I'm here. It really is me and I really am live.

Oh, I'm firing up the audio too quick. Look, you would think I was a professional here.

Welcome. It is Eric Erikson here. The phone number, if you would like to be on the program,

877-97-973425. a um the illness sweep through the house uh and i'd go get the kids

from school and then had to take them to the doctor so i have been scrambling around my wife has

strep throat so i am playing doctor dad and uh sadly given the way things are going I'm not going to be able to go to the

masters after all very disappointed but that's okay getting the family well is more important

I guess maybe all right we got stuff to talk about y'all I was I was a little bit heartbroken

but by having everybody in the house gets sick this morning because today is my favorite

day of every even numbered year I realize you don't know this today is the day that I look forward to. It is the day, so I'm a political

junkie. I love politics. I mean, I'll talk about all the different news. You see a theology,

culture, you name, and I'll talk about it all, but this is one of my favorite things to do

in politics. And today is the day to be able to do it.

And I wanted to start the show with Gus today. And now I can an hour later than expected.

But today's the day. It is the day the media analysis of ad campaigns comes out, meet the press.

God bless Chuck Todd.

He is an ad nerd like I am when it comes to this, regardless of what you think about

Chuck Todd.

I happen to like the guy.

Chuck Todd loves political ad campaigns, and I love political ad campaigns.

I used to do political advertisements.

And there's actually a methodology to the ad campaigns.

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