Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Howdy, welcome. It is Eric Erickson here, the Eric Erickson show. I know, can you believe

the name of the show is my name? And it's my real name, not even a stage name.

You'd be amazed at the number of people who think it is.

But nope, my mama really named me Eric Erickson.

And I am like the 16th in a row there.

The phone number is 877-977-9-7-3-7-4-25.

If you want to be on the program, it's free for all for the weekend.

I'm just delighted to have you call in. You can talk about stuff that's off the beaten path today because,

well, that's what I'm doing. But I want to talk about the merchant of death.

The merchant of death is the Brittany Griner trade for the Russian arms dealer who was called the merchant of death.

And the Biden administration argues to some degree that, well, he's old now,

but the Pentagon is convinced that he's going to go back into arms trading. And they're deeply concerned.

One of the things that this guy was doing before he was arrested was selling arms to individuals to target the American military and the DEA.

Yes, he was selling arms, particularly to cartels in Mexico, to kill American military and drug enforcement agents.

And the Pentagon is now worried that he just might go back to selling arms to those who would kill our military and our drug enforcement agents who go south of the border.

There's real grave concern about that in the military.

And yet he's been traded for a WNBA star.

They traded someone who actually can shoot for a WNBA star.

I mean, let's just let's let's put this just matter factly, honestly.

You're trading a man that call the merchant of death for a WNBA star,

as opposed to for Paul Whelan, the Marine.

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