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Thank you for listening and my sincere appreciation to our brothers and sisters at Hillsdale College.

Thank you for listening and my sincere appreciation to our brothers and sisters at Hillsdale College.

Hello, America Marklevin here. Our number 877-3813-811-8773-813-811. Great to be back. I don't like to leave the microphone. As you know, I really take fewer days off than the average host.

Typically, it's for health reasons or business reasons, now and then vacation, but not often. I ask my family, they'll tell you that.

And so it was a great honor to speak to the folks at Hillsdale College. You've heard me talk about them. They're our major sponsor.

And it really is intellectually motivating and fun. Inspiring energizes me.

So on the flight back today from Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the United Jet, everything went beautifully, smoothly.

Flight attendance couldn't have been nicer. They were thrilled not to be wearing masks. I saw one older guy wearing a mask. He wanted to engage me. He could tell he was a Lib.

He was a Lib. He was very friendly. As long as they're friendly, I'm friendly. But then I sat down and I opened up the equivalent of their United Airlines magazine.

And there's the CEO of United Airlines, Scott Kirby. And it's a message from Scott Kirby right there in the beginning. And he's standing there. He's looking up at the sky and he's in the forest.

So, okay, that's pretty cool. And here's what he says in part.

On my first day as United CEO nearly two years ago, I established an ambitious goal to lead United toward a carbon-free future.

That's the first sentence. That's not an easy feat when you consider that burning jet fuel is currently a core requirement of our business.

United word dedicated to redefining the future of air travel with sustainability at the forefront, not because it's easy, but because it's simply the right thing to do. Okay.

Anybody who's invested in United right now, pull your money out as fast as you can.

The job of a chief executive officer of a corporation is not to be woke. The job is to run the airline as best as he can run the airline.

And in the case of United and most of the airlines, that needs profitability. They've had a tough time because of the price of fuel and because of the pandemic and so forth.

And so the CEO doesn't even address this. This isn't the CEO's job. A carbon-free future. Now, let me be abundantly clear because words have meaning.

If we had a carbon-free future, we'd be dead.

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