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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 2. Hello and welcome. It's Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour two.

Hello and welcome.

It's Eric Erickson here across the nation.

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I'll do so in this segment, but just if I can

have a point of order, it's my show. I guess I get to do this. 20 years ago, I always actually

noted as July 11th, because that's actually when we push the button, but it didn't come out behind the,

the private firewall until July 12th, 2004.

The website, redstate.org at the time, we finally went to dot com, came online.

It was the longest job I ever held until this one.

I was the very first employee.

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