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Hello and welcome back to the Power Hour, the Heritage Foundation Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment's podcast.

I'm your host, Jack Spencer. Jack Haggard is behind the glass day. Jack, how are you, sir? I'm doing well. How are you? Very good. Very good. Now, Jack, we've been getting to know you the last couple of weeks. I don't want to get to know you anymore because we have someone new to introduce the audience to. One of the things I like to do when we have new people join the energy

environment team, I like to bring them on the podcast. They tend to be a little bit younger. I like

to see what the kids be thinking about energy environment. So to help us with that today, we have

Connor. Connor. Connor, what's your name? What's your last name? Brown. Connor Brown. Welcome to

the power hour, my friend. Now tell me, where are you from? What are you doing here? I am from Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland, Ohio. The land. Love Cleveland. And I'm an intern here, so kind of just... Never say you're an intern. Never say you're an intern. Be like, I'm your newest colleague. Okay. The newest professional

added to your network. Yes, yes, but that's good. All right. So what do you want to do with your life?

Well, you know, right now we're testing at the policy arena, you know, never too late to be a professional

basketball player, though, you know, you know, I can always dream, but yeah, enjoying the policy. Pretty short for that. Well, you know, we're not all blessed in the height. So was mugsy, boogs. Yeah. What do you think about energy, environment? Like, what, you know, I'm just curious, like, what, is that an issue that, that, how old are, can I ask how old you are i don't know if yeah i'm 22 22 what are the

what are the 22 year olds talking about energy like when you're out Friday night doing 22 year old

stuff and energy and environment comes up what what what do you think what what what do people think

about it that's you know that might not be too hot of a topic when you're out on Friday night

but i think a lot of the conversation about it is centered around all this new AI stuff that's happening. So a lot of people like to talk about that, like to talk about regulation and everything that's going to come with it. That's why you're- Yeah, you're Friday night you're talking regulation. I like it. I like that. What do you think about is global warming still an issue?

Do you buy it?

No.

No, I don't buy it. Not a big global warming guy? I'm not a big fan of the global warming, are you? Not a big guy. All right. Well, I'll tell you what. When it comes to global warming, today's a good example of it because it is finally nice out there.

The ice and snow is melting.

Jack, I don't know if you saw. Today's a good example of it because it is finally nice out there. The ice and snow is melting.

Jack, I don't know if you saw, but the groundhog there the other day, during groundhog

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