Conservative energy policy with live-wire banter.
Heard at Heritage carries Heritage Foundation policy conversations with a loose conversational edge. Recent episodes spend heavy time on energy prices, nuclear power, geothermal technology, ethanol, oil, gas, and the politics around regulation.
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Heard at Heritage is a large Heritage Foundation podcast feed, but the recent episodes sampled here center on the Power Hour strand from the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. The tone is brisk and informal. A typical episode does not hurry straight to the advertised policy question. It may start with Jack Spencer talking about pruning fruit trees from a four-wheeler, teasing Jack Haggard about a RAV4, asking whether someone is a motorcycle guy, or putting an intern on the spot. Then the conversation pivots. Gas prices become a way into energy policy. A car repair story becomes a bridge to oil, ethanol, and the cost of driving. Nuclear episodes are treated as complicated policy fights, not simple cheerleading sessions. The show returns often to affordability, reliability, regulation, markets, taxpayer exposure, and the geopolitical baggage attached to energy choices. It is comfortable with strong conservative framing. It is also more conversational than ceremonial, even when the feed includes Heritage event-style programming. Guests are brought in to explain working details: how thorium molten salt reactors differ from conventional uranium reactors, why pressure matters in reactor design, or how geothermal wells circulate water through hot rock. The host tends to frame technical guests as people who can make a hard topic usable. That gives the show a practical, garage-floor quality. It can be combative, but it usually wants the machinery of policy to be understandable. The detours are part of the texture rather than a flaw. Staff dynamics matter too, especially the recurring producer banter with Jack Haggard and the appearances by younger team members such as Connor. Listeners looking for neutral public-radio balance may find the show too openly ideological. Listeners who want conservative energy and environmental policy argued in plain language, with plenty of teasing around the edges, will know quickly whether they are in the right place.
Made for: Heard at Heritage suits listeners who want conservative policy arguments about energy, environment, regulation, and public affairs in a conversational format. It is especially tuned for people who like technical topics made practical rather than ceremonial.
What sets it apart: The show mixes Heritage policy access with a looseness that lets car talk, office banter, and personal tangents become ramps into serious regulatory questions. Its energy coverage is detailed without pretending policy is detached from daily costs and habits.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Heard at Heritage connects conservative policy arguments to concrete questions about energy technology, infrastructure, markets and nuclear deterrence.
Heard at Heritage moves between Jack Spencer's conversational Power Hour interviews and formal Heritage Foundation events, giving policy arguments room to become technically specific.
A geothermal well gets the 'does the heat run out?' question you were about to ask.
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Thorium gets a long car-chat lead-in before the reactor case lands.
Heard at Heritage spends this episode on thorium's case for nuclear power, with Jack Spencer keeping the focus on reactor safety. The guest walks through why operating at atmospheric pressure matters, how a freeze plug supports passive safety, and how a molten salt design avoids…
Geothermal is presented as a heat-and-pressure system that turns rock into electricity.
The episode works as a steady geothermal primer, with Jack Spencer introducing Connor Brown, an intern from Cleveland, Ohio, before the exchange turns lightly playful about the label itself.
Kevin Mooney casts climate dissent as a fight over power, speech, and institutional pressure.
Kevin Mooney's visit to Heritage's Power Hour frames the climate fight less as a dispute over science than as a struggle over power, speech, and the price of challenging a dominant line.
Tom Pyle connects rising gas prices to refinery limits, production shortfalls, and policy signals that may chill investment.
Jack Spencer's conversation with Tom Pyle treats rising gas prices as a stress test for energy policy. Pyle links the pressure to limited refinery capacity, insufficient production, and a long political shift toward green energy, arguing that promises to move away from oil, gas,…
A Heritage Foundation event connects nuclear deterrence with public persuasion, congressional funding, and the cost of failure.
The Heritage Foundation event frames nuclear deterrence as a policy priority that also has to be argued in public. Derek Morgan opens the rollout of Bob Peters's report, "A Nuclear Posture Review for the Next Administration, Building the Nuclear Arsenal of the 21st Century," and…
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Heritage rolls out a nuclear posture report.
Chris Mowry, CEO of Type One Energy, argues that fusion matters because AI is increasing electricity demand while energy security and scalable low-carbon generation remain unresolved.
Jack Spencer interviews Jackie Siebens, Helion Energy's Director of Public Affairs, about why fusion may be moving beyond its familiar "30 years away" promise.
Savannah links climate alarmism to younger generations’ anxiety while defending stewardship and practical resource management.
The host introduces an episode of the Heritage Foundation's Power Hour podcast, discussing energy and environmental policy with interns Connon, Payton, and Grayson, while sharing a personal anecdote about tree pruning.
This episode of the Power Hour podcast from the Heritage Foundation features an interview with Tom Pyle, President of the Institute for Energy Research, discussing solutions to rising energy and gas prices.
This episode discusses the future of nuclear energy, exploring its unique policy complexities, regulatory challenges, and polarized perspectives from supporters and opponents.
This episode discusses the pros and cons of commercial nuclear cooperation with Saudi Arabia, featuring expert analysis from Ted Jones.
This episode features an interview with Derrick Morgan discussing gas, oil, and ethanol policy from a conservative perspective at the Heritage Foundation.
This episode discusses the current state of gun rights in Virginia with expert William K.
The show opens with Jack Spencer and Jack Haggard talking cars, including a search for a Toyota RAV4 or Honda CR-V.
Jack Spencer opens with Connor Brown, an intern from Cleveland, Ohio.
The show opens with Jack Spencer wondering whether Jack Haggard is back for good, after a quick catch-up on trivia and a family board game.
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This episode of the Power Hour podcast from the Heritage Foundation discusses global warming policy with expert Daren Bakst, featuring conservative analysis on energy and climate issues.
This special edition of the Power Hour discusses a historic deregulatory action at the EPA with expert Kevin Dayaratna, analyzing its implications and significance.