Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

I'm back. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Back from, well, the nation's capital. I was going to say something impolite, but I actually do like the city.

Just my goodness. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The phone number. If you want to be on the

program, 87797-973-725. Thank you to Victor for filling in for me while I was out.

I do want to spend time on your phone calls today. I know a lot of you have questions because I have seen the questions.

And in my head, as I go through it right now, I am continuing to put the show together.

Normally I have it done by now.

And technically on paper, I have an outline for how I want to do the show today.

The problem is that the news keeps changing so much.

There's so much going on here that I really feel like I need to shake it up a little bit.

And the primary reason for shaking it up is because the more I've thought about it,

I actually think something really significant happened yesterday while I was flying back from Washington, D.C.

You may not get this from a lot of people, but I actually think that you really do need to notice a pattern of something that happened yesterday.

And it took me until just a few minutes ago to really just put together how significant it was.

And I know I'm right on this.

I know I'm right on this. And the reason I'm right on this. I know I'm right on this.

And the reason I'm right on this is because these things don't happen in coincidence.

Now, what do I mean?

Well, yesterday, the president of the United States spoke twice to the American public.

About oil companies, about spending, about inflation, in the national mood.

He answered questions. This is one of the things the president said.

We're calling it a ready and release plan. This allows us to move quickly to prevent oil price spikes

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