Hello, America. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the United States of America. I am delighted to have you with me. The phone number, if you want to call in 877-97-9-373-7-4-25. Can I do a quick reset with you for just a minute here? Because we have a large number of new people listening.

We picked up in the last month.

We're in Phoenix, Arizona.

We're in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We're in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

We're in Gainesville, Florida.

We're in South Florida.

We're just, we're growing.

I mean, we picked up Greenville, South Carolina earlier this year.

We picked up Hartford and Brooksport, Connecticut.

We've got a lot of new stations.

So let me just, I'll do this very quickly for folks who don't know.

I am a professional now.

This is the longest job I've ever had, but I fell into radio completely by accident when a guy got arrested in a crack house.

I was a lawyer. I was a miserable lawyer.

So I went to law school because I wanted to go to Washington, D.C.

I was working for a member of Congress at the time in Middle Georgia who told me that a law degree was like an MBA for politics. And so I went to law school and then married my wife. She and I had known each other in college. She moved away and then reconnected when I was finishing law school. And she did not want to move to Washington, D.C.

So I was like, okay, I'll get a job at Atlanta. She says, no, no, what part of don't like big

cities? Did you not understand, idiot? So we stayed in middle Georgia. And I practiced law for five

years and then took a job in Washington where I commuted every week. It was miserable. And after a year,

I had helped some friends

start a website called redstate.com. The time.org, we moved to dot com. They put me in charge

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