Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 1.

Hello America, welcome.

It's Eric Erickson here across the United States of America and online around the world right now.

That's kind of weird. The phone number 877-97-973-4725. I say it's kind of big because every once in a while, like when I'm picking up new

stations, I try to look. We've got live streaming metrics. If you text Eric to 33777, you get the live

stream.

And we can track the people by city.

I can see how many people are listing such and such city.

So when we're headed to a new station or we're trying to get a new station,

I can say, look, I've already got X number of people in your area listing.

Like I've got several thousand people I used to be on in middle Georgia where I live and I'm not right now. And it's we've got more people I'm

convinced listening online than they've got listening to the radio station. But I notice like I'm

really big in Singapore. And all I can think is it's got to be VPNs or something because I get the thousands of people a day listening in Singapore. It's just kind of weird to think about. In any of it, here I am. And I want to not talk about raw politics right now. We don't need to talk about Laura Boe. By the way, that was the first date. Did y'all hear she said yesterday. She gave an interview. It was the first

date. She's getting handsy in the theater when he's rubbing all over her breasts and it was the

first date. Good Lord. Let's just run through all the bases on the first date. Oh my gosh.

We don't need to talk about that. There's actually a really

big story we need to talk about and it's not going to get attention. I get asked a lot,

how do you do show prep? And I keep a little outline of stories I want to talk about. And I try to

find the stories that I actually think are the most important story that

nobody else are talking about. And sometimes there's an obvious, like, really big story. For example,

we will get to here shortly the front page above the fold story about anxiety building among

Democrats. They're trying to get the seasoned members of the Senate to go to the White House and tell Joe Biden you need to not run again.

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