S12 EP59: Hour 2 - Loose Lips Sink Ships
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our 2. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello, welcome. |
| 0:13.7 | It is Eric Erickson here across the nation. |
| 0:16.2 | The phone number is 877-973--25 if you want to be on the program. |
| 0:22.7 | As always, if you text Eric, E-R-I-C-K to 33-777, you'll be able to get all my social media links, |
| 0:32.7 | podcast, everything there. |
| 0:35.9 | Just text E-R-I-C-K, Eric, to 33-777. |
| 0:40.3 | Occasionally here, a lot of times, you know, we cover the news. |
| 0:44.0 | This is not just a political talk show, but it's also a news program, and there is a really big news story that must be covered. |
| 0:54.3 | This is not your sexy, Ryle-em-up story of the day. |
| 0:59.0 | I am sure that there are lots of partisan angles that can be taken here as conservatives want |
| 1:08.2 | to blame liberals. |
| 1:09.6 | Liberals want to blame conservatives. But the fact of the matter is, this is just a really big and significant story, regardless of the partisan angles people want to take. It's more troubling at a larger level. Someone, and we do not know whom, someone leaked war plans and intelligence information of the United States into a Discord chat. |
| 1:37.0 | Now, let me pause and explain Discord for those of you older than me. |
| 1:53.0 | Discord is essentially an online community streaming and chat platform where people can interact together in Discord based on interests. And you can watch people play games. |
| 1:56.0 | There are several different outlets like this. |
| 1:58.0 | Discord has become one of the very big ones out there where, for example, my son wants a discord account so he and his friends can play online together via Discord and watch other people play video games. |
| 2:10.4 | It's, I don't understand it quite. It is well outside of my generational sphere of interests. |
| 2:18.3 | But kids in particular, teens specifically and some 20-somethings, have this entire group system where they watch other people together playing video games. |
| 2:33.3 | It's like when I was a kid and you would go to this thing called an arcade and they had |
| 2:37.7 | this machine you would put quarters in and play games like Gallagher and Pac-Man and Donkey |
| 2:43.2 | Kong and your friends would gather around and watch you play. |
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