Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Hello there. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Across America, the phone number is 877-97-97-373-7-4-25.

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Click that top link. And I actually want to spend a moment here and not talk about headlines, which I normally do. By the way, Nancy Pelosi is about to announce her future on the floor of the house. I'm sure you're all interested. But I have a lot to say today about the news, and I'm going to need to ask

your forgiveness for approaching this in some other way first. We are a week from Thanksgiving.

We are one week from Thanksgiving.

The cost of a meal for Thanksgiving is extraordinarily high this year.

Every year at this time, I partner with a group called Hungry for a Day.

Their request is very simple.

You don't eat today.

And the money you are going to spend on your Starbucks cup of coffee or your chick-fil-a or your meal today, donate it to a family that is hungry every day.

You be hungry for a day so that those who are hungry every day can have a Thanksgiving meal.

Now, whether you do that or not, I really actually want to ask your help.

And so if you will just text donate to 3377, or you can go to the website, Eric Thanksgiving, Eric, my name, E-R-I-C-K, Thanksgiving.com, and you can help provide a meal for a family at Thanksgiving who needs help this year.

I bring this up for a couple of reasons.

Probably someone you know, and I may be

talking to you right now and it's you. There is someone out there right now in your circle of

friends who is actually struggling under the burden of debts, maybe got too far into debt, struggling to pay off credit card,

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