Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Greetings, conversationalists. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. This fine day.

Phone lines are open. It's a free-for-all for you all to call in 877 973 725 we hadn't

taken a lot of phone calls this week i felt guilty but there's been so much going on trying to catch up

and now we'll take your calls if you want to call in but first the news 14 Republican holdouts have changed their votes to support Kevin McCarthy's

speakership.

It's the 12th ballot.

This is the longest speaker contest since 1856.

That one was settled on, I believe, nine ballots.

We're now headed into the 13th ballot. Maybe the 13th will be the charm.

Also, the boss says that the ratings are back on and so I better not suck. So you got to listen.

Look, I was going to actually talk about environmentalist right now, but I got to talk about something that has just come on my radar, a text from a friend.

This is actually a big deal.

You all know Palm Beach County.

Palm Beach County in Florida is a bright Democratic area.

Remember back in the day, it was where the butterfly ballot was that caused all the

problems in 2000s. Where all the rich people live in Palm Beach? It's been, I've never understood

why so many rich Republicans lived in a county that was so hostile to Republicans with so many

Democrats. Rush Limba, lived at Palm Beach

and had that prosecutor go after him back in the day

and the newspaper down there went after him for a while.

And it's just it was, it was a mess.

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