Ep. 326: Why Do People Kill? Lt Joe Kenda Explains The "Killer Triggers"
Release Date: 03/23/2021
Ep. 393: The Strange, Bizarre, and Curious Ways of Whiteness and Black "Conservatives" in the Age of Trump
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Leonce Gaiter’s nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Slate, and The Washington Post. Gaiter is also the author of the historical novel, “I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang”. Leonce explains why white privilege and white racial innocence will not save (white) Americans from Trump’s plans to be a dictator and the hell world that the American neofascist movement is trying to impose on the country. He also reflects on why black and brown...
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Ep. 392: Rich Logis Escaped the Trump - MAGA Cult -- Heed His Warnings About Its Power and Extreme Danger to America
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There are two guests on this week’s episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Jen Senko is the director of the 2015 documentary The Brainwashing of My Dad. She shares her thoughts on . In essence, and once again, Donald Trump is the leader of a fascist political cult. Jen Senko also reflects on the impact of her very prescient documentary given Trump’s criminal trials and the plot against democracy, the escalating danger(s) of Trump’s movement, and why so many in the American mainstream news media continue to be in willful denial about the reality of the crisis. . He reflects on how...
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Ep. 391: What do Donald Trump’s Reactions to Being Indicted for the Crimes of Jan. 6 and Beyond Reveal About His Mental and Emotional Health?
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Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank shares his expert insights about Donald Trump’s mind and how the ex-president’s mental pathologies and other unwell behavior are shaping his response to being criminally indicted for his many alleged crimes including Jan. 6 and his attempted coup attempt to end American democracy. In the end, Dr. Frank warns Trump will become increasingly detached from reality as he exercises even more...
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Ep. 390: Tim Wise on Ron DeSantis’ War on African-American History and the Enduring Power of Donald Trump over White America
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Tim Wise is an author, activist and leading expert on white privilege and racism. He is the author of many books, including his most recent "Dispatches From the Race War." He explains how the recent Supreme Court decision against affirmative action, Ron DeSantis’ fascist-authoritarian war on Black America’s real history (slavery was a “job skills “program) and real struggles and real triumphs, and Donald Trump and the MAGA movement’s enduring power are all connected as part of a much larger project to protect white privilege and white power across all of American society by ending...
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Ep. 389: This is Not a Tragic Mulatto Story: CNN's John Blake on His New Book "More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew"
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There are two guests in this episode of the podcast. is a senior writer and producer at CNN and the author of the new book More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew. John reflects on vulnerability and the vocation of writing, life journeys and life wisdom, the people who made us, how the personal is truly the political, navigating and surviving the color line and questions of belonging and identity. He also shares the importance of finding one’s own true authentic voice in writing, specifically, and life, more generally. Friend of the...
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Ep. 388: What to the American Slave is the Fourth of July? Historian David Blight on the American Prophet Frederick Douglass
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This is a special surprise July 4th episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. On this special episode, Chauncey takes a journey around his neighborhood and shares some stories about the interesting, good, bad, and other fascinating people he encountered and the lessons he learned about inner beauty and dignity. He also shares his thoughts about the recent AEW Forbidden Door pay-per-view event, watching the reality TV show 90 Day Fiancé: Before The 90 Days on TLC with his mother and the mysterious and upsetting saga of Gino and Jasmine, and what it was like battling smoke from forest fires...
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Ep. 387: Prison Journalist John J. Lennon on Life Lessons and How Writing Made Him a Better Person
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is currently serving a 28-years-to-life sentence at Sullivan Correctional Facility for murder, drug sales and gun possession. He is a contributing editor at Esquire and a contributing writer at the Marshall Project. His work has appeared in , , , , , , and elsewhere. In this wide-ranging conversation John J. Lennon discusses the craft of writing, life journeys, masculinity, violence, mental health, and what it means to try to be a sane person in an insane and mad world. Chauncey DeVega has returned from his trip home to visit his mother and reflects on that epic journey and grappling...
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Ep. 386: Jonathan Eig Takes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Down Off The Monument and Makes Him Real
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is an award-winning author and journalist whose books include Ali: A Life and Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig. His new book is King: A Life. In this wide-ranging conversation, Jonathan emphasizes the real and complex Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as opposed to the man who has been made into a secular saint, what it was like to be a trustee of such a legacy and life, and how the real and complex and flawed man who did amazing things is so much more interesting and inspiring than the 2-dimensional version of Dr. King that too many people robotically worship. Jonathan also...
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Ep. 385: The Truth Report -- Mark Jacob Explains How America's Mainstream News Media Surrendered to Donald Trump and The Republican Fascist Movement
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This is a sneak preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-126-mark-jacob-explains-how-americas-mainstream-news-media-surrendered-to-donald-trump-and-the-republican-fascist-movement Mark Jacob is a media critic and a former Metro Editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. He reflects on his decades-long career in the news media and what he learned about that institution’s failings and how it helped to birth the Age of Trump and American neofascism. Mark Jacob warns that obsolete...
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Ep. 384: The Eclectic Star Wars Jerry Springer Animal Friends Episode
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In honor of Star Wars and the 40th anniversary of Return of the Jedi, friend of the podcast and fellow traveler Mr. Bill is the special guest on this eclectic episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Chauncey DeVega and Mr. Bill reflect on their four-decade-long relationship with all things Star Wars and how they feel as men of a certain vintage about George Lucas’s great gift to the world, why they love it so much, and how that love and relationship went so wrong with Disney’s takeover. They also discuss what it was like to see Return of the Jedi in the theater last week, the perils of...
info_outlineLt. Joe Kenda (ret.) was a detective with the Colorado Springs Police Department for twenty years. During that time, he solved 356 of the 387 murder cases he investigated.
Kenda is the host of the new discovery+ show American Detective.
Lt. Kenda’s new book is Killer Triggers. His previous book is I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime.
Prior to his new show, Kenda was the host of the beloved TV show Homicide Hunter on the Investigation Discovery (ID) network.
Kenda explains the randomness of life and why murder and chaos are often indiscriminate in who they touch – and why. He also debunks common myths about serial killers and other evildoers. In addition, Kenda offers some personal stories about what it is like to pursue, arrest, and then interrogate such people. And Kenda shares some of the most disturbing and provocative stories of true crime from his new book Killer Triggers.
Lt. Kenda and Chauncey DeVega also reflect on their shared love of Michael Mann’s crime-classic film Heat.
Chauncey DeVega reflects on last week’s (alleged) Atlanta hate crime mass murder targeting Asians and Asian Americans and America’s deep inability to admit the truth about racism and white supremacy. He also explains how a toxic mix of racism, guns, white right-wing Christian fascism, sexism, and other cultural poisons came together in the Atlanta hate crime and the Age of Trump and beyond.
SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW
- American crisis: The horrific Atlanta killings — and democracy still under threat
- To be an Asian woman in America
- Atlanta spa shooting survivor Marcus Lyon describes how masseuse saved his life
- Don’t Discount Evangelicalism as a Factor in Racist Murder Spa Murders in Georgia
- Hard workers, dedicated mothers, striving immigrants: These are the 8 people killed in the Atlanta area spa shootings
- Hedges: The Evil Within Us
- Homeless? Here’s how to access your $1,400 stimulus check
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