Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here, the third hour of the program today. I'll take your

phone call, should you wish, 877973-7-425. Before I do, we should talk about crack pipes.

I am somewhat skeptical in nature, particularly when the herd heads in one direction.

My disposition, and it's just it's my personality, it always has been, is that when everyone is headed in one direction I tend to either dig my

heels in and say no I'll watch and wait or I go in the other direction and

rarely am I wrong for doing so the herd can run off the cliff the lemmings run off

the cliff it's goodmings run off the cliff.

It's good sometimes to just observe.

You know, so I'm obviously I do talk radio for living.

I talk for three hours a day.

And Charlie, my producer is notorious for going to a meeting and saying nothing.

Keeps his mouth shut, says nothing.

It makes people nervous, actually,

because he's a kind of intimidating person to look at.

You're like, I'm going to run into this guy,

and it's going to cause me trouble.

It's the scowl and the tattoos, really.

But nonetheless, I go to meetings with him,

and it's always great because we go to meetings and he just says nothing,

never, he just listens.

And people don't realize he's actually mute.

He can't speak.

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