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| Ring of Fire | |
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| Opening theme | "Ring of Fire" bySocial Distortion |
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| Original release | May 1, 2004 |
| Provider | Air America(2004–2010) |
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| Website | trofire |
Ring of Fire is a progressive American podcast currently hosted by Jerrod Zisser. The show was formerly a talk radio program hosted byMike Papantonio andSam Seder. The show focuses on:"exposing Wall Street thugs, environmental criminality, corporate media failure and political backstories rarely found in the mainstream media".[1] The show has been on the air since 2004, first as a radio program and then moving to a podcast-only format.[2]
J Michael Papantonio is an attorney specializing inmass torts,litigation and issenior partner at theLevin Papantonio Law Firm. Seder is an actor, comedian, director and political commentator who hostsThe Majority Report. In 2013, Ring of Fire expanded into a television program airing weeknights on venues such asFree Speech TV, that was hosted by Papantonio and Cousins. In 2025, Farron Cousins announced that he will be leaving the Ring of Fire network.
Producer – Scott MillicanRing of Fire airs Saturdays from 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. ET. Papantonio does the show from the Pensacola studio while Seder's studio is nearThe New York Times Building in New York City.[citation needed] The program's theme song, "Ring of Fire," originally byJohnny Cash, is performed bySocial Distortion.[3]
Facility space was allocated in December 2003[4] andRing of Fire aired its first broadcast on May 1, 2004, on the newly foundedAir 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 filmJesus Camp.[5]
The original cohost forRing of Fire, along with Mike Papantonio, wasRobert F. Kennedy Jr., when the show started on Air America Radio in 2004. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued to be one of the expanding number of hosts onRing of Fire until theCOVID-19 pandemic spread around the world in 2020, when his outspokenanti-vaccine views put him at odds with the other hosts and most listeners, leading to his departure.
David Bender, who hosted another Air America program,Politically Direct, 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 networkclosed down, but announced on December 11, 2010, that he was again stepping away from the program;[6] Seder announced onThe Majority Report podcast December 17, 2010, that he would be Bender's replacement.
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,Abby Martin,Laura Flanders,Sam Seder,David Pakman,Lee Camp, andMike Malloy.[1] Many of the network's personalities are also veteran personalities for other networks, includingFree Speech TV,RT[citation needed]andTeleSUR. 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."[7]
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