Greetings, welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. It is my show and I am just delighted to have you with me.

The phone number, if you want to be on the program, 877973-725.

I'm going to start this hour with phone calls. We have a lot of people who are holding and I am totally open to your call stay.

Now, I will look, this is not to shirk my responsibilities.

I actually have stuff I want to talk about,

but I will also confess I got to bed about 2 o'clock this morning.

So I got a buddy of mine and I have known him for a very long time and we

only see each other in person about once a decade. We chat back and forth all the time, text

messages and back and forth. He's a busy guy. I'm a busy guy. But he's going through some stuff and he's headed to a widespread panic concert in Atlanta tonight.

It was coming down for that and some other stuff and wanted to know if I would hang out.

And I said, sure.

And we got together at 5.30 yesterday and at 2 o'clock this morning figured it was probably time to go to bed.

So then I had to get up. I was in Atlanta, drive back to my house.

So I would rather hang out with you guys and take your calls, but I will get to the stuff I do want to talk about because I have stuff.

But we'll be more generous with phone calls as well.

I had a friend who needed to hang out more than I needed to do a bunch of show prep today.

It was more important. So I'm going to go to your coals and I'm going to start with Mark. Welcome to the show. Mark. How are you?

Hey, just fine. You're doing okay? Doing well. My question, I'm a farmer up here in northwest Georgia, uh, and, uh, around a

d'arful area. And I just want to know how as a country we can be so stupid to sell our

farmland to the Chinese. I mean, if somebody getting paid, I don't understand why we as a

country are that steeped. Why are we doing this? Well, you know why we as a country are that stupid.

Why are we doing this?

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