Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Oh my gosh, my headphones are so loud. Hang on. I'm in studio, like the real studio. How is everybody in radio deaf? Turn the volume down and save your hearing. Good Lord. Wow. Wow. This sucker was up on eight. Good Lord. Okay. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. I feel like I'm yelling at myself in my ears.

Erickson, why are you so loud? The phone number here is 877973, 745, if you want to be on the program.

I got a deal with the Democratic dilemma, if you will.

And I realize if you're a Democratic partisan listening,

and believe it or not, man, they listen because I get hate mail all the time.

Oh, by the way, I would like to wish Willie Nelson happy 420 Day.

I hope he has some good brownies.

We got to talk about the Democratic Dilemma.

Because I actually am just as a student of politics, I am fascinated by what's going on here.

Now, let me back up and let me start from a way to personally connect to this.

So, I'm in studio today. Normally, I do the show out of my home studio. It's been a real blessing to be able to work out of my house, given my wife's health and dealing with the kids and stuff.

If she is worn out, I can get the kids from school, things like that.

And so I come up to the studio about every other week or so I try because you never know

who's here, who's not, who's been hired, who's been fired, who's been fired, who's quit.

Good Lord, last 24 hours.

But when I leave, when I'm not there, so we put up clips on YouTube and Facebook, Instagram,

and in the studio, I don't have a camera set up to be able to do that.

So Philip, who runs the digital side of the operation, says, you know, make sure you record things. So when you're gone, I'll continue to roll out clips on social media. So people are coming back every day. You don't want people to forget to come back. You want to get them in the habit of coming. It's good for the show.

It's good for revenue. It's good for all that stuff. And you plan. Say, all right, I'm going on vacation these days. So I need to cut up these clips and leave them and make the, I need to do a

couple of monologues here and there. Yeah, everybody in radio does this. I need to do some, some monologues here and there. Yeah, everybody in radio does this.

I need to do some monologues that are timeless so that they can be dropped in if we have a best of show on one of those days.

And it'll sound fresh.

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