Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The phone number should you wish to be a part of the program, 877-9-7-9-7-9-7-3-4-25. Delighted to have you with me and I just, my goodness.

See, I was busy during commercial break and I'm seeing these comments as I as I flip over to

the Twitter screen and see the comments about Hank Johnson.

Okay.

I've gone back and forth on whether or not to have this conversation,

whether or not to talk to y'all about this.

We've talked about this before, and that's kind of the point. Just follow along with me here.

National Public Radio has run a story about emoji. Now, I'm going to say emoji, not emojis,

because emoji is a Japanese word and there is no plural.

It is emoji.

Some people say emojis as they anglicized it,

but the emoji.

The emoji, for those of you who are meroids,

emoji are the little character symbols that you can text to each other.

The thumbs up.

Confession. I, yes, I'm going no I why why can't I I'm always open and

transparent I don't understand I'm being told I should not say the moment I said

confession they knew what I was going to say they don't think I'm going to admit it do

you know the emoji that I use the most I shouldn't yeah it's the middle finger

they deserve it though Charlie and Philip deserve it regularly.

Sometimes Pig Farmer Jr. does too. They deserve it. I'm just confessing. Not perfect here.

The halo is a little crooked. The emoji. Y'all,

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