Greetings, conversationalists. It's Eric Erickson here. Cross the Fruited Plain. The phone number,

877-9773-7-425, should you wish to be on the program. There is a little bit of breaking news.

Many of you will appreciate. Jimmy Johnson, former coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He's been at Fox Sports for 30 years.

He's announcing he is retiring.

That is a change in the guard, if ever there was on TV and the run up to the 2025 football season.

Kind of a big deal.

The other news out is the Atlanta Fed forecast is dropping GDP to negative 2.8% from negative 1.5%.

That's kind of a big deal signaling they think the economy is going wobbly right now,

and you pile tariffs onto that.

There really could be economic problems for

Donald Trump and the GOP moving forward because why? They need an increase in tax revenue

to make it easier to cut taxes and deal with the budget. So the economic turmoil out there

is going to cause some heartburn for people.

Y'all, I want to spend a moment here just talking about the Academy Awards, but not really.

Just bear with me on this. If you'll, you'll allow me, I am a professional.

Allow me to deal with this.

The movie that won the Academy Award for Best Picture last night was called Anora.

I'm just going to read you the synopsis of it.

It is a Nora, a young woman from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia,

her fairy tale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

That's the summation of it.

But what it actually is, is she's a 23-year-old stripper living in Brighton Beach, a Russian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn.

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