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The DSR Network
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Episodes
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Gen. Mark Hertling: The Nation May Need a Trump Every Once in a While...But for How Long?
General Mark Hertling served for 37 years in the U.S. military, rising to become Commanding General of the U.S. Army Europe. Since his retirement, he has…
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The Time Hillary Clinton Fired You & You Keep Showing Up: A Candid Conversation w/ Philippe Reines.
Hillary Clinton's senior advisor Philippe Reines has had a unique career path, to say the least. He never imagined that his job would circle him around the…
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2019: The Year in Review, Part II--"The Worst Year of Donald Trump's Life"
In this, our second year in review episode for the year ahead we look at US domestic developments in the next 12 months. The bad news is--they're pretty bleak…
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2019: The Year in Review, Part I--"War: What is it Good For?"
As we have learned, these days years seem much longer than they used to. So, as a special service to Deep State nation, your favorite podsters are providing…
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The Best of Deep State Radio: 1 on 1’s
We’re on holiday break this week, but we wanted to be sure you got your Deep State Radio fix. Welcome to the Best of Deep State Radio. In this edition, we’ve…
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The Best of Deep State Radio: Emergency Episodes
Happy Holidays from Deep State Radio! We’re on holiday break this week, but we wanted to be sure you got your Deep State Radio fix. Welcome to the Best of Deep…
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The Best of Deep State Radio: Kavanaugh
Happy Holidays from Deep State Radio! We’re on holiday break this week, but we wanted to be sure you got your Deep State Radio fix. Welcome to the Best of Deep…
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The Best of Deep State Radio: The Milestone Episode Part 2
Happy Holidays from Deep State Radio! We’re on holiday break this week, but we wanted to be sure you got your Deep State Radio fix. Welcome to the Best of Deep…
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The Best of Deep State Radio: The Milestone Episode Part 1
Happy Holidays from Deep State Radio! We’re on holiday break this week, but we wanted to be sure you got your Deep State Radio fix. Welcome to the Best of Deep…
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It Started With A Bang: A Conversation with Bill Prady, EVP & Co-Creator Big Bang Theory
Not everyone can claim Kermit the Frog, Miss. Piggy and Fozzie Bear as their friends. Not everyone can say they created the most successful sitcom on…
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A Deep State Xmas, Part II: Jewels from the Tiara of Optimism
What made the Tiara of Optimism sparkle in 2018? And who? We pick the positive stories of the past year and the people for whom we are the most grateful so…
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"A Cloud Hanging Over Our Country": 1 on 1 with Gen. James Clapper
The latest edition of Deep State Radio's National Security Magazine offers up an in-depth interview with one of the most distinguished leaders the U.S…
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A Deep State Xmas: Thorns from the Crown of Entropy
Santa is not the only one who knows whether you have been naughty or nice. The rest of the Deep State knows too. And by the rest of the Deep State, we…
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Don't Cryer for Me Argentina: A Conversation with Jon Cryer
What does Trump, podcasts and Patti Lupone have in common: Jon Cryer. On Washington for Beautiful People Jon and Emily discuss Trump, twitter trolls…
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Is a Chasm Opening Up with the Gulf? (Obama Nostalgia May Soon Occur in the Unlikeliest of Places)
The U.S. Senate, not recently known for its courage or willingness to stand up to President Donald Trump, sent the entire Trump Administration an acid rebuke…
The DSR NetworkThe Most Dangerous Moment in Half a Century: A Conversation with David Sanger
David Sanger of the New York Times discusses how the Trump Administration's decision to pull out of the INF Treaty because of Russian non-compliance may be…
The DSR NetworkOur Idiots Are More Idiotic Than Your Idiots
The Economist named former Foreign Secretary and famed unmade bed Boris Johnson as its idiot of the year. Ed Luce of the Financial Times, joins our discussion…
The DSR NetworkShe's Fierce, She's Funny and She Put Words in Obama's Mouth: A Conversation with Nell Scovell
When TV Writer Nell Scovell wrote her now famous tell all expose in Vanity Fair about the behind the scenes exploits at Late Night with David Letterman, some…
The DSR NetworkWhat Does the Life of George H.W. Bush Tell Us About Our Current Moment?
We can debate the policy and personal successes and failures of George H.W. Bush but there is no question that his example stands in stark contrast to that of…
The DSR NetworkU.S. Foreign Policy in the Post Trump Era: A Conversation with Jake Sullivan
Relax. Keep your champagne on ice. Donald Trump is still president of the United States. And his foreign policy--which is a crudely mixed cocktail of racism…
The DSR NetworkDon't You Wish Tony Soprano Were President?
Tony liked ducks. He was introspective enough to enter therapy. He loved his family. He had a code of ethics. He even drank every so often. He had a soul. He…
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Special Premiere Episode: After Working for Comey and Mueller, He Realized He Couldn't Work for Trum
When Josh Campbell joined the FBI, he was told one thing: FBI doesn’t lie. Josh worked for Comey, he worked for Mueller and learned that integrity is the…
The DSR NetworkSpecial Exclusive: The Word is 'Betrayal': A Conversation with Rep. Eric Swalwell
Responding to the reports of Michael Cohen's Trump Tower Moscow lies and guilty plea, the rising star Congressman from California, Rep. Eric Swalwell, reveals…
The DSR NetworkNational Security Magazine Episode 1
New from the Deep State Radio Network, National Security Magazine will be a regular podcast series featuring long-form interviews with important national…
The DSR NetworkEverything is Easier When You're Stupid
When Donald Trump was presented with the overwhelming evidence of Russian interference in the US elections (of which he was Exhibit A) he said, "I don't…
The DSR NetworkWhat's Next for the Axis of Assholes?
Trump has forged an indelible bond not with our allies nor with the American people (a majority of whom can't stand him) but with a group of really bad men…
The DSR NetworkA Deep State Thanksgiving, Part Deux: Who and What We are Thankful For
It's Thanksgiving weekend in the USA. It's a warm, friendly, family holiday provided that a.) your family does not discuss politics, b.) your unhinged uncle…
The DSR NetworkA Deep State Thanksgiving, Part I: Turkeys of the Year
Who needs relatives? Join your Deep State family for a cheerful holiday discussion of the Turkeys of the Year, the losers, jerks, criminals, and large orange…
The DSR NetworkWho Will Be Prosecuted for the War Crimes in Yemen?
Yemen has become a humanitarian catastrophe on a scale of few others in the recent history of the planet. 14 million people live on the verge of famine. Tens…
The DSR NetworkTrump's Hair May Be Dry But the World Is Going to Hell in a Handbasket
Trump's Europe trip was a rare multi-tiered fiasco, a kind of mille feuille of fiascos, at which the disasters operated on many levels--his alienation of our…
The DSR NetworkSpecial Emergency Episode: From Sessions to Whitaker, How Low Can Trump Go?
There are constitutional reasons why Mathew Whitaker should not succeed Jeff Sessions as even the Acting Attorney General of the US. There are legal reasons…
The DSR Network1-on-1 with Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL: Hate in America and Where We Go From Here
It is one week after the shootings in Pittsburgh and 80 years after Kristallnacht. How deep do the rivers of hate in America today run? How much culpability do…
The DSR NetworkCould It Be the Election's Two Biggest Losers were Donald Trump and...Robert Mueller?
Donald Trump said the mid-terms were a huge success (they weren't), that he did better than other presidents during their first mid-term elections (he didn't)…
The DSR NetworkFinally, the Big Day Is Upon Us...the Official Beginning of the 2020 Campaign is Just Hours Away!
Americans will finally get to express themselves at the ballot box after two years of division, turmoil, lies and lurid headlines. Election Day is here. Our…
The DSR NetworkTrump Two Years After His Election: Who Gets the Lower Grade, the President or the People?
With the midterm elections days away, our experts discuss just what the past two years have taught us about Trump, about the American electorate, and about the…
The DSR NetworkWhat if the Problem Isn't that We're Leaderless But That They Are Leading Us in the Wrong Direction?
Brazil elects a hard-right candidate who is a threat to democracy. The BRICs are no longer the harbingers of progress we thought them to be. Angela Merkel, who…
The DSR NetworkIf Every Teacher Had a Portable Nuclear Weapon There Would Be No More School Shootings
The Kashoggi murder has rocked the Middle East. The underlying crime was so horrific, its cover-up has been so pathetic and unpersuasive, and the position of…
The DSR NetworkThe Hell of Good Intentions...and the Pleasures of Dubious Ones...
Harvard's Stephen Walt has written a timely book called "The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy"...which…
The DSR Network1-on-1 with Ivo Daalder: A Discussion of the New Book "The Empty Throne"
Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay, two of America's leading foreign policy experts have written an in-depth analysis of Donald Trump's tenure to date as president…
The DSR NetworkWhat Foreign Policy Shifts May Follow a Dem Victory in November?
While the Trump Administration may get much Trumpier with the personnel changes expected after Election Day, a Democratic victory on November 6th that brought…
The DSR NetworkFascist, Incompetent or Both: Assessing Trumpism Today
In the Financial Times our own Ed Luce discusses how Trump's attacks on the truth and his enemies have moved us toward fascism and where he has fallen short of…
The DSR NetworkValues, I’ll Show You Values…How Much Will Pay Me to Set Aside My Values?
Values matter. Well, at least the appearance of having values matter. Well, at least they always did until Donald Trump came along. Now, around the world…
The DSR NetworkThe Invasion of the Blob People
How much are foreign policy elites responsible for the rise of nationalist, anti-globalist views worldwide? How much is the retreat of American leadership…
The DSR NetworkSecond Verse Same As the First
Most of Deep State Radio’s cutting edge, youthful listeners are probably too young to remember the song the title references (“Mrs. Brown You Had a Lovely…
The DSR NetworkKavanaugh is Not Just a Nominee, He’s a Symptom
The political furor around the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court may seem like pure domestic US politics, but the implications for America’s…
The DSR NetworkKavaghhelltothefuckingnaw
Spent your day listening to the Kavanaugh hearings? We did too. And we wanted to offer up some real time insights and perspectives on what was a dramatic and…
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Asshole Culture: The Discussion
There are assholes everywhere you look these days, especially in positions of power. The result is high assholery in our policies and our political debates…
The DSR NetworkEnough About My Solipsism, What Do You Think of My Solipsism?
We have the most solipsistic president in American history offering up the most solipsistic foreign policy ever at a time when the me-me-me generation are busy…
The DSR NetworkThe Thing Most Foreign to US Foreign Policy is Anything Resembling a Policy
With a couple of recent good articles in The Atlantic, leading thinkers like Peter Beinart and Thomas Wright have begun to ask the critical question: "What's…
The DSR NetworkWhat Cocktail Goes Best with Armageddon?
It's that time of day. The sun is setting. You're a little parched. Maybe more than a little due to the fireball on the horizon. What's just the right cocktail…
The DSR NetworkKnow-Nothings, Do-Nothings, Mugwumps and Nerds, Oh My!
The release of Bob Woodward's book "Fear" and the recent anonymous oped in the New York Times claiming to be by a senior official who is mounting the…
The DSR NetworkIs That Thing Under John Bolton's Nose a Bugbear?
Brick by brick the Trump team is not building a wall, it's dismantling the international order. The latest move--an attack on the International Criminal Court…
The DSR Network"Forget it, Jake...it's Crazytown" (Super Hair-on-Fire Emergency Episode)
Every report out of the Trump White House tells the same story. Whether it's the anonymous op-ed from a "senior Trump Administration official" in the New York…
The DSR NetworkCrazytown Diaries, Part II: The Chaos at Home Begets Chaos Abroad
The White House is a shambles. The president is an object of ridicule among his closest aides. The Congress is looking the other way seeming to want to rush a…
The DSR NetworkCrazytown: From a Nation of Laws to One of Pathologies
In a brilliant bit of turnabout, John McCain's last act was to use his own funeral to bury Donald Trump. By excluding him from the ceremonies and featuring…
The DSR NetworkThe Art of the Un-Deal
Donald Trump's track record as an international deal-maker is perfect. He still has not made one major deal of any sort anywhere with anyone (except maybe with…
The DSR NetworkTrump Message to NFL Players He Says are Disrespecting the Flag, “Hold My Beer.”
Donald Trump has wrapped himself so tightly in the flag he could be America’s first July 4th mummy but while his true colors may be red white and blue it…
The DSR NetworkOur Biggest Intelligence Problem is the President's Intelligence
While the intelligence and law enforcement communities reel from the president's attacks, Donald Trump has sent further signals that he expects personal…
The DSR NetworkSpecial Episode: Trumpocalypse Now
This week in important Steven Tyler news, the Aerosmith front man demanded that Donald Trump stop playing his band's song "Livin' on the Edge" at their…
The DSR NetworkIt Was a Big Week for Authoritarianism in America
As reports have come in of Russia escalating its attacks on American democracy, our President has hopped into action escalating his war against the people who…