Live from Sherwood Forest in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia, hour one of the Von Hesler Doctrine begins right now.

I am your lovable, huggable morning chat host, Eric von Hesler.

All the doctrinaires are here.

Stop trying to hug me, Tim Andrews. That was just rhetoric.

Tim Andrews, Autumn Fisher, Jared Yamamoto.

Happy Friday. Well, happy Friday to you.

I have to say this. I'm really feeling the pressure now.

I really feel it is time. I have to get my hair cut.

Not because of the way that it looks, but I'm starting to question myself now. You know, long hair on a man, it used to be a pretty straightforward thing.

But we live in different times now. And so I was looking in the mirror this morning and I had this thought I wondered if people

begin to think that maybe I'm in the early stages of transitioning.

See, back in the 60s, nobody thought this.

Just like long hair was long hair.

But you remember when Caitlin was Bruce, the first thing was, oh, the hair's getting pretty long.

Yeah.

I know you've been looking at me kind of, you know, like, hey.

Hey, I'm wondering if you're going to join the team. You're never too old to transition.

So I had that thought this morning. I thought, is he, people be looking at me going, is he, is he an aging hippie?

Just sort of an absurd person, or is he changing his sex?

Nothing wrong with that.

I just don't happen to be.

So now I think I'm really getting to the point where I think this weekend I'm going to

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