Hello there. Welcome. It is Eric Erikson here. The Eric Erikson Show across the nation.

Glad to have you with me. The phone number, if you want to be on the show program,

877-977-9-7-9-7-3-4-25. I got a I got to back up a little bit and I didn't expect

to have to do this and I wasn't going to plan on doing this but I feel like I need to given the amount of I guess I should say it was conversation

I've had with you guys for lack of a better word because it hasn't just been emails I've

been trying to engage with everyone and I've become to this point overwhelmed.

And so I feel like I, and I really wasn't prepared for it. I had a flippant moment the other day where I, I don't like to talk about myself that much on the program than I did. And it struck

accord with people. And I feel like I got to revisit it now that I've had time to really think about it.

I mentioned the other day, the 11th, to be precise, that it was my 11th anniversary on radio.

You know, I never intended to be in radio. I really did not intend to be a radio.

I am not a radio guy. I don't think it's funny for people who come up to me and say, oh, you have a voice for radio. Do you know that when I first started in radio, one of the big complaints is that I did not have a voice for radio. I was annoying to listen to. They didn't like my voice. I was very self-conscious about it. I have changed my voice, but now so, oh, you've got a voice for radio.

Yeah, I got a face for print, too.

I was a lawyer. I practiced law for five, six years in Macon, Georgia, went to Mercia University

of Law School, really didn't want to practice law. I wanted to go to Washington, D.C. I went to law school because then congressman, future Senator Saxby Chambers, told me it was the MBA for politics. You want to go into politics in Washington and go to law school. So I did. And as a lawyer, I started running campaigns around the country. It became a political operative, a campaign manager. I did polling,

I did ads. I mean, I did everything. And while it being a campaign strategist for federal and state

and local campaigns, who was a volunteer attorney for President Bush and his reelection in 2004.

And in 2004, a lady from MSNBC called and I was helping run Redstate.com at the time, became the editor of Red State, had helped get it off the ground.

They wanted someone on the right to come cover the election in 2004 up in New York.

Socaucus, New Jersey was where they were headquartered at the time.

And they had a couple left-wing bloggers.

They won one conservative and a couple of lefties. And so I volunteered. The guys at Red State told me

to do it. I did it. And it was my first brush with television and I loved it. It was a lot of fun.

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