Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 2.

Hello America.

It is Eric Erickson here, the second hour of the program, and it's a free-for-all on the phones today.

You can call in about your preferred topic.

The phone number is 87797-973425, a word, if you will, out of the gate.

And I'm actually going to start.

We've got a few people on hold about the last hour.

I want to go on and clear the field there before we move on.

But you can

still call in about that. But just a real word here. You, the audience, do not have the right

to be on the air. You get the privilege of being on the air with me.

I say this because we have an aggrieved caller who is very, very angry that the call

screter chose not to put the caller on.

Now, I personally, like the idea occasionally

of having a few people who say nonsensical things come on air because we all do need to be

reminded that clowns exist. But I say this because you get nowhere with me when you email me and tell me that the call

screeter was mean to you, was not nice to you, that you expected to get on because you had

a point out.

I'm sorry.

I have a call screener because not everyone gets all.

Your job as a caller is to make me look good.

Actually, it's not.

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