Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Two.

Hello America. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here across the nation. The phone number

87737-97537-7-425.

Really, really delighted to have you with me.

As I mentioned in the last hour, if you text data, the word data,

or you can text Eric, E-R-I-C-K, either one, to 33-777.

And you click the link into my show notes.

You can see the agenda for the gathering.

It happens August 17th to the 19th. It's going to be here in Atlanta. The Grand Hyde

Buckhead. We've got a number of the major presidential candidates coming. Governor

Glenn Yonkin of Virginia not running for president is going to come. Governor Brian Kemp of

Georgia not running for president is going to come. But Mike Pence, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Vivek, Rameshwamy, Ron DeSantis. They're all going to be there as well. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Joni Ernst of Iowa. A number of others are coming. We're kind of in the last 17-day scramble. We've got to find a printer to print the signs and the lanyards and the bags. And we've got to put the final closing touches on the welcome reception and all that is going to be a busy, busy time. Now, these next 17 days getting the printing done and the final setup done. But it's going to be great. We've got some great sponsors.

And I'm excited. Many of you I know have tickets from around the country.

We've got 47 states coming. We do not have Alaska, Hawaii, or Vermont.

But we got got people from the other states coming. It's going to be good.

Looking forward to it. Now, I want to switch yours. And by the way, for those of you can't come, we're going to run clips on the show.

If you have subscribed to my substack, you'll get clips of the video interviews.

You know, the format for this is nobody's allowed to give a speech.

I used to let people give speeches, then spend 10 minutes taking questions from the crowd. And now what I do is I just in advance get questions from the crowd, and I ask them questions on stage,

and it's a 30-minute conversation. And really what I want from the presidential candidates is, is why should people

vote for you instead of these other people? What makes you more qualified? And I want to give

them the opportunity to tell their story, but I don't want them to filibuster. So it's a conversation.

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