"A Lot of Good Can Come Down From Shutdowns. We Can Get Rid of Things that We Didn't Want and They'd Be DEMOCRAT Things."
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
John talks about day 2 of the government shutdown which saw zero talks of negotiation or compromise on a budget, but instead a unified rattling of swords as Republicans continued to threaten major and permanent federal layoffs. Then, he speaks with the National Affairs correspondent for The Nation - John Nichols, about his new article "Robert Redford Sounded the Alarm About Our Corrupted Politics Over 50 Years Ago". And finishing it up John welcomes back the 2 Taras - Tara Devlin is a comedian and the host of the Tarabuster, where she looks at the news, politics and history through an unapologetically liberal lens. Tara Dublin is a comedian and author of “The Sound of Settling: A Rock & Roll Love Story.” Together Tara Devlin and Tara Dublin are the co-hosts of THE Tara Show podcast. They chat with listeners and give advice on how to navigate life in Trumpland.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.com. |
| 0:05.5 | U.K. slash Wondery. That's audible.com. |
| 0:09.0 | UK slash Wondery. |
| 0:14.2 | This is the John Fuglesang podcast. |
| 0:39.5 | This is SiriusXM Progress. I'm John Fiegel Sagan. Good evening. Welcome. This is Tell Me Everything. I'm so glad to have you with us. We are joined tonight by some terrific guest. John Nichols of the Nation will be here to talk about the political activism legacy of Robert Redford. |
| 0:44.4 | Tara Dublin and Tara Devlin will be here from the Tara Show on Political Voices Network in hour number three. |
| 0:47.5 | And my name's Johnny. I'm so happy to be with you tonight. |
| 0:50.0 | We are executive produced by the great Chris Household. |
| 0:52.1 | Thea Harper produces our show. |
| 0:54.5 | Man, Thea is doing such great work now. |
| 1:00.1 | She's working with the Brooklyn Mavens and doing some fantastic video commercials about all the stuff going on in Brooklyn. |
| 1:04.3 | And she's every bit as cool as I always pretended I could be. |
| 1:05.4 | So it's a good one. |
| 1:06.3 | Glad you're with us. |
| 1:08.4 | There's a lot to get to, as I said. |
| 1:14.3 | Trump told Congress that apparently he's decided the U.S. is in a formal armed conflict with drug cartels, |
| 1:20.0 | which is a slightly more formal step towards justifying the illegal killings he's authorized over the last month. |
| 1:24.6 | He wants to start firing bombs and missiles into Mexico, our top trading partner. |
| 1:27.1 | I'm just going to say, think about it. |
| 1:28.7 | I'm not saying he's a Russian plant. |
| 1:35.0 | What would a Russian plant do differently? An attacker drove a car into people outside of synagogue in Manchester, England, then stabbed them. He killed two and wounded four in what is being called |
| 1:39.5 | the Yom Kippur terrorist attack. And in a performance at the Riyadh comedy festival comedian Dave Chappelle talked about how bad the state of free speech was in the United States. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crossover Media Group, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Crossover Media Group and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.