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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Justin Wolfers & Bradley Onishi

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Think Like an Economist’s Justin Wolfers stops by to talk about consumer sentiment hitting its lowest level ever. Author Bradley Onishi joins us to discuss Pete Hegseth and the peculiar religious influences in his life.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed human.

0:04.4

No gloss, no filter.

0:07.4

Just stories.

0:09.1

Spoken without fear.

0:10.9

Person who is not generous can not be an artist.

0:13.8

The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers.

0:18.4

Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Abhaw show,

0:21.2

and the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

0:24.2

or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:27.6

Come for the honesty.

0:29.2

Stay for the fire.

0:33.5

Hi, I'm Molly Zhang Fast, and this is Fast Politics,

0:41.8

where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds. And a new CNN poll says 60% of Americans believe there's been too little focus on domestic matters.

0:49.4

We have such a great show for you today. Think like an economist, Justin Wolfer's, talks consumer sentiment

0:57.0

hitting the lowest it's ever been. Then we'll talk to author Bradley Onishi about Pete Hagseth

1:04.8

and the particular religious influences in his life. But first, the news. Som, Molly, I saw a lot of people being very mad about

1:12.3

this headline that says Democrats shut down talk of impeaching Trump this year. And I felt like

1:17.0

we should kind of explain to the listeners what's happening here. Yes. So, okay, American voters,

1:23.3

Democrat, Republican, but centrist, are very mad. They are mad at a number of things. I think the thing

1:30.2

they're probably the maddest about is the war, but followed by inflation, the economy, etc., etc.

1:37.0

They are very mad. Now, why are they so mad because things are not going the way they wanted?

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