S11 EP75: Hour 1 - Reedy Creek Political Theater
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Chief Conti of the Metropolitan Police Department, and I'm asking for your help. |
| 0:05.0 | We all must avoid using our cell phones while driving as lives are increasingly at risk with this behavior. |
| 0:11.0 | So much can happen when you are distracted by a phone, and the results could be deadly. |
| 0:17.0 | Help us make Vision Zero a reality by keeping your eyes on the street. |
| 0:21.6 | MPD is enforcing the district's hands-free, distracted driving laws. |
| 0:25.6 | One text or call can wreck it all. |
| 0:29.6 | Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. |
| 0:33.6 | The phone number, if you want to be on the program, 877-973-725. |
| 0:40.8 | I would just like to note that my show has lasted longer in syndication than CNN Plus has lasted. |
| 0:49.7 | Warner Brothers is killing CNN Plus. |
| 0:54.0 | Three weeks ago, without a lot of fanfare and a lot of defensiveness by CNN, CNN Plus was |
| 1:02.3 | launched. |
| 1:03.2 | Nobody watches Don Lemon, and for some reason, CNN thought people might actually pay to watch |
| 1:09.8 | Don Lemon. |
| 1:11.7 | It didn't make any sense. |
| 1:14.5 | So this was Jeff Zucker's big play. |
| 1:17.0 | Jeff Zucker looked at the world and thought that it needed another streaming service. |
| 1:21.4 | And one specifically by a news network that increasingly people were burning out on from the left to the right, |
| 1:26.8 | particularly on the |
| 1:27.5 | right. It had lost a lot of credibility. And so he decided to launch CNN Plus. And he was going to do |
| 1:34.1 | more of the Anthony Bourdain style docu drama series sort of stuff as opposed to hard news. And it didn't |
| 1:43.6 | work. So Zucker, now you got to understand this because I'm actually |
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