Power you can count on changes everything—health, safety, jobs, and whether a storm becomes a headline or a hardship. We sit down with energy expert and former Texas legislator Jason Isaac to unpack why so many grids feel fragile despite record spending, and how policy signals have steered capital into intermittent capacity that often fails when demand spikes. From Texas’ post‑Uri reality to Europe’s price shocks, we connect real‑world outcomes to the engineering underneath the buzzwords.

Jason walks us through how subsidies per megawatt‑hour shape the buildout of wind, solar, and batteries, and why installed capacity is not the same as dependable generation. We cover land use tradeoffs, the true cost of storage, and the rising urgency for firm power sources such as advanced thermal and nuclear. Along the way, we examine Germany’s industrial retrenchment, the high price of electricity for households, and what happens when companies move production to countries with looser environmental and labor standards. Energy policy is not a spreadsheet exercise; it’s an industrial strategy that touches every family budget.

The conversation turns to human stakes often left out of climate debates. Cold kills more than heat when bills soar and homes can’t stay warm. In the developing world, energy poverty keeps children like Aisha walking for water instead of learning after school—proof that access to affordable, reliable electricity is a human rights issue. We challenge popular narratives, ask hard questions about “net zero” pledges, and argue for a path that values reliability, cost, and environmental stewardship together. If you care about keeping the lights on and lifting people out of poverty, this one’s for you.

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Want a clean, honest look at energy that starts with truth and ends with action? We open with our core lens—biblical, historical, and constitutional—and then sit down with former Texas legislator Jason Isaac to examine how policies shape lives on the ground. The result is a clear, human-centered tour through ESG pressures, energy poverty, reliability, and the global tradeoffs we rarely see on headlines.

Jason shares how financial tools are being used to choke off insurance and capital for traditional energy and agriculture, driving up costs for families who can least afford them. We test popular assumptions against real data—like why Austin’s air quality didn’t meaningfully improve even with far fewer cars on the road—and discuss how American emissions controls outperform most of the world. We also pull back the curtain on imported pollution and the moral costs of battery minerals, including child labor in cobalt mines, showing how feel-good goals can hide real human harm.

The conversation moves from slogans to standards. Rather than defaulting to all of the above, we ask tougher questions: Is the power affordable? Is it reliable? Does it reduce poverty and preserve human dignity? We explore why rising utility rates increase eviction risk and homelessness, why subsidies can distort markets and undermine grid stability, and how prosperity often enables better stewardship. Along the way, we point to practical steps—sharing credible information, hosting local Constitution classes, and pressing for policies that secure dependable energy while elevating the most vulnerable.

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A breakthrough in safety, a hard line on security, and a surprising plea for civility—this episode brings three big themes into sharp focus. We start with the long-overdue debut of a female-specific crash test dummy and why that matters for real-world outcomes. With higher injury and fatality rates for women in identical collisions, better biomechanical models mean better seats, belts, and airbags—design decisions that can finally reflect how female bodies experience force in a crash. It’s a case study in what happens when engineering catches up to the data.

We then tackle a charged policy shift: Texas designating the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations, along with updates on federal actions. We dig into why state and national security frameworks are tightening, how property and legal standing could be affected, and what this signals for border enforcement and counterterror efforts. The thread running through it all is sovereignty and prudence—how a free society balances civil liberties with its duty to protect citizens from groups committed to undermining it.

From there, we pivot to the culture in our airports. A simple request—skip pajamas and slippers at the gate—opens a larger conversation about manners, presentation, and how dress can nudge behavior. Unruly incidents spiked during the pandemic and never returned to prior lows. Reclaiming a baseline of respect, like the founders’ emphasis on civility, isn’t performative—it’s practical. Finally, we unpack a pro-life courtroom win: a judge dismissed the Satanic Temple’s argument that abortion is a protected religious ritual, reaffirming that free exercise ends where harm begins and the right to life takes precedence.

If you value conversations that connect facts to first principles, this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves policy and culture, and leave a review to help others find the show. What norm would you bring back to raise the bar on safety and civility?

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