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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Greetings, conversationalists.

Welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here across the fruited plain.

I am delighted to have you with me.

The phone number is 877-97-973-725, and this is just genuinely important for my soul to say.

It is broadcasting live to you 12.07 p.m. I am in Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia at my flagship station, where outside in the city of Atlanta, on this, the ninth day of August in the year of our Lord,

2023, it is not yet 80 degrees.

It's 79 degrees right now on Peach Tree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, and this is August.

The weather is weird.

It's the volcano, and no one in the media wants to talk about it.

I have a piece on that in my syndicated column this week around the country.

You can get it if you text data to 33777.

I'm not going to start with the volcano, though.

But it really is shocking to me.

I wrote that this morning.

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