Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One.

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Across the nation, the full number is 8779773-745.

If you want to be on the program, Scott Slade, this is for an audience of one.

Scott Slade, thank you for your kind words last night.

The measure of my affection is that I sat there the whole time.

If you know, you know.

Given the choice between giving birth to a velociraptor out my rear end or that again,

I think I might take the dinosaur.

But for you, I would go to that.

Okay.

Now, I can.

I just, just, I got it, that had to be in the record, had to be the record. I got to move on. I got to talk about today. I want to begin with audio. I actually just saw. So I didn't even get Charlie to cut this up for me because I'm just seeing this actually from J.D. Vance's account.

And this goes to a larger issue.

This is Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio on local TV in Ohio.

Talk to Senator J.D. Vance and he says he does not agree with the federal government's bailout of Silicon Valley Bank.

But if a small community bank in Southwestern Ohio or Central Ohio or any other place in Ohio

actually had a massive run on their bank, would they get bailed out in the same way by the

federal government, I actually think the answer is no.

And that's a big problem because what it means is that if you have politically connected friends, you benefit from these bailouts. If you don't have politically connected friends, then you suffer,

and that's a real problem in our banking system. Exactly that. Exactly that. I, I, I, I, I, there's,

there's a tie in here. There, there is a tie in here. And, um, I, I, there's, there's a tie in here. There, there is a tie in here.

And, um, I, I, you know what?

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