[2][4] Notable interviews include: US Senator Jim Inhofe, David Green (founder of Hobby Lobby), Roy Clark, Tommy Allsup, Bill Anoatubby (Governor, Chickasaw Nation), actress Peggy Dow Helmerich, Stephen Jones (attorney for Timothy McVeigh), illustrator and writer N. Scott Momaday, evangelist Oral Roberts.
The book is divided into sections organized by subjects that include the Oklahoma Land Run, sports, entrepreneurs, lessons in leadership, and World War II.
Featured interviewees include Steve Ripley, Chester Cadieux, George Nigh, Porter Reed, Henry Bellmon, Betty Boyd (Oklahoma Legislator), and Walter Helmerich III.
After assignments in South Dakota, Minnesota and Omaha, Nebraska he moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1976 to host the morning show on 740 KRMG (AM).
He made an early name for himself on the morning show with his references to the “Tulsa Mountains.” Erling spent the next 29 years as the drive-time host of that station and interviewed many local and national figures.