The Big Weekend Pod
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Hugh discusses the news of the week with Matt Continetti, Ben Domenech, Eli Lake, John Ellis, Jonathan Williams, and replay's Mark Carney's speech from Davos.
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| 0:48.1 | Morning, Gloria, Indian Grace. Welcome to the big weekend pod, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Good pod today. Great pod, if I may say so myself. |
| 0:56.2 | Prompted in part by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's bankers address to the bankers at Davos. |
| 1:01.9 | He got a standing ovation. Got a big standing ovation at Davos. Mark Carney did. |
| 1:06.0 | I don't know what's happened to Canada. |
| 1:08.0 | All right. Stephen Harper was a great prime minister, Brian Moroni, great partner |
| 1:11.9 | with Ronald Reagan and facing down the Soviet Union. They had the clown Trudeau for a long time. |
| 1:17.3 | Now they've turned to Mr. Davos himself, Mark Carney. I want you to make time to listen to it, |
| 1:23.5 | so I'm going to have Harley had the 15-minute speech, not the Q&A. It's only 15 minutes. |
| 1:28.6 | Mark Carney gave a 15-minute speech. |
| 1:30.0 | I talk about it with my guest today, John Ellis, well, I'll lead off with Matt Contennetti, then Ben Dominic, then Eli Lake, then John Ellis. |
| 1:40.3 | But listen to the Mark Carney thing. |
| 1:43.2 | It's quite quietly, but quite definitely anti-American through and through. |
| 1:49.0 | It's also very cowardly because Carney avoids naming President Trump or the United States. |
| 1:54.3 | You got that big standing O, though, at the banker's annual pep rally in Davos. |
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