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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. We have John Pop with us today producing this, this here

program. John, how are you? I am. Wonderful, Jack. How are you, sir? I'm outstanding. It's been

a while. I know. Though you've done an outstanding job of keeping the podcast sort of regular,

the truth is,

I haven't been back behind this microphone for about three weeks.

So I don't know, the old pipes might not be coming out, you know, might not be as smooth

as what they usually are.

I don't know.

You sound good from here, Jackson.

Maybe the downtime did you serve you well.

I don't know.

Maybe, maybe, maybe.

I think that, in addition to that, the mental cohesiveness of my thoughts may also have been deteriorating somewhat because I haven't really had a critical thought in three weeks.

So we'll see how all this goes.

Oh, boy.

That should be good.

Now, John, you're not alone today.

I see you have a new little helper over here behind the glass.

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