The Erick Erickson Show

S15 EP177: Hour 1 - Social Contagions

Erick Erickson opens Open Line Friday with a sweeping history of social contagion, from the 1518 Strasbourg dancing plague and the Salem witch trials to the McMartin pres

S15 EP177: Hour 2 - Does AI Have a Soul?

Erick Erickson takes on a New York Times report that Anthropic quietly hosted religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements to discuss AI consciousness and Claude's m

S15 EP177: Hour 3 - The Cornell Seven and the Limits of the Law

Erick Erickson wrestles with the Cornell Seven fraternity case, arguing that society cannot prosecute bad or immoral behavior, only crimes, and walks through New York con

S15 EP176: Hour 1 - No Genocide in Gaza and A Terror Attack in Texas Thwarted

Erick Erickson opens with a blunt monologue on the Gaza genocide narrative and the violence it keeps inspiring, from a thwarted mass shooting plot at the Texas State Capi

S15 EP176: Hour 2 - Senate Democrats Kill Two Bipartisan Bills

Erick Erickson opens with Senate Democrats killing the Stop Insider Trading Act and the Ratepayer Protection Act after both passed the House, then explains why the prepai

S15 EP176: Hour 3 - Barack Obama Divided America

Erick Erickson opens with a warning that progressive politics has become a religion, from the collapse of the United Methodist Church and other mainline denominations to

S15 EP175: Hour 1 - Trump Winning the Middle East

The President deserves a lot of credit in the middle east, Elon Musk's Starlink is awesome and more business should embrace it plus the current state of Senate elections

S15 EP175: Hour 2 - AI Super Intelligence Weirdos

The President brings the heads of AI to capital hill plus the great success the Trump administration has had in almost completely wiping out muslim immigration. Good.

S15 EP175: Hour 3 - Sarah Sanders' Welfare Ad Sparks the White Right

Erick Erickson takes on the online right's outrage over Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' welfare to work ad, calling out the grievance politics and white victimh

S15 EP174: Hour 1 - Common Sense Vs Crazy

Erick Erickson opens with the Speaker of the House's "common sense versus crazy" midterm pitch, then walks the 2026 Senate map from Ken Paxton versus James Talarico in Te

S15 EP174: Hour 2 - Pentagon and FBI Data Breaches Rattle Washington

Erick Erickson breaks down the Pentagon data breach that exposed nearly 3 million people and the FBI job site hack, asking whether Iran is probing American defenses while

S15 EP174: Hour 3 - Europe's Immigration Warning and the GOP's Identity Politics Trap

Erick Erickson uses the UK Home Secretary's new refugee sponsorship plan to warn that America must not copy Europe's immigration failures, then argues the GOP can build a

S15 EP173: Hour 1 - The Good News and the Bad News

Erick opens with the good news: Iran's economy is collapsing under U.S. sanctions and a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, with Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, U.N

S15 EP173: Hour 2 - The "Agentic Bank Run"

Erick Erickson breaks down agentic banking, the new Wall Street fear from Apollo Global economist Torsten Slock and Bank of America analysts, as Meta's Muse AI agent help

S15 EP173: Hour 3 - Why Erick Won't Hold His Nose for Two Bad Candidates

Erick Erickson makes the case that abortion is his red line and that voters have every right to sit out races like the Ken Paxton versus James Talarico Texas Senate fight

S15 EP172: Hour 1 - Xi Jinping Comes to the White House

Erick Erickson opens as President Trump welcomes Xi Jinping to the White House and the administration caves on its ban of CNN, MS Now, and Politico, then explains why a d

S15 EP172: Hour 2 - Judge Judy Is Right About Lindsay Clancy

Erick Erickson reports from a Georgia fundraiser where Republicans finally felt some joy, as Rick Jackson's ad blitz on Keisha Lance Bottoms and the 2020 Atlanta riots mo

S15 EP172: Hour 3 - Stanford Used AI to Erase a Student's Race

Erick Erickson opens on Stanford University admitting its dining department used AI to turn a Hispanic male student into a Black woman in marketing photos, calling it DEI

S15 EP171: Hour 1 - Trump, Xi, and Peace

Broadcasting from the home bunker on a day of runaway mattress deliveries, Erick Erickson breaks down President Trump's United Nations remarks: the Shield of the Americas

S15 EP171: Hour 2 - Litmus Tests of Crazy

Erick Erickson says America needs litmus tests for crazy, starting with the Last Ditch lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where critics cried ableism and eugenics