Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson Show, Cross the Nation from Atlanta, Georgia. The phone number, if you want to be on the show, 877737-37-4-2-5. We're going to move on to even more controversial topics than energy now. Domestic energy production. Oh my gosh. It has just blown up in Florida.

I need to begin by making note of something. Some of you won't like this. I'm trying to just give it to you straight here. There are a lot of people who live in urban areas, who are surrounded by like-minded people who do not know people who disagree with them. And it becomes very easy to believe

certain things when you don't know anyone who disagrees with you. On top of that, a lot of the

people who live in those urban areas who are progressive, they are single.

They don't have to raise kids.

They don't have to worry about kids.

They have hypotheticals about the way it works to have kids.

And no one can disprove them because they don't have kids.

Screen time.

You know, when my wife and I had no kids,

like they're never getting cell phones, then we're never putting them in front of a screen you got

kids well we we waited a very long time to give our oldest a cell phone but as far as screen time

we're like we we got we got to we got to have a conversation put the kid in front of a screen

so they'll shut up so we can have a conversation it becomes an easy way to uh entertain your

children where you can get other work done. And when you have kids,

you realize a lot of the things you very dogmatically assured yourself, you as a parent would

ever do you wind up doing when you have kids. I see people all the time. Well, you know,

you shouldn't travel with your child. Sometimes you have to travel with your child. I had to travel

with my daughter when she was six months old by myself on a plane. The passengers were all very,

very willing to help. I saw a reporter the other day who was infuriated by a man who was

passing out candy on a plane

as a preemptive apology in case his child acted up

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