Hello, my friends. It's me, your host, Eric Erickson. My buddy Jared texted me earlier.

I'm going to blame Jared, but it's not really his fault because Jared's the fifth or sixth person to email or text me and say, okay, so what's up with your podcast day?

It sounds a little different. You all really do listen to the podcast.

I know because Friday show didn't get put up until Saturday because Charlie was on an airplane

to Montana.

Philip was going to do it and then forgot and it's just out of routine.

And that's the point.

Charlie's in Montana.

So Philip is putting it up the podcast.

Philip normally doesn't put up the podcast and probably didn't know about the podcast intro music stuff anyway.

So that's what's going on here.

A look behind the curtains.

It's the 4th of July week.

I'm still doing my show.

In fact, Americans are legally entitled to take the 5th constitutionally, but I'm going to be working on July 5th doing my show live.

The Fourth of July show, however, will be a best of show, and you won't get a podcast on the 4th of July.

But on the 5th, I will be live on the show without a call screener, no less, because all the call screeners on vacation.

So I'm literally going to really do my show live on July 5th, without a call screener, no less, because all the call screeners on vacation. So I'm literally going to really do my show live on July 5th without a call screener just to entertain you guys and ensure you have podcast content for the weekend.

But that's what's going on this week.

Charlie's on vacation.

He's proving himself to be indispensable and we don't want him to know.

Oh, my gosh. Okay. There's something else I want to tell you. I don't want him to know. Oh, my gosh.

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