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Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on Hi-Hart Radio.

My guest today is Eric Erickson.

Eric is a very popular conservative talk radio host and author of three books.

Most recently, before you wake, life lessons from a father to his children.

Hi, Eric. So nice to have you on. Thanks for having me. So I've known you and of you like a million

years. You're really OG in this movement and it's so nice to talk to you. I'm not sure we've

ever done a show together before, but I've been looking forward to this.

Where did you get your start? How did this all happen for you?

So, you know, so politics, I grew up overseas and politics was just a way to connect into American

culture and then went to college, started college Republicans at my college, started volunteered for campaigns, kind of fell into it and went to law

school because the congressman I was working for said a law degree is an MBA in politics. So I did

that. I got married and my wife was like, I'm not moving to Washington. So I became a lawyer,

started Red State. And one thing led to another, and a local radio show host got arrested

in a crack house, literally, and they needed someone to fill in for him. So I did for no pay.

You were like, I don't do crack, so this should be okay. So Herman Kane was running for president

at the time, and his station needed someone, and his boss drove through my town on the way to Disney World, thought it was my show. I knew Rush Limbaugh at the time who lied and said I was totally a radio pro, so they gave me Herman Kane's job. And here we are, all these years later. Now, the longest job I've ever had, it's been a wild

ride. I mean, from Red State in 2004 to now talk radio and kind of doing my own sub-stack.

But it's been a lot of fun. That's amazing. I mean, just the fact that it wasn't even your show

and somebody happened to hear it, you know, that's really kismet. So what kind of lessons do you tell your son

in that last book? I'm interested in the path that you took to get here was sort of, I mean,

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