Hi there, how are you? It is Eric Eurickson here. Greetings across the nation, delighted to have you.

The phone number, if you want to be on this program, you can give it a shot.

877-97-9-373425. We got to go off the beaten path a little ways because there is news that we need to talk about that oftentimes, well, you may not hear it everywhere.

It is from the New York Times.

And I've got to pause for just a moment because I want to say something in response to some questions that I've gotten from people over the last couple of weeks.

Very often I get something it's generally polite and this is,

why do you focus so much on what the mainstream media talks about?

You don't cite conservative news sources.

You don't spend a lot of time on the Epoch Times. You don't spend

a lot of time on various conservative websites. Well, there are a couple of reasons for this.

One, if you listen to conservative talk radio, a lot of the conservative talk show hosts are

getting all their news from there. So it's duplicative. Two, I think it is very important

for you to hear what the other side is saying.

And three, a lot of these are actually where the original news comes from.

And what the conservative sites do is they regurgitate it with a conservative frame.

So you're getting the news.

And I prefer to deal with the primary sources.

And when the primary sources are of the left, I try to explain to you what's going on,

give you the analysis of it objectively and then point out how they're framing it on the left.

This is a good example of that.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to one of the largest old growth rainforests on the

planet earth it is a very large nation now if you can picture the African continent and

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