Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One.

Greetings, welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the nation. Those of you listening don't realize this, but we're on a whole new distribution system today.

Hopefully it's working flawlessly everywhere.

The phone number, if you want to be on the program, hasn't changed.

877973-725.

And we've got to begin, well, I should begin with UGA versus TCU.

Big night in college football, the biggest night of the year.

Most of the schools in my area have late start tomorrow so that kids can stay up all night

watching Georgia crush TCU.

But nonetheless, I digress.

I want to step back with the fighting that happened over the weekend and just hold the phones for a little bit and just listen to me for a moment.

Because I can be a little more open with you.

I try never to keep things from you guys.

In fact, I live my life a little more transparently with you all than a lot of

people would prefer that I do. But I have had for the last several months friends involved

behind the scenes in the fighting. If you will recall, right before Thanksgiving, I stepped out and went

up to Washington for three days

in a row, and one of the stopovers was to a friend's office where the plotting was happening.

For the last several weeks, a number of the people who listened to this program, and I say this lovingly and charitably,

but a number of people who listen to this program have been very angry with me.

Some have emailed and said they would never listen again because what they were hearing from

Sean Hannity and Laura Ingram and other voices on the right on Fox News and the like, we're all, everybody needs to get in line.

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