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The John Fugelsang Podcast

We're Still Here with Simon and Julie

The John Fugelsang Podcast

Crossover Media Group

News, Sanity, Arts, Sexy Liberal Podcast Network, Religion & Spirituality, John Fugelsang, Sexy Liberal

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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John talks with Simon Moya-Smith & Julie Francella on Native Americans suing San Antonio to protect sacred birds in a river and other issues impacting the Indigenous community.

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0:00.0

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1:03.6

It's Sirius XM Progress.

1:09.2

I'm John Fuglesang.

1:44.8

Good evening and welcome to the Love Fest. That is Tell Me Everything. I spend all week looking forward to this segment, and I know a lot of y'all do too. We are so blessed to bring you still there, still here with Simon. I'm still there, but still here with Simon Moyes-Smith and Julie Franchella every week. Simon is an Oglala Lakota and Chicano journalist. He's a contributing writer at NBC News and The Nation.com. Simon is the author of the forthcoming book. Your spirit animal is a jackass, and he is adjunct professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado, Denver. Simon, it's great to have you with us. Happy to be here, man.

1:51.9

Happy to have you. Julie Franchella is a mental health professional with over 30 years of experience and handling complex trauma with indigenous youth and families.

1:54.9

Julie's an enrolled member of the Ojibway of Bajuana First Nation Reserve.

1:59.9

She teaches indigenous studies at Durham College, focusing on the impacts of colonization on First Nations people.

2:00.9

And she's a breathtaking indigenous painter. You can see her work at Julie Franchella.com. Julie, it's so good

2:05.8

to have you back. Thank you so much, always, for having us back. Always happy to be here.

2:12.1

Well, guys, Anne Coulter is being racist again, but I know, hey, it's a day with Y in it,

2:16.6

so we'll let that wait.

2:24.4

What I'd like to ask you about first is this story about the Benson County Chief Deputy,

2:27.8

a man named Travis Carlson, who is not native, is in North Dakota.

2:32.0

He got arrested last month, and he's now facing a bunch of very serious criminal charges.

2:35.3

Among them are allegations he illegally assisted members of the Spirit Lake Nation on reservation land without proper authority. The charges include

2:40.4

official oppression, dereliction of duty, disorderly conduct. They claim that he unlawfully detained

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