This is the John Fuell-Sang Podcast.

Welcome, how you doing?

It's progress after dark. Thank you, Dean Obadala, for the excellent lead

in that I can never hope to measure up to, on Fugil's saying, aided and abetted by the most dangerous

production squad in radio, Chris House

running this beast out of South Carolina, the great Thea Harper producing our show

out of Brooklyn for the next three hours. We're going to be coming at you with

facts, empathy, music, and something resembling but not quite achieving

wit.

I want to remind you that it's always, always a good day to be an American with a conscience.

It's always a good day to be an American, period.

And it's always a good time to be an American

with the compassion and the guts to care about people you'll

never meet. That's why I'm proud to work on a channel like this because the

progressives of the people I have met in this country who are the ones with the compassion and guts to care about people they'll never meet because they recognize it's not us and them for us versus them it's us and them and we're all tied into this together. We got a great show plan for you guys

tonight on the 4th of July Eve and a lot of news to cover. The Food and Drug

Administration has approved a new Alzheimer's treatment from Eli Lilly that aims to slow

progression of the disease if it's caught in the early stages.

Supreme Court declined to hear challenges to that Illinois ban on certain types of semi-automatic

weapons and attachments, while the lower courts

ticker over the case.

Moderna just won a 176 million contract with DHS to develop a new vaccine for pandemic influenza as bird flu continues to spread through the

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