Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Hello, America. It is Eric Erickson here. Across the nation. The phone number is 877937425.

It may have suddenly during the commercial break become an open container Friday.

We will also make it an open line Friday.

You can call in.

You don't have to tell me what you're drinking.

8779773-745. Just as a side goal, I will be candid and honest. As I said at the beginning of the show, I try to be very transparent and relational with all of you. I don't try to come in here every day and be a character. You know, so there's a, there's a very famous talk radio show host who will go nameless,

who most of you would would know the name of the person.

And I have several mutual friends with this person.

I want to meet this guy.

I don't know him.

I like to meet him.

We have several mutual friends and they said the problem is that over time

he has become his radio persona. He has become his radio persona. He used to not be and now

he's just kind of that way. And you just have to accept that. I'll tell you, if you ever heard

or knew Neil Bortz who was on the radio with me in Atlanta when I first tell you, if you ever heard our new Neil Borts, who was on the radio with me in Atlanta,

when I first met him, his boss and mine at the time, the pig farmer at WSP, cautioned me the very

first time I met the guy.

Just you need to know he is exactly on air as he is off air.

And he definitely was.

But a lot of people that they come on and they,

they play a character on the radio and I'm just,

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