SNAP Snub Snags Sneers - Snowflakes Snort SNAFU
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Joe Sudbay guests hosts while John is on his California cruise trip. Joe discusses Trump's Halloween glitzy Great Gatsby party - flouting lavishness while millions panic over SNAP benefits being constrained. He also talks about the major elections happening in New Jersey, Virginia, California, and New York. Then, he speaks with Jessica Mackler who is the president of EMILYs list. EMILYs List is backing both Democratic governor candidates (Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia), as well as women candidates in every top red-to-blue flip opportunity in Virginia’s House of Delegates races. In the last Southern state without an abortion ban, this year, Virginia’s House will determine if voters can protect reproductive freedom through a constitutional amendment. And then finally, Joe interviews Alejandro Varela. His debut novel, The Town of Babylon was a finalist for the National Book Award. His latest novel, Middle Spoon, was published by Viking on September 9, 2025. His novels and stories take public health topics — from systemic racism to gentrification to sexuality — and make them accessible and memorable. Varela is an editor-at-large of Apogee Journal, and holds a masters degree in public health from the University of Washington.
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| 1:03.0 | This is the John Fuglesang podcast. |
| 1:10.4 | Good evening. |
| 1:11.6 | Welcome to Tell Me Everything. My name's Joe Southey. I'm going to be sitting in for John tonight, tomorrow, and Wednesday. And I have to tell you, I'm very excited to be with all of you. I always am, but especially on this election Eve and tomorrow night |
| 1:29.5 | election day and then a post-election analysis on Wednesday. We've got a great show tonight. |
| 1:36.2 | Jessica Mackler, who's the president of Emily's List, is going to join us later in this hour. |
| 1:40.9 | And the next hour, a terrific author, Alejandro Varela. He's written a new book called |
| 1:46.0 | Middle Spoon. He's a public health professor, and he really imbues that into his fiction. It is, |
| 1:53.6 | it's masterful. He's terrific. So great show ahead of us. So much to cover, of course, you know, after sharing photos of his new |
| 2:05.2 | Marvel bathroom and hosting a great Gatsby-themed party at his Florida mansion, you know, the great |
| 2:12.3 | Gatsby, the 1920s novel filled with millionaires, bootleggers, and white supremacists, |
| 2:18.4 | the theme of that party at Mar-a-Lago that Trump held, |
| 2:21.8 | and I'm not making this up, a little party never killed nobody. |
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