{"podcast":{"title":"The Signal Sitdown","slug":"the-signal-sitdown-7035152","podcast_index_feed_id":7035152,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/thesignalsitdown","website_url":"https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/4227b3d8-7f49-11ef-a171-cb59231b37be/image/8e383abb3ce76f25b50e54fc92ada658.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Daily Signal","episode_count":87,"summary":"Your government is out of control. It’s doing things it has no business doing. It spends way too much money. It gets involved in way too many wars. It not only tells you what you can and can’t say—it actively censors you. And the things your government should do, it can’t, or won’t, do at all. It can’t keep your streets clean of crime and filth. It can’t keep your neighborhoods safe enough for kids to play outside. It can’t even prevent your country from being invaded by millions of illegal migrants. Why is that? Because your leaders no longer represent you. They represent themselves and their friends. On each episode of \"The Signal Sitdown,\" politics editor Bradley Devlin exposes how the sausage really gets made in Washington, D.C. with the help of guests who have experience on the inside. \"The Signal Sitdown\" takes you inside the biggest battles in Washington, D.C., as they happen. We’ll analyze the policymaking process from an unabashedly and unapologetically conservative perspective and together reclaim government from the self-serving elites. Fingers will be pointed. Names will be named.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T18:19:45.185196+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-signal-sitdown-7035152"},"episode":{"title":"He Was on the Verge of Committing Suicide. Now, He's One of Ohio's Leading Political Voices | Josh Williams","slug":"he-was-on-the-verge-of-committing-suicide-now-he-s-one-of-ohio-s-leading-political-voices-josh-williams","published_at":"2025-12-18T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-signal-sitdown-7035152/he-was-on-the-verge-of-committing-suicide-now-he-s-one-of-ohio-s-leading-political-voices-josh-williams","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-signal-sitdown-7035152","url":"https://www.dailysignal.com/","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/THEDAILYSIGNAL8038208972.mp3?updated=1778530382","summary":"One evening, Josh Williams sat on the edge of his bed, gun in hand, and contemplated ending his life. “I was in a pit of despair that I can’t describe to you,” Williams said in his interview on “The Signal Sitdown.” After hearing some terrible news from doctors regarding a traumatic workplace injury, Williams had told his then-wife to take the kids to the store. “I sat on the edge of my bed with my gun, and I was ready to kill myself. And I wrote out my suicide note.” William’s three-year-old son, however, was left behind. Before Williams succumbed to despair and ended his life, his son walked in the room and said “Daddy, I’m hungry.” “I tucked my gun away, and I grabbed my kid, and I cried,” Williams said. “Man, I cried for hours.” When his wife returned home, Williams confronted her about leaving their three-year-old behind. “She said something kept telling her to leave him behind,” Williams recalled. “She couldn’t explain it.” “Now, later on, I know that was God working in his own mysterious ways, that he sent one of his foot soldiers in that day to save my life because he had a bigger assignment for me,” Williams told The Daily Signal. 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