Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. I hope you had a great weekend. The phone number

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Erickson.

I guess I should trademark it.

I don't know.

Anyway, hope you had a good weekend.

I want to start with the thing everybody's been talking about over the weekend.

Lots and lots and lots of growing buzz complaining and the like about Joe Rogan.

Now, for those of you unfamiliar, and by now you've probably all heard his name, but for

those who are unfamiliar, Joe Rogan has a podcast.

A few years ago, a year ago, actually, I think.

Joe Rogan signed a $100 million exclusivity deal with Spotify that he would only host his podcast on Spotify.

Now, the reason for this is Joe Rogan's podcast is the biggest podcast.

Joe Rogan's podcast, every episode is heard by 11 or so million people.

More people listen to Joe Rogan than listen to any show on Fox or CNN or MSNBC,

many of them combined. He's got a massive presence. The only thing greater than Joe Rogan's presidents is one of the major talk radio show hosts out there,

whether it's Dave Ramsey or Glenn Beck or really Sean Hannity.

They have massive audiences equal to or larger than Joe Rogan.

That's it.

But of course, of course, the media doesn't cover those because the media only covers what the media is interested in.

The media doesn't listen to conservative talk radio, but the media does listen to podcasts.

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