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The Unregulated Podcast

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Energy politics without the soft edges.

The gist

The Unregulated Podcast treats energy policy as a fight over physics, money, regulation, and political storytelling. Episodes move from Iran and electricity demand to CAFE rules, data centers, coal, California housing, and whatever public clip has irritated the room that week.

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About The Unregulated Podcast

The Unregulated Podcast is energy-policy talk for listeners who want the argument out in the open. It is skeptical, technical, and frequently irritated. The show returns again and again to the gap between political language and physical reality: electricity must be produced when needed, fuel systems have tradeoffs, and capacity claims do not mean much if the power is unavailable at the wrong moment. Recent episodes use storms, coal plants, renewables, gas turbines, nuclear power, solar claims, AI data-center demand, and behind-the-meter generation as recurring stress tests for public policy. The tone is plainspoken and combative. A clip about inflation, Iran, child care costs, California housing, or a senator leaving office can become the starting point for a broader argument about incentives, regulation, and the way government changes markets. The show is especially interested in energy as math and human welfare rather than as branding. It asks what investment works, what gets subsidized, what survives a grid emergency, and what happens when politicians treat slogans as infrastructure. The political range is wide but not detached. Iran’s nuclear ambitions and conventional weapons, New York affordability, BlackRock’s ESG posture, CAFE rules, Tesla credits, California’s poverty debate, and federal deregulation all appear as part of the same worldview: policy should be judged by consequences. The conversations can be inside-baseball. They often assume some familiarity with energy debates, conservative policy fights, regulatory acronyms, and the media clips being played. Then the show swerves. Baseball jokes appear. So do impressions, historical anniversaries, Olympic clips, and strange crime items used as comic exits. The closing beats can be irreverent after long stretches of serious discussion, which gives the show a barroom-policy texture rather than a think-tank cadence. Its humor is dry and sometimes dark, but the main attraction is the recurring insistence that energy systems are constrained by physics, money, and reliability. For a listener who wants climate and energy debates filtered through subsidy skepticism, regulatory suspicion, and a taste for political heckling, The Unregulated Podcast offers a pointed, unsanded version of the argument.

Made for: The show suits listeners who follow U.S. energy policy, conservative political debate, grid reliability, and regulatory fights. It works best for people comfortable with fast-moving references, sarcasm, and technical policy shorthand.

What sets it apart: Its edge comes from treating energy debates as practical tests of cost, reliability, production, and incentives, then letting the conversation wander into political clips and oddball closing jokes. The result feels less like a formal interview show and more like a long-running argument among people steeped in the same fights.

In their own words

The American Energy Alliance (AEA) is a not-for-profit organization that engages in grassroots public policy advocacy and debate concerning energy and environmental policies.

As heard by us

Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

It connects energy politics to the incentives, costs, and operating constraints hidden beneath public-policy claims.

The Unregulated Podcast turns energy policy into a lively argument about prices, reliability, regulation, and political power. The hosts work through news clips in a loose, combative exchange, moving quickly between serious policy criticism and jokes that keep the conversation…

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Why you'd press play

Coal gets a thank-you and a 'Namaste'; you'll know quickly whether this is your kind of argument.

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  • to hear solar capacity questioned against the power available when you need it
  • to follow EV credits all the way to a joke about postal trucks
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Episodes

  1. 1

    #236: I'll Handle the Finances (7/1/25)

    ·1h 3m
  2. 2

    #268: God Squad (4/2/26)

    ·1h 1m
  3. 3

    #267: Not A Florida Man (3/25/26)

    ·1h 17m
  4. 4

    #266: A Dry Buffalo (3/14/26)

    ·1h 7m
  5. 5

    #258: Welcome Back (1/9/26)

    ·1h 11m
  6. 6

    #219: Beyond Parody (2/28/25)

    ·1h 9m
  7. 7

    #218: The Competition (2/23/25)

    ·1h 18m
  8. 8

    #217: Musky Moo Moo (2/15/25)

    ·1h 7m
  9. 9

    #216: I Apologize for Nothing (2/8/25) Guest: Tyler O'Neil

    ·1h 18m
  10. 10

    #265: Yabber, Yabber, Yabber (3/7/26)

    ·1h 11m
  11. 11

    #264: What Is It Going To Get Me This Time? (3/2/26)

    ·1h 1m
  12. 12

    #263: Good Luck Fellas (2/23/26)

    ·1h 15m
  13. 13

    #262: Alternative Worlds (2/7/26)

    ·1h 5m
  14. 14

    #261: Welcome to Veganuary (2/2/26)

    ·1h 9m
  15. 15

    #259: Do You Believe in Miracles? (1/15/26)

    ·1h 15m
  16. 16

    #257: American Dream (12/22/25)

    ·1h 14m
  17. 17

    #256: An Impeachable Offense (12/6/25)

    ·53m
  18. 18

    #255: Gobble and Waddle (11/26/25)

    ·57m
  19. 19

    #254: Terrible People (11/21/25)

    ·1h 25m
  20. 20

    #253: Peak Idiocy (11/14/25)

    ·55m
  21. 21

    #252: The Greatest Single Experiment In Government, Ever (11/9/25)

    ·57m
  22. 22

    #251: A World Class Pivot (11/3/25)

    ·1h 5m
  23. 23

    #250: Brusque (10/25/25)

    ·1h 8m
  24. 24

    #249: Who Cares? (10/17/25)

    ·1h 25m
  25. 25

    #248: Cease Fire (10/14/25)

    ·1h 5m
  26. 26

    #247: What Took Them So Long? (10/6/25)

    ·56m
  27. 27

    #246: Home Stretch (9/29/25)

    ·1h 26m
  28. 28

    #245: Wild Blue Yonder (9/22/25)

    ·1h 11m
  29. 29

    #243: ELGSES (9/8/25)

    ·1h 24m
  30. 30

    #242: Good Gravy (9/2/25)

    ·1h 19m
  31. 31

    #241: Mangia! (8/26/25)

    ·1h 9m
  32. 32

    #240: After the Wine Kicks In (8/4/25)

    ·1h 19m
  33. 33

    #239: Disoriented and Impressed (7/28/25)

    ·1h 18m
  34. 34

    #228: Fighting the Oligarchy (5/11/25)

    ·1h 10m
  35. 35

    #238: The Circus (7/18/25)

    ·57m
  36. 36

    #237: Christmas in July (7/13/25)

    ·1h 5m
  37. 37

    Unregulated Rewind: Chilling Until the Next Episode (4/27/25)

    ·33m
  38. 38

    #235: Palling Around with Centrists (6/27/25)

    ·1h 6m
  39. 39

    #234: Two Weeks Notice (6/21/25)

    ·58m
  40. 40

    #233: Containment Dome (6/16/25)

    ·1h 6m
  41. 41

    #232: Chaos Muppet (6/8/25)

    ·1h 2m
  42. 42

    #321: Smoking and Arrogance (5/31/25)

    ·1h 15m
  43. 43

    #230: A Week Where Decades Happened (5/25/25)

    ·1h 12m
  44. 44

    #227: Escalatory Escalation (4/30/25)

    ·48m
  45. 45

    #226: Unnamed Sources (4/20/25)

    ·1h 59m
  46. 46

    #224: Hello, Captain Obvious (4/4/25)

    ·1h 9m
  47. 47

    #223: Hopeless Frodo (3/28/25)

    ·54m
  48. 48

    #222: Shutdown Showdown (3/24/25)

    ·1h 14m
  49. 49

    #221: Intractable (3/14/25)

    ·1h 7m
  50. 50

    #220: We Found the Gold (3/7/25) Guest: Robert Murphy

    ·1h 10m
  51. 51

    #215: The Swifty Thing is Unconscionable (1/31/25)

    ·1h 12m
  52. 52

    #214: The Golden Age: Episode 1 (1/23/25)

    ·1h 2m
  53. 53

    #213: Sticking it to the Mann (1/16/25)

    ·1h 11m
  54. 54

    #211: From the Bottom of My Black Heart (12/22/24)

    ·1h 1m
  55. 55

    #210: Joy (12/14/24) Guest: Gov. Mike Dunleavy

    ·1h 17m
  56. 56

    #209: Nom Nom Noms (12/9/24)

    ·1h 30m
  57. 57

    #208: God-Tier Level Trolling (11/25/24)

    ·1h 1m
  58. 58

    #207: How Awkward Was That? (11/15/24)

    ·1h 8m
  59. 59

    #206: Mediocrely (11/9/24)

    ·1h 4m
  60. 60

    #205: So Much Joy (10/31/24)

    ·1h 4m
  61. 61

    #204: I Believe That's Pronounced Commie (10/25/24)

    ·1h 1m
  62. 62

    #203: Lights Out Better (10/19/24)

    ·1h 6m
  63. 63

    #171: Learn to Mine (3/1/24)

    ·1h 21m
  64. 64

    #202: Higher Ground (10/12/24)

    ·59m
  65. 65

    #201: Forget Criminality (10/6/24)

    ·1h 20m
  66. 66

    #200: You Must Be So Proud (9/26/24)

    ·1h 9m
  67. 67

    The Unregulated Podcast Interview: James Burling, Pacific Legal Foundation (9/20/24)

    ·27m
  68. 68

    #199: Turning the Page (9/16/24)

    ·50m
  69. 69

    #198: Flex Alert! (9/7/24)

    ·1h 14m
  70. 70

    #197: The Business We've Chosen (8/30/24)

    ·1h 15m
  71. 71

    #196: The Lies You Tell Yourself (8/25/24)

    ·1h 5m
  72. 72

    #195: Was That Supposed to be a Laugh Line? (8/16/24)

    ·1h 14m
  73. 73

    #194: Future Vegetables (8/9/24)

    ·1h 16m
  74. 74

    #193: Moderately Weird (8/2/24)

    ·1h 25m
  75. 75

    #192: Meritocracy and Freedom (7/25/24)

    ·1h 5m
  76. 76

    #191: Hey Joe, How Are You Doing? (7/19/24)

    ·1h 4m
  77. 77

    #190: Making Fetch Happen (7/12/24)

    ·1h 10m
  78. 78

    #189: The Hits Keep Coming (7/3/24)

    ·1h 8m
  79. 79

    #188 Hate Watch (6/28/24)

    ·55m
  80. 80

    #187: Cheap Fakes (6/21/24)

    ·1h 7m
  81. 81

    #185: Take Your Wins (6/5/24)

    ·54m
  82. 82

    #184: Are You For Real? (5/31/24)

    ·1h 1m
  83. 83

    #183: A Bronx Tale (5/24/24)

    ·1h 13m
  84. 84

    #182: Romney Being Romney (5/17/24)

    ·1h 10m
  85. 85

    #181: That Was 34 Years Ago! (5/9/24)

    ·1h 12m
  86. 86

    #180: May Their Solo Cups Overfloweth (5/3/24)

    ·50m
  87. 87

    #179: Mike’s Last Show (4/26/24)

    ·1h 10m
  88. 88

    #178: Brian Visits! (4/19/24)

    ·1h 5m
  89. 89

    #177: Money Out The Door (4/11/24)

    ·1h 6m
  90. 90

    #176: Biden's Bugaboo Boogaloo (4/4/24)

    ·1h 9m
  91. 91

    #175: The Last American (3/27/24)

    ·1h
  92. 92

    The Unregulated Podcast #174: Chop Choppy

    ·1h 15m
  93. 93

    #173: More Barbie than Oppenheimer (3/18/24)

    ·1h 20m
  94. 94

    #172: Fuel for Disruption (3/7/24)

    ·1h 4m
  95. 95

    #186: 8-1-1 (6/13/24)

    ·1h 1m
  96. 96

    #225: Blast From the Past (4/14/25)

    ·1h 22m
  97. 97

    #260: Escape from Virginia (1/23/26)

    President Trump's electricity auction proposal aims to have tech companies pay for new power plants to meet data center demand without raising electricity prices, contrasting with the Biden administration's policies.

    ·1h 19m
  98. 98

    #229: Tippy Top (5/19/25)

    Discussion of April PPI data showing a surprise decline, followed by debate over a tax bill's economic impact and media coverage of Biden's presidency.

    ·1h 6m
  99. 99

    #244: Turning Point (9/15/25)

    This episode covers revised job growth figures under Biden, a positive update on crime in Illinois, a smash-and-grab robbery in Chicago, and criticism of MAGA Republicans.

    ·1h 8m
  100. 100

    #212: Smells Like Victory (1/9/25)

    Donald Trump discusses the 2024 electoral vote count and criticizes wind energy, while a Canadian commentator jokes about annexing US states.

    ·59m
  101. 101

    #268: God Squad (4/2/26)

    Hidden gem

    ["The Unregulated Podcast #268, \"God Squad,\" opens with a blunt case for why the U.S.

    Apr 2, 2026·1h 1m·4 clips
  102. 102

    #267: Not A Florida Man (3/25/26)

    The Unregulated Podcast hosts Tom Pollack and Mike McKenna examine Donald Trump's comments about surprise attacks, China, and Japan before turning to New York taxes, child-care costs above $20,000 a year, and climate policy.

    Mar 25, 2026·1h 17m·5 clips
  103. 103

    #266: A Dry Buffalo (3/14/26)

    BlackRock CEO discusses the pendulum swing on ESG and DEI, emphasizing pragmatic investing in both renewables and hydrocarbons to meet AI-driven energy demands.

    Mar 14, 2026·1h 7m
  104. 104

    #265: Yabber, Yabber, Yabber (3/7/26)

    A political discussion defending California's policies on poverty, housing, and education against criticism.

    Mar 7, 2026·1h 11m
  105. 105

    #264: What Is It Going To Get Me This Time? (3/2/26)

    A discussion on Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile threats ahead of diplomatic talks, with implications for energy policy.

    Mar 2, 2026·1h 1m
  106. 106

    #263: Good Luck Fellas (2/23/26)

    Pollster John Hinderaker says 62% would back data centers near home if bills rose $5 a month.

    Feb 23, 2026·1h 15m·2 clips
  107. 107

    #262: Alternative Worlds (2/7/26)

    Hidden gem

    Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna open with Scott Bessent’s Hill testimony, contrasting 4.1% U.S.

    Feb 8, 2026·1h 5m·2 clips
  108. 108

    #261: Welcome to Veganuary (2/2/26)

    Hidden gem

    The Biden crowd did not succeed in forcing all coal plants to shut down.

    Feb 2, 2026·1h 9m·2 clips
  109. 109

    #260: Escape from Virginia (1/23/26)

    Hidden gem

    The Postal Service has delivered only 6% of its 51,500 EV fleet after 12 years.

    Jan 23, 2026·1h 19m·2 clips
  110. 110

    #259: Do You Believe in Miracles? (1/15/26)

    Jan 15, 2026·1h 15m
  111. 111

    #258: Welcome Back (1/9/26)

    Jan 9, 2026·1h 11m
  112. 112

    #257: American Dream (12/22/25)

    Dec 23, 2025·1h 14m
  113. 113

    #256: An Impeachable Offense (12/6/25)

    Dec 6, 2025·53m
  114. 114

    #255: Gobble and Waddle (11/26/25)

    Nov 26, 2025·57m
  115. 115

    #254: Terrible People (11/21/25)

    Nov 21, 2025·1h 25m
  116. 116

    #253: Peak Idiocy (11/14/25)

    Nov 14, 2025·55m
  117. 117

    #252: The Greatest Single Experiment In Government, Ever (11/9/25)

    Nov 9, 2025·57m
  118. 118

    #251: A World Class Pivot (11/3/25)

    Nov 3, 2025·1h 5m
  119. 119

    #250: Brusque (10/25/25)

    Oct 26, 2025·1h 8m
  120. 120

    #249: Who Cares? (10/17/25)

    Oct 17, 2025·1h 25m
  121. 121

    #248: Cease Fire (10/14/25)

    Oct 14, 2025·1h 5m
  122. 122

    #247: What Took Them So Long? (10/6/25)

    Oct 6, 2025·56m
  123. 123

    #246: Home Stretch (9/29/25)

    Sep 29, 2025·1h 26m
  124. 124

    #245: Wild Blue Yonder (9/22/25)

    Sep 22, 2025·1h 11m
  125. 125

    #244: Turning Point (9/15/25)

    Sep 15, 2025·1h 8m
  126. 126

    #243: ELGSES (9/8/25)

    Sep 8, 2025·1h 24m
  127. 127

    #242: Good Gravy (9/2/25)

    Sep 2, 2025·1h 19m
  128. 128

    #241: Mangia! (8/26/25)

    Aug 26, 2025·1h 9m
  129. 129

    #240: After the Wine Kicks In (8/4/25)

    Aug 4, 2025·1h 19m
  130. 130

    #239: Disoriented and Impressed (7/28/25)

    Jul 28, 2025·1h 18m
  131. 131

    #238: The Circus (7/18/25)

    Jul 20, 2025·57m
  132. 132

    #237: Christmas in July (7/13/25)

    Jul 13, 2025·1h 5m
  133. 133

    #236: I'll Handle the Finances (7/1/25)

    Jul 2, 2025·1h 3m
  134. 134

    #235: Palling Around with Centrists (6/27/25)

    ["The Unregulated Podcast #235, \"Palling Around with Centrists (6/27/25),\" moves from Doug Collins at the VA to Mamdani in New York City and Donald Trump on Iran.", "The unnamed hosts trade commentary around Collins, Van Jones, Ted Cruz, and Lisa Murkowski, using each name as a marker for a different political fight.", "The episode asks whether Collins's VA results, Mamdani's grocery plan, and Trump's Iran moves say more about policy or turnout.", "The back half turns to Van Jones, Tucker Carlson, AOC, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the \"one big beautiful bill\" fight over the Senate and the House."]

    Jun 27, 2025·1h 6m·4 clips
  135. 135

    #234: Two Weeks Notice (6/21/25)

    Jun 23, 2025·58m
  136. 136

    #233: Containment Dome (6/16/25)

    Jun 16, 2025·1h 6m
  137. 137

    #232: Chaos Muppet (6/8/25)

    Jun 8, 2025·1h 2m
  138. 138

    #321: Smoking and Arrogance (5/31/25)

    May 31, 2025·1h 15m
  139. 139

    #230: A Week Where Decades Happened (5/25/25)

    May 25, 2025·1h 12m
  140. 140

    #229: Tippy Top (5/19/25)

    May 19, 2025·1h 6m
  141. 141

    #228: Fighting the Oligarchy (5/11/25)

    May 11, 2025·1h 10m
  142. 142

    #227: Escalatory Escalation (4/30/25)

    Apr 30, 2025·48m
  143. 143

    Unregulated Rewind: Chilling Until the Next Episode (4/27/25)

    Apr 27, 2025·33m
  144. 144

    #226: Unnamed Sources (4/20/25)

    Apr 20, 2025·1h 59m
  145. 145

    #225: Blast From the Past (4/14/25)

    Apr 14, 2025·1h 22m
  146. 146

    #224: Hello, Captain Obvious (4/4/25)

    Apr 4, 2025·1h 9m
  147. 147

    #223: Hopeless Frodo (3/28/25)

    Mar 27, 2025·54m
  148. 148

    #222: Shutdown Showdown (3/24/25)

    Mar 24, 2025·1h 14m
  149. 149

    #221: Intractable (3/14/25)

    Mar 14, 2025·1h 7m
  150. 150

    #220: We Found the Gold (3/7/25) Guest: Robert Murphy

    Mar 7, 2025·1h 10m