Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Greetings America. Welcome. It is an open line Friday here on the Eric Erickson show.

The phone number, 873-745.

Should you wish to be on the program?

You get to help steer the conversation today, which is fantastic because I had a late night

last night doing a charity event where I let people drink from my bourbon collection.

I myself, I want you to know I had

nothing whatsoever to drink other than a Coke. I let everybody else go through my bourbon

collection last night, raising money for children's health care in Atlanta. It was a great time.

It was a great event. My buddy Ryan Lane, Lane's barbecue, did all the catering. It was delicious. I brought leftovers home. But on my way home, I left, left the office about 9.30. It's about it was said it would be an hour and 15 minutes to get home. And an hour and 50 minutes, you know, you turn on your your ways or your Apple maps and it tells you you got an hour and 15 minutes to get home.

And then I had an hour to get home and then I had 45 minutes to get home.

And then I had an hour to get home.

And then I had two hours to get home.

And then I had two hours and 40 minutes to get home.

And what's going on?

The closer I get, it shouldn't be going up in distance.

And then I discovered the interstate, the lanes.

It was down to one lane.

And the exit that I would have gotten off at was closed.

And it took me forever to get home.

My hour and 15 minute trip turned into a three plus hour ordeal of sitting basically stopped on the interstate.

It was it was a mess.

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