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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Hello, America. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the United States of America.

Delighted to have you with me. The full number is 877973-4425 should you wish to be on the program. We're going to go off the

beaten path now, away from the news overseas, away from the markets, although oil is back below

$100. I've got CNBC pulled up on my TV, and everybody's very happy.

Oil prices are going back down.

I'm also seeing this continued campaign online from individuals who are sending out fake AI-generated footage or old footage to claim that Iran is, for example, destroyed a U.S. oil taker, among other things.

Also, it is beginning to dawn on the press that what's happening in the Straits of Hormuz is that

oil tankers are turning off their transponders navigating the Straits of Hormuz and then

turning the transponders back on. So the idea that there's nothing flowing through the

Straits of Hormos is actually false.

What's actually happening is they're turning off their transponder, so it looks like there are no ships in the Straits of Ormoos.

And then when they get on the other side, they're turning their transponders back on.

It makes it harder to find them in the Straits, and they do visual site navigation.

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