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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One.

Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the United States of America. For those of you of my flagship station, WSB, and the Georgia affiliates of which I have many following this story at Applatchee High School in Barrow County.

There's apparently been a school shooting.

We don't know any details.

Police are asking everyone to stay away from the scene other than I know parents are being called to come get their kids.

A friend of mine texting me, his family's affected by it.

As soon as we find out information, I will let you know that school is about 1,900 students.

It's a very large high school here in Georgia, and events are still playing out there,

so I don't have anything for you as soon as I know something I will let you know.

I want to begin in a weird way today. This is probably going to be the

weirdest open of this program ever. But it ties into so much of the news that I want to cover today.

It's just it's an appropriate way to start. And I referenced it a little bit yesterday in a short

segment but I really the more I thought about the more this is actually how I want to begin

the show today. I want to talk about orcs. Yes, orcs from Lord of the Rings. Stay with

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