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Craig Eaton is calling us right now.

And Craig, Merry Christmas.

Always great to have you on the show.

Merry Christmas.

Happy New Year to you, W.A.BABC family, and all of our listeners.

Absolutely. Very well said. Hopefully you had a good holiday yesterday. Were you traveling? Were you local? How was that for you?

I was in New Jersey, actually. My in-laws ate too much, drank too much. Now I'm at Newark Airport heading out of town for the new year.

And it's actually not that bad here. Oh, good. Yeah. I mean, that's a good report to provide because I guess earlier I know, Nolan was talking about New Jersey Transit having some problems, but good to hear that maybe Newark Airport is not experiencing any of those. So, Craig, what's on your mind this morning? I mean, we were just chatting with, you know, the president about all that he's doing with striking back against the terrorists in Nigeria.

Prior to that, we were talking about killing some of these offshore wind projects, which is a pretty big win for conservatives around the tri-state area.

You know, all that and more obviously going on right now.

But as we get into 2026 here, what are you thinking about? Well, I'm glad that the president, you know, all that and more obviously going on right now. But as we get into 2026 here, what are you thinking about?

Well, I'm glad that the president, you know, introduced before I got here. So he was the introduction. Now I'm here. It's an honor to follow the president. But I'll tell you a lot of stuff happening over the weekend. This Nigeria thing is scary. Venezuela is scary. and in fact I'm going to be like 20 miles away from there in Aruba for the next week. So that's even more frightening. And the wind tunnels. I mean, I just don't understand the wind. Wind tunnels, why don't they don't just stop them? They are not good. They're dangerous. They kill all of our fish in the waters. And I just don't think they add anything.

Yeah, well, I mean, it seems as though more and more people are starting to wake up to that and whether it's the inefficiency behind the construction of some of these wind turbines

or, you know, John was referring to the fact that it's really difficult to get some of that

power back to the substations in terms of the turbines being off-site.

And we know that that's kind of an ongoing thing with some of that new forms of power.

You kind of almost have to power up batteries and then hope that you can store that for a set amount of time.

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