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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

The phone lines are closed.

The call streeters got off because it's a good Friday, and it's a good Friday show.

But I have great interviews lined up today, Bishop Robert Barron, Douglas Wilson, and Matt Smothers. I am grateful to them for spending

time with me today on Good Friday. I need to reset for all of you. I come to you today with

mankind orbiting not just above us, but headed out into the great darkness of space to the moon.

We are at war in Iran.

Oil prices are up, gas prices are up, beef prices are up, people are feeling the strain of the economy, they are worried.

Anxiety is on the rise, people are isolated. And I come to you on Good Friday to do a show I do every year.

And I need to explain why. And I got to set the parameters for you. I started this in 2011. I did a show 9 p.m. to midnight. And my local station, management, let's just say,

was not a fan of it. And then they got into the office on Monday morning and had so many

phone calls for people. They're like, all right, you can keep doing it. I've gone from the

largest talk station of the nation, W.S.B. in Atlanta, one station to now close to 100 stations

from a few thousand listeners to a few million listeners.

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