Greetings America. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the United States of America. I am delighted to have you. And also welcome those of you in Oklahoma City. I am glad to have you with me as we continue to expand across the nation. The phone number, if you want to be on the program, 877-97-97-9-373-4-25. You can text Eric, E-R-I-C-K, to 33-777, and subscribe to the show notes, get the podcast, the live stream.

Somebody asked me the other day, they said, we're going around the country, we're traveling, and we want to be able to listen to you, or the radio stations.

Yes, if you go to ericerickson

dot com there's a list but if you text eric to 33777 there's the live stream and uh when you listen

to the live stream you get me uh noon to three eastern time live on the live stream wherever you are in the country.

So if you're traveling, I prefer you to listen to a local radio station, honestly. I realize I'm the last guy in radio who wants to be in radio and not a podcast, but I do want to be on radio and want you to listen on radio.

But if you're aware that you can't get a radio station that has me, you can always listen

to the live stream or the podcast.

Now, I want to talk about something.

I have a bone to pick with some of you.

So, how do I do this?

I will occasionally puff myself up, usually tongue and cheek.

Because, so when I was a kid, my mother and my sisters, all of them said I was a too, too snotty and too arrogant and like too braggadocious, I guess you could say.

And I am very sensitive to it.

There are people who will routinely tell me on social media that, oh, you just think you know everything.

And then you just think you're better than us.

And what it is is these are people who actually aren't smart and they don't like to be told they're wrong. And my job is to tell you the truth and to quote my friend Andrew Breitbart and yes he was a friend I still have his number in my phone book on my on my uh the number of friends of mine who are dead whose numbers I can't bring myself to lead he's one of them Andrew used Andrew used to say, truth is truth. It's not mean. It's the truth.

And the truth is there are a lot of people out there who believe many things that simply are not so.

And I get blowback from people who, you know, wrestling ball would never make me feel like an idiot.

Actually, he would.

I know.

But if people are really sensitive to it, you little whippersnapper, you know, you don't know what you think.

...