Greetings, conversationalists. Welcome. I am delighted to have you. It's Eric Erickson here across the nation. The full number is 877-9-373-7-4-25. If you text my name, Eric, E-R-I-C-K, if you text that to 33-777, I will send you back a text message with all

the relevant links to find me on social media, find the show on podcast and live stream and

the website and all the interviews I conducted.

I personally am biased.

I thought six of the eight on stage sat down with me for 45-minute interviews. I learned more from them then than I did last night of the debate.

But housekeeping matter to get out of the way with you.

I am exhausted.

Just so you know, normally when I do the gathering, I take off the Monday and Tuesday, but I couldn't

this week. We had a presidential debate. I had to be here today. I've done TV hits through the night

this week. I've got to be on CNN and News Nation tonight. Leland Vittert show on News

Nation, Anderson Cooper Show on CNN at 8 o'clock. It has been a crazy week. I gave Charlie

today off. He is completely burned out, just wiped out after the gathering. And I am too,

I had to be here, though. I'm not coming to work tomorrow. I intend to sleep late. It is my

kid's 18th birthday this weekend. We're going to take her out of town after school. So I am, I'm exhausted. I am, Philip last night was like, are you getting enough rest? No, I am not getting enough rest. My assistant asked me if I had done some thank you notes. I needed to do it's like, when have I had time? I time I'm like trying not to snap at everybody Charlie is irritable and he has taken his family to

the beach for a few days of rest I am exceedingly irritable at this point and trying

to be kind to everyone calling 877-973-745 I'm gonna start half hour with phone calls to get your reactions and thoughts or questions about the debate that you saw last night on Fox News.

Let's go to Ben.

You're up next.

Welcome.

Hey, Eric.

I was watching the debate last night, and with everything I saw and everything I heard on the stage, the thing that shocked me the most actually happened off stage when Fox News cut to commercials and all of a sudden I saw a commercial for TikTok and it floored me and I just wanted to get your opinion on that, the optics of it, and, you know, why you think maybe Fox

might have accepted that revenue at such a critical time, given that they're supposed

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