Ep. 395: Life Lessons, Reflections on Coming of Age in the 1980s, and "When the Game Was War"
Release Date: 11/07/2023
Ep. 422: The Black Working Class are the Beating Heart of American Democracy
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Blair Kelley is an award-winning author, historian, and scholar of the African American experience. She is currently the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and the incoming director of the Center for the Study of the American South, the first Black woman to serve in that role in the center’s thirty-year history. Her new book is Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class. Blair Kelly discusses the relationship of the Black working class to the American story of striving, struggle, hope, endurance, tragedy, and...
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Ep. 421: Author Willy Vlautin Reflects on Being a Voice for the Working Class
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Willy Vlautin is the guest on this week’s special Thanksgiving Day episode of the podcast. He is the author of seven novels including Lean on Pete, The Motel Life, and The Night Always Comes. His new book is The Horse. He is the founder of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. Willy reflects on his life journey and working-class roots, the challenges of being creative for a living, how music helps to sustain him, and what it means to him to write working-class stories about strivers and survivors and why janitors and waitresses deserve their own novels too. ...
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Ep. 420: The Corporate Democrats and the Mainstream News Media were the Midwives For Donald Trump's MAGA Victory in the 2024 Election
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There are two guests on this week’s special post-Election 2024 episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. is an Emmy-award winning investigative reporter, filmmaker, and bestselling author. Her Substack newsletter is Bette Dangerous. She is the co-host and producer of RADICALIZED Truth Survives podcast. Heidi Cuda reflects on her emotions and feelings of rage, betrayal, demoralization and the dangerous allure of too much “hopium” following Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris. Heidi Cuda also shares her thoughts on the role that white privilege, white rage, racism and...
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Ep. 419: Election Day 2024 is Finally Here. Harris or Trump? What Comes Next?
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There are four guests on this week’s special Election Day 2024 episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Joe Walsh was a Republican congressman and a leading Tea Party conservative. He is now a prominent conservative voice against Donald Trump and the host of the podcast The Social Contract with Joe Walsh. is the former Managing Editor at Stars and Stripes and the author of Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters. His Substack newsletter is Enough, Already! is a journalist and author of several books, including The Gunman and His...
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Ep. 419: The Truth Report -- The Lincoln Project’s Stuart Stevens Predicts That Kamala Harris Will Win the 2024 Presidential Election
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Stuart Stevens has worked as a strategist and consultant for the Republican Party at the highest levels including with the Dole, George W. Bush, Romney, and McCain presidential campaigns. He now serves as a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project, a political advocacy group founded by “Never-Trumpers” and former Republicans that is committed to defeating Donald Trump and his MAGA anti-democracy movement. His most recent book is The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy. Stuart Stevens explains why he believes that Vice President Kamala...
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Ep. 418: AEW Professional Wrestler Eddie Kingston Reflects on His Emotional and Mental Health Wellness Journey
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Eddie Kingston is an American professional wrestler currently signed with . Kingston is a twenty-year veteran who has wrestled for and held championships in leading promotions all around the world including New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Ring of Honor (ROH). Eddie Kingston reflects on his life journey and decision to be open and vulnerable about his struggles to be a more mentally and emotionally healthy man as shown by his widely-read and viewed , social media posts, and videos in support of . Chauncey DeVega and Eddie the “Mad King” Kingston also talk about the lost art of...
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Ep. 417: The Polls Show That Kamala Harris Will Likely Lose the 2024 Election to Donald Trump – Here is What She Must Do To Win
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This is special joint episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report. is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His new book is Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy's Edge. Professor Fish returns to the podcast and warns that with less than two weeks until Election Day that Kamala Harris is at risk of losing to Dictator Trump because she has deviated from the high-dominance leadership style she used to crush him during their only debate and that gave the Democrats life after...
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Ep. 416: "Trump Fatigue Syndrome" and the 2024 Election
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This is special joint episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report. Dr. Justin Frank is a former professor of psychiatry at George Washington University. He is the author of several books including Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank explains how Donald Trump continues to exhaust the American people and why his pathological and other antisocial behavior are a type of social contagion. Dr. Frank describes this deep feeling of exhaustion from the Age of Trump and how it is getting worse as Election Day approaches as “Trump Fatigue...
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Ep. 415: Ukraine, the Middle East, and How the Future of Warfare is Here Right Now
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Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine. He served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. Ackerman is also an ex–CIA paramilitary officer. Ackerman in the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War. His new book is 2054: A Novel. Ackerman explains how the war in Ukraine, and the escalating conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, are a frightening vision of the future right out of science fiction where increasingly...
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Ep. 414: Kamala Harris Destroyed Donald Trump During Their First and Now Only Debate -- What Happens Next?
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There are two guests on this week’s episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. is the former Managing Editor at Stars and Stripes and the author of Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters. Stephens returns to the podcast and shares his thoughts and emotions about Kamala Harris’ rout of Donald Trump during the debate last week. Stephens also discusses his ongoing frustration with the mainstream corporate news media and how it is more interested in profits and normalizing Donald Trump’s aberrant behavior and existential danger to...
info_outlineRich Cohen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tough Jews and Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football. Rich is a co-creator of the HBO series Vinyl, and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.
His new book is When The Game Was War: The NBA’s Greatest Season.
Rich Cohen reflects on the generational experience of growing up in the 1980s and how it is so very different from today because of helicopter parents and smart phones, the meaning and death of mall culture, and how the storied NBA rivalries and sports dynasties of the 1980s still resonate to the present and continue to influence Americans culture more broadly.
In this conversation, Rich Cohen and Chauncey reflect on being men of a certain vintage and the adventures they had as young people in the 1980s (adventures that would likely get their parents in big trouble today), what they learned from their fathers about street smarts, human nature, and psychology, and their shared love of AM talk radio and such personalities as Art Bell and Larry King.
Chauncey DeVega shares his epic story of going home to see his mother to recharge, why he slept in his dead daddy’s bed, meditated in a cemetery and talked to a Great Tree, howled at a storm, and the healing power of eating at his family’s favorite restaurant.
And Chauncey offers his thoughts about the hellish new Exorcist movie and reads Ed Simon’s essential new Time magazine essay “Why We Love to Talk About Demons”.
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