The Big Weekend Pod
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Hugh discusses the news of the week with Eli Lake, Matt Continetti, and Ben Domenech.
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| 0:00.0 | Americans may not agree on much, but we agree on Social Security. |
| 0:04.8 | We all pay in. It ought to be there when we need it. |
| 0:08.1 | Social Security could face a funding gap in less than a decade, and I don't want to see a pay cut. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm with AARP in the fight to protect the Social Security we earned. |
| 0:19.1 | Pledge to protect Social Security at AARP.org slash we earned it. |
| 0:24.4 | That's aARP.org slash we earned it. |
| 0:28.0 | Paid for by AARP. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. |
| 0:33.5 | All things Hillsdale at Hillsdale. |
| 0:34.8 | I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hillsdale.edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. |
| 0:38.9 | And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, |
| 0:40.9 | all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale.com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. |
| 0:47.0 | Hi, it's Hugh. |
| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the Big Weekend Pod. |
| 0:50.1 | A great, great show today. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm down my lead-off hitter with John Ellis. |
| 0:55.3 | He's out. |
| 0:56.2 | But I will be joined by Eli Lake, who will bat both first and second. |
| 1:00.7 | Then Matt Contennetti will come along. |
| 1:02.9 | Second and third, and Big Ben Dominic in the cleanup spot, as usual. |
| 1:06.8 | And we're going to add, just in case you missed it, |
| 1:10.1 | Haviv Reddy Gore from yesterday, that's an additional 50 it, Haviv read a gore from yesterday. |
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