My goodness, the New York Times wants you to know that wages are up, wages are up, wages are up,

5.5% thanks to Joe Biden, wages are up. Did I mean, did I tell you wages are up? Did you all know

wages are up? The New York Times wants you to know wages are up 5.5%. If you read the story,

you will be hard pressed to note. Inflation is up 8.5%, meaning that actually there's been a decline in buying power of 3% for all those wage increases.

Yeah, that's why Joe Biden is not doing well.

Welcome.

It's Eric Erickson here.

The phone number is 8779773-725. I want a word, if you will. I want to just talk to you, at you, with you. I'll take your phone calls. We get an increasing number of people who sometimes call and say, why am I your host

not talking about this thing everybody else is talking about? Why am I not talking about

this thing? You want me to talk about. Why am I not talking about this, that, or the other?

And I want to talk about that.

Why do I talk about some things and not other things?

Why do I talk about some things you talk about and talk about them in different ways?

Why do I sometimes focus so much on major media outlets

and not fringe outlets from the right?

Or small outlets that you like.

The easy answer is it's my show, but it's actually far more complex than that.

And I don't mind pulling back the curtain because I've gotten so many comments from so many people lately on why don't I?

There are a number of reasons why.

And, you know, I do a daily email and truth be told,

Philip actually puts it together for me.

I outline everything I want to talk about on the show.

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