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The Erick Erickson Show
The Erick Erickson Show cuts through the chaos with bold clarity and biblical conviction. Broadcasting live each weekday, Erick tackles the stories that matter - from Washington to Wall Street to your backyard - with fearless analysis rooted in Christian truth and conservative principles. No tribal talking points. No partisan spin. Just straight talk from a host who believes in the sovereignty of God, the greatness of America, and the importance of holding everyone accountable - right or left.
Episodes
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP164: Hour 1 - Against the Doomers
Erick walks through regulatory capture in real time: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay, the coordinated Jacob Coxson resignation…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP164: Hour 2 - Where Have All the Normal People Gone?
Erick opens with a progressive tech writer's essay about neighbors named Bob and Van, men whose politics never came up because politics was not the whole of…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP164: Hour 3 - Wave vs Wall
Erick Erickson takes a caller's tale of two Georgia ad campaigns, Rick Jackson's brutal and effective spots against Keisha Lance Bottoms versus the One Nation…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP163: Hour 1 - Remembering
On the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, Erick Erickson opens not with the news but with Welles Crowther, the 24 year old equities trader on the 104th…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP163: Hour 2 - Perhaps I'm a Contrarian Indicator
Erick Erickson takes apart the Politico story out of the Republican midterm convention in Dallas claiming panic over the Senate map, siding with Chris LaCivita…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP163: Hour 3 - Washington Is Not Coming to Save You
Erick Erickson closes the 25th anniversary of September 11 by playing the sound a camera crew heard at the World Trade Center that afternoon, more than 300…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP162: Hour 1 - Unicorn Farts
Erick opens on President Trump's Dallas convention promise of a $5,000 "Trump dividend" to every adult citizen if Republicans hold the House and Senate, and…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP162: Hour 2 - Affordability
Erick opens with the hard economic numbers Republicans keep trying to spin past: the Atlanta Fed says a household now needs $124,674 a year to afford a median…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP162: Hour 3 - Britain Wants the Tates Extradited
Erick opens the final hour on Eva Moskowitz's Washington Post op-ed and the Success Academy lawsuit against New York education commissioner Betty Rosa, filed…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP161: Hour 1 - Convention Day Arrives
Erick opens the midterm stretch run by dismantling the Republican panic over Senate polling, using Patrick Ruffini's study of 3,312 polls showing Democrats are…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP161: Hour 2 - The Trade War
Erick opens hour two with survivors calling in on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, including Robert, who was on the 101st floor of the South Tower, and Greg, who…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP161: Hour 3 - A Low Trust Society
Erick opens hour three with the Wall Street Journal story on why returning online orders got hard, Lane Bryant restocking fees, shortened Macy's and Home Depot…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP160: Hour 1 - The Cavalry Arrives
The post Labor Day panic has arrived, and Erick Erickson says the bad news is actually good news. He walks through the Real Clear Politics generic ballot…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP160: Hour 2 - The Diet Coke of Socialists
Erick Erickson takes apart the Trump administration's draft rule, championed by JD Vance, that would let married couples with a stay at home spouse collect…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP160: Hour 3 - Hormuz Blockade Squeezes Tehran
Erick Erickson walks through the Wall Street Journal report that Iran's oil dollars are drying up, with no Iranian crude crossing the US Navy blockade since…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP159: Hour 1 - Jobs Report, Interest Rates, and the GOP
Erick Erickson defends the Lindsay Clancy jury against the online mob, walking through the one quirk of Massachusetts law that almost nobody on social media…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP159: Hour 2 - Football is Back
Erick Erickson opens football season with Ben Sasse's Wall Street Journal case for high school football as one of the last institutions still forming young…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP159: Hour 3 - SAVE Act Won't Save the GOP
Erick Erickson tells the online right the hard truth about the SAVE Act: most Americans have no idea what it is, and no election bill is what stands between…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP158: Hour 1 - Believing So Much That Is Not So
Erick opens with a hot dog stand anecdote from New Way Weiners in Macon that matches the polling data: a Trump voter who is not angry, just disappointed, with…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP158: Hour 2 - Iran and Cruz
Erick tracks the Iran war as Brent hits 95 dollars and West Texas crude hits 91, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP158: Hour 3 - The China Problem
Erick knocks down the viral photos of the rusted USS Abraham Lincoln as left wing propaganda, pointing to the HMS Hermes coming back from the Falklands in 1982…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP157: Hour 1 - The Bubble and the Message
Erick returns from break with good scan news for his wife, then breaks down why Army Secretary Dan Driscoll walked into the White House, told President Trump…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP156: Hour 1 - Amy Coney Barrett Did It Again
Erick Erickson opens by answering Laura Ingraham's Twitter attack over his Ken Paxton column, then defends Amy Coney Barrett for siding with Clarence Thomas…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP156: Hour 2 - Florida and the Flock Cameras
Erick Erickson breaks with much of the right on Flock cameras, taking apart Ron DeSantis and his move to pull every license plate reader off Florida's state…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP156: Hour 3 - The State of Play in the Senate
Erick Erickson walks the whole 2026 Senate map, refusing to back off his warning that Ken Paxton is a bad general election candidate against James Talarico in…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP155: Hour 1 - Pete Hegseth Leak
Erick Erickson opens by explaining why the Iran war cannot be negotiated like a normal conflict: the Islamic Republic's Mahdiism means the Ayatollahs believe…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP155: Hour 2 - Trump vs the Data Centers Backlash, Plus Venezuela Oil
Erick Erickson reads President Trump's Truth Social post warning that communities rejecting data centers will end up "backwards and poor," then explains why…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP155: Hour 3 - Deporting Milo
Erick discusses the progressive dystopia that is America as the Handmaid's Tale even as progressives like Kathy Hochul are willing to cover their heads to go…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP154: Hour 1 - Trump Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America, Plus Howard Lutnick's Canada Deal Sabotage
Erick Erickson opens Open Line Friday on President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" and asks the obvious question: who exactly…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP154: Hour 2 - Callaway Drops Good Good Golf, Plus Flock Cameras, Data Centers and Where the Adults Went
Erick Erickson uses the Callaway Golf and Good Good Golf blowup, a bad driver ad, a public apology, and a canceled partnership, to make a much bigger point…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP154: Hour 3 - Dolly Parton Tribute, Plus Iran's Strait of Hormuz Collapse and Chevron's Venezuela Deal
Erick Erickson closes Open Line Friday with major Iran news, reporting from Axios and Barak Ravid that the United States has broken Iran's grip on the Strait…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP153: Hour 1 - Ratcliffe's Moscow Warning, Latvia Border Emergency, Plus Mike Collins Implodes in Georgia
CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a surprise trip to Moscow to warn Vladimir Putin off any attack on NATO, and hours later Latvia declared a border emergency…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP153: Hour 2 - Lindsay Clancy, Postpartum Depression, Trump's Midterm Plea, and Hassan Piker's Michigan Problem
Erick Erickson maps the midterm Senate landscape after President Trump tells voters to "pretend I'm on the ballot," with Karoline Leavitt's last day as press…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP153: Hour 3 - Johnathan Hamby, Lindsay Clancy, and Why America Must Reopen the Mental Hospitals
Erick Erickson closes the show with the most personal monologue of the day, previewing his Atlanta Journal Constitution column on Johnathan Hamby, the…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP152: Hour 1 - MetaDolly
Erick Erickson opens with the Coldstream Guards playing "9 to 5" at Buckingham Palace and turns the death of Dolly Parton into a sermon on the second great…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP152: Hour 2 - Crazy Needs Help
Erick Erickson reads the extraordinary public apology from the family of Jonathan Hamby, the mentally ill man with more than thirty arrests who stabbed a…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP152: Hour 3 - Entertaining Ourselves Off the Cliff
Charles Barkley goes on Michael Smerconish and says he supports his gay and transgender friends but that men have no business competing against women, and…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP151: Hour 1 - El-Sayed's Crash Out
Erick Erickson takes apart Abdul El-Sayed's disastrous Jesse Watters interview on Fox News, the Hassan Piker problem now swallowing his Michigan Senate…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP151: Hour 2 - Hating Canada
Erick Erickson confesses he has been an original, card-carrying Canada hater since a French teacher at his school in Dubai told the class that real Americans…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP151: Hour 3 - The Last American Everybody Loved
Erick Erickson plays the Parton family's official video announcement from Brian Seaver, Dolly's longtime head of security and the son of Cassie Parton, and…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP150: Hour 1 - Scott Bessent's Economic D-Day on Iran
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent takes to the Financial Times to declare an "economic D-Day" against Iran, promising secondary sanctions on every nation, bank…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP150: Hour 2 - Why COVID Broke Trust In Everything
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent goes live to open the sanctions campaign against Iran, with OFAC hitting more than 60 entities, individuals, and vessels, new…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP150: Hour 3 - Keisha "Crime Wave" Bottoms Brags About Ending ICE Cooperation
Erick Erickson opens on the Georgia governor's race, where Keisha Lance Bottoms, running against his friend Rick Jackson, told a C-SPAN audience she was proud…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP149: Hour 1 - Newton's Third Law in Society
Erick Erickson opens Open Line Friday with Isaac Newton's laws of motion and argues that American politics now runs on the third one: every action produces an…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP149: Hour 2 - Common Sense Economics
Erick Erickson turns the second law of thermodynamics into an economics lesson and lands it on Seattle: Starbucks is cutting 224 corporate jobs, including 120…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP149: Hour 3 - Weirdos, Normies, Fracking, and AI
Erick Erickson closes Open Line Friday with the cleanest explanation yet of why Americans hate data centers: it is not the water, the power bills, or the fake…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP148: Hour 1 - The Debt Spiral
The national debt just crossed $40 trillion, and it took only 95 days to add the last trillion, so Erick Erickson opens with the math nobody in Washington…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP148: Hour 2 - The Pampered DSA
Erick Erickson plays the moment CNN's Boris Sanchez confronts Democratic Socialists of America co-chair Ashik Siddiqui over the DSA celebrating Fidel Castro…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP148: Hour 3 - Why We Live in Brave New World
Breaking news lands mid hour: Jessica Bowie, 35, arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS after plotting to blow up the New…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP147: Hour 1 - Florida Last Night
Florida's primary blew up both parties overnight: Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon beat impeachment hero Alexander Vindman for the Senate nomination while…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP147: Hour 2 - The Data Center Backlash Grows
The AI data center revolt is now a live midterm threat, and Erick Erickson argues the real problem is not the data centers, it is that Sam Altman, Dario…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP147: Hour 3 - Big Pharma is Good
Moderna and Merck just posted the first successful late stage trial of a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, intismeran paired with Keytruda, cutting the return…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP146: Hour 1 - Judgment Day in Florida; Iran Rearms
Florida goes to the polls and Erick Erickson makes the case that Republicans should fire Cory Mills in Florida's 7th, where former Orlando news anchor Ryan…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP146: Hour 2 - Mississippi's Miracle
Jon Ossoff dragged Natalie Harp, a bone cancer survivor who lives because Donald Trump signed the Right to Try Act, into a campaign speech to imply an affair…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP146: Hour 3 - Our Spending Problem
Erick Erickson closes out the Flock camera fight with three callers, including a Metro Atlanta police officer, a listener whose cousin was killed by a hit and…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP145: Hour 1 - People are getting South Korea Wrong
Erick Erickson explains what the media is getting wrong about President Trump cutting back joint military exercises with South Korea: the real driver is a…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP145: Hour 2 - Third-Worldism and the Vice President
Erick Erickson makes his sharpest case yet against Vice President JD Vance, arguing that Vance is to economics what Candace Owens is to the Charlie Kirk…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP145: Hour 3 - The Tragedy of Jason Arday
Erick Erickson devotes the first half of the hour to a story he says you should know even if you do not want to: Jason Arday, the Cambridge University…