The Hunt for a Speaker with a Woofer but No "Tweeter"
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The monologue in today's podcast focuses on Republicans voting to select a new speaker of the House. John also talks about the latest developments in the Israel - Hamas War. Then. he interviews the professor of history at the University of Alabama - Joshua Rothman. They discuss his new book "The Ledger and the Chain" which is the shocking story of 3 slave traders who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Next, he plays a clip of President Biden's announcement about the first phase of the new government Tech Hubs Program and he chats with attorney Marie in Atlanta on Rep. Austin Scott and Ken from West Virginia calls about the purposeful ignorance of right wing media. Then, wrapping it up, John welcomes back comedian Rhonda Hansome to talk about new plays on Broadway and current news. They take listener calls from Laura in L.A. on reparations, Sean in Cali on oppressed minorities, Brian in Oregon on solutions to end the war in Israel, and Charles in Miami on the power of the speakership.
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| 0:00.0 | This is serious XM progress. |
| 0:02.0 | This is the John Fugel saying podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | This is serious XM progress. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm John Fugkel saying welcome to channel 127 |
| 0:14.8 | Progress After Dark for the next three hours we'll be coming at you at 866 |
| 0:19.4 | 997 4748. That number again is 866 997 grit. Write it down. We want to hear from you guys all night. |
| 0:28.0 | There's a lot to talk about. There's a lot that's not funny at all. |
| 0:31.0 | And more than a little bit, stateside, that's not funny at all and more than a little bit state side that's frankly |
| 0:34.1 | hilarious if it doesn't make you cry I'm John Fuegal saying so glad to be with you in |
| 0:38.8 | New York Thea Harper and I are broadcasting from the Howard Stern Towers high above Gotham and only the |
| 0:45.2 | Harper and I. It is empty here. It is empty here. And it's great to be back in New York. |
| 0:51.8 | I want to thank everyone who came out for the big show in LA this last weekend. I got to thank everyone period. I'll get to that in a second. It's been a crazy news cycle and already today has just been non-stop. Detroit police say the murder of a |
| 1:06.0 | synagogue president there shows no signs yet of deliberate anti-Semitic or hate-based motivation. |
| 1:11.6 | There's now nine Republicans in the running for House Speaker |
| 1:15.0 | after Jim Jordan was voted out as the nominee. |
| 1:17.0 | Travis King, he's the U.S. soldier who was returned to the states |
| 1:21.0 | after he wandered into North Korea. he just got charged with desertion |
| 1:24.4 | and a few other crimes, including assaulting officers and possessing sexual images of a child. |
| 1:31.2 | Dude, you may have been better off with Kim Jong-un. |
| 1:33.4 | We have quite a show tonight. |
| 1:35.4 | Professor Joshua Rothman is going to be with us. |
| 1:37.3 | He has written one of the most powerful books about slavery and the slave business that you will ever encounter. |
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