John Williams
Hosted by John Williams · wgnradio.com
3.9from 175 ratings
- 2,676
- Episodes
- 2,536
- Transcribed
- 175
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About John Williams
The John Williams Podcast from 720 WGN
- Publisher
- wgnradio.com
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Jun 2023
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
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2,536 of 2,676 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Mincing Rascals 10.21.26: Ramaswamy ad, polling accuracy, Chicago budget
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Landscape expert Bob Bertog: Is there still time to seed your lawn?
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Congress has ceded power to President Trump
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The Mincing Rascals 10.21.26: Ramaswamy ad, polling accuracy, Chicago budget
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. Really? Yeah, people gave them money. Oh, wow. So that is... might've been a social experiment, but people gave them money. So that becomes less of a social experiment that becomes a contract or, you know, something with liability at that point. One, one example of this, our firm doesn't do a ton of polling. We do some, and some of it is released publicly. Some of it is, is private and our head of polling, the guy who's in Chicago is named Sergio always talks to me about this example in that Pew used in 2022. where they asked people in an opt-in online poll whether they were, and this was like a standard political poll, and the first question was whether they were licensed to operate a class SSGN nuclear submarine, and about one in eight said yes. […]
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