Hello there. It is Eric Erikson here. If you would like to call in, you're more than welcome.

877-9-7-9-7-9-7-3-425. I'm tired of talking about all the political headlines and all the

Nien-N-Yin back together. I want to talk about something else,

although it does have political implications here.

I try to be friends with people.

I don't consider myself a nasty person.

I realize there are people who do.

Some people on the right do, oh, you're so condescending to me. Well, you know, sometimes just pointing out that you're an idiot. It hurts your feelings. People on the left are really, oh, you're just one of those condescending evangelical, Christian, conservative. Yeah. Number of people who've tried to throw me off the air over the years because I've hurt

their soul is something.

I try to be as affable as I can and to show grace to people who don't have any interest

in showing it to me.

They come up with an excuse to not.

And I can tell you, one of the more interesting things in my life to see and to

note is this recurring pattern. You know the people who hate me the most. So I've said this

several times and people think I'm joking and I'm really not. On more than one occasion,

I have literally been at a urinal peeing in the airport

and had people recognize me and decide to come start yelling at me while I'm peeing

while I'm exposed and I've never turned around to confront them.

Probably should.

I one time in North Atlanta went into a Chick-fil-A.

I was on my way up to a fundraising event for a friend of mine who was running for office.

I had to stop to use the bathroom.

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