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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour two.

My fellow Americans, I am delighted to be back with you as the eclipse begins across America.

Welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here.

The full number, 87737-9-7-3-7-4-25. If you text Eric, E-R-I-C-K to 33-777, you can get social me. A lot of you following me on Instagram these days. I appreciate it. It's where I get to put up my cooking pictures and other fun stuff. Now, I, so I'm not going to spend a bunch of time on the whole eclipse situation,

but it's relevant to the conversation that I wish to talk about.

The number of people who have decided to think in terms of doom and gloom, you need to understand, pessimism is a choice, and I'm a natural pessimist.

I mean, my motto is why pray when I can worry?

But the media is taking this to new heights.

I don't watch a lot of TV news.

I used to be in the TV news.

I was a talking head on television and occasionally still do.

I've got to be on TV this week.

Frankly, one reason I like News Nation, and particularly Leland Vittert show on News Nation that I'm on regularly. It's one of the few shows where I try to always say yes to it because one, I like him. He's a great guy. And two, the show, it's not a, it's not a doom and gloom show. It's just here's the news, not trying to build anxiety.

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