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There are four guests on this weekâs 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.
D. Earl Stephens is the former Managing Editor at Stars and Stripes and the author of Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trumpâs Very Important Letters. His Substack newsletter is Enough, Already!
Steven Beschloss is a journalist and author of several books, including The Gunman and His Mother. His Substack newsletter is America, America. His essays and other work have been featured in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, Smithsonian and The Economist Intelligence Unit, among many others.
Heidi Siegmund Cuda 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.
These four guests share their reasoning behind and predictions about the outcome of the 2024 presidential election and if Vice President Harris will win and American democracy will continue or if Dictator Trump will take power and unleash a reign of terror, revenge, and destruction on his personal and political enemies.
This weekâs guests also offer their expert insights about what happens after the 2024 Election, the necessity of democratic renewal, the likelihood of political violence and unrest, and how deeply broken the American people and their institutions and culture are for Donald Trump to even be the Republican Partyâs nominee and so very close, again, to victory.
Chauncey DeVega offers counsel that the American people and the pro-democracy movement need to prepare for the worst and hope for the best -- and do the necessary hard work -- to ensure the future of their multiracial pluralistic democracy and the American project.
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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 âNever-Trumpersâ 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 Harris will defeat Donald Trump â by more than what the conventional wisdom suggests â to become the next President of the United States. However, Stevens warns that the weeks that follow may be some of the most dangerous and violent in the countryâs history.
To that point, Stuart Stevens is trying to prepare the American people for the reality that Donald Trump and his MAGA movement and the larger neofascist threat will not suddenly disappear or otherwise dissipate even if he and they are defeated on Election Day.
Stuart Stevens reflects on his role in creating todayâs Republican Party and why it is incapable of being fixed or salvaged because it has sold its soul to Donald Trump, MAGA, and American and global fascism.
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Eddie Kingston is an American professional wrestler currently signed with AEW (All Elite Wrestling). 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 essays, social media posts, and videos in support of mental health and suicide prevention.
Chauncey DeVega and Eddie the âMad Kingâ Kingston also talk about the lost art of âkayfabeâ, promos and authenticity, and the importance of storytelling and the human dimension in the drama that is professional wrestling.
Chauncey DeVega continues to sound the alarm that Kamala Harris is likely going to be defeated by Donald Trump and feels a deep disturbance in The Force from Donald Trumpâs Madison Square Garden hate festival.
Chauncey is also very exhausted from doing battle with local slumlords and other life travails and is blessed to encounter a real-life superhero.
Hal Brown is the guest on a special bonus segment for this weekâs podcast. He is a clinical social worker and was one of the first members of the Duty to Warn group.
Hal Brown has extensive expertise in working with multiple personality disorder (now called dissociative identity disorder). His daily essays on American politics and society can be read at his eponymous blog here.
Hal Brown reflects on his four decades of experience as a clinician and shares some advice and insights about managing our emotions, trying to be healthy, and doing the things that make us happy as a way of fighting back against despair and surrender when our society (and personal lives) often feel so dark and dire.
Hal Brown was in transit, and we spoke via phone. The bonus segment can be listened to at the end of the podcast.
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This is special joint episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report.
M. Steven Fish 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 President Biden made the brave and honorable choice to stop aside.
Professor Fish outlines how Harris should emphasize Trumpâs extreme danger to the country, unfitness for office, counterprogram him at every rally and other event, and attack his ego.
Professor Fish also explains how Harris and the Democrats should emphasize their record of patriotism and economic growth to counter master propagandist Donald Trumpâs skill of doing horrible and unconscionable things -- and as well as making genius moves such as holding rallies in blue states such as New York and California -- to captivate the public and news media.
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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 âTrump Fatigue Syndromeâ.
Dr. Frank warns that Donald Trump is fueled by destructive and violent impulses, and that many of his MAGA cult members are so loyal to and idealize him precisely because he gives them permission to act the same way.
Dr. Frank counsels that there will be many different responses to the outcome of the 2024 Election and that we should remain focused on doing healthy things that will sustain us for what will be a long fight against authoritarianism in American society, one that will last long after Donald Trump.
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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 exâCIA 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 lethal drones and other new technologies are rewriting the rules of warfare â and reminding us of very old lessons that will need to be relearned again (at a deadly cost).
Ackerman reflects on Americaâs combustible domestic politics and the attempt on Trumpâs life in Pennsylvania, the dangers of conspiracy theories, and how the country's politics and culture are increasingly toxic and what that means long-term for the democracy crisis and the struggle against neofascism and authoritarianism.
Chauncey DeVega ponders the question of time and how the next 30 or so days until Election Day will feel like an eternity that will simultaneously go by very quickly.
He also shares the lessons he learned in his neighborhood travels about human dignity, poverty, and economic precarity. Chauncey also offers a public health lesson and warning about the dangers of nose spray, hand sanitizer, incense and cheap lighters.
And Chauncey DeVega attempts to save you from the new movie âThe Substanceâ, a movie that is more proof of payola and the herd mentality of movie critics and other influentials and cultural tastemakers.
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There are two guests on this weekâs episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.
D. Earl Stephens is the former Managing Editor at Stars and Stripes and the author of Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trumpâs Very Important Letters.
Stephens returns to the podcast and shares his thoughts and emotions about Kamala Harrisâ 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 Trumpâs aberrant behavior and existential danger to democracy than in highlight how he is the greatest internal threat to America since the civil war â and doing what is necessary to stop him from taking power as the countryâs first dictator.
M. Steven Fish 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 reflects on how Kamala Harris used what he describes as high-dominance leadership style to so thoroughly defeat Donald Trump in their first and only debate. During the debate it appeared that Harris was literally working from Professor Fishâs book in how she systematically dismantled the corrupt ex-president. Chauncey and Professor Fish discuss what they know and suspect about Harrisâ strategy and preparation for the debate. Professor Fish shares his hopes and predictions about how Harris and the Democrats will win the 2024 Election if current trends continue.
Chauncey DeVega begs whoever is running this infernal simulation to please stop and reboot it as a second reported assassination attempt against Donald Trump took place, literally, as he was recording his segment of this weekâs podcast. Chauncey reacts in real-time to this event, and shares his thoughts on Americaâs boiling political cauldron, conspiracism, and the role of malign actors such as Donald Trump and his anti-democracy agents and forces in stoking those flames.
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This is special joint episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report.
Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and businesswoman. She is also Donald Trumpâs niece.
Mary Trump is the author of the books Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man and The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal. Mary Trumpâs new book is Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir.
Mary Trump is a friend of the podcast and is always so generous with her teaching and sharing. She reflects on the state of our individual and collective mental and emotional health over these last 8 or so weeks, and the importance of balancing joy and hope about Kamala Harris with the reality that there is so much hard work to be done until (and after) Election Day.
Mary Trump also discusses the personal cost of being a real member of the Resistance and the pro-democracy movement to our relationships and lives. In this expansive conversation, Mary shares her thoughts about why we must imagine a world beyond the Age of Trump and then do everything we can to make it a reality.
Chauncey DeVega provides âproof of lifeâ and shares how he was under attack by the super DNC cooties bug and how that left him discombobulated and delayed the podcast. Chauncey also shares some quick thoughts about the first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and how the mainstream news media continues the âsanewashingâ of the obviously very dangerous aspiring Dictator Trump.
And Chauncey DeVega honors the titan James Earl Jones who passed away on Monday and is now one with the Force.
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There are three guests on this weekâs episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.
M. Steven Fish 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 explains how Donald Trump and the Republicans use a high dominance leadership style against the Democrats and liberals and progressives, and why to this point they have been unable to effectively defeat it. Fish also explains why âwhen they go low, we go highâ is such a horrible strategy against authoritarians and fascists such as Donald Trump and the other members of todayâs right wing.
Professor Fish counsels Vice President Kamala Harris and her advisors about how she can best counter Trumpâs leadership style (and then defeat him and the MAGA movement) by adopting her own high dominance leadership style that is inspired by such Democratic and liberal-progressive titans as President Johnson, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Lance Dodes is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a training and supervising analyst emeritus at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
He explains how Donald Trumpâs obviously unwell mind and personality are appealing to his cultists and why they see him as a type of god and savior. In addition, he shares his advice about emotional health and well-being in these troubled times and why people succumb to addiction and other unhealthy coping mechanisms.
Dr. Dodes also evaluates if Chauncey DeVegaâs habit of going to Trump Tower several times a week (as a way of confronting Dictator Donald Trump by proxy) is a healthy or unhealthy coping mechanism.
D. Earl Stephens is the former Managing Editor at Stars and Stripes and the author of Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trumpâs Very Important Letters.
He returns to the podcast to reflect on his feelings about the whiplash effect of these last few weeks and how President Bidenâs stepping aside and passing the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris may impact the 2024 Election and our chances of saving American democracy from Donald Trump and the neofascist MAGA movement and their forces.
Chauncey DeVega reflects on how time has been broken during these last few crazy weeks here in America and the Age of Trump and the importance of remaining grounded. Chauncey also shares some new polling data about the whiplash effect and Kamala Harrisâs lead over Donald Trump in the 2024.
And Chauncey shares his thoughts about this yearâs WWE SummerSlam pay per view and the art of storytelling, why he is even more concerned about his beloved New England Patriots, and offers some reviews about the new movies Longlegs, Deadpool and Wolverine, and Sing Sing.
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There are three guests on this weekâs episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.
Mark Jacob is a media critic and a former Metro Editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.
He explains why the mainstream news media is obsessively focusing on President Bidenâs health and aging and has, to this point, mostly refused to pay similar attention to the much greater dangers of Donald Trumpâs emotional and mental health and the extreme threat he represents to American democracy and society. Mark also warns that the mainstream news media is desperately muckraking about President Biden instead of focusing on the democracy crisis because the former is a much easier story to tell.
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 shares his thoughts about President Bidenâs horrible performance during the debate against Donald Trump and why he self-destructed. Dr. Frank also explains how President Bidenâs mortality was fully revealed by the debate and how that has caused great pain for the many Americans who view him as a stable and responsible, if not great leader, who protects them from the extreme dangers and abuse of Donald Trump and his forces. Dr. Frank also shares his thoughts about the mind of Donald Trump and our rapidly worsening national calamity.
Dr. Frank was in transit, and we spoke via cell phone.
D. Earl Stephens is the former Managing Editor at Stars and Stripes and the author of Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trumpâs Very Important Letters.
He shares his great frustration with how the mainstream news media continues to normalize Donald Trump and the neofascist MAGA movement and has mostly failed in its responsibilities during the countryâs worsening democracy crisis. Stephens warns the news media and others who are in denial that Donald Trump and his agents are deadly serious in their threats to end free speech, and punish in the most extreme fashion any voices who oppose them when/if they take power in 2025.
These three conversations took place several days prior to Saturdayâs horrific events in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Chauncey DeVega reflects on the attempt on Donald Trumpâs life and how matters are now much worse in America where the spiral of violence and ascendant neofascism, and what is likely a near-unstoppable Dictator Trump MAGA takeover in 2025, have greatly accelerated.
Chauncey also reflects on our collective emotions in this moment of extreme crisis and how it impacted his trip home to see his mother along with all the regular stress and emotional labor about aging, money, and life that entails.
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On this heat dome episode of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega previews (and warns about) the first debate between President Joe Biden and the Jan. 6 coup plotter and convicted felon Donald Trump.
In an (unsuccessful) attempt to escape the hellish heat, Chauncey then declares a political sanctuary and reads some kind emails from the good people who appreciate the podcast and his essays, is joyful as he recounts a story about a miracle in his neighborhood, reads part of a wonderful short story from Walter Mosleyâs award-winning collection The Awkward Black Man, and honors the great recently departed titans Roger Corman and Donald Sutherland.
Heroes and greatness are everywhere: In that spirit, Chauncey DeVega also honors Colonel Edward Thomas Ryan, a closeted gay man and decorated US Army Veteran, who recently transitioned to the next plane of existence. Col. Ryan was the subject of a series of stories at the New York Times, The Guardian, and other leading publications.
On this episode of the podcast, Chaunceyâs fellow Star Wars traveler and expert Mr. Bill makes an appearance. They discuss the new TV show The Acolyte, its many problems and failures of storytelling, why ârepresentationâ is not a substitute for good writing and a coherent and compelling narrative, what it means to be a real Star Wars fan, and how the Star Wars universe has gone so very wrong and if it can be salvaged.
Chauncey DeVega also shares several Star Wars TV series pitches that are much better than The Acolyte and the other recent shows and films set in that universe.
There is also a special bonus segment at the end of this week's episode of the podcast about Star Wars: The Acolyte and the anticlimactic reveal of the Sith Lord and the fifth episode of the show.
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Hello, good humans and members of The Chauncey DeVega Show Secular Church Family. I am continuing, as promised, to share my essays over at The Truth Report.
Here is my recent essay âMaking sense of the post-Trump conviction pollsâ.
You can listen to the full episode here.
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Mark Hertsgaard is the author of seven nonfiction books, including Hot: Living through The Next Fifty Years on Earth. Hertsgaardâs reporting, essays, and other writing have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, TIME, The Nation, The Guardian, and Scientific American. He is the co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now.
His new book is Big Red's Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and a Story of Race in America.
Mark explains how the mainstream news mediaâs institutional culture and failings helped to birth the Age of Trump and American neofascism and the global climate emergency. He also shares how he keeps his hope tank full and the importance of being a marathon runner and not a sprinter in these times of great challenge and peril.
And Mark reflects on Americaâs tragic relationship with guns, violence, the color line, and the moral courage and witnessing of his blood sister Deborah âBig Redâ Cotton and how they are forever tied together after being shot at the same second line parade in New Orleans, in what was the worst mass shooting in that great cityâs modern history.
Chauncey DeVega is compelled to walk to Trump Tower aka Trumpâs Obelisk of Evil here in Chicago during a rainstorm on Saturday where he reflects on the aspiring fascist dictator and now felon being found âguiltyâ in his historic hush-money election interference trial, and what that may mean or not for the present and future of American democracy and society.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, âTrump trial delays bring focus to crucial Supreme Court caseâ.
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Hello good humans. I am sharing the new episode of my other podcast The Truth Report here as well.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, âWhen Trump gets dark, Biden goes lightâ.
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Hello good humans. I am sharing the new episode of my other podcast The Truth Report here as well. I hope you are well and doing nice things for yourself as you fight back against the darkness. In solidarity!
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, âDonald Trump is testing out a new campaign strategy: horror politicsâ.
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Dr. Michael Baden is the former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. He has been a medical examiner for forty-five years and has performed more than 20,000 autopsies.
He was the host of the HBO âAutopsyâ series for thirteen years and is the author of several books including his most recent âAmerican Autopsy: One Medical Examiner's Decades-Long Fight for Racial Justice in a Broken Legal Systemâ.
Dr. Baden reflects on his vocation and decades of work as a medical examiner, and how he has tried to use science and medicine to find the truth and advance the cause of justice. He also shares insights about the Michael Brown, George Floyd, and other tragic examples of police killings and murders.
And Dr. Baden explains what it was like to be at the center of the media maelstrom that was the infamous O.J. Simpson murder trial.
Chauncey DeVega convenes The Chauncey DeVega Show Secular Church Family and engages in some critical self-reflection as he shares what he has been up to these last few very long weeks, being tired from being an only child and member of the striving working class, and how Trump Trial Time (TTT) is draining all of us who are paying attention.
And Chauncey DeVega continues to warn about how Donald Trump is a master propagandist who is using horror politics and sadism to further radicalize his cult members during his hush-money and other criminal trials and the 2024 presidential election.
Chauncey also explains how, like other fascists, Donald Trump is expert at using scatological politics and that his diehard MAGA people are now wearing diapers â yes, real diapers â to the Dear and Great Leaderâs cult meeting-rallies as a way of demonstrating their loyalty to him and the movement.
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Glenn Kirschner is an NBC News/MSNBC on-air legal analyst and teaches criminal justice at George Washington University. He has a YouTube channel and Podcast, âJustice Matters with Glenn Kirschner.â Kirschner is also a former federal prosecutor with 30 years of trial experience. He served in the U.S. Attorneyâs Office for the District of Columbia for 24 years, rising to the position of Chief of the Homicide Section. In that capacity, Kirschner supervised 30 homicide prosecutors and oversaw all homicide grand jury investigations and prosecutions in Washington, DC.
He explains why and how Donald Trump (and his confederates) have been able to evade serious accountability for their public crime spree against American democracy and society, including the Jan. 6 coup attempt and lethal terrorist attack on the Capitol.
Kirschner cautions that contrary to the mainstream mediaâs narrative that the âwalls are closing inâ on Donald Trump given his multiple criminal and civil trials where he may face hundreds of years in prison and hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and judgements, the reality of the situation is much more perilous and uncertain.
He warns that Donald Trump and the Republican fascists and the larger âconservativeâ movement are trying to kill American democracy and will not stop until they achieve their goal of unlimited power and putting Dictator Trump in the White House.
Chauncey DeVega missed all of you good members of The Chauncey DeVega Show Secular Church Family and shares a pathetic and frustrating tale of how he has been under attack by a severe case of cooties (likely some type of targeted assault by a customized biological weapon) these last two or so months that caused the podcast to be delayed.
Chauncey honors and celebrates the life of the Elder God and Titan Louis Gossett Jr. who passed away on March 29 and attends a special screening of his iconic film An Officer and a Gentlemen, during which he sheds some tears and engages in some deep reflective thinking about very important things.
And Chauncey DeVega reviews the new films Asphalt City, Love Lies Bleeding, and Late Night With The Devil. In the interest of public health and safety â and protecting your sanity -- Chauncey also survives the movies Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire so you donât have to.
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There are two guests on this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.
Brynn Tannehill is a journalist and author of "American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy." Her essays and other writing have been featured at the New York Times, The Huffington Post, and The New Republic.
Brynn reflects on doing the frustrating and challenging work of continuing to sound the alarm about Dictator Trump, American neofascism, and the existential threat that movement represents to the LGBTQ community and others deemed to be the enemy.
She also shares her insights on why so many Americans â especially in the news media and political class â continue to be in a state of denial about the Trumpocene nightmare and the hellscape that awaits the American people when/if The Dear Leader and his cabal take power in 2025.
Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She is the author of numerous books including her most recent, âDemocracy Awakeningâ. Richardsonâs Substack newsletter âLetters From an Americanâ is essential reading and is subscribed to by 1,400,000 people.
She explains how the study of American history and peoplesâ movements to expand real democracy are critical for defeating Trumpism, American neofascism and global illiberalism today. Heather also reflects on how her background as a working-class person helped to prepare her for the intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and physically demanding work of defending American democracy in her role and responsibility as someone who thinks and writes publicly for a living.
Chauncey DeVega summons the power of the Sincerity Prayer and shares his thoughts on our collective exhaustion from the Trumpocene and other life struggles and burdens -- and the importance of not surrendering to them.
Chauncey also ponders the perfect film âPerfect Daysâ and the life lessons he learned from the people he encountered during his travels in his neighborhood.
And Chauncey DeVega honors the career of the professional wrestling legend Sting. He is also very upset at the superfans and âCody Crybabiesâ who are denying the world the epic WrestleMania 40 battle between The Rock and The Head of the Table Roman Reigns.
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Irv Muchnick is one of Americaâs leading sports writers and investigative journalists.
His essays and other writing have appeared in Sports Illustrated, People, The Washington Monthly, and the Sunday magazines of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of the books Chris & Nancy; Wrestling Babylon; Concussion Inc., Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning; and Underwater: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe.
Irv Muchnick reflects on why the recent ârevelationsâ about Vince McMahonâs alleged Caligula-like sexual exploitation of an employee, harassment, and of creating a larger environment of sexual predation at the WWE/WWF should in no way be a surprise given what has been publicly known for decades.
Irv also offers some context from his long history of reporting on the subculture(s) of professional wrestling and other sports such as swimming and gymnastics about how and why sexual harassment and abuse are unfortunately all too common both in those spaces and across American society.
And Irv connects the dots between Donald Trump and Vince McMahon and what he describes as the âTrumpificationâ of American politics and life.
Chauncey reflects on nostalgia, innocence, joy, pleasure, fan culture, and how to reconcile loving professional wrestling (and other things) with knowing about the real-life drama and human cost that it brings to its participants and others in that world. Ultimately, is innocence bliss?
And Chauncey shares a story about being a hero in your own neighborhood (even when sick), thanks everyone for their support during his battle with the cooties, and in that spirit makes a public health announcement about the merits of folk medicine and the all-powerful asafetida bag.
At the end of this episode of the podcast, there is also an âEaster eggâ bonus segment from the archives with writer, movie producer, and director Barry Blaustein where he reflects on making the landmark professional wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat.
WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?
On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega
On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega
My email:
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW?
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