John's Top Ten "WTF" Moments of the Week
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In today's monologue - John runs down the week's top ten cases of BS, rankfuckery and double-talking jive. Then he interviews Adolph Reed, who is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in issues of racism and U.S. politics. They discuss his recent piece in The Nation - "How Inequality Was Redefined as 'Poverty' - Letting Capitalism Off the Hook". Next he takes a call from Sean in California on Trump's Meet The Press interview. Then finally, he welcomes back comedian Rhonda Hansome. They talk about Rolling Stone magazine Co-founder Jann Wenner being removed from the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after make disparaging comments about Black and female performers. They take calls from Mitch at Kent State, Mark in Texas, and Norm in Tampa.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fugelsang Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | This is serious XM progress. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm John Fugelsang. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to Channel 127. |
| 0:14.7 | Hope you had a great weekend. |
| 0:16.9 | We are live and interactive, and for the next three hours |
| 0:19.2 | we'll be taking your calls at 866, 997474748, 8669974748 866 997 grit there's a lot to cover there was a |
| 0:28.8 | shooting this weekend in Denver on Saturday night which marked America's 500th mass shooting of |
| 0:36.0 | 2023. A mass shooting is any shooting in which four or more people are |
| 0:40.1 | shot or killed, not including the shooter. Five years ago we had never had 500 mass |
| 0:46.4 | shootings in one single year. But hey, this is America. We're number one. We have a really great show tonight. Adolf Reed has an incredible |
| 0:55.8 | piece in the nation that's going to freak a lot of people out, but it is searing and powerful |
| 1:01.6 | and I highly recommend it. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm really thrilled to have him. |
| 1:04.2 | It's called how inequality was redefined as poverty, |
| 1:08.6 | letting capitalism off the hook. |
| 1:11.0 | And it points the finger at the JFK and Johnson administrations and how policy shifted |
| 1:15.8 | from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing this ideology of personal responsibility. It's very fascinating, it's very |
| 1:25.3 | enraging, it's very controversial, you're not going to want to miss it and |
| 1:28.0 | whether you agree with it or not I really want to hear your take. We'll also be |
| 1:31.6 | joined by comedian Rhonda Handsome who's here to |
| 1:33.9 | slay some fools and all evening long taking your calls again 866 997 47 48. |
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