Surviving the Current Moment (Quick Take)
The Michael Steele Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Michael Steele hosts a barbershop with Elie Mystal, John Fugelsang, Karen Hunter, Molly-Jong Fast & Lucy Caldwell. They discuss "surviving" and "thriving" in the current political climate and the challenge Democrats face to win in 2028.
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| 0:00.0 | Rural communities are being squeezed from every side. |
| 0:05.0 | From rising health care costs to crumbling hospitals, |
| 0:08.0 | from attacks on public schools, to the fight for paid family and medical leave. |
| 0:13.0 | Farmers and small businesses are reeling from the trade war, |
| 0:18.0 | and now Project 2025 is back, with a plan to finish what Elon Musk started. |
| 0:24.8 | Trump and the Republicans won rural votes, then turn their backs on us. |
| 0:30.8 | Join the One Country Project for the Rural Progress Summit, July 8 through the 10th. |
| 0:36.8 | This free virtual event brings together leaders |
| 0:39.9 | like Senator Heidi Highcamp, Secretary Pete Buttigieg, |
| 0:43.9 | Governor Andy Beshear and others |
| 0:46.0 | for real talk and real solutions. |
| 0:49.2 | Together we'll tackle the most urgent issues |
| 0:52.4 | facing rural America. |
| 0:54.1 | Register today or learn more at RuralProgress.com. tackle the most urgent issues facing rural America. |
| 0:58.0 | Register today or learn more at RuralProgress.com. |
| 1:06.5 | My fact this week is that Andy Warhol would regularly have his wig cut by a barber and then return the following month wearing a new, longer wig. |
| 1:10.2 | Hello, we are no such thing as a fish. |
| 1:12.6 | We are a British podcast all about facts and trivia |
| 1:16.1 | and everything interesting in the whole wide world. |
| 1:18.8 | We cover everything from pufferfish rectums to the moon to mangrove forest. |
| 1:24.9 | What else do we do, James? |
| 1:26.0 | Oh, well, what about the fact that in 1936, a robot in California shot its inventor in the head? |
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