The Big Weekend Pod
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Surprise: late August explodes with news. Join Hugh and his regular roster of analysts for a look back at a very unexpected week.
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| 0:00.0 | For over 30 years, Point of Grace has shared music, faith, and friendship with listeners across the country. |
| 0:05.1 | Now Denise, Lee, and Shelley are inviting you into their circle. Welcome to Circle of Friends. |
| 0:10.1 | The podcast is Point of Grace. Each week they're talking real life, current events, stories of true friendship, wisdom from God's Word, and all their favorite things. |
| 0:18.3 | If you're looking for a little company, a few laughs, and a lot of Jesus to hold it together, circle of friends. |
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| 0:30.1 | Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale. |
| 0:34.7 | I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. |
| 0:38.8 | And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale.com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. |
| 0:47.1 | Morning, Gloria, evening, Grace, and a good Saturday or Sunday morning to you, America. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to the big weekend pod. |
| 0:53.5 | As you know, I always have people |
| 0:55.8 | looking back over the weekend review like Ben Dominic and Charles C.W. Cook, John Ellis, from |
| 1:00.6 | news items. Today I'm also going to throw in Jim Garrity, the indispensable, and Ambassador |
| 1:06.6 | Andy Puzzler, who's an old friend of mine, and he's on his way to Brussels. |
| 1:15.1 | I think we caught him as he was going out the door from New York to head towards Brussels. |
| 1:22.1 | You couldn't get me to go to the EU if you doubled the salary and tripled the time appointment for. |
| 1:25.9 | I just don't imagine it is at all enjoyable. |
| 1:28.6 | But stick around to the end of today's program, and you'll hear what the new ambassador to the EU has to say about the challenges and the opportunities ahead |
| 1:33.8 | for America as it deals with the European Union. 27 countries, 450 million people. It's big |
| 1:39.6 | job. Andy Puster is a superb lawyer as well as a very, very successful businessman, very excited about that conversation. |
| 1:47.0 | But let's start off, as we always do with John Ellis from news items on this week's weekend, Big Pot. |
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