Hello and welcome. I am back. I caught exactly zero fish on Friday. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here. It is my show and I'm really glad to have you with me. I hope you got blue skies wherever you are or at least good weather. It's cold here in middle Georgia. The phone number is 877979-7-Erik 877-9-73-7-425, should you wish to be a part of this year program.

Now, I got to, there's so much news out there, but I've really got to start with Brandon.

Over the weekend, an Associated Press reporter was on a flight, a southwest flight from Houston to, I think, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

And as they were landing, the pilot set over the intercom.

Let's go Brandon.

Actually, what the pilot appears to have said is let's go braves.

The audio that was captured was truncated and it sounds very much like the pilot was saying,

let's go Braves.

Now the audio is recorded.

Southwest has launched an investigation.

Even the New York Times is doing a story on this pilot.

They are out to get him.

They want to destroy the pilot. There is an investigation.

Reporters across America with blue check marks on social media, the hordor or are after a Southwest

pilot for allegedly saying, let's go, Brandon. The reporter herself tried to storm the cockpit to demand an explanation. I'm not making that up. She even tweeted about it. Put it on TikTok. She wanted into the cockpit. She insisted the flight attendants, opened the door. They nearly threw her off the plane as a result. She just she says she was writing a story on the let's go brandon phenomenon i i got

i actually have to spend some time on this

this is important

i'm old enough to remember This is important.

I'm old enough to remember Bush caricatured as a monkey.

George W. Bush as Hitler.

Dick Cheney, the murderer, the blood on their hands, the caricatures, the F. Bush chants,

the women dressed at code pink protesters dressed in costumes designed to look like a women,

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