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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One.

Greetings, welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the United States.

I am delighted to have you with me.

The phone number is 8779773-745. Should you wish to be on the program. I'm going to begin,

well, we're going to begin with a very broad picture here related to immigration and everything else. but the story caught my eye.

Let's go way back in history, mentioned this before.

It was funny that study that men think about the Roman Empire every day, I'm one of them.

And when there was all the turmoil in the Roman Empire, the Roman bureaucracy, people had enough trust of the Roman bureaucracy

that the Roman Empire survived.

But you know, if you read the history of the Klein and fall of the Roman Empire,

you know where, oh, what's his name who wrote it,

where he pins the blame for the fall of the Roman Empire? The church.

He blames the church. Now, why? Well, because according to Edward Gibbon, that was his name, Edward Gibbon,

the wise and the smart served the empire.

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