Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here, the Eric Erickson Show nationwide, as I have been doing since so many of my affiliates are in the state of Georgia. I decided, you know, third hour of the program, I've said enough. I'll let these politicians come in and take over for an hour. Surely politicians know how to talk or would-be ones. I've invited all the Georgia Senate candidates for the Republicans. There's no

reason to invite Raphael Warnock on. We all know where he stands. He's the incumbent. I've invited

all the Republicans, all but one have taken me up on the offer. Next Monday, Georgia's ad commissioner,

Gary Black joins me. Kelvin King and Josh Clark were last week.

Joining me in studio now is one of the other candidates, Latham Sadler. How are you?

I'm great, Eric. Thank you so much for having me on.

So you got a full hour here to make your case, and I really want to start where I've started with everybody.

Biography. Who are you?

Yes, sir. So I'm Latham Sadler. I'm a proud

native son of the state. I was born in Atlanta, but my mother's from a small town in southwest

Georgia called Bainbridge. I'm a proud husband to my wife, Melissa, and our two young boys,

Bubba and Marshall. Bubba just turned five last week and Marshall just

turned two last month, went to the University of Georgia, Go Dogs, finally got that national

championship, and Eric, while I was there, 9-11 happened. And obviously that changed all of our

lives forever. But in my case, I didn't have any plans to join

the military till that day and made up my mind that I wanted to serve as a Navy SEAL officer

had no idea what the heck I was getting myself into and met a retired Navy SEAL captain

who I shared my plans with and he proceeded to tell me I didn't have a blank chance of getting selected.

So it led me on a really kind of long and interesting journey where I spent the majority of my 20s trying to get there.

So I went to Georgia Tech for a master's in international affairs, became fluent in Farsi and Dari, the languages they speak in Iran, Afghanistan, parts of Tajikistan, lived in the region while I was in school for a full academic year, so 10 months, backpacked through all of northern Afghanistan, and then came home and six years after that conversation with that seal put in my application of the Navy and

finally got selected and Eric I was 29 years old when I was out in Coronado, California and seal training.

And I was the grandpa of my class. I was the oldest officer. Wow. I was the only Georgia boy. And, you know, I tell folks it really was a miracle. I made it at that age. I broke my foot in what's called Hell Week. Being a Georgia boy, I was not a natural in the water. But, you know, God led me through. And I had a career that I could have never dreamed of. I deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. And then in 2016, I was out on some presidentially approved special missions.

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