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Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen?

The blood-curdling threat of the blob.

Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film,

but they had to cut his scene because the blob was supposed to eat him.

But he kept spitting him out.

Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster.

Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest.

Eric the Texas!

Hey there, folks.

Welcome to the program.

It is Columbus Day.

Because of the horrors that have happened in Israel, we're not going to talk about Columbus Day today.

We'll talk about Columbus Day tomorrow a little bit with my guest, Terry Schilling, tomorrow.

Today, we are privileged to have Laura Logan on the program coming up in a couple of minutes. Laura Logan is an absolute hero, amazing, amazing journalist. After that, we have our friend

Joel Rosenberg, who lives in Israel and who's going to report to us on what is happening over there.

Very tough to conceive of what just happened and what it means for the world.

So it's great to have Laura Logan on in a couple of minutes and Joel Rosenberg after that today to help us process what is happening and what we're to think about it. I want to say I've been on

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