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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP127: Hour 2 - Can We Talk About Chicago?

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The press can’t have an honest conversation about self defense when the good guy succeeds and democrats are funding bad GOP candidates.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there. It's Eric Erikson. I was making a hotel reservation. Sorry, Jim.

0:06.6

The phone number, if you want to be on the program, 8779773-7-4-25. So my daughter wants to go to Georgia Tech.

0:18.2

She wants to be an aerospace engineer. And for her birthday, she'll be 17 at the end of August. And what she wants for her birthday is for us to take her down to the Kennedy Space Center and tour the Kennedy Space Center. She went on a school trip about two years ago, and that just turned her mind from she wanted to be an artist to she wanted to be an engineer. And she wants us to go back and see it. So during the commercial break, instead of getting up and stretching my legs and going to the bathroom, I've been booking the trip to tour the Kennedy Space Center and find a hotel down there to take us all to.

0:59.1

Now I need to see a priority jet just wants to be fly me down there out of the goodness out of their own heart.

1:03.4

Because I don't know that I can afford it.

1:04.5

We'll drive.

1:06.3

It's like six hours from our house.

1:10.3

But nonetheless, we're going.

1:13.4

It's kind of cool to see your kid get interested in stuff.

1:17.3

She wanted to be an artist forever. And then all of a sudden, just like the light bulb switch and flipped. And she's like she wants to be an engineer now. And so she's a brilliant artist. And

1:22.4

you know, everybody brags about their kid. And I'm telling you, my kid actually is a brilliant

1:26.4

artist. At 16 years old,

1:28.5

when she was 13, they put her in 12th grade art. And so she's been in 12th grade art since she's 13.

1:36.0

She's 16 now. She wins awards all over the state of Georgia. And her art's just really, really good.

1:43.3

So my mother, who is an artist, asked my kid, well, what are you going to do with art?

1:48.7

You're such a talented artist.

1:49.7

If you go make bombs and rockets, what are you going to do?

1:52.9

And my 16-year-old looked at her with a very straight face and said,

1:57.0

I will artistically paint middle fingers on the missiles I build to fire at China.

2:06.0

I love my kid.

2:07.5

Okay.

2:08.0

So, nonetheless, we're not going to talk about that.

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