Greetings conversationalists. It's Eric Erickson here and I am delighted to have you. The phone number, it is an open line Friday, 8779-9-7-3-7-4-25, but don't call yet because we got to talk about some serious first. And also you can text Eric, E-R-I-C-K to 33-777, and you can get the podcast, the show notes, all of that.

By the way, thank you for the prayers.

They worked.

My daughter got into my alma mater, Merce University.

You know, I've been telling you all, she applied to tech.

She actually told me last night.

The woke experiences what at tech were so over the top every time she went.

She didn't even bother to apply.

So she applied to Auburn University of Georgia and Mercer, my alma mater, Mercer's her top pick.

She's waiting to hear about Georgia and Auburn, but she really wants to go to Mercer.

So, yay, she's in.

Okay, now, we got to talk about something very serious, and I don't say that flippantly or humorously,

this is actually a very serious story, and you're going to hear it from me and probably

from no one else.

Although I do have to credit Fox News that covered this.

This is one of the more alarming stories that has come out in the last year.

And for a lot of reasons,

and I am kind of flabbergasted that major media outlets,

other than Fox News, aren't covering this,

let me give you the overview from the Washington Free Beacon,

a conservative news site in D.C.

A biolab illicitly run by a Chinese national in California contained traces of coronavirus, HIV, malaria, Ebola, and other infectious diseases. But federal

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