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The Erick Erickson Show

S15 EP22: Hour 1 - Big Stories and Outrage

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Trump is using his superpower to direct the media but they're trying to go where the clicks are, not the actual story.  Also, the administration's continuous fumble on 2A isn't going to help the midterms.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How would you like a 15% discount to my daily email, the stack of stuff, the show notes,

0:05.4

discounts to the conference, all of that.

0:07.2

All you need to do is text the word show to 33777.

0:11.5

You'll get the annual subscription with a 15% discount to my daily email.

0:16.8

You'll get the stack of stuff, the links to the show notes, discounts to the conference,

0:20.1

and so much more.

0:21.4

All you have to do is text the word show, S-H-O-W, to 33-777-7.

0:27.4

Text show to 33-777-7.

0:34.1

Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

0:42.5

You know, occasionally we got to start the show and tell you what the big story of the day is,

0:49.5

because the rest of the press corps, the media, everybody out there, the other conservative talk show hosts,

0:56.8

they've all missed the big story of the day.

1:00.3

And this is becoming increasingly my frustration.

1:03.5

I like having this show.

1:05.4

I'm very blessed to be able to sit behind this microphone and talk to you guys and shoot straight with you as best I can.

1:12.6

Call out both sides, do balls and strikes, tell you what I think, take your phone calls.

1:17.3

And I'm really appalled at the entirety of the press core social media, the conservative talk radio and podcast atmosphere.

1:26.2

We're missing the big story today.

1:30.5

The big story is not what you've been told.

1:33.0

In fact, I got up this morning and I did Mark Halperin for an hour, and we had this

1:37.2

conversation.

1:37.8

I think he's right.

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