Podcasts
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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. -
Medicaid Reform, FDA Firestorms, and Beating Bad Medical Bills
Podcast -Can you beat a medical bill you feel is unfair? AnneMarie Schieber and Devon Herrick discuss their personal experience. Can Congress rein in Medicaid? Many ideas being consider: block grants to states, changing funding rates for expanded Medicaid, work requirements. Do enrollees value Medicaid or waste it? Schieber and Herrick also discuss “gutting the FDA.” […] -
CDC Shake-Up, Big Pharma Influence, and the Vaccine Policy Wars
Podcast -Hours before his confirmation hearing, former Rep. Dave Weldon’s nomination to head the CDC was withdrawn. Weldon has been a vaccine critic. How much of a role did Big Pharma play? AnneMarie Schieber and Devon Herrick also talk about the growing focus on vaccines, and the history of vaccine policy. Most recently the Trump’s […] -
- Environment & Climate News
The High Cost of Climate Scams in Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act
Podcast -The other day, Donald Kendall, director of the Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center at the Heartland Institute, was a guest on the Shawn Thompson Show on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago. Donald is a regular guest on Sean’s show and was invited on this time to talk about a new heartlands to paper […] -
Obama’s Climate Agenda: R.I.P. — The Climate Realism Show #149
Podcast -The new EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, dropped the Mother of All Bombs this week on the radical environmental agenda that has dominated Washington, DC since the start of the Obama administration. If it holds, the impact will be devastating. The Heartland Institute’s Sterling Burnett and Jim Lakely are joined by SPECIAL GUESTS Matthew M. […] -
Activists Judges Try to Stop Trump — In the Tank #488
Podcast -Who actually runs this country? Voters asked for real change in November, and Donald Trump and his team are doing all they can to deliver it as quickly as possible. Yet federal judges use questionable authority to thwart it, keeping the Deep State status quo of unaccountable opposition to the people’s will — which includes […] -
Pulling Back The Media’s Veil of Deceit – In The Tank #487
Podcast -The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 487 of the In The Tank Podcast. Former ITT host Donald Kendal returns after only a few months and the world has gone insane. Suddenly, the left is burning the most popular electric vehicles while a Republican President promotes them in front of […] -
Trump vs. The World – In The Tank #486
Podcast -The Heartland Institute’s Tim Benson wrote a paper analyzing the money funneled to green groups through the Inflation Reduction Act, where everything predictably cost way more than our government claimed. The Supreme Court decided that a district judge could tell the President when and how to pay USAID contractors, and Canada retaliates against Trump’s tariffs. […] -
Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World (Guest: David L. Roll)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David L. Roll, founder of the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, to discuss his latest book, Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World. They chat about Truman’s struggles to emerge as president in his own right after his accidental ascension to the office […] -
Backbone of Climate Agenda Endangered – The Climate Realism Show #147
Podcast -Big news this week as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has reportedly told the White House it should officially abandon the ruling that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare. The so-called “endangerment finding” for carbon dioxide and methane emissions forms the backbone of government regulations to “fight climate change” by heavily regulating […] -
Conflict of Interest: Medical Boards Serving Doctors or Patients?
Podcast -Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) could significantly improve coverage, especially for gig workers and those seeking direct care options. -
Is it Over for the MSM? – In The Tank #485
Podcast -The FBI is investigating an alleged “honeypot” operation against the 2016 Trump campaign, in which Comey’s FBI may have planted female agents to try to compromise Trump. It has been a tough week for our mainstream media elites—multiple MSM personalities were fired or retired, and Jake Tapper is pretending he wasn’t involved in covering up […] -
The Truth About Climate Change and “Green” Energy: C. Michael Hogan, Ph.D.
Podcast -Physicist C. Michael Hogan says the evidence shows that we do not face a climate crisis and that there is no existential threat. Instead, now, as throughout history, a warmer world is improving life. Attempts to fight climate change by forcing wind, solar, and battery power onto the grid are undermining the nation’s electric power […] -
Exposing the Climate Grift – The Climate Realism Show #146
Podcast -Elon Musk's DOGE crew continues to shine a light on how our federal government operates, and it is exposing more climate grift than even the most cynical among us could have imagined. -
All the Narratives are Collapsing – In The Tank #484
Podcast -The “experts” are still trying to rewrite the narrative on the government response to COVID, and one of President Trump’s picks supports the questionable PRO Act. Meanwhile, VP Vance had strong words for the Orwellian language controls in Germany, and DOGE continues to uncover corrupt and wasteful government spending. The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken, Jim […]