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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour two.

Hello, America.

Welcome, it's Eric Erickson here across the nation.

The phone number, 8779773425, if you want to be on the program.

I want to start with, and it is admittedly a very self-serving point out of the gate here,

but it's to make a larger point.

All this Colbert stuff, we'll get to the trade deals here in a minute.

So to review, the National Press Corps insisted, speculated, whatever you want to say that it was about Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert's cancellation, we now know from the Ancler, which is a highly sourced entertainment industry publication runoff substack, that the decision was actually made in June before settlement consideration with Donald Trump. It was in fact completely a financial decision

because though it's number one in late night on TV, it lags behind both Jimmy Kimmel and

Jimmy Fallon on social media content, the internet, buzz,

etc, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

It's rebroadcast.

It's generations on YouTube.

All the metrics are low.

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