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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 back behind the glass again today, sir.

How are you, my friend?

I'm doing well, Jack.

How are you?

Awesome, awesome.

I'm not good, man.

I have to tell you something.

It's a little embarrassing to say,

especially to a young guy like you,

but I think I got my first old man injury.

Oh, I'm very sorry.

I was, long time listeners, I don't know that I've talked much about this,

Jackson's you've been doing it, but I'm a big tree planter.

Like if there's a like a square foot left in my yard, I'll put a tree in it.

And I've planted probably like 80 fruit trees of one type or another and nut trees. I don't have like a great big giant yard either. Anyway, I started doing this

a few years ago. And yesterday afternoon, two of my apple trees were getting kind of big. I tried

to keep them pruned, but they were getting big enough that I felt like I needed to prune the top of them.

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