Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

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

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Really glad to have you with me.

I've been mentioning that David Brooks column, I read a chunk of it in the first hour.

There are some ancillary details to it that I want to get into right now.

And if you're not familiar with it, you should get the show notes.

Text data to 33777, get the show notes.

But the headline in the New York Times by David Brooks on anti-Trumpers in the modern

meritocracy.

And David Brooks essentially asks the elite of America to consider maybe they are not the good guy in the story and maybe their

actions have provoked Trumpism.

I, we can, I'll be candid with you.

I get frustrated on occasion as I'm. I'll be candid with you.

I get frustrated on occasion as I grow this radio program.

And I know other friends in radio have the frustration as well.

So much of it depends on who you know and your connections.

I started off being a lawyer and through my law firm was connected to a group of guys starting a website called Red State. I was asked to take over. I became the editor of

Red State. I left my law job to be the editor of Red

State, which led to a job at CNN for three years, which led to a job in talk radio, and then

transitioned to Fox News for five years. And I have, to a degree, I do think, paid somewhat of a penalty for living in Middle Georgia.

I live and typically broadcast from Macon, Georgia. For a long time, I had to drive up to my studio in Atlanta every day.

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