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This is the John Fuglesang podcast.

This is Sirius XM Progress. I'm John Fuglesang. Welcome. I hope you guys have had a great day. We have a lot to cover today.

Did you just get to be like me and geek out listening to Joe Sudbay and Max Burns being smart with each other? Oh my God.

It's like both kids I cheated off of the SATs in the same room at the same time. Thank you, for a very wise conversation. Let's balance that out now with some of what I bring to the table.

Not a journalist, nor brilliant activist mind, I, no, just a vulgar clown and humble vaudevillian.

But we have a lot to cover tonight. We have a lot of great guests tonight to balance out

all that I don't bring to the table. The very brilliant Bob Saska joins us. And

our number two, we're going to have the God Squad, Dillan Aber Cruz, and Pastor DeSembroes,

my kind of theology, Christianity with profanity. That's right. That's what we offer around here, because that's really what I think Jesus' movement needs a lot more unnecessary swear words.

Hour number three, Dr. Tracy Pearson is here to hold court on all matters political, and I pity the fool.

Gets in a slap fight with her. In the meantime, I am propped up quite ably by two radio broadcasting professionals

who I am honored are slumming it with me. The Mighty Chris Houself is our executive producer,

the brilliant Thea Harper. I was also producing our show. She just taped a new episode of

Theoretically Speaking earlier today. You can hear every episode of Theoretically Speaking

at the SiriusXM app or on demand. Do check it out. Check out Thea's videos with Brooklyn Mavens, too. And check out my book. It's called Separation of Church and Hate. I had a very good experience today. I saw my book in an airport in L.A. And I saw my book in an airport in New York City. And that's because I work in

airport. No, that's because I traveled cross-country. We had a great week and a half in Los Angeles. Very nice to be back in New York City. Daddy's joining you on about, I think, close to three hours sleep. So let's see how much fun we can have. There's a lot to cover, guys. And today really was it. I mean, today, I'm willing to say Trump broke the needle on the

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