Trump is Using Media Consolidation Like Mob Bosses Use Protection Rackets
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
John discusses Disney executives who are hopeful they can bring Jimmy Kimmel Live back to the airwaves but want a commitment from the host to “turn down the temperature” of his monologues and political humor. Which is of course, censorship. He also plays clips from FCC Chair Brendan Carr - bragging about his power to crush any broadcast political show he wants. Then, he talks with Richard Chew of WCPT in Chicago about Jimmy Kimmel, Charlie Kirk, and Trump's plans to send the National Guard to Chicago. Then finally, John welcomes back the 2 Taras to talk politics. Tara Devlin is a comedian and the host of the Tarabuster, where she looks at news, politics and history through an unapologetically liberal lens. Tara Dublin is a comedian and author of “The Sound of Settling: A Rock & Roll Love Story”. Together Tara Devlin and Tara Dublin are the co-hosts of The Tara Show podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fuglesang podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | This is Sirius XM Progress. |
| 0:12.5 | Good evening and welcome to it. |
| 0:14.6 | I am New York Times bestselling author, John Fuglesang. |
| 0:19.3 | This is the only joke we're having in my house this week, |
| 0:21.8 | and my teenager is as unimpressed now as he was last week. We got a great show tonight. I'm so glad |
| 0:27.8 | you're with us. This is Tell Me Everything. Welcome to Progress After Dark. We are produced by |
| 0:32.1 | the great Chris Houseelt. The Mighty Thea Harper produces our show out of Brooklyn, and I am so glad |
| 0:37.0 | you're here with us tonight. |
| 0:38.0 | We have a lot to make sense of. |
| 0:39.4 | We have a lot to ridicule mercilessly. |
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| 0:46.6 | Your digits punch out on your attractive device to join the show, and we need your voice. |
| 0:50.9 | 866-997 grit. |
| 0:52.8 | We're joined tonight by a real Chicago radio legend, the great Richard Chu of WCPT, the long-running |
| 0:59.1 | progressive, one of the few terrestrial long-running progressive talk stations still out there. |
| 1:03.9 | If you've ever been in the Midwest, you know that CPT is a mighty force. |
| 1:07.0 | They have a great, great lineup. |
| 1:08.8 | And boy, Chicago seems to have dodged a bullet now. |
| 1:11.9 | Donald Trump realized, why did I just have the troops go harassed black people in a state |
| 1:15.3 | that has a Republican attorney general? Bye-bye, Chicago. Hello, Memphis. So I'm thrilled |
| 1:21.8 | that Richard's with us. Tomorrow night, Frank Conniff is back on the show. So I have a book. It has now |
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