Beginning Again Anew
So now for confession time.
I got another clot in my lungs two weeks ago. It was small. Honestly, they weren’t too worried about it. The problem was really that my lungs just swelled up, which also made breathing difficult. I assumed I was having an asthma attack, but it just never went away.
That was the culmination of stress and work.
As most of you know, beginning in August of 2019, I started doing a second radio show — my own. It went from 9am to noon and then I did my WSB show from 4pm to 6pm. It was totally manageable, though I told myself it sure would be easier to just do both shows back to back and be done by 3.
Well, God has a sense of humor. In March, that’s what I started doing, but only because of tragedy. Rush succumbed to his lung cancer in February. WSB moved me into the noontime slot mid-March. Thus began six non-stop hours of talk radio — first my own show, then WSB. My longest break was seven minutes.
It has been exhausting and more physically demanding than I ever expected. A few weeks ago, I started having asthma attacks — something I have not had since I last had clots in my lungs. It was manageable, but then progressively more not manageable. It came to a head two weeks ago.
The timing, of course, is a bit funny. My lungs held on until the finalization of all the planning to get me back to three hours and only then gave out. As I informed you guys late last week, starting today, I’ll be live from 12pm to 3pm ET nationwide.
It is a bit bittersweet. The day I started my own self-syndicated show in Georgia back in August of 2019, I went live as my wife as passing under a CT scanner for her quarterly lung cancer check. I could not be with her when I started that endeavor. Today, as my mic goes live for the first time in national syndication, she’ll be with her doctor at this quarterly scan. The intersections between lung cancer and my radio show are unfortunate and unsettling, adding to the other lung stuff.
Prayers are appreciated and you can always tune in live at erickericksonshow.com. And you can always tell your local talk station that they should carry my show.
Where’s the Special Session, Gov. Abbott?
Democrats in Texas pulled a card out of Abortion Barbie’s playbook. Back when the Texas legislature was passing a pro-life measure, Wendy Davis filibustered to kill the measure. Governor Rick Perry promptly called another special session in which the legislation was passed.
Over the weekend, Democrats in the Texas House staged a walk out to kill an election reform measure. Why hasn’t Governor Abbott called a special session already?
It is notable that the national political is praising Democrats in Texas for walking out of the legislature. In Washington, the national political press wants Democrats to scrap the filibuster to keep the GOP from obstructing. This is actually very useful for the GOP.
The national political press, by praising Texas Democrats and condemning Washington Republicans, sets up a real disconnect in the minds of non-political viewers who’ll intuitive understand the hypocrisy. Little by little, the national political press destroys its remaining credibility with viewers, readers, and listeners. That is a bad thing in the grand scheme of things because a free people need a free press. But we have a press that increasingly just shills for Democrats. Might as well let the free market have its way as everyone steps away from the raw partisanship in the press.
Also, Governor Abbott, call a special session please and ASAP.
A Point of Outrage
I know a lot of you are outraged about Kamala Harris’s social media person tweeting this out Saturday:
I emphasis “social media person” because Kamala Harris did not, herself, tweet. Look, I’d rather Harris be sending out Memorial Day weekend tweets like this than withholding evidence to let more black men out of prison. I look forward to watching her get beaten in 2024, probably within a Democratic Primary, if not the general election. I just don’t have time to get outraged by this. She did, for the record, actually tweet out something related to Memorial Day on Memorial Day.
But if you are outraged by that, I hope you’ll spare some outrage for Gen. Mike Flynn, on the same weekend we honor many for dying to save our democracy, suggesting he’d be fine with a Laotian military style coup in this country to replace Joe Biden.
“No reason. It should happen,” said Flynn in response to a question about why couldn’t a military coup happen here like in Laos.
Then there was Sidney Powell who spoke at the same conference and continued with her nutty conspiracy theorizing.
Note that the event was a QAnon event — the “For God and Country Patriot Roundup.” It was not as the tweet above said, a “Faith and Freedoms Conference” and was absolutely not affiliated with Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition.
This was pure QAnon.
It also attracted the Texas GOP Chairman, Allen West, who previously endorsed secession.
All this on Memorial Day weekend. The blood of patriots kept this country together and safe and it will only be undone from within and we are watching those who’d do it.
Most disturbing is the size of the crowd that still believes QAnon nonsense long after it has been discredited.
These people do not need condemnation at this point. They need prayer and a lot of it.
Also, Kamala Harris needs a new social media person.
One last thing: Put a lid on your schedule. If Uncle Joe can do it, so can you. :-)
Praying for your health and Christy's. You proved your marketability with the self-syndicated show and you proved your listenership loyalty with the noon to three. This new national syndication is the result of the first two, and now you can return to a normal workload that allows you to be present with your family.
I imagine there will still be an adjustment to a new routine and a national presence, but you are well-prepared. Continue the tradition of excellence in broadcasting begun by your friend. The 12-3 syndicated slot is in good hands.