{"podcast":{"title":"The Blendr Report","slug":"the-blendr-report-6677029","podcast_index_feed_id":6677029,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e7aa4320/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.blendrnews.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/38766952/38766952-1709664539743-43ed5e6b7c926.jpg","author":"Jonathan Harvey and Liam DeBoer","episode_count":172,"summary":"Where news meets rational thinking.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T06:17:23.253313+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blendr-report-6677029"},"episode":{"title":"Inside the Climate Cult: Former Activist Lucy Biggers Tells All | Blendr Report EP161","slug":"inside-the-climate-cult-former-activist-lucy-biggers-tells-all-blendr-report-ep161","published_at":"2026-04-11T19:47:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blendr-report-6677029/inside-the-climate-cult-former-activist-lucy-biggers-tells-all-blendr-report-ep161","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blendr-report-6677029","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-blender-report/episodes/Inside-the-Climate-Cult-Former-Activist-Lucy-Biggers-Tells-All--Blendr-Report-EP161-e3hoopk","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e7aa4320/podcast/play/118300916/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-11%2F421865183-44100-2-0983874caebec.mp3","summary":"Lucy Biggers is a former climate activist and influencer who spent five years pushing the Green New Deal, plastic bans, and pipeline protests — racking up over 100 million views on Facebook. She interviewed Greta Thunberg and AOC, and helped change how her newsroom referred to climate change. Today, she's the head of social media at the Free Press and one of the most compelling voices explaining how the climate movement captured an entire generation. - In this conversation, we go beyond the usual climate debate and into the psychology of how intelligent, well-meaning people get ideologically captured. Lucy walks us through the groupthink inside left-wing newsrooms, the social enforcement mechanisms that keep people in line, and what it actually took to leave the movement behind. - We break down how the media distorts climate science through a chain of telephone from UN reports to viral memes, why COVID was the first crack in the narrative, and the role that China may have played in weaponising the climate movement against Western energy independence. We also get into the religious psychology underlying climate activism, the anti-human throughline connecting multiple social movements, and why motherhood became the final catalyst for Lucy to speak out. - Get original articles, extended podcasts, and direct access to Blendr News on our Substack Channel: blendrnews.com - This episode is brought to you by The Tallowed Truth. Use promo code \"Blendr\" for 15% off: www.thetallowedtruth.com/blendr - In this episode of \"The Blendr Report,\" Liam and Lucy discuss: 00:00 Introduction to Lucy Biggers and Her Journey 02:58 The Evolution of Climate Activism 05:53 Groupthink and Ideological Capture 08:50 The Psychological Aspects of Climate Activism 12:07 Media Influence on Climate Narr…","meta_description":"Lucy Biggers is a former climate activist and influencer who spent five years pushing the Green New Deal, plastic bans, and pipeline protests — racking up…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4223,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-blendr-report-6677029/episodes/inside-the-climate-cult-former-activist-lucy-biggers-tells-all-blendr-report-ep161/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blendr-report-6677029/inside-the-climate-cult-former-activist-lucy-biggers-tells-all-blendr-report-ep161.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}