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AMAC.us slash Carter. What do we talk about? I mean, this is almost the new year, right?

We are still struggling with all of the craziness surrounding COVID-19 and its variations thereof.

Omicron, by the way, still sounds like Robotron to me and the fact that they skipped over the

Chi letter in the alphabet is just very, very angering. I should have been called the Chi

virus, which would have fit appropriately with Chinese Communist Party President Chi.

But they decided not to do that. But we have all of these issues facing our world today.

I think more so than we could have ever imagined, right? But we're also dealing with these

ideas that are just permeating the very leftist, radical democratic party. And I'm talking about

the most left there, right? People like Alexandra Acosta Cortez and others about fossil fuels.

And whether or not we are being good stewards to our earth. And that, you know, basically,

human beings are destroying the planet. And all of these, you know, green ideas of how

we should do things. And really, we've seen this winter in Europe. How terrible, how terrible

it's become. You know, serious, serious energy failures because of the reliance on all of

these, you know, wind and solar and everything else. So is, is fossil fuel really that bad?

Are we really these terrible stewards of our world? Or do we live in the best times yet?

I believe we do. So does Alex Epstein. He is going to be our guest on this show. And

guys, you do not want to miss this. I mean, his book is a huge best seller. He is the

president. And he is the founder of the Center for Industrial Progress. People are going to him

all the time. They are going to him for advice and talking points on how do we stand up to these,

you know, these radical leftists who basically use the environment, I believe, as a weapon

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