Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here, the Eric Erickson Show, Across the nation.

The full number is 8779773-725. Now, full disclosure, I have my braces in again.

We will not be talking about fascist bigots today lest we run into problems with my tongue and impacting my braces.

Gosh.

Oh, I do have a housekeeping note that I need you guys know about out of the gate today, just so you're not caught off guard.

Tomorrow, particularly if you're new to the program, tomorrow is Good Friday.

And when I was just starting in radio, I literally had never worked for a company ever

that didn't take off Good Friday as a holiday.

And then I got into radio and apparently nobody does.

And so I said, well, I'm going to do a show about Good Friday.

And I did it at the

corporate level let's just say it didn't go over very well but by Monday so many

people were calling the station asking for for copies of the show that then they

started making me do it every year.

And now I do a Christmas one as well.

And I'm kind of committed to do it.

And I figure it's kind of my tithe.

I got roughly 48 when you take into account vacations, weeks a year where I'm on the radio

talking about all sorts of stuff I can take one day to talk about what really

even secular historians say is the most important event in human history.

There was a survey by Oxford University.

It's been about a decade ago now and they asked historians at major universities around the

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