Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Greetings, conversationalist, is Eric Erickson here.

I hope you, wherever you are on the Fruited Plain, are doing well.

The phone number is 877-9773-7-4-25. How's about we make a little bit of news?

Joining me by phone, the governor of the great state of Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis.

Governor, thanks very much for doing this. I know you are about to run out all over across the nation, and so spending some time with me.

I appreciate it.

Let me just ask you out of the gate.

Why yesterday start very non-traditionally, not a stage with a bunch of people behind you

and before you, but starting on Twitter, congratulations, by the way, for breaking the internet and something President Trump never did. Why start there as opposed to

sort of the traditional rollout people expect? Well, I think at the end of the day, there'll be

times to do a lot of those speeches, and we've done speeches in front of a lot of people,

we'll have time to do more. We've thought doing something with Elon, given his notoriety and cachet,

and then given the fact that Twitter is now viewed as the place where you can speak your mind,

as opposed to a lot of these other places, that it was an interesting opportunity.

I had never done this Twitter spaces before.

I don't even have Twitter myself, like the accounts we do are managed by our folks.

And so I wasn't really sure how it worked.

And Twitter was talking about, yeah, you know, we got it all locked.

Everything's ready.

They tested everything.

But they just had so many people that swarmed it, that it just basically

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