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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Two.

Hello and welcome. It's Eric Erickson here across the nation. The poll number 8779773-745, should you wish to be on the program.

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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 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.

I'm often cited as the founder of Red State.

I am not.

Josh Trevino, Ben Dominic, and Mike Krimpasky came up with the idea and a super friend number four who remains anonymous.

But they put me in charge of it very early on because they needed a free lawyer, particularly one with election law experience, and I was one.

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