This is the John Fuglesang podcast.

This is Sirius XM Progress.

I'm John Fuglesang.

Welcome to Channel 127.

I hope you're doing well today.

If you're not doing well, that's okay.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus, born this date in 1913.

Our executive producer is Chris Housel.

Thea Harper produces our show out of Brooklyn.

I'm so glad to be with you.

And we have some wonderful guests tonight.

Angelo Carasone of Media Matters is here on the right-wing information sphere

and how things are gradually beginning to shift while everyone's in shock.

And we're really glad you're with us as well.

We've got a lot to get to tonight.

I know there's a lot going on out there in the world.

Thousands of Ventura County, California residents have been forced to flee their homes as a 20,000-acre wildfire continues to spread westward into populated areas. The fierce Santa Ana winds have fueled the fire that's destroyed dozens of homes. Rudy Giuliani showed up in court today, was given seven days to relinquish property and belongings to Shea Moss and Ruby Freeman as settlement for defaming them and putting their lives in danger after the 2020 election, he's still being punished for Donald Trump's lies, as opposed to being rewarded for them.

And 43 monkeys, you may have heard, have escaped from a South Carolina breeding facility for U.S. research lab.

This is never, never the first scene of any movies. 866-997-47-48 is our number. Hey, this coming weekend, not this weekend,

but the following weekend, I'm going to be appearing at Lake Erie College, which is in Painesville,

Ohio. I'm thrilled to be going back. Not to Lake Erie College, which is in Painesville, Ohio. I'm thrilled to be going back.

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