Hello there. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The third hour of the program. There are three hours every day. The full number, should you wish to be a part of this year program, 877, 973, 745, I've got people who've waited very patiently on the phone lines. And I to talk to them but I got to tell you

something I'm going to talk about a topic here in a few moments some of you may get a

little upset with me on it but I hope you'll stick around because there's some data out

there some polling data for whatever that's worth on the rise of authoritarianism.

And I have some thoughts that some people are going to like.

Let's go first, though, to Justin.

You're going to be up next. Welcome.

Hey, Eric, how you doing?

Good. How are you?

I'm all right. Just finished up with work.

I'm first time caller, long time listener, probably one of your few millennial listeners.

You know, believe it or not, I actually have way more millennial listeners now than I thought

I did.

I got more 25 to 45 year olds than I do 60 I do 60-year-olds and up.

Well, that's good. That's good. We need our generation listening to some smart stuff.

I just had a question throwing back to you talking about Democrats voting for felons to get

the stimulus check. My question is, why do you care? It's, I mean, they're Americans. They've paid their debt to

society. No, no, no, no. You and I probably see an eye on this. If you're out of jail,

why shouldn't you get the check? If everybody else gets the check, no, the problem is that

the checks went to people who are still in jail. Oh, okay. I must have hopped in the car right at the tail end. Yeah, no, no, no, that's the problem here. So, you know, Sarnia of the Boston bomber, uh, who's in, I guess he's on death row. He got a stimulus check. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, that, no, I, I agree with you.

I think if you've done your time and you're back in society, we need to get you back in the workforce and help you out. And I actually think Republicans need to go a little further than they have in that level of criminal justice reform for people who they screwed up.

They made a mistake.

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