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The Erick Erickson Show

S12 EP102: Hour 3 - Relearning Forgotten Lessons

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Unions, in 2023, are a drag on society that only increases the cost’s of goods and services.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

0:12.8

Greetings America. Welcome, it is Eric Erickson here. The phone number 8779773-7-4-25.

0:22.6

If you wish to be on the program, rainy day around here all across the southeast.

0:28.0

More rain moving into Greenville right now as I speak.

0:31.0

I want to move on to a story that caught my eye.

0:37.5

Actually, a couple of stories that got my eye, and I'm a professional.

0:43.0

There are times you may wonder, is this, does this, how did this guy get a radio show?

0:49.8

Voice for radio, a face for, face for radio, a voice for print. How did, how did this guy manage to do it?

0:57.1

I lucked into it. That's the answer. I lucked into it. But here I am. And I do consider myself a

1:04.0

professional. Can I just say as an aside, I know y'all don't care, but I do. Like, I've had a number of jobs in my life. And this is really like the one job.

1:14.5

You may disagree, but it's the one job where I'm like, actually, I'm good at this.

1:18.9

I like this job. I can't imagine not doing this job. But I, so being a professional, I can string

1:26.0

together a whole lot of unrelated stories and make a bigger story.

1:31.2

I want to begin with the hagiography at the Washington Post of Sean O'Brien.

1:40.0

Sean O'Brien is the head of the Teamsters Union.

1:47.1

And Sean O'Brien is working real hard on a strike against UPS.

2:02.0

Now, you should know that the author, Nick Tabor, is a progressive left-wing writer.

2:11.2

And so the entire tone of the piece in the Washington Post, and it's a very substantial piece, is just worshipful.

2:22.3

It is a worshipful story by Nick Tabor, the left-wing writer at the Washington Post.

2:29.3

What's so interesting is how Nick Tabor is very giddy that Sean O'Brien wants to turn his guns on Amazon.com.

2:40.9

Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.

2:45.2

What's going on in the story is Sean O'Brien, the head of the Teamsters, is really, really giddy at the fact that he may get UPS workers to go on strike.

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