Hello and welcome. I'm back. It's Eric Erickson here. It is my show. I'm delighted to have you with me.

The phone number should you wish to be a part of this year program is 87797, 97 Eric, 877-9-37-37-425.

Thanks to Alan Sanders, by the way, for filling in for me on Friday while I was with the Braves Parade.

That parade, you should note. Downtown Atlanta, the bus was going 30, 40 miles an hour. Apparently, in parts of midtown, they had barricades put up, the parade barricades, but in a lot of downtown, they did not. The city failed to do that,

and so the Braves bus driver went fast, afraid people would spell it into the street.

Problem is he kept going fast, even when they got to the part where the barriers were.

A lot of people stood out all day waiting for the parade and zoom the bus would buy. It's still

a thing. People in Atlanta are livid. Can't really blame them.

All right. I got an observation before we get into anything else. So if you're listening to me nationally,

I am in south of Atlanta, and around here, you go into your grocery store, restaurants.

People are still wearing masks.

Now, the customers are not, but the workers are.

I took my kids over to Louisiana on Friday night.

My wife is out of town.

It was my dad's birthday.

So the kids and I flew to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With the exception of the airport,

there was no one anywhere in a mask. Not the wait staff at the restaurants, not the people,

I mean, we went into the Avis Rural Car place at the airport.

And there was big signs everywhere. Federal law requires you wear a mask.

And the agents there weren't even wearing their masks.

People in the airport in Baton Rouge weren't wearing their masks.

And no one was saying anything to them until they started to get on the plane.

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