Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here at the Eric Erickson show. It is, well, Holy Week. And we will discuss a lot of that tomorrow. We got news. We got to discuss right now. The phone number. You can be a part of the program. If you get past the call screener, 877-97-973-7-425.

We need to spend a little bit of time talking about the Ukrainian situation because this is escalating.

I gotta just say out of the gate, maybe we'll get into some of this later.

So I went to an event last night for the governor of Georgia.

He was in town.

I got asked to come.

And, you know, I don't like going to these sorts of events.

Half the people there don't like me.

And the other half I've criticized on the radio.

I don't like going to these events.

And so I stood in the back.

I was with a couple of friends.

The governor came by.

We spoke for a little while before he had to go.

And then I told the guys like, I don't come to these events anymore.

I don't have to.

I don't want to.

I'm only here because you're here and I like you. And I got invited by some friends who were going to be there. I hadn't seen in a while. So I went and Dern if that dude did not take the microphone and tell everybody I was there and he said very nice words about me. I appreciate him very much. I do like the governor of Georgia tremendously and his wife. And but then I had to shake hands and talk to everybody.

And he came up to me afterwards says, well, now you know what it is like.

But I wound up afterwards going to dinner with some friends I hadn't seen in a while.

And two of the guys at the at dinner are progressives. They're they they're pretty liberal nice guy i really like them tremendously long-time friends pretty liberal uh democratic donors democratic

supporters and they were furious about boys and girl sports just genuinely enraged about the issue because they have

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