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Hello, America. Welcome. I hope you had a great weekend. It's Eric Erickson here across the nation.

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Look, we've got the presidential fundraising numbers.

I want to get to that to the weekend, the event in Iowa, all of that, but I actually want to start somewhere else first. In fact, I want to start in Canada, of all things. Now, there's a larger story here. Bear with me. Be patient. I am a professional. Some of you may think otherwise.

I saw this story circulating online, and it is a playoff of an older story, but it actually is from this weekend.

A group of Canadian parents say their kids are so addicted to the video game Fortnite that their children have stopped eating,

sleeping, and showering. Now the parents want to hold its tech giant creator accountable.

They lost their kids to Fortnite is the title of the piece. And they start with poor old Cody, who was seven years old,

who wanted to play soccer. And then the pandemic hit, soccer was shut down, school in martial

arts went online instead of bouncing around. He was suddenly trapped at home and on his Xbox.

His parents were uneasy with Fortnite's violence, but he was only nine by then.

The game was rated 13 plus, but quote, its cartoonishness allayed their worries the game looked less like a

battlefield and more like a Pixar produced acid trip at the beginning of every

round Cody boarded a flying blue school bus he'd skydive to a vast vibrant island

dotted with winsively named landmarks.

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