Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 1.

Hello, America, welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here across the United States of America.

Absolutely delighted to have you with me.

The phone number 877-973-7-4-25,

should you wish to be on the program.

That little buzz was me plugging something into my computer

because I forgot to do it.

I'm in studio today.

Now, look, we're going to play audio from the debate.

Fox has loosened the rules, thankfully.

If you will recall, in the first Fox debate, you could only play a handful of minutes of audio of the debate, or Fox's lawyers

would come after you. And so many people complained, they decided that they would

loosen up the rules. And so I want to, I'll take your phone calls, I'll get your reaction

to the debate. But before I even get to all the audio and in dive through the clips, I want to just talk about the debate.

Because I'm not happy.

I think that debate was extremely disrespectful to the candidates and to the audience who wanted to actually learn

something from the candidates.

Instead, they were subjected to Democratic National Committee talking points on behalf

of Univision that you could barely understand.

They were subjected to bad audio, bad acoustics, bad echoes, bad cross-talk,

bad moderators, and stupid questions like the survivor question at the end. It allowed Ron DeSantis

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