Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our 2.

Hello America.

It is Eric Erickson here across the nation.

The phone number, if you want to be on the program, 877-973-725. Truly delighted to have you.

Well, today, we are four weeks from the midterms. Four weeks from today, really 28 days from today, will be the midterm elections for the

United States of America. Now, I know this is kind of dumb for some of you for me to say this,

but I know my listenership, and it's really odd, y'all. Let me just, let me pull up this

sheet because I've been tracking this.

And I find it just fascinating this data. Let me, this is my live stream data that I've

been keeping track of. I have people, here are the countries.

Albania, Algeria, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech

Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Montenegro,

Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, the UK, and Zambia.

These are the countries where I have people listening to me right now.

It's a little bit bizarre.

And then I have Alabama and North Dakota and Hawaii and Vermont and who knows who's listening.

So I want to, for all of you who may be listening, home and abroad, just explain this to you very quickly.

In this country, legislative races happen every two years typically at the state and federal level because as the

winds of the people change and they wish to hold their executive accountable, the founders

thought it was important for the people every two years to be able to replace their representatives

as their moods change.

The executive branch in this country, by and large, is replaced every four years because

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