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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, and with us today, behind the glass, we're making a habit of it,

John.

Welcome back, or not welcome back.

You're always here.

I'm so glad to have you.

The question is, how are you doing today, sir?

I am doing so well, Jack.

I've hit a milestone today in my recovery.

I had today for lunch just before this program,

a DLT from across the street,

the place I love with extra bacon, extra mail.

Oh, it was so good.

I haven't had one of those in probably three years.

You reached the bacon milestone. I think we can call it a full recovery at that point. I mean... Oh, I know. I've missed bacon so much. It's so good to be back. Well, it's great to have you back because, I mean, if it weren't for you, it would just be me, you know, grappling on in a microphone. It would make no sense well. So, John, I'm glad to have you here. Thank you, sir. So I'm not going to get into what's new with me this week. I want to go right to our guest. Now, John, I just want to let you know we have a good one lined up for today. It's not a reality star. Right. So no Kardashians, so simmer down.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. No, no, I'm out of here. Yep. Based on our recent, you know,

recent successes, I can see how you might think we were headed in that direction. It's not some fancy government official who thinks they know how to run a business.

It's not even one of these think tanker smarty pantses, you know, like me,

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