Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. I hope you're ready for a weekend. It's official. Today is an open line day.

Your job is to make me look good.

So if you have questions about things, you can call in today.

We don't really care about the topic.

Why?

Because Charlie's in the woods.

So, you know, I've got a great team around me.

I've been very blessed over the years.

Charlie and Philip both stalked me over the internet. Now they won't let me meet people like that anymore. Funny how that works. Literally, when I first got into radio, Charlie reached out to me on Twitter. And he says, hey, man, you need somebody to get your coffee? Well, you know, he flew down from, from he was living in Missouri, but he's from Montana, came down here, earned his keep with me at the Republican Convention in Tampa in 2012. And I was so impressed. The pig farmer boss was so impressed. I finally negotiated my country. He's like, we've got to hire this guy. Well, then he was like, you've got to stop meeting people over Twitter. Well, then Philip reached out and, well, they've both kind of become indispensable

in my life. I mean, they both, I mean, are kind of indispensable. And of course, of course,

they have timed days off exactly so that they are they are gone today.

But I have the indispensable team of Jim and Ann who are going to be with us today.

Charlie is way out in the woods, no cell phone range.

So I can take calls on pretty much anything as long as you're sane, sober, and have an

articulate point.

And he won't even know.

Philip is on the baby-making cruise where that already happened.

So basically, this is the cruise where his wife gets declared him for drinking margaritas

that she can't.

It became a baby moon cruise.

They'll be back next week.

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