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Episodes · 12 months
70
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Apr 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 1 of 3,584, 3 of 3,862, 5 of 4,115, 3 of 4,226, 12 of 4,731, 15 of 4,438, 2 of 4,230, 8 of 4,319, 13 of 4,515, 4 of 4,419, 3 of 4,624, 1 of 4,594.
All time
138
+9 via 7 narrower
On record
78
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
1mo ago
Oct 2, 2026
Who's talking
Top voices on this topicThe eight guests on the most episodes about this topic in the last 13 weeks, not counting their own shows or clips they were only heard in, most episodes first. VoiceRank (their score across the whole corpus) is shown for context and only breaks a tie. Each strip is that guest's episodes week by week, and the newest week is still in progress.
#Guest · last 13 weeksEpisodes, sorted, most firstVoiceRank
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Episodes on this topic, by weekEvery analysed episode tagged with this topic in each of the last 13 weeks, across all shows and whoever was on them. The newest week is still in progress, and recent weeks fill in as transcripts are analysed. Point at a name, or tab to it, to highlight the weeks that guest was on an episode.
All shows
Episodes on this topic per week, weeks starting Aug 17 to Nov 9 (the last still in progress): 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 4Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp38 people
37%
26%
21%
16%
- Prioritize reliability and abundance14 people · 37%
- Abandon net zero policies10 people · 26%
- Critique state-led energy interventions8 people · 21%
- Accelerate renewable energy transition6 people · 16%
Prioritize reliability and abundance
Energy policy must prioritize abundant, reliable, and affordable power sources like nuclear and fossil fuels to sustain human society.
14 people · 14 episodes
AE
Government policies should focus on liberating all energy sources, including fossil fuels and nuclear, rather than subsidizing unreliable renewables that lead to higher costs and instability.
“Politically, we need to liberate energy a lot more. And then in terms of ad in terms of individually, I think so it's it's supporting those policies and also just figuring out how to advocate them.”
Mikhaila Peterson · Nov 2021 · 4 episodes · 1.5M views on this topicAn exclusive focus on carbon dioxide reduction often neglects the critical importance of energy reliability and affordability.
“for the last 20 or 30 years, the world has emphasized only one dimension of energy, namely the carbon dioxide emissions, which are influencing the climate, but they've completely forgotten about the issue of reliability and affordability.”
John Anderson Media · Jul 2026 · 3 episodes · 1.2M views on this topic
Civilization depends on abundant energy, necessitating a strategy that includes renewables alongside natural gas and nuclear power.
“abundant energy means, sure, we're going to do some renewables, but we need abundant natural gas and nuclear, or we're going to burn a lot more coal.”
Triggernometry · Feb 2023 · 1 episode · 103K views on this topicAbandon net zero policies
Mandated net zero and renewable-only policies are technically flawed, economically harmful, and threaten national energy security.
10 people · 9 episodes
AM
The current government policy of relying predominantly on wind and solar is technically flawed and fails to provide affordable or reliable energy.
“The fundamentally intermittent nature of it and the dispersed nature of it makes it an engineering challenge. It just does not scale well.”
John Anderson Media · Jun 2026 · 3 episodes · 96K views on this topic
The UK must abandon net zero policies immediately to prioritize economic growth and national energy production.
“We got to grow the economy. We've got to scrap net zero immediately. We have got to do everything possible to produce our own energy. I don't care how much carbon it produces. I'm sorry, I don't.”
Triggernometry · Apr 2025 · 4 episodes · 3.2M views on this topic
William HapperUnrated
William Happer argues that net zero policies and the abandonment of fossil fuels cause significant economic harm and limit access to necessary electricity in undeveloped regions.
“It's making it almost impossible to electrify parts of the world that need it. That involves billions of people. No, I mean it's doing phenomenal damage and pain”
Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 1.2M views on this topicCritique state-led energy interventions
Government interventions, subsidies, and market manipulation in the energy sector create instability, inefficiency, and economic…
8 people · 8 episodes
Government energy subsidies for wind and solar have created financial disincentives that hindered private investment and R&D in nuclear energy, causing the US to fall behind.
“the subsidies, while they may have benefited those two particular industries, created a financial disincentive for investing in nuclear. And so there's always a loser. And the loser isn't always necessarily the target.”
The All-In Podcast · Aug 2025 · 5 episodes · 1.6M views on this topic
He believes that the intermittency of wind and solar makes them currently not cost-competitive without subsidies and systems costs taken into account.
“Once you add the intermittency in and the system costs associated, they are not cost competitive at the moment. It is not quite the rosy story that people sell.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading · May 2024 · 3 episodes · 205K views on this topicKS
The regulatory environment for nuclear power in the United States is severely problematic and hinders its development.
“The problem is is as you said the the regulatory environment for nuclear in the United States is just absolutely god awful and you know short of you know burning down the nuclear regulatory commission and rebuilding a new a new regulatory system I'm I'm not sure how you how you fix that.”
The Rich Dad Channel · Aug 2025 · 2 episodes · 9K views on this topicAccelerate renewable energy transition
Transitioning to renewable energy and storage is the essential path forward for environmental sustainability and long-term economic health.
6 people · 6 episodes
TK
The UK government should consider the nationalization of energy companies to prevent profit-seeking that works against the public interest.
“nationalization of uh energy companies I think you know is something that should be considered because of all of the ways in which the profitering that happens in moments like this um mean that again it just doesn't work in the public interest the energy system”
Bold Politics with Zack Polanski · Apr 2026 · 1 episode · 13K views on this topic
Hasan Piker argues that instead of just defending fracking, the administration should propose restructuring fossil fuel subsidies to support workers while transitioning toward renewable energy.
“what you're supposed to say in this situation is listen The Beautiful People of Pennsylvania are not like pred exposed to fracking as a job it's just a job okay these people deserve an honest living and what we attempt to solve in this circumstance what we attempt to solve in the situation is to off”
HasanAbi · Aug 2024 · 2 episodes · 759K views on this topic
Robert Llewellyn believes that renewable energy and energy storage technologies should be the absolute priority for investment.
“there's only one thing we should be investing in in a wartime mode as quickly and as we should be you know getting as many people working on this as possible and that is Renewables and renewable energy storage technologies that do that we should be investing in those”
Everything Electric TECH · Sep 2022 · 6 episodes · 110K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Sep 2019