Podcast appearances and mentions of Erick Erickson

Erick reads President Trump's Truth Social post warning that communities rejecting data centers will end up “backwards and poor,” then explains why that is the wrong message and why JD Vance's more nuanced approach is the right one. He walks through the history of populist movements from Huey Long to Zell Miller to argue that […]

Erick opens by explaining why the Iran war cannot be negotiated like a normal conflict: the Islamic Republic's Mahdiism means the Ayatollahs believe they must bring about the apocalypse. He then walks through Brett McGurk's argument that Iran is actually losing its leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, with oil flows back to two-thirds of […]

Today on the show: Karen Travers from ABC News on the Venezuela oil deal. Rory O'Neill reports on grocery prices and data centers. Mike McKee from Bloomberg News live recapping a busy week in Jackson Hole. Erick Erickson joins us live. Mike Dobuski covering the tariff impacts on cars. Plus, A Grand for Groceries! 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB.

Today on the show: Karen Travers from ABC News on the Venezuela oil deal. Rory O'Neill reports on grocery prices and data centers. Mike McKee from Bloomberg News live recapping a busy week in Jackson Hole. Erick Erickson joins us live. Mike Dobuski covering the tariff impacts on cars. Plus, A Grand for Groceries! 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB.

Today on the show: Karen Travers from ABC News on the Venezuela oil deal. Rory O'Neill reports on grocery prices and data centers. Mike McKee from Bloomberg News live recapping a busy week in Jackson Hole. Erick Erickson joins us live. Mike Dobuski covering the tariff impacts on cars. Plus, A Grand for Groceries! 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB.

Erick 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 of Hormuz, plus the full CENTCOM update from Admiral Brad Cooper on the minesweeping operation, the naval blockade, and the 750 million barrels of crude the Navy has escorted […]

Erick kicks off Open Line Friday on President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America” and asks the obvious question: who exactly is switching their midterm vote over a lake? He then reports the real story behind the Canada trade war: Jamieson Greer negotiated a deal both sides liked before Commerce Secretary Howard […]

Erick 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 about a country with no adults in the room. He tells his own story of the tweet that nearly cost him CNN and how Rush Limbaugh became the […]

Erick 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 secretary, a $400,000-a-head Houston fundraiser for Ken Paxton, Abdul El-Sayed scrambling to distance himself from Hassan Piker in Michigan, and a democratic socialist surging against Chris Pappas in the New Hampshire […]

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 and sent troops to its frontier with Russia and Belarus. Erick walks through the Wall Street Journal exclusive, the near extinction of America's Patriot missile batteries, and why […]

Erick closes the show with the most personal monologue of the day, previewing his Atlanta Journal-Constitution column on Johnathan Hamby, the psychotic man who stabbed a stranger to death on the Atlanta Beltline, arguing that deinstitutionalization was cruelty dressed up as compassion. He walks listeners from his hometown of Jackson, Louisiana, where the state mental […]

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 Erick Erickson explains why an 80/20 issue still gets covered as though the girls defending girls' sports are the villains, with Sophie Cunningham, Enes Kanter Freedom, Adam Silver, and Cathy […]

Erick reads the extraordinary public apology from the family of Jonathan Hamby, the mentally ill man with more than thirty arrests who stabbed a stranger to death on the Atlanta Beltline, and turns it into a hard argument that closing the mental institutions was never compassionate. Then billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller goes to the Wall […]

Erick 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 commandment: she died with $650 million after giving away $600 million, refused the Presidential Medal of Freedom from both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and told Tennessee to […]

Erick takes apart Abdul El-Sayed's disastrous interview with Jesse Watters on Fox News, along with the Hassan Piker problem now swallowing his Michigan Senate campaign and why the overwhelmingly white Democratic Socialists of America keep recruiting non-white candidates who cannot stop talking. Then the breaking story of the day: CIA Director John Ratcliffe lands unannounced […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent takes to the Financial Times to declare an “economic D-Day” against Iran, promising secondary sanctions on every nation, bank, and shadow fleet propping up Tehran—with China the name he pointedly never mentions. Erick Erickson explains why none of it is possible without the dollar as the world's reserve currency, and why […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent goes live to open the sanctions campaign against Iran, with OFAC hitting more than 60 entities, individuals, and vessels, new sectoral determinations on digital assets, technology, gold, aviation, and shipping, a promise that every branch of Bank Melli goes dark, and a hint that a major financial institution gets sanctioned by […]

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 to end Atlanta's multimillion dollar agreement with ICE because “all money ain't good money,” and Erick answers with Laken Riley and with a 29 year old named Ramon Harris stabbed […]

Erick plays the Parton family's official video announcement from Brian Seaver, Dolly's longtime head of security and the son of Cassie Parton, and then spends the hour on the life of Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean—dead at 80, reunited with her husband Carl—the woman who wrote “I Will Always Love You,” “Jolene,” and “Coat of Many […]

Erick 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 should call themselves “United Statesians.” He then turns hard on President Trump for launching a trade war with America's largest trading partner 70 days before the midterms, explaining that the […]

Today on the show: Shannon Kingston from ABC News at the State Department updates the Canadian tariffs. Tyler Kendall from Bloomberg live in D.C. on "economic D-Day." Erick Erickson following the latest on the midterms. Plus, A Grand for Groceries! 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB.

Today on the show: Shannon Kingston from ABC News at the State Department updates the Canadian tariffs. Tyler Kendall from Bloomberg live in D.C. on "economic D-Day." Erick Erickson following the latest on the midterms. Plus, A Grand for Groceries! 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB.

Today on the show: Shannon Kingston from ABC News at the State Department updates the Canadian tariffs. Tyler Kendall from Bloomberg live in D.C. on "economic D-Day." Erick Erickson following the latest on the midterms. Plus, A Grand for Groceries! 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB.

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 York State Capitol in Albany, and Erick Erickson walks through the federal complaint, the FBI confidential source posing as an ISIS facilitator, and why progressives who instantly guessed MAGA guessed […]

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 equal and opposite reaction, and nothing is left to slow either side down. He reads The Economist's warning that superintelligent AI with legal rights could turn humans into […]

Erick Erickson plays the moment CNN's Boris Sanchez confronts Democratic Socialists of America co-chair Ashik Siddiqui over the DSA celebrating Fidel Castro, telling him on live television that his own grandfather fought in the Cuban revolution and was then locked up by Castro for 20 years for speaking his mind. He stacks it with Abdul […]

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 wants: our debt now exceeds our GDP, Social Security and Medicare are the engine, and neither party will touch it. He plays Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on […]

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 claim that vibrations cause miscarriages, it is that the arguments against fracking failed while the arguments against data centers are landing, and the only difference is the […]

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 employees who refused to move to Nashville, and between Brian Niccol's restructuring and Amazon's exodus, Washington State's progressives have taxed and regulated their own economy cold while Nashville takes 1,500 […]

The AI data center revolt is now a live midterm threat. Erick argues the real problem is not the data centers, but that Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and the rest of the AI CEOs are their own worst salesmen—the charming movie villains you were warned about, while Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are the only ones […]

Moderna and Merck just posted the first successful late-stage trial of a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, intismeran paired with Keytruda, cutting the return and spread of high-risk melanoma, and Erick Erickson spends the hour singing the praises of Big Pharma and taking apart the conspiracy that drug companies are hiding the cure for cancer. He […]

Florida's primary blew up both parties overnight: Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon beat impeachment hero Alexander Vindman for the Senate nomination while spending 13 times less, and Republicans took out the trash, dumping Cory Mills in Florida 7 and burying anti-Israel candidates James Fishback and Dan Bilzerian in single digits. Erick Erickson breaks down what the […]

Florida goes to the polls, and Erick Erickson makes the case that Republicans should fire Cory Mills in Florida's 7th. There, former Orlando news anchor Ryan Elijah is polling ahead of a congressman under investigation for steering contracts, plus revenge porn and abuse allegations. He coins “Podcastistan” for the circle of podcasters (Tucker Carlson, Marjorie […]

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 with the president, and Erick Erickson takes apart the smear and the hyper-online staff behind it. He also answers Matt Walsh's claim that postpartum depression is not […]

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 run driver who was later identified by the cameras, and a caller who wants a warrant requirement. Erick then lands on a middle ground: keep the cameras, and […]

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 sociology professor and serial fabulist who took his own life after the Guardian, the Times Higher Education, and the Daily Telegraph unraveled a biography that was […]

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 Seoul government drifting toward China, not an attempt to woo Kim Jong-un, and Trump keeps undermining a defensible decision with his own social media. He walks through Peggy Noonan's Wall […]

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 assassination: a professional contrarian who lands on the fringe answer and calls it heterodoxy. Erick plays three separate Vance clips (a think tank, the Senate floor, and Fox News) […]

Today on the show: Karen Travers from ABC News with the latest on Iran and Korea. Jon Decker live in Alaska on the campaign trail. Erick Erickson joins us live. Zach Schonfeld from The Hill covering the SCOTUS emergency docket. Ilena Peng from Bloomberg updates the beef market. Plus, the stunning loss of Hayden Panettiere. 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB.

Today on the show: Karen Travers from ABC News with the latest on Iran and Korea. Jon Decker live in Alaska on the campaign trail. Erick Erickson joins us live. Zach Schonfeld from The Hill covering the SCOTUS emergency docket. Ilena Peng from Bloomberg updates the beef market. Plus, the stunning loss of Hayden Panettiere. 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB.

Today on the show: Karen Travers from ABC News with the latest on Iran and Korea. Jon Decker live in Alaska on the campaign trail. Erick Erickson joins us live. Zach Schonfeld from The Hill covering the SCOTUS emergency docket. Ilena Peng from Bloomberg updates the beef market. Plus, the stunning loss of Hayden Panettiere. 9am-noon on 95.5 WSB.

Erick Erickson wades into the fight between Ben Shapiro and The Federalist's John Daniel Davidson over whether the American dream still works, and answers with a date: ten years ago his wife would be dead, because the lung cancer treatment that saved her did not exist yet. Using C.S. Lewis and the fifteenth Screwtape letter, […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promises unprecedented economic measures and a blockade of Iranian ports as $4 gas and $80 oil collide with the midterms, and Erick Erickson says the hard part out loud: we are losing a war against a country we could beat because there was never a plan. Then the case Republicans do […]

Stacey Abrams sits down with Kamala Harris and declares that the South has lived under soft authoritarianism since 1776 and that America has backdoored its way to a new Jim Crow, and Erick Erickson, who served on the city council in Macon, Georgia, answers with the Jim Crow signage still hanging in his city's terminal […]

Erick opens on the Wall Street Journal's tariff refund story (over 40 S&P 500 companies reporting some $9.6 billion, with Apple near $2.2 billion, Nike at $986 million, FedEx at $800 million, Amazon at $640 million, and GM at $500 million after the Supreme Court struck the tariffs) and skewers the populists who swore tariffs […]

Erick argues that precedent matters, tracing how Democrats spent decades using lawsuits and court settlements (California's Proposition 8, the state's refusal to defend it, Bill Clinton's illegal immigration consent decree, and Anthony Kennedy's Obergefell ruling) to bind future governments, and how the Trump Justice Department has now learned the same trick by declining to appeal […]

Erick digs into a troubling defense story: in the Combined Resolve war games in Germany, Ukrainian drone operators wiped out a US armored brigade every single time, exposing how far behind America has fallen even as Reaper drones run low and Iran picks off the rest. He ties it to a missile production problem (the […]

On the seventh anniversary of his syndicated show, Erick Erickson tells the untold story of how Rush Limbaugh “lied through his teeth” to launch his radio career and later fought behind the scenes to let him talk faith on the air. He then turns to the “progressive madrasas”: how Stanford University let Marxists write the […]

Erick breaks down a wild primary night: Democratic socialist Francesca Hong loses Wisconsin after Governor Tony Evers talked David Crowley back into the race, the polls badly oversampled white progressives, and Mike Lindell gets crushed in Minnesota's GOP governor primary. Then he warns Republicans that college-educated suburban voters are the new turnout machine, that Ken […]