Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Greetings America. How are you? I survived my trip. I hope you guys had a great weekend.

The phone number here, the Eric Erickson Show,

877973-725.

Should you wish to be on the program,

I'm happy to have you.

I want to begin, actually, by talking about my trip.

It's actually news.

Well, not my trip, per se, but everything around it.

Just bear with me here. So, if you trip per se, but everything around it. Just bear with me here. So if you don't know,

Philip works for me, handles digital stuff for me, all the stuff you see online is Philip Charlie does the radio stuff, the call screening, he's the producer, he's more like the boss than me,

and it's my freaking company, but I take orders from him. But Philip likes to go to Las Vegas, and over the years I have decided I like to as well. I'm not a big gambler, but they have machine gun places. You can go shoot machine guns, and they've got great restaurants. So we go. We decided to stay at the encore this time. We always stayed at the plot, so we stayed at the encore. I got recognized, by the way, by one of the crap stealers. It was on a Saturday night, and I'm on Vegas.

Come on Wednesday. stayed at the plot. So we stayed at the encore. I got recognized by the way by one of the

crap stealers. It was on a Saturday night and I'm on Vegas. Come on Wednesday or Saturday nights and the guy was about to get off shift and said I'm about to get in my car and listen to him. Completely unprompted, never even acknowledged he knew who I was until then. It was kind of funny. So they're listening out there. But here's what happened.

And this is relevant.

Yes, it's a story about me, my favorite subject, but it's actually about you.

Believe it or not.

So we leave on Thursday to go out there, Thursday after the show.

And my flight is moved up.

They've rearranged the flights on Delta. So my flight winds up being earlier. I had to scramble and had to pre-record the end of my show on Thursday to be able to make it to the airport because the flight I was supposed to be on was no more. We get there. Everything's fine. I go through. The person who's with me nearly misses his flight because he's too stubborn to get pre-checked,

but that's another story. But the pilot had to be called in from, it was his day off. And he

explains to us, they're sorry for the delay, but he had to be called in from his day off. The

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