Hello, America. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the United States. It's an open line Friday, 8779373425 if you want to be on the program.

So by the way, thanks to all of you who gave me recommendations for Lake O'Connie and where to eat. The Silver Moon sounds like

it'll be it for tonight. You know, I was going to get a, so there's this Rich Carlton that is on Lake

O'Connor, George's very nice resort. A lot of great golf courses over there. And I thought,

you know what, I could, I hadn't seen my friend Drew in, well, we haven't actually seen each other in person. We met on Instagram. We've been friends for a while we've chatted on the phone and stuff and we're going to get to gather. It's like, I can get a room at the Ritz Carlton and just stay the night so I can stay up late visiting and not have to worry about driving home. The deer are everywhere at this time of year. There's not a hotel room. It's completely sold out, which is rare for that place.

And then I started looking everywhere is sold out, like all of the hotels or so.

It's like, what about Airbnb? They're all gone.

It's like, what on earth? I mean, this is in the middle of nowhereville, Georgia,

just so you understand. Lake O'Connor is gorgeous, this is in the middle of nowhereville, Georgia, just so you understand.

Lake O'Connellie's gorgeous, but it's the middle of nowhere, except I finally realized it's an hour from Athens, Georgia.

University of Georgia, Ole Miss game.

That's why there are no hotel rooms anywhere to be found or Airbnb's for that matter. My goodness

gracious. So I will be on my best behavior and drive home tonight after hanging out with my buddy

Drew. He's going hunting at 5 a.m. in the morning anyway. So Charlie, by the, for that matter,

is out hunting today. Charlie is in the woods in a deer stand. I got a text message

from him saying, hey, I'm going to the deer stand. No cell service. Talk to you Monday.

All right. My redneck call producer, got to go kill something.

Before I get to phone calls, we need to talk about the Senate for 2024 because the Republicans are mildly encouraged

now. Joe Manchin has decided he will not run for re-election in 2024.

And that is going to give the GOP an easy pickup.

So right now, in the elections for the 2024,

you're going to have big swing states.

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