Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Another beautiful day. I hope it is where you are.

Now we can all see each other smiling and smell our bad breaths together on a plane somewhere across America.

All American Airlines. Now, in fact, it happened in midair for some flights.

Yesterday, pilots making announcements that a federal judge in Florida

had gotten rid of the federal mask mandate, and so masks were now optional.

Alaska Airlines was the first, I believe Delta was the last, United and the other,

an American in between, but they've all now made masks.

If you want to wear your mask, wear your mask.

I recommend you wear an N95 mask.

Wearing cloth masks won't help you.

Now, interestingly enough, I want to juxtapose this.

Before I do that, though, I got to say something.

I won't use names. We are losing a member of the team. I consider him a member of the team.

Chief Encourger, I would say would be his title. And I am kind of upset about this one.

So I have a boss, believe it or not, I have a boss. Interestingly enough, I have never, well, no, I'm not going to say that.

I won't, I won't comment on that. But I had a boss and I thought my boss was

terrific, greatest guy I had ever worked for and he decided to retire and I was not happy about that.

I have a lot of clout in this company that produces my local daily show in Atlanta. I have been

referred to as people's 401k in the past.

I try not to throw my weight around.

That does me no good.

One day I would actually realize I don't have as much as people tell me I do.

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