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The Erick Erickson Show

S15 EP53: Hour 3 - The Op is Apparent

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Modern day "art" is a way for elites to make themselves feel...well, elite. Most Iranians oppose the regime, but if you read social media and watch MSM, you may not get that view.

Transcript

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0:27.3

Text show to 33-777-7. Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 3.

0:49.7

I want to begin this hour in all seriousness with a movie recommendation, any of you who are inclined

0:59.7

to go to that thing we call a theater that we all used to go to and now not many of us go

1:05.8

to. There is a movie that comes out today. It'll be there this weekend called Project Hail Mary.

1:15.5

You should go see Project Hail Mary.

1:19.4

You should go see it.

1:22.4

It is, I think, a very notable swingback from the cynicism that we have seen in theaters in the last

1:35.3

number of years and the nihilism we have seen in a lot of movies into just a real

1:41.1

positive, upbeat, try hard, feel-good movie.

1:48.9

I, I, it is, instead of being doom and gloom, it's very upbeat.

1:55.0

I got a, I just, I got to say that if you go see Project Hail Mary, I don't think you'll be disappointed. I think

2:02.3

you'll enjoy it. There's a Martin Shaw has a book Liturgies of the Wild. Let me read you this

2:09.8

quote. No more jabbing our pinned in our wound and calling it art. In myth, any voyage into the

2:16.2

underworld involves you bringing back beauty. If there's no

2:19.8

beauty, no gift, then you've actually not reemerged no matter how much you claim that you have.

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