Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson Show nationwide. The phone number is 877997, Eric, 877-977-9-373-7-4-25. If you want to be a part of the program, you can always follow me. I like Instagram best E.W. Erickson, but it's E. W. Erickson everywhere. You can also get the

podcast. If you text the word show to 33777, you can do that. I'm probably going to have an

extra stack of stuff today. It's a little spillover from the show because there's so much stuff

going on and we had to get to

the Stephen Breyer breaking news out of the gate. I want to stick with what I was going to go with this hour. There's so much stuff I hadn't been able to get to. I'll see if I can cram it in here, but you can always get the podcast for the extra. For those of you who don't live in Georgia, I'm mindful now.

You know, I've got a lot of people who still

that they reach out from the state legislature

and say, hey, can I get on the show to talk about this, that or the other in the state of Georgia, having been for a decade, just a Georgia show and now suddenly nationwide. I'm very mindful of the fact that I don't want to talk about hyper-local stuff in Georgia with you guys nationwide,

whether you're in Las Vegas or Arizona or Oklahoma or Ohio, Florida, North Carolina,

wherever you're listening.

But you do need to know this, and this begins in Georgia and spreads out nationwide.

I have long been a well-known and documented critic of the Speaker of the House in Georgia.

And he of me, we don't exactly see eye to eye on stuff.

I think he's been an obstacle to conservative reform, from school choice to

Second Amendment rights to religious freedom and liberty in Georgia. He is. He constantly

uses Democratic votes to block the Republicans, even though he's a Republican. We're just

not fans of each other. But I have to give him some praise.

He has put forward a piece of legislation

for the state legislature to consider with a bipartisan coalition

to support reform and expand the funding of mental health in the state of Georgia.

David Ralston wants to expand access to mental health providers and to cover costs so people

can get help.

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