From the transcript

And he had a quote, and the last time he spoke in public, his quote was 1935, he spoke to Congress, and he said that in the future, whoever holds Alaska, they will control the world. Yep, that's right. Alaska is the most strategic location in the world, and that slide that Charlie had on that showed the distance to every other location, aviation figured that out. That's why we became— I used to fly for Northwest Airlines, It's a cargo hub. I think it's the second largest cargo hub in the world.

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