Hot Take

Crooked Media

From Crooked Media, Hot Take is a holistic, irreverent, honest look at the climate crisis and all the ways media and society are talking—and not talking—about it. Hosted by real-life friends Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt—an essayist and a journalist— Hot Take offers a unique perspective on the issue of climate change. With a breath of fresh humanity and humor, conversation moves swiftly from cackling about the bad week an oil company had, to speaking seriously and passionately about the unequal distribution of climate impacts and our own experiences of climate grief. And then washing it down with a round of dad jokes! Every week, we’ll connect you with the latest climate news and with the journalists and storytellers trying to make sense of this complex issue to help you see the world through climate-colored glasses. New episodes every Friday.

  • 50 minutes 23 seconds
    Mary + Amy's Debate Preview: What Project 2025 Tells Us About Trump, What Harris Is and Isn't Saying About Climate, and More

    Will we hear anything about climate in Harris's first debate with Trump? What can we glean from Project 2025 about how Trump will approach environmental justice? Plus re-thinking the climate movement and politics, with Mary Annaïse Heglar

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    9 September 2024, 11:14 pm
  • 36 minutes 6 seconds
    Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update

    This week, we bring you an episode from our climate litigation podcast, Damages, because we've been getting SO MANY emails about what sorts of legal strategies might still be available for climate accountability given everything happening at the Supreme Court. Public Citizen has been working with various prosecutors to explore the idea of using criminal law to hold oil companies accountable for climate change, but is it really viable? The group's senior climate policy counsel, Aaron Regunburg, joins us to discuss.

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    9 July 2024, 11:52 pm
  • 43 minutes 38 seconds
    ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten on Climate Migration

    In his new book, On the Move, ProPublica climate reporter Abrahm Lustgarten digs into the ways climate change is re-shaping where people live and how they move in the U.S.

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    25 June 2024, 7:16 pm
  • 52 minutes 7 seconds
    John Kasper: A Guy Who Sucked

    Over the years we've talked a lot about the intersection between civil rights and climate change. Now Mary Annaïse Heglar has a novel out (her first!) that lives in that intersection and it's fascinating. On this episode she brings us the story of a guy who fought the desegregation of schools, and why it's important to remember the many ways in which the fight for climate action and the fight for racial justice overlap.

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    30 May 2024, 12:05 am
  • 35 minutes 8 seconds
    Maddie Stone on Microsoft's Role in the Climate Crisis

    In a new story co-published by Grist and Drilled, Microsoft employees who spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties are speaking out about the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.

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    8 May 2024, 9:00 am
  • 54 minutes 58 seconds
    Welcome to Spill and Happy Earth Day: Freeing Palestine Is a Climate Issue

    Hot Take co-hosts Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt are back with a new show blending climate news updates and cultural commentary, plus a monthly Hot Take-style conversation. In our first episode: what else? A conversation about the intersection between the war on Gaza and the climate crisis.

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    22 April 2024, 11:15 am
  • 41 minutes 17 seconds
    Climate News Update: The New Carbon Majors + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case

    Lots of news lately on stories we've been following, so in today's episode: an update! The landmark Carbon Majors report has been updated with some surprising new data, and the European Court of Human Rights has sent down an historic ruling that will shape how EU legislators look at energy and climate.

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    16 April 2024, 12:06 pm
  • 43 minutes 51 seconds
    Slow Factory's Céline Semaan on Climate Justice, Collective Liberation, and Building an Unbreakable Movement

    When Celine Semaan began calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, she was surprised at the backlash she and her team at Slow Factory got, including multiple funders pulling their support. Today, Semaan is more determined than ever to push for climate justice and collective liberation.

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    2 April 2024, 11:25 am
  • 1 hour 50 seconds
    Messy Conversations: Rhiana Gunn-Wright on What the Climate Movement Loses When It Excludes Environmental Justice

    Rhiana Gunn-Wright was one of the architects of the Green New Deal, and today works as the climate policy director for the Roosevelt Institute. In this episode we get into the nuances of the IRA, how to handle climate being a "culture war" issue, what's going on with anti-renewables, and what the climate movement loses when it turns its back on justice issues and particularly when it turns its back on the Black community.

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    5 March 2024, 2:22 pm
  • 51 minutes 35 seconds
    Messy Conversations: How to Talk to Kids about Climate Change, with Mary Annaïse Heglar — a Mini Hot Take Reunion!

    Mary Annaïse Heglar's first book is out today, and it's a children's book about climate change. It's the first of *three* climate books Mary has coming out in the near future (the other two are a novel, called Troubled Waters, and an essay collection of Black writers on climate). She has been busy writing up a storm since we wrapped up Hot Take (and we've roped her into editing stories for Drilled, too). In this episode we talk about her books, what's happening in climate media in general, and the question Amy gets asked all the time and can't answer very well: How do you talk to kids about climate change.

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    27 February 2024, 3:18 pm
  • 39 minutes 4 seconds
    Messy Conversations: Akshat Rathi on Climate Capitalism

    Bloomberg climate reporter Akshat Rathi joins us to discuss his new book Climate Capitalism

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    5 December 2023, 1:55 pm
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