About this episode

John discusses Trump's paranoid primetime address and its implications, along with air quality issues and features interviews with various guests.

John discusses Trump delivering a paranoid and slurry primetime address on what he deems is an emergency of integrity in American elections. In the speech, Trump claimed he’d expose foreign plots to sway recent elections and blamed Democrats and Media Companies for allowing it to happen. He also talks about air quality being dangerously unhealthy across a swath of America from the Pacific to the Atlantic, including record-poor levels of pollution at the site of Sunday’s World Cup final. Then, John welcomes back democratic strategist Ameshia Cross and they talk about Trump's mega lies and propaganda in last night's speech. The ever entertaining Bob Cesca jumps in and joins John to discuss Trump's   longtime teleprompter operator, Gabriel Perez, who is under federal investigation for allegedly making $100,000 by betting on the content of the president's speeches. They also talk about Pete Kegsbreath's new directive for testosterone replacement therapy for male service members. Next, he interviews New York Times bestselling author James M. Scott  about his new book " Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War" . And then fianlly, Frank Conniff…

People in this episode

Host: John Fugelsang

Guests: Ameshia Cross, Bob Cesca, James M. Scott, Frank Conniff

Topics covered

• Trump's address
• election integrity
• air quality
• political propaganda
• testosterone therapy
• book discussion

Keywords

• Trump
• elections
• air quality
• politics
• propaganda
• testosterone therapy
• James M. Scott
• Empire of Ashes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times

Books & works: Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War

Places: America

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