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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

Greetings, conversationalists.

Welcome.

It's Eric Erickson here.

Back in my home studio, well, my making studio.

Oh, my gosh, it is nice to be done.

Six hours of reading a book every day and then three hours of radio as well.

It's just been an exhausting. So Jim was talking before and he was not betting on my voice holding up.

And to be honest with you, I wasn't either. But here we are, and we got a lot to talk about. A lot. Yesterday, if you're a subscriber to my substack, you got the monologue from

Monday yesterday about Barack Obama and Joe Biden and how I realize there are a lot of

conservatives who like to say Barack Obama is in charge.

The reality, however, is that he is not.

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