Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 2.

Hello, America. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The phone number is 8779373425.

Should you wish to be on the program?

Now listen, do me a favor.

Those of you who are on the phones, be patient with me.

I'm going to come to you in this segment, but I don't like to start segments with phone calls

if I can help it.

And there is something I want to go on and get off my chest that I meant to talk about yesterday and just could not get to yesterday.

It is, it's kind of important. So let me begin there. Let me get these news stories. I'm sorry.

So many people are texting me. A buddy of mine just

texted me. I find this very funny. Uh, the Reverend Raphael Warnock is his campaign bus is near my

house at a hooters. Yes. Yes. I have photographic evidence.

I don't know that the right reverend himself.

I was actually getting my haircut yesterday in Atlanta and he was sitting outside drinking coffee with his security guy.

But his campaign bus is in middle Georgia parked at a hooters while his staff eat at hooters.

My goodness gracious.

Okay.

I don't mean to shame this person.

It really is not my intention of shaming this person, so I don't want to give you her name.

She is a Fulbright journalist and a public radio reporter. And this is her

tweet. Things the data can tell us. A sampling of fourth and eighth graders nationwide lost ground in reading and math.

Fourth graders in Virginia experienced steeper declines than the national average.

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