1413 John Fugelsang Returns !
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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No news segment today but I do have a great convo with Fugelsang! Get John's new book !
He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121.
He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS. He's also appeared at Montreal’s ‘Just for Laughs’ Festival, HBO’s U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite comedians’.
Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly," the religious standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival). He appears in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black," and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy ‘The Whole Truth’ starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts.
He's interviewed Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, Alan Rickman, Joey Ramone, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Stevie Nicks, Robbie Robertson, Ravi Shankar, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia Harrison, Garth Brooks, William Hurt, Helen Hunt, Ashanti, John Fogerty, William Shatner, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ed Asner, Nile Rogers, Michael Moore, JK Simmons, Valerie Plame, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Mavis Staples, Joel Grey, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Lily Tomlin, Dave Matthews, Terrence McNally, Stanley Tucci, Michael Shannon, Noel Gallagher, Jeff Daniels, Rita Moreno, & Carl Reiner. His interview with George Harrison included JF persuading George to play several songs on acoustic guitar. This proved to be George's final televised appearance and was broadcast as "The Last Performance."
His new film "Dream On," a road trip in search of the American Dream, was named "Best Documentary" at the NY Independent Film Festival. Directed by 2 time Oscar nominee Roger Weisberg, the film examines the current state of the American Dream while retracing the journey Alexis de Tocqueville made while writing 'Democracy in America.' The film features 200 interviews in 55 cities in 17 states, including Mike Huckabee, Barney Frank & Paul Krugman and premieres on PBS Election Day Eve.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and happy Friday, everybody. |
| 0:03.9 | I've got a great conversation with the legend John Fuglesang joining me today. |
| 0:08.4 | More than a few laughs and some amazing points. |
| 0:11.7 | As always, John is brilliant and hilarious. |
| 0:14.1 | It's got a new book coming out in like a week. |
| 0:17.1 | So I'm very excited to share this conversation with John Fuglesang with you. I want to thank |
| 0:22.7 | everybody who joined us at our hangout last night. I was outside in the bonfire. And I got bit by |
| 0:28.1 | some mosquitoes. Other than that, it was awesome. Thank you to everybody who joined that. You can get |
| 0:32.8 | a link to it. If you're a paid subscriber, you'll get the link with today's show. And if you're considering coming to our Farm Jam in Real Life Gathering, |
| 0:42.0 | September 5th through 7th and central New York, |
| 0:44.3 | there'll be a planning in Q&A meeting this coming Monday at 7. |
| 0:49.3 | I'll send out a link for that as well to all Patreon stand-up subscribers. |
| 0:55.8 | So if you're planning on coming or thinking about coming or you just want to hang out with us, but there's a pod farm jam meeting |
| 1:01.1 | on Monday at 7 p.m. Then we'll do the regular hangout at 8 p.m. And that is all I have to tell |
| 1:07.3 | you before I get to my conversation with John Fugel saying other than no news today took news day off needed to take the day off super busy and so I don't have your headlines |
| 1:17.7 | and clips as I do most days but I think you're going to love my conversation with John Fugel saying |
| 1:22.9 | tomorrow Christian Finnegan joins to wrap up the week and more. |
| 1:27.9 | Look for that drop. |
| 1:29.4 | And that's it. |
| 1:30.4 | That's all I got to tell you other than listen to John on Series XM. |
| 1:33.9 | Follow him on all the social media. |
| 1:35.7 | And check out his new book, The Separation Between Church and Hate, which we talk all about coming up right now. |
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