Hey everybody. Welcome to the Michael Steel podcast. So as many of you know, I started this podcast in 2018. And this week, this version of my podcast will be coming to a close, at least for a little while, as I shift my focus to hosting the weeknight with Alicia Menendez and Simone Sanders Towson on MSNBC.

So I love it when you guys join me over there. We'll have a lot of fun for sure.

So to wrap up this podcast, I brought on some of my favorite past guests for a big live stream barbershop style, you know,

beauty parlor rap party, as they say, to discuss current events. And I'm so excited because

this, I say this with the largest amount of affection I can find. This group is cray cray.

Y'all don't know what y'all about to get here because they they buck wild and that's what I love. Buck wild.

Ellie Mistal, the nation's justice correspondent, columnist, an author of two books,

The New York Times Best Seller, Allow Me to Retort,

A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution,

and Bad Law, 10 popular laws that are ruining America,

and he's here in the house.

Uh-oh, here we go.

John Fugel saying, yeah,

the actor, comedian, broadcaster, host of Tell Me Everything, Weekdays, Oserious XM, Insight, 121. And the co-host of the podcast, The Oath in the Office with Professor Corey Brett Schneider, his book, Separation of Church and hate a sane person's guide to taking back the Bible from fundamentalist, fascist and flock fleecing frauds.

Folks is coming out in August. That's already a bestseller. I know it's going to be hot. Karen Hunter, one of one of the folks I've enjoyed working with over many years.

Karen is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, professor, publisher, co-author of eight New York Times bestsellers.

Host of the Karen Hunter Show on Sirius XM, Urban View, Channel 126.

And Fast Friend, this I, we have so much fun when we're together.

Molly Jong Fass, contributing writer at Vanity Fair, a political analyst at MSNBC.

We get to hang out there every once in a while.

Host of the podcast Fast Politics with Molly Jung Fast. She is the author of the new book. It's out now

How to Lose Your Mother, a Daughter's Memoir. It's a great book wrote, folks. Grab a copy.

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