self-reported “liberals” from the polling. The poll results were released the same day as this episode. This is sadly not very shocking, as […] -
A Critique of the Climate Apocalypse with Dr. Judith Curry — The Climate Realism Show #156
Podcast -A new paper by Dr. Judith Curry, one of the world’s most prominent scientists skeptical of a looming human-caused climate catastrophe, and economist Harry DeAngelo cautions investors and the public that “the apocalyptic climate narrative is a seriously flawed guide for public policy.” Why? “Because it radically overstates the risks to humanity from continued global […] -
The Pain in Spain Is Renewably Insane – The Climate Realism Show #155
Podcast -In mid-April, Spain’s socialist government bragged that, for the first time, the nation was powered by 100 percent “renewable” energy—mostly solar and wind. One week later, Spain, Portugal, parts of France, and several other countries suffered the largest peacetime blackout in their histories. Net Zero came to Europe all right—as in zero energy. We were […] -
AI Doctors Are on the Rise
Podcast -Will AI replace your doctor? Bill Gates seems to think so. In today’s podcast, AnneMarie Schieber, managing editor of Health Care News, and Devon Herrick of the Goodman Institute Health Blog discuss where AI can be a benefit—such as reducing medical error. But when it comes to replacing highly trained medical doctors to reduce the […] -
War on Normies – In The Tank #493
Podcast -Spend any time at all watching or reading the news, and you may notice an odd trend in the Democrat party– they seem to be embracing policies more and more that totally alienate the “normies,” people who hold generally average views on social and political issues. Democrats increasingly favor extreme positions, like defending gang members […] -
US Exiting the Climate Alarm Cabal — The Climate Realism Show #153
Podcast -In news that has climate alarmists in an even greater panic, the Trump administration is ending funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the panel that produced the federal government’s National Climate Assessment every four years. Several officials in the office have reportedly been fired, and Trump’s NASA has canceled the contract with the […] -
Checking in on Net Zero in the UK — The Climate Realism Show #152
Podcast -The Net Zero project in Great Britain, so the country does it’s part to stop climate change, has a true believer behind it in leftist Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But recent opinion polls show the public is starting to turn dramatically against it, especially when the economic costs become increasingly real. A London Times poll […] -
Trump Declares Liberation from Unbalanced Trade: In the Tank #490
Podcast -Tariffs are the subject of heated debate not just between Democrats and Republicans, but within the spectrum of right wing economic thought as well. Trump has announced reciprocal tariffs for every country on the planet, in an attempt to end unfair trade imbalances across the board. Some countries have already started falling in line, the […] -
The Sun and Climate Change (Guest: Dr. Willie Soon) — The Climate Realism Show #151
Podcast -Why does the sun always get short shrift when it comes to the causes of climate change? Dr. Willie Soon is on the pod to explain. -
The Consent Trap: Agreeing to Medical Bills Without Knowing Prices
Podcast -How can you consent to paying for something if you don’t know the price? In today’s podcast, AnneMarie Schieber of Health Care News and Devon Herrick of the Goodman Institute Health Care Blog talk about New York State’s decision to ban “consent to pay” forms at medical practices. Also on tap: reforming health care without […] -
The Rise of the New Right – In The Tank #489
Podcast -The Republican Party of the 80s and 90s is gone, and with it the influence of past presidents and the thought leaders of the right. -
Ill Literacy, Episode 179: Out of the Darkness (Guest: Frank Trentmann)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Frank Trentmann, professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, to discuss his latest book, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022.