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The Erick Erickson Show

S10 EP194: Hour 1 - Culture Clash

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News Commentary, News

4.5876 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As left continues to lose the culture war they are doubling down which a bold strategy we hope continues to fail plus Beto embraces the perennial loser candidate role.

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0:00.0

Improper disposal of batteries can spark fires.

0:03.0

Fires on garbage trucks in a trash and recycling centers cost millions and put lives in danger.

0:08.0

Batteries do not belong in regular trash or recycling.

0:11.0

Learn more at gorecycle.org.

0:13.0

Brought to you by Fairfax County.

0:15.0

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here.

0:17.0

Glad to have you with me today.

0:19.0

The phone number, if you want to be a part of this year program,

0:21.5

8797977, Eric, 87973, 7425. I finally got my World Series Championship apparel. It showed up last night,

0:33.8

so I'm wearing it for the camera. Y'all, real quick, for those of you who are new here, haven't been around for a while,

0:44.2

the sword of Damocles continues to hold fast.

0:51.0

Dionysius was a Greek tyrant, a king, and he had a subject, Damocles, who insisted to Dionysus

1:00.5

that Dionysus was a king of kings, was great, was all-powerful, was a rich man, and had it easy as a result.

1:13.6

And Dionysus told Damocles, you can sit on the throne for a day.

1:18.0

You can be king for a day and see what it's like.

1:21.2

And so Damocles came the next morning to sit on the throne.

1:25.6

And above him,

1:38.7

Dionysus had ordered a sword hung down above the throne, held by the single hair of a horse's tail, by a single hair and a horse's tail.

1:42.7

And Damocles, as the day went on, became more and more perturbed in trouble that at

1:48.0

any moment, that single hair, that single strand of horsehair could snap and impale

1:54.4

Damocles.

1:56.1

And so he begged Dionysus to please let him off the throne.

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