Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 1.

Hello America.

Welcome, it is Eric Erickson here across the United States of America today.

I'm delighted to have you with me.

It is an open line Friday and the phone

number is 8779773-725. Should you wish to be on the program? My regular call screener is killing

deer in the woods, so you get more of a pass to be able to get on today.

Charlie is in the woods somewhere killing deer.

Philip decided it's the most millennial thing ever.

He needed a whole week to celebrate his birthday.

He comes back on.

Literally, Jim and me, we're by ourselves.

Everybody else abandoned us,

but that's okay. I got plenty to talk about. I do need to say up front, thank you to this stuff

matters. It was a great program last night. So I was asked to be the speaker at an event last night

for this stuff matters. It's a nonprofit that tries to connect people to the gospel message through radio commercials and things like that. Far better than the whole he gets us. Jesus stuff. I just don't like those. He gets us ads for a lot of reasons. But this stuff matters. They do a great job. If you ever heard Wright from the Heart, Brian Wright stuff in the past past. They do something very similar to that. Brian Snicker was there, though. The coach for the Braves was at the event. And I, the whole time I was there, it's like, how am I the guy on stage and not this guy? Why want to hear from this guy? Nobody wants to hear from me. And he was just, I got to tell you, these are the sorts of people I like.

You've got the coach for the Braves is at this event and he's just sitting there, part

of the crowd at a table. Half the people don't even know, more than half people didn't even

know he was there. Least pretentious person I think I've ever met. A man at his level to have no ego like that, just it was as nice as he could be.

In fact, somebody brought him over to meet me.

I was like, I, you look like him, but it was impressive.

Nonetheless, it was a great time, good event.

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