The Big Weekend Pod
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Hugh discusses the news of the week with John Ellis, Eli Lake, Matt Continetti, and Ben Domenech.
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| 0:00.0 | Scammers are stealing billions of dollars from America's seniors, and they're ramping up their efforts. |
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| 0:11.9 | But we have the power to stop these criminals. |
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| 0:22.6 | Join us today. |
| 0:23.9 | Visit action.aARP.org slash fraud pledge, paid for by AARP. |
| 0:29.9 | Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at |
| 0:34.3 | hillsdale.edu. |
| 0:35.7 | 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 |
| 0:37.5 | online courses there. And of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at |
| 0:41.5 | Hugh for Hillsdale.com, or just Google, Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning, Gloria, |
| 0:47.9 | and even Grace, America. Welcome to Big Weekend Pod. Our regular guests are here, Eli Lake, |
| 0:53.0 | Matt Contenetti, John Ellis, Ben Dominic. |
| 0:56.1 | And we're talking about what we've been talking about for two months, the war with Iran, |
| 1:00.9 | which enters a new phase, perhaps, over this weekend. |
| 1:04.0 | Headline in the Times of Israel, Israel said, bracing for Iran fighting to resume soon, |
| 1:09.5 | as Trump briefed on military options. |
| 1:11.9 | I'll be talking with most of my guests, but especially at U.S.A, about the crazy upside-down |
| 1:18.0 | analysis of the war. Iran's gotten crushed, and they continue to get crushed, and they put out |
| 1:23.3 | press releases instead of offensive action, Because they have no offensive action. |
| 1:28.0 | They have no way to move forward. |
| 1:29.7 | And whether or not the United States goes back to kinetic operations or just squeezes them to death, |
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