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Welcome to our final show, everyone.

Today, we are going to talk about the past, what the most important issues are that we cover at the Heartland Institute.

And on these last 500 and plus episodes of In the Tank, we'll also look ahead.

What's coming up for Heartland and how do we save America? Does she need saving? I think everybody in this audience at least would say yes.

Welcome to the In the Tank podcast.

I am Linnea Luke and your host.

And as always, we also have Jim Lakely, Executive Vice President and Director of Communications at the Heartland Institute.

And we also have Sam Karnick, Senior Fellow at the Heartland Institute, Executive Director of Healthcare News.

So, I mean, you're listening to an expert here.

He's an advisor for the Heartland Institute.

He's a bestselling author and columnist.

And, you know, if you are concerned about the future of AI and what's going on with data centers and public policy, I mean, truthfully, this is right at your doorstep.

I am Linnea Lucan, your host.

And as always, we also have Jim Lakely, Executive Vice President and Director of Communications at the Heartland Institute, and Sam Karnick, Senior Fellow at the Heartland Institute as well, and Executive Editor of Healthcare News, and of course, Chris Talgo, Editorial Director and Socialism Research Fellow.

And we also have audience favorite, their favorite, the Donald, that is Donald Kendall, Director of the so welcome donald thank you for being on again uh everybody loves it when you come on so and and if he's here we know what we're talking about we are talking about ai um but before we get started here you guys if you want to support the show you can go to heartland.org in the tank and donate there please click the thumbs up to like this video remember that sharing helps break through some of youtube's suppression Even leaving a comment helps, too.

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And yet it's hilarious because it's a more direct bribe than what the Democrats, including Democrat socialists, So it's an interesting sort of reversal of the political situation, and I can fully understand why any conservative, especially a fiscal conservative or a libertarian, would hear this and be astounded and horrified.

However...

this could actually be turned into a negotiating point so trump says okay i want to give 1.2 trillion to the american people and mike johnson in particular goes back to trump and says well here's how we can do it this chap karnick over at the heartland institute has suggested a way that you could actually use this plan to get through spending cuts that we have been asking for for decades, but couldn't do politically.

But you could buy Massive permanent spending cuts with what would amount to a short term, one time refundable tax credit.

It is Friday, and this is the best day of the week.

Not just because the weekend is almost here, but because this is the day the Heartland Institute broadcasts the Climate Realism Show.

I'm Jim Lakely.

I'm your host and vice president of the Heartland Institute.

We're an organization that has been around for 42 years, and we're known as the leading global think tank pushing back on climate alarmism.

Heartland and this show bring you the data, the science, the truth, that counters the climate alarmist narrative you've been fed every single day of your life.

We got a very big show today, so let's get started.

We have with us, as usual, Sterling Burnett.

Joining me on the superstar panel, Dr. David Starkey, the legendary historian and host of David Starkey Talks on YouTube.

And alongside him, Lois Perry, the director of the Heartland Institute in the UK and Europe, and Nigel Farage close ally who is now the strategic director of the Reform Friends of Israel.

Also coming up on the show today, Tommy Robinson brands Rory Stewart a clueless, posh C word as he denies Pakistani Muslim gangs are ongoing and dismisses the Islamists takeover of the disunited kingdom as an Elon Musk fantasy.

And Meghan Kelly destroys Meghan Markle and Prince Harry over their decision to remove Archie and Lily from their happy Oxford school after just two days in a desperate bid to win taxpayer-funded security.

So is it the, uh, the independent republic of Piddington? Are, are they still gonna have a, a royal family? Uh, they're things that he needs to be thinking about now, I think.

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Lois Perry, who is of course the head of the Heartland Institute in the UK and Europe, Dr. David Starkey, who among so many other things, is the host of Dr. David Starkey Talks on YouTube, which I highly recommend you subscribe to.

Thank you both so much.

The state of Washington has just declared for the fourth year in a row that the state is in a drought emergency.

Well, I think it would actually make sense to talk to somebody who's a real meteorologist and somebody who knows something about the climate and about water supply, and that's our friend Anthony Watts, a senior fellow for environment and climate at the Heartland Institute, but more notably, his website, WattsUpWithThat, because he has a convenient last name.

My name didn't really work for anything like that, but Anthony, welcome back to the program.

How are you? Glad to be with you.

you know.

Thank you very much, Anthony.

That's Anthony Watts, senior fellow at the Heartland Institute.

You can find him at whatsupwiththat.com. You're listening to the Lawrence Lawrence Show.

But the theme of this particular program or the question that we throw out there, and here it is to you, ladies and gentlemen, is climate science being hijacked by incomplete data, and how is this affecting your finances in 2026 and beyond? And we'll also delve into topics that we know you're interested in, the topics that deal with aviation and some of the things that go on as we look into the heavens, subject of radiation damage from cosmic rays from space, and so many of the other things about having the reality come true once again of supersonic commercial airline traffic, not since the great days of the supersonic Concorde a long, long time ago when many, many people out there may not even know what the Concorde was.

Our very special guest, a brief bio, Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition and a policy advisor to the Heartland Institute.

He has 40 years plus experience as a mechanical engineer, project manager, science and technology communications professional, technical trainer, and an S&T advisor to a former opposition senior environment critic in Canada's parliament.

And his website that we off- ask you so certainly to go to as you're calling us throughout the program to check more information, icsc-canada.com. Tom Harris, a hearty welcome to you, and how are you up in Canada? Describe the conditions up there.