The Monday Mood Check
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Hugh discusses the weekend of football with Doug Lesmerises before turning to the imminent Senate rule change, the fatal stabbing of the Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina, and the Palestinian terrorist shooting of six people at a Jerusalem bus stop with Sen. Tom Cotton, Philip Balboni, and Bethany Mandel.
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| 0:51.2 | Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. You know, I do 75 segments, radio and television a week on this program, 75. |
| 0:57.9 | Two are devoted to football during the fall. |
| 1:00.1 | On the Friday football forecast, Doug Laymarie's co-host of the Bill and Doug show, |
| 1:05.3 | available on iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, and the subscription service on Substack. |
| 1:11.2 | He joins me on Friday to make some predictions and tell people to watch this or that. |
| 1:15.4 | And on Monday's coming back to tell us who's miserable and who's feeling magical. |
| 1:19.2 | It's the Monday mood check. |
| 1:20.8 | But Doug, before we go there, welcome back. |
| 1:22.8 | I loved Friday's show. |
| 1:24.1 | I loved an email that you read from a father about why sports are wonderful. Do you happen to have that with you? |
| 1:31.4 | I do. I do, Hugh, and I do think the best thing about sports is how it binds us together, right? So I do, I think people appreciate this kind of thing. I'll try to run through pretty quick for you here, right? So this is a father writing about his son, and he's an Ohio State football fan. |
| 1:49.0 | My love of Ohio State has been a surreal journey. |
| 1:51.5 | I've been a fan since the late 80s, watching and bonding with my dad. |
| 1:54.8 | I thought I would continue this with my son. |
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