Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 3.

Greetings, conversationalists.

Welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here across the nation this open line Friday.

The phone number 877-973-745, should you wish to be on the program, you can, but I'm going to talk first.

I'm going to talk about a topic I know nothing about.

It's true.

I am nothing about. It's true. I am a professional, which allows me to talk about something I know nothing about

and make it sound cogent and coherent.

I'm actually going to talk about a topic I know a great deal about as it relates to a topic

I really couldn't care less about and

don't know much about. That is, we need to talk about, oh, I'll do it with the, I'll do it

properly and say soccer. More specifically, the World Cup.

Now, Philip, the digital director for the Eric Erickson show,

has a brother named Andy.

And Andy likes soccer.

There are jokes to be had. I will not have them, but Andy's a soccer fan. And on Sundays, he comes over occasionally for bourbon and cigar night. Doesn't have the bourbon, but doesn't have the cigar. And we'll watch football on the front porch, football, actual real American football.

And he's kind of begging us at this point to watch soccer with him.

The World Cup, if you don't know, is in Qatar.

Qatar I know a lot about. I used to live't know, is in Qatar. Qatar, I know a lot about.

I used to live near Qatar, lived in Dubai.

Charlie, I don't know if you know this or not, but I grew up in Dubai.

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