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Chapter 1: What is the introduction to the podcast?
Good morning, everybody. Or afternoon. Or evening. Good afternoon or evening.
You always ignore the afternoon people. Yeah. I'm sorry. Good afternoon.
But do people listen to podcasts in the afternoon? They sure do.
By the way, hello to all the people who are on a jog right now. Hello. How are you?
Keep pace. Watch the cracks. Hello, everybody at the supermarket. Hello, everybody who's driving. Check your mirrors.
Those on the subway. Don't miss your stop. Yeah, that's right. Hello, everybody on a walk. Just a regular walk.
Everybody who's at work. Come on, Janet. Come on.
I got a quick dad joke.
Here we go.
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Chapter 2: Who is the special guest in this episode?
electricity to other things, which is sun and wind and nuclear and a variety of things. We don't want to get rid of all the regulations because part of the reason the U.S. is so beautiful, we preserve lands, we've cleaned up our waters better than any other country.
But it is absolutely fair to say that many of these environmental reviews are delaying projects that we need in order to solve climate change.
Gotcha, so government could get out of the way a little bit, because we got to work fast, right? But not completely?
Yes. So we're going to have to strike that balance.
Well, it's so hard not to be cynical when you have things like, and you were just touching on the idea, Jason, it was partly picked in your question, which is this, that, yeah, of course there is, you know, what you call the ethical or moral pull, but it always comes down to economics, right? It's always, sadly, it's the driver of everything.
It's like when the government went to war on the cigarette companies. It wasn't because they wanted us to stop smoking. It's because they didn't want to pay for people who were sick. Unfortunately. It's got to be a win-win.
Ultimately, yeah.
otherwise they wouldn't, they couldn't care less. And I think that there is a societal issue in America. Uh, Mr. Gates, I, I haven't revealed this to you yet. I'm Canadian by birth. Um, so, uh, and I'm sorry to drop it on you like that. We had a reveal party, but, but you know, I think that there is a societal, uh, there are some societal issues and I, and I am American as well.
And I've lived here for a number of years and I, and I love this country. I truly, truly do. And, and my children are all American. It's, it's an incredible experience. And, uh,
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