''Ring of Fire'' is a progressive syndicated American talk radio program hosted by

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, and Farron Cousins. The three hosts focus on "exposing Wall Street thugs, environmental criminality, corporate media failure, and political back stories that you will rarely find from any other source". The show has been on the air since 2004 and is currently carried on 43 radio stations across the United States. J Michael Papantonio is an attorney specializing in mass torts litigation and is senior partner at the

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. Seder is an actor,

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, director and political commentator who hosts ''

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'', originally on Air America Radio with

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and currently as an independently produced podcast. In 2013, the show expanded into a television program airing weeknights on topics such as Free Speech TV, hosted by Papantonio and Cousins.

Production

Producer - Scott Millican ''Ring of Fire'' airs Saturdays from 3PM – 6PM ET. Papantonio does the show from the Pensacola studio while Seder's studio is near The New York Times Building in New York City. The program's theme song is " Ring of Fire," originally by

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, is performed by Social Distortion.

History

Facility space was allocated in December 2003 and ''Ring of Fire'' aired its first broadcast on May 1, 2004 on the newly founded Air America radio network. It remained there until the network closed almost six years later. Dial Global then picked up the program and has syndicated it since. The radio program was featured in the 2006 documentary film ''

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''. David Bender, who hosted another Air America program, ''

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'', first appeared on the show when Air America 2.0 was launched in May 2007. Bender returned to the program as a full-time host after the network closed down, but announced on December 11, 2010, that he was again stepping away from the program; Seder announced on ''

'' podcast December 17, 2010 that he would be Bender's replacement.

The Ring of Fire Network

In 2015, the show became officially known as The Ring of Fire Network, and began focusing heavily on Progressive political content. Numerous hosts now appear on the show, including Papantonio, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz,

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, Laura Flanders,

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, Lee Camp, and Mike Malloy. Many of the network's personalities are also veteran personalities for other networks, including Free Speech TV, RT and TeleSUR. Also in 2015, the show began a separate site called Drug Safety News for the "specific purpose of highlighting political maneuvers the pharmaceutical industry is taking to influence government decisions, and to expose the dangers and lack of effectiveness of many of the products the industry is marketing."

References

External links

* {{AAR Air America (radio network) American talk radio programs Progressive talk radio Radio programs on XM Satellite Radio