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Hall of Fame Energy Talk: Robert Bryce on the Grid, Storms & the Future of Power

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The State of Energy opens a Hall of Fame edition with Rand DeWitt, Tom Clark, and Robert Bryce. They frame the guest as a blue-jacket Hall of Fame pick, then move through the show’s familiar sponsor banter and a Metza Tanks riff about tanks that do their job quietly and show up on time. Bryce gets a big question: if he were energy czar for a year and could run the whole energy business, what would he do first? His answer immediately turns into a joke about wanting to be king instead. He keeps going. Bryce says the designated hitter rule should go, because if you are going to play baseball, you should have to hit. The hosts lean into that detour rather than rushing past it. When the conversation returns to energy, Bryce says he would probably fire himself if he actually held the job. He says Chris Wright has been, in his view, right on the dot pretty much all the way. Bryce also says he has plenty of criticism of President Trump. Some of Trump’s actions, he says, are absolutely odious. Even so, he thinks the administration’s energy direction is largely correct. The bigger job, he says, is to accelerate the development of power and the infrastructure around it. That keeps the episode centered on energy and power instead of just the day’s talking points. Near the end, the hosts direct listeners to Robert Bryce’s Substack at robertbrice.substack.com. They also point to his documentary, Juice: Power, Politics and the Grid. The film has been viewed more than three million times, which the show treats as both a brag and a shrug. They thank Bryce for joining, promise him another turn on the show, and wrap with the usual sign-off. It lands like a live radio conversation that knows exactly when to get serious and when to poke itself in the ribs.

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A blue-jacket energy talk that mixes policy, punchlines, and a clear point of view.

Robert Bryce gets a loose, radio-ready segment here, with Rand DeWitt and Tom Clark keeping the pace brisk. Their question about what he would do as energy czar opens the door to a joke about skipping the job, then a turn toward the designated hitter rule before the discussion…

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You want an energy-and-grid conversation that still makes room for a baseball detour.

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