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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

Greetings, conversationalist, welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here across the fruited plane, and I am delighted to have you with me. The full number is 87797-9-7-3-7-4-25, should you wish to be on the show.

Yes, yes, yes, I want to talk about Joe Biden's speech last night.

Let me start with Biden's speech. So Joe Biden addressed the

nation last night from the Oval Office. And I want to note again that the audio levels were

raised on Joe Biden so that you could hear a lot of the background.

You could hear, for example, someone turning pages.

The reason is because Joe Biden was speaking quietly.

They had to boost the levels on his microphone.

So let me do an experiment for you here.

So I got my levels here.

Now I'm going to raise my levels up like this.

I sound really overmodulated, don't I?

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