We're Still Here with Simon and Julie
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Simon and Julie join John for a powerful discussion honoring the late Graham Greene, reflecting on his legacy as an actor, mentor, and champion for Native voices. They also discuss the government’s $18 million payout to victims of Dr. Stanley Patrick Weber (Non-Indigenous), a former Indian Health Service doctor who sexually abused Native boys for years. Callers share their heartfelt reactions, stories, and reflections.
Julie’s latest Substack is a moving tribute to Graham Greene. Here is the link
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| 0:00.0 | I am so pleased now because it's the time for the segment I look forward to all week. |
| 0:11.4 | We are so blessed here to have Julia Franchella and Simon Moyes Smith join us every week. |
| 0:15.8 | We're still here. |
| 0:17.1 | This is, I'm told, the only indigenous segment that's weekly on national radio, and I am so not worthy, but man, it's just, I learn so much every week from these two people, and I love what they bring into the world. |
| 0:30.3 | Simon Moyes Smith is an Oglala Lakota and Chicano journalist. He's a contributing writer at NBC News and The Nation.com. |
| 0:36.4 | He is the author of the forthcoming book, Your Spirit Animal is a jackass, and he's an adjunct professor of indigenous studies at the University of Colorado, Denver, Simon. It's so good to have you back. Thank you. Yeah, I'd love to be here, man. Julie Franchelle is a mental health professional with over 30 years of experience and handling complex trauma with indigenous youth and families. Julie's an |
| 0:55.1 | enrolled member of the Ojibway of Bouchoana First Nation Reserve. She teaches indigenous studies at Durham |
| 0:59.9 | College, focusing on the impacts of colonization on First Nations people. And she's an amazing painter and has a |
| 1:05.3 | terrific substack as well. The Fire I Keep, Julie, thank you for being with us again. |
| 1:10.8 | Thank you so much. Happy to be here, as always. |
| 1:13.6 | Well, guys, I was telling our listeners, we're going to begin talking about Graham Green tonight. |
| 1:18.6 | A character actor who went from being known as an indigenous character actor to being known as a character actor, |
| 1:25.6 | because he was just so excellent and effortless at every |
| 1:29.1 | role he did. I never caught this guy acting. I never caught him performing. He was always the most |
| 1:34.5 | relaxed guy in every scene you see him in. Just a fascinating guy to watch work. And Julie, you wrote a beautiful |
| 1:41.1 | substack about him and you described that he was everyone's uncle. I never got to meet him. Could you wrote a beautiful substack about him, and you described that he was everyone's uncle. |
| 1:45.1 | I never got to meet him. |
| 1:47.0 | Could you share a personal memory or a story that captures who this man nominated for an acting Oscar for Dances with Wolves? |
| 1:54.6 | What was he like off-screen? |
| 1:58.1 | Well, I only met him one time, and that was about 20 years ago, and he was very much like an uncle. |
| 2:05.4 | You know, he had a very wonderful sense of humor, and, you know, he just had this warmth about him, and he would tease you. |
| 2:13.9 | And if you know anything about indigenous people, that's a sign that they like you |
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