Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

Greetings, conversationalists.

It's Eric Erickson here across the nation.

Delighted to have you with me.

The phone number, if you want to be on the program,

877737-7-7-4-25. I survived the trip to Starkville, Mississippi. I have never seen anything like it.

This is not disrespect, and I don't intend this to be disrespectful. I was mesmerized by Starkville, Mississippi.

It is literally a ginormous SEC football stadium in the middle of pasture land. I mean, you see

the football stadium on the horizon and then there's nothing. It's a city that is a village during

the summer when students are in there and then balloons into the city during the school year.

I was fascinated by it. Literally, on the backside of the college campus is just farmland.

I mean, like I was a buddy of mine who's very defensive of this because he's a big, he's a big fan of Starkville and he was a minister for RUF there and has lots

of ties there. He was very defensive and said, you know, when I drive from my town to Athens,

Georgia, it's farmland a lot of the ways. Yes, but Athens, Georgia stays city sized during the

summer. And Starkville, Mississippi Mississippi shrinks to this town.

It's just I was absolutely flabbergasted. I mean, it was a nice place. The people were wonderful.

It's a neat college town and all that, but it is, it is a town when schools out.

I was fascinated. Okay. Now, we must move on to the events that happened over the weekend

while I was trying to enjoy a wedding.

One of the weirdest things about social media in the 21st century

is that everybody is an expert.

Everyone was a COVID expert.

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