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Ep. 326: Why Do People Kill? Lt Joe Kenda Explains The "Killer Triggers" Mar 23, 2021

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Lt. 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.

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Ep. 325: "Mindfulness" Will Not Save You From The Pandemic or Anything Else Mar 15, 2021

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Ronald Purser is a professor of Management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. He is the author of several books including his most recent, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. Purser's essays and other writing have appeared in the Huffington Post, Alternet, Tikkun, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

Purser explains how neoliberal gangster capitalists and other plutocrats have distorted and cooptated "mindfulness" for profits and ultimately as a tool for creating a passive, isolated, weak public of consumers and passive citizens.

He also shares what he learned about how "mindfulness" apps are actually created not for reasons of helping users but to make profits for huge companies.

Chauncey reflects on questions of freedom and government and how Biden's COVID-19 stimulus bill may in fact be one of the most progressive and positively transformative acts of legislation since the Johnson administration.

And Chauncey also shares some found wisdom on questions of personal integrity, self-respect, and honor.

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Ep. 324: "Judas and the Black Messiah" is a Marvelous and Flawed Film Mar 01, 2021

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Adilifu Nama is Professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of several books including Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes. His newest book is I Wonder U: How Prince Went beyond Race and Back.

Nama reviews and analyzes the new film "Judas and the Black Messiah" in the context of black cultural politics, history, and our understanding of the life and legacy of Fred Hampton, the civil rights movement, and the Black Freedom Struggle.

Nama also reflects on the obligation of the black cultural critic and why he believes that "Judas and the Black Messiah" is a magnificent and ambitious film, which hopefully will inspire other filmmakers to offer their own (re)telling of the events of the civil rights movement.

In their own version of the great TV show Siskel & Ebert "At The Movies", Chauncey's feelings towards "Judas and the Black Messiah" are much less enthusiastic and generous than Adilifu Nama's.

And on this movie-themed episode of this week's podcast, Chauncey also shares his thoughts on the new films "Land", "The Marksman", "My Zoe", and "Nomadland".

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Ep. 323: The American News Media And a Crisis of Journalistic Imagination Feb 17, 2021

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Leon Krauze is a news anchor on Univision's KMEX station in Los Angeles. His writing and other work on U.S. politics and immigration has been featured by such leading publications as The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Krauze formerly held the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at USC.

Krauze reflects on the unhealthy state of the American news media in the Age of Trump and beyond. He also shares why the country's reporters and journalists need to ground their writing and truth-telling in the life experiences of everyday people – and not just the insular voices of their peer group and the country's elites.

Krauze also explains why the American corporate news media was and continues to be addicted to stories about the "white working class" instead of focusing on nonwhite people and others.

Chauncey DeVega does some reflecting and contemplation during a blizzard about the winter of discontent that is America's failing democracy, Trump's impeachment and rigged "trial", and how the Republican Party is now full-on endorsing right-wing terrorism and other political violence.

And Chauncey has a great time exposing the hypocrisy of the apparent white supremacist Republican congresswoman anti-Semite conspiracist Christian fascist Trump cult member Marjorie Taylor Greene and her alleged extramarital affairs including one with a tantric sex guru bodybuilder sword master video game cosplayer who looks like "Zangief" from the Street Fighter series.

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Ep 322: Dr Carl Hart Reflects on Freedom and Drug Use For Grown-Ups Feb 09, 2021

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Dr. Carl Hart is professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia University. He is one of the world's leading experts on addiction and how drugs interact with the brain. In addition to articles in leading science journals, Dr. Hart's popular writing has been featured in such outlets as The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Nation.

His new book is Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear.

Dr. Hart explains how myths about the use of narcotics and other mood-altering drugs have confused the American people about the differences between responsible and irresponsible drug use.

Dr. Hart also highlights how a humane and truly free society would allow adults to make choices about the types of substances they put inside of their own bodies. And Dr. Hart shares his thoughts on how racism and white supremacy are directly connected to how American society stigmatizes and punishes drug use.

Chauncey DeVega has returned to the movies and shares his reviews of The Little Things and News of the World. He also warns that the violent Republican Christian fascist white supremacist anti-Semitic Q-Anon conspiracist MTG congresswoman is very dangerous and not someone to laugh at or mock as some Democrats, liberals and others have chosen to.

And Chauncey is very angry at Joe Biden and the corporate Democrats who are suggesting that 1,400 survival checks be "means-tested", so that (formerly) middle class Americans are made to suffer even more.

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Ep. 321: The Truth Report Sneak Preview -- Dr Justin Frank Warns That Donald Trump's Political Cult Members Are Experiencing a Mass Psychological Emergency Feb 04, 2021

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Dr. Justin Frank is the author of the book Donald Trump on the Couch.

He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis.

Dr. Frank cautions that Donald Trump may want to be the country's shadow president but the more serious danger at present are his millions of cult members and the likes of Republicans such as Mitch McConnell, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz and others who will follow through on Trump's campaign of American fascism and white right-wing Christian nationalism.

Dr. Frank also warns that Donald Trump's political cult members are now experiencing a mass psychological emergency as shown by their coup attempt and attack on the Capitol and other escalating acts of political terrorism and violence around the country.

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Ep. 320: The American People Will Not be Able to Escape The Age of Trump and Its Evil Shadow Jan 26, 2021

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Jared Yates Sexton is the author of several books including American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People and The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage. He is also a featured commentator on Vice TV's new series While the Rest of Us Die.

Sexton explains how and why Donald Trump's neo fascist movement and assault on democracy will continue in America during Joe Biden's presidency. Sexton also reflects on Donald Trump's coup attack on the Capitol and how and why the mainstream news media and other hope peddlers refuse to tell the truth about the scale, intentions, and implications of that lethal plot.

And he reflects on how history may or may not remember him and the other few truth-tellers who were trying to warn the American people and the world about Donald Trump's fascist regime and its dire threat to the United States and the world – and were silenced in many ways for doing so by the mainstream news media and other gatekeepers.

Chauncey DeVega shares his thoughts on Joe Biden's inauguration and how the United States is in decline, and now more like Rome or another empire in its dying days. Chauncey is also frustrated and deeply concerned by how too many Americans have convinced themselves that everything will now return to "normal" because Donald Trump is no longer president.

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Ep. 319: How the American Mainstream News Media Enabled Donald Trump's Coup Attack on the U.S. Capitol Jan 18, 2021

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Eric Boehlert is an award-winning journalist who has written for Rolling Stone and Media Matters. He is also the author of the books "Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press" and "Lapdog: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush". Boehlert is the editor and founder of PressRun.Media.

He explains how the American mainstream corporate news media helped to enable Donald Trump's fascist coup attack on the Capitol by denying reality and trying to silence those voices who were sounding the alarm. Boehlert also highlights how the leading voices among the American news media consistently fail in their analyses and predictions yet are consistently rewarded for doing so.

And Boehlert identifies the mainstream news media narratives that will be used to avoid confronting the ongoing crisis that will be Donald Trump's fascist movement and its threat to the future of the country during Biden's presidency and beyond.

Chauncey DeVega reflects on how time and reality are broken in America where over the course of two weeks the country has (will) experienced a fascist coup attack, impeachment, Dr. King's remembrance day, and the inauguration of President Joe Biden.

Chauncey also details how counterterrorism and other national security experts are warning that Donald Trump's fascist movement is evolving into a type of insurgency as seen in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other failed states.

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Ep. 318: Sneak Preview -- The Truth Report: Tim Wise on White Privilege and Trump's Coup Attack on the US Capitol Jan 13, 2021

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This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below:

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Tim Wise is one of America's and the world's leading experts on white privilege and racism. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent Dispatches from the Race War.

Tim Wise explains how Whiteness and white privilege and white violence enabled Trump's coup attempt and his fascist mob's lethal assault on the United States Capitol Building on Wednesday.

He also reflects upon how Whiteness and white privilege empowered Trumpists and other fascists and right-wing street thugs to act with impunity in their coup attempt as well as in other acts of insurrection and treason during the Age of Trump.

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Ep. 317: Dr. Cornel West Reflects on Trump's Fascist Coup Assault on the Capitol Building and America's Long Catastrophe Jan 11, 2021

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Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Democracy Matters, Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire.

Dr. West reflects on what Trump's fascist white supremacist coup attempt and assault on the Capitol Building reveals (even more) about how America is a sick society experiencing many catastrophes at the same time. West also shares what it means to prepare oneself to survive and triumph in a time of chaos, tumult, sickness, and struggle for a real democracy and humane society.

Chauncey DeVega counsels that true hope warriors should not have been surprised by Trump's coup plot and attack on the Capitol Building and multiracial democracy because it was obvious and predictable.

And Chauncey also shares his thoughts on how it feels to be one of the few public voices who for several years has been predicting Trump's fascist white supremacist coup while the hope peddlers, stenographers of current events, and other professional smart people said that such warnings were "hysterical" and "exaggerated" and "ridiculous".

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