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Today, Explained

Is John Fetterman ok?

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

New York magazine’s Ben Terris talks through his reporting on Sen. John Fetterman’s health and what it means for the future of the Democratic Party. This episode was produced by Devan Schwartz with help from Gabrielle Berbey, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Matthew Billy, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) questions tech leaders in artificial intelligence during a Senate hearing. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Senator John Federman is not like his colleagues.

0:03.6

Oh, yeah.

0:05.3

For starters, he wears a hoodie and gym shorts to work in Congress,

0:09.6

but he's also a Democrat who went down to Mara Lago to meet with Donald Trump

0:13.8

before he re-entered office back in January.

0:16.7

He's bucked most of his party on the war in Gaza,

0:20.3

saying his support of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu was unconditional.

0:25.4

He went on the Joe Rogan experience to bro down.

0:28.3

And then the whole nation just had like a meltdown like, oh my God, the Senate's on fire because I dress like a slub.

0:34.9

And then there is health issues.

0:37.3

The man who got a lot of credit, rightfully so,

0:40.8

for bringing his mental health struggles to the fore,

0:44.6

to kind of destigmatizing depression and mental health issues in politics,

0:50.7

maybe struggling more than he had let on.

1:00.0

We're going to ask if John Fedetterman is okay on Today Explained. We used to have big ideals and dreams when we were still in university.

1:04.0

We wrote these beautiful application essays about how we were going to fix tax avoidance and tax evasion,

1:10.0

how we're going to tackle global hunger and work at the United Nations.

1:13.6

And look at us.

1:14.8

What has happened?

1:15.9

What has happened?

1:17.3

This week on the Grey Area, we're talking about our moral ambition.

1:21.7

Where did it go and what we can do to get it back?

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