Hello there. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson show. It is the third hour and the phone number is 877979979-7-425.

I am about to dramatically, diametrically shift gears away from anything I was even going to talk about this hour, including daylight saving time, which I'll get to.

So before I do that, I want to talk to Chris, who's been waiting patiently on the folds.

Chris, welcome to the program.

How are you doing today, sir?

Great. What's going on?

Hi, you were talking earlier about the power situation out in California. I was out in Salt Lake City over the

weekend visiting my son who's going to school out there, and I met some people from California

that lived in the Bay Area. And the guy was actually a lawyer, and he seemed to be a fairly

conservative lawyer. But he said he'd be working from home and all of a sudden,

the power would just go out in his house. And he said it might go out for as long as two days,

which is causing considerable problems for everyone around. So what a lot of people have done is

they've decided to go and install these home generator systems to try to alleviate the problem. So the cost of what

they're spending out there is roughly $50,000 for one of these setups, which we can do around

here for probably $25,000. But the American people are smart. They're circumventing the stupidity

of all these politicians to make sure they can still do what they want.

But ultimately, he said people are leaving in droves to go to other places just because the politics are getting too terrible out there.

Yeah, a lot of smart people, capable people who can are leaving.

And you know, what's so interesting, Chris, as you mentioned, these generators, they're either gas or natural gas.

They're fossil fuel burning.

So California just makes situation worse.

Now, well, you may not know.

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