My fellow Americans, welcome. It's Eric Erickson here across the United States of America. I'm delighted to have you with me. The phone number is 877-97-9-3-7-4-25. If you would like to be on the program, if you text the word Eric, E-R-I-C-K, you can get the live stream, the podcast, the show notes, everything.

Now, one note, Charlie, it's his birthday weekend.

I will allow him a couple of days off.

The result is that Philip, who probably should be listening right now since it's his day job, is in charge of the podcast. So if the podcast does not go up immediately on time the way Charlie would, that's why. No hate mail, please. You'd be amazed. Now, of course, y'all are listening live. And the problem is that people, like at 3.45 today, if it's not up, I'm going to start getting emails.

Where's the podcast? Where's the podcast? You should be listening live on your local radio station.

However, we haven't expanded everywhere yet. We're getting close to world domination. We're not there yet. So you may be in a market where we're not there yet.

One of those markets is Aurora, Colorado, where a whole lot of people have emailed me,

and I can tell you're listening because I see how many people a day listen on the live stream, and there are a lot in Colorado.

Like, have you heard about the Brazilian gang TDA, T-D-A, Tren de Aragua?

It's a gang that has allegedly taken over parts of the city. I started looking

online and there are a whole lot of newspaper articles about it. Now, side note, here is one of my

concerns.

When I look and see the stories, I see a bunch of right-wing websites talking about the

Venezuelan gang that's taken over Aurora, Colorado.

When I don't see any mainstream news outlets like the New York Times and others covering it,

my first thought is, well, they don't want to make Joe Biden and Kamaharis look bad.

However, then I turn to local media.

And here's what I know about local media.

Local media tends to be more conservative than national media.

Not all local media, but most local media tends to lean to the right.

The local anchors and stuff have been in the communities.

They tend to be a little more conservative.

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