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Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. This is the Good Friday show podcast.

Now, I got to go into this with the exception of one song that I'll play,

because it's the pastor I'm introducing. It's his church's music. Uh, so I can get away with,

I can't play music in the show. I can broadcast it on radio, but not on podcasting. The licensing

issues for broadcasting music and podcasts is absurd, and we'll get taken off all the

streams if we have a lot of it in there. So there are, in one of the songs, it's unlicensed,

so I can play it. The other is from the church of the pastor. I'm interviewing so I can play it.

The others, you'll hear parts of music that have had to be cut out, and I'm sorry,

I wish I could run those for you. I wish I could play those songs, so you get the real feel

of the show, but I can't because of all the legal rules regarding putting music and podcasts,

and I needed you to know that going into it. Now, this year's Good Friday show.

Three, two, one, zero, all engine running.

Lift-off, we have a lifetown. They think about the thief on the cross.

What an immense, I can't wait. They think about the thief on the cross.

What an immense, I can't wait to find that fellow one day to ask him, how did that shake out for you?

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