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 a...
Nov 29, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 421
There are two guests on this week's special post-Election 2024 episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . 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. 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. H...
Nov 18, 2024•2 hr 35 min•Ep. 420
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. D. Earl Stephens 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 Eno...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 419
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 D...
Nov 04, 2024•40 min•Ep. 419
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 med...
Oct 31, 2024•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 418
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 u...
Oct 23, 2024•40 min•Ep. 417
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 Tr...
Oct 14, 2024•32 min•Ep. 416
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 els...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 415
There are two guests on this week's 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. 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 i...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 414
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 Trump's 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 Trump's 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 he...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 413
There are three guests on this week's 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 als...
Aug 11, 2024•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 412
There are three guests on this week's 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 Biden's health and aging and has, to this point, mostly refused to pay similar attention to the much greater dangers of Donald Trump's emotional and mental health and the extreme threat he represents to American democracy a...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 411
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 Wa...
Jun 27, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 410
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 "Making sense of the post-Trump conviction polls". You can listen to the full episode here. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega...
Jun 18, 2024•6 min•Ep. 409
Mark Hertsgaard is the author of seven nonfiction books, including Hot: Living through The Next Fifty Years on Earth. Hertsgaard's 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 mains...
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 408
On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, "Trump trial delays bring focus to crucial Supreme Court case" . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow...
May 28, 2024•9 min•Ep. 407
Hello good humans. I am sharing the new episode of my other podcast The Truth Report here as well. *** On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, "When Trump gets dark, Biden goes light". WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https:/...
May 24, 2024•9 min•Ep. 406
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! *** On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, "Donald Trump is testing out a new campaign strategy: horror politics" . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chaun...
May 22, 2024•9 min•Ep. 134
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 "Autopsy" series for thirteen years and is the author of several books including his most recent "American Autopsy: One Medical Examiner's Decades-Long Fight for Racial Justice in a Broken Legal System". Dr. Baden reflects on his vocation and decades of work as a medical examiner, and how he has tried...
May 14, 2024•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 404
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, "Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner." Kirschner is also a former federal prosecutor with 30 years of trial experience. He served in the U.S. Attorney's 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 ho...
Apr 11, 2024•2 hr•Ep. 403
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 ...
Mar 07, 2024•2 hr 22 min•Ep. 402
Irv Muchnick is one of America's 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 Swimmin...
Feb 13, 2024•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 401
Alan Jenkins is a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on Race and the Law, Communication, Law, and Social Justice, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, he co-founded and led The Opportunity Agenda. Jenkins has also been a frequent guest columnist in The Hollywood Reporter. He has also appeared frequently as a commentator on CBS and MSNBC. Alan reflects on what America would be like if Trump's MAGA coup attempt had succeeded and h...
Jan 23, 2024•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 400
This is a sneak preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report : https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-133-dr-bandy-lee-warns-that-trumpism-is-a-public-health-emergency-that-is-reaching-fatal-levels-for-american-democracy-and-society Dr. Bandy Lee is a forensic psychiatrist and a leading expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before transferring her activities to Columbia and Harvard. Dr. Lee is also the editor of the Ne...
Jan 12, 2024•11 min•Ep. 399
On this special Christmas Day episode of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega is upset because his travel plans to visit his mom and dear friends were ruined by the fog. Instead of deciding to sit home alone and sulk, he instead shares an epic story of rage and adventure and romance and reflecting on life that took place during his many hours at the airport. Chauncey also does some research on why many people have erotic feelings towards Santa Claus (and Mrs. Claus ). And on this impromptu episode of th...
Dec 25, 2023•54 min•Ep. 398
There are two guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . 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 . He warns that Donald Trump appears to be a megalomaniac, who as demonstrated by his recent comments at a rally in Iowa, truly does believe that he is some type of Chosen One who has been selected by "god" and "Jesus" to be America's first d...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 397
On this special Thanksgiving 2023 episode of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega shares his thoughts on gratitude, why it is fine to be human and grumpy and not so happy on this holiday, and of course reads (and warns about) Dictator Trump's Thanksgiving proclamation and why you should be preparing for his return to the White House. Chauncey also has some fun on this special episode of the podcast as he explains why there are some things you never buy on sale at Black Friday, continues to rage about hi...
Nov 24, 2023•54 min•Ep. 396
Rich 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 dea...
Nov 07, 2023•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 395
Jonathan Lethem is a best-selling essayist, novelist, and cultural critic. His books include Dissident Gardens , The Fortress of Solitude , The Feral Detective , and Motherless Brooklyn . Lethem is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. His new book is Brooklyn Crime Novel. Jonathan Lethem explains why They Live endures and is now much more than a "cult classic", the power of John Carpenter's warnings about our present-future, refl...
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 394
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 tryin...
Sep 16, 2023•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 393
