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Brian Lyman is one of the best reporters in America. He covers politics and the legislature for The Montgomery Advertiser.

Like Vince Lombardi before him, Brian is a proud Fordham Ram though he was not one of The Seven Blocks of Granite, the famous 1936 Fordham football team who’s Rose Bowl hopes were dashed after they tied The University of Georgia! 

Brian is also an autodidact who can recommend reading on almost any subject, has his own “Becoming Lincoln” podcast, and speaks truth to power whenever the opportunity arises. 

He can be found on twitter at: lyman (@lyman)

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Mark McKinnon needs no introduction, but just in case you’ve forgotten who he is:

He is the creator and co-host of Showtime’s The Circus, now filming their sixth season in Washington, DC and battleground states throughout the country. 

Mark is famously a former consultant for Democrats such as Former Texas Governors Mark White and Ann Richards, Former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer, Former Democratic Congressman Charlie Wilson (He of Charlie Wilson’s War Fame) Former Texas Lt. Governor Bob Bullock. 

In the late 1990s, he switched parties to be director of media for George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns – leading the team who put together all of the paid media for both the 2000 and 2004 campaigns. (Both of which were won by W.)

He went on to co-found No Labels, work for John McCain’s 2008 effort and consult on HBO’s The Newsroom and Netflix’s House of Cards, and work with U2’s Bono 

Mark was a fellow at The Harvard’s JFK School of Government, and lecture at The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas. He is a member of the board of jurors  of The George Foster Peabody Awards (given by The University of Georgia!)

He is also the former road manager for Kris Kristofferson, who wrote “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” and a personal favorite “Blame It On the Stones.” 

Mark is also a style maven who like The Chairman, has a penchant for flashy clothes and The Drip, best exemplified by their dedication to Res Ipsa shoes.

He can be found on twitter at: https://twitter.com/mmckinnon

Showtime’s The Circus tweets at: https://twitter.com/SHO_TheCircus

Mark’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mmckinnon/?hl=en

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No Labels: https://www.nolabels.org/

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John Hammontree is the co-founder of Reckon South, Executive Producer of the National Murrow Award-winning series Reckon Radio and host of The Reckon Interview Podcast.

He is also a proud new father of a healthy baby boy!

You can find his work at:

Reckon South Website: https://reckonsouth.com/

Reckon Twitter:https://twitter.com/reckonsouth

Reckon Insta:https://www.instagram.com/reckonsouth/

Reckon Interview Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reckon-interview/id1471345686

John’s Twitter: @johnhammontree

John’s Instagram: @birminghamontree

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Bertis Downs is an American attorney, professor, and political activist. He is also the manager of REM. He is a board member at People For The American Way and The Georgia Alliance, among other political affiliations – especially those having to do with his deep passion and commitment to public education. 

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Twitter: @BertisDowns4th

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Ike Reilly is a musician, bard, traveling minstrel, and truth teller from Libertyville, IL. His mien is as much Carl Sandburg and Studs Terkel as it is Willie Nile and Chuck Prophet. 

 His music both “solo” and with “The Ike Reilly Assassination” is a combination of wry wit, observation and a punk rock ethos bequeathed to him by his hero Joe Strummer of The Clash. 

 We can’t thank Ike enough for coming on the show - he’s a real mensch, and this episode premiering one week after we welcomed the former Governor of Alabama really exemplifies what we want the show to be about - powerful stories about real people from diverse walks of life, No Cap. 

 His new album Because The Angels drops in digital and on vinyl later this fall. The singles "Racquel Blue" and "Trick of the Light" are up at Spotify or wherever you stream music. 

 He performs regularly with his Family Band on The Ike Reilly Quarantine Hour and is on tour throughout the Midwest this fall.

Stay updated and check out Ike's music on, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, Apple Music & Youtube

Stay updated with his tour dates at IkeReilly.com/tour and if he comes to your town, by all means get off your couch and go see him. 

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Don Siegelman is Alabama’s most successful statewide politician. He is the only person to be elected Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor and Governor. He is also the only Governor from The Port City of Mobile, and the last Democrat to be elected as Governor.

He takes us through his Zelig-like rise to the pinnacle of elected politics, and some of the characters and events that happened along the way. 

You can find Governor Siegelman online:

Twitter: @DonSiegelman

Website: donsiegelman.org

His newest book “Stealing Our Democracy” can be purchased via Audible, Amazon and any number of local booksellers in your area. 

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Eric Michael Garcia is the author of “We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation” and the senior Washington correspondent for The Independent. 

He is a graduate of The University of North Carolina, a former reporter for The Hill, Roll Call, National Journal and MarketWatch, and a former editor at The Washington Post. 

His favorite band is AC/DC.

Learn more about Eric at his website: http://www.ericmgarcia.net/

Buy “We’re Not Broken”: https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Were-Not-Broken/9781328587848

Read his work in The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/author/eric-garcia

Eric’s Twitter: @EricMGarcia

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Greg Bluestein is a political reporter who covers the governors’ office and state politics, and contributes to The Political Insider blog for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s. Before working for the AJC, he was an AP Reporter based in Atlanta for 7 years. At The University of Georgia, he was the Editor in Chief of The Red and Black. 

Greg Bluestein represents a little bit of The Road Not Traveled for both of your intrepid hosts, but more so for The Chairman. 

As we discuss in the episode, both Dave and Greg possess degrees  in Journalism from The Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at The University of Georgia.  They also both have an emphasis via said degree in “Newspapers.” 

Chris and Dave met on the staff of The McIntosh Trail newspaper in high school. Greg and Chris both have degrees in Political Science. Ironies abound. 

Dave is a political consultant of some renown, Chris runs a successful on-site rental and logistics business, and Greg is a reporter – albeit one who hasn’t picked up a pica stick, or had to read a story over the line in a phone booth to get it in for the evening edition in quite some time. 

So the next time someone gets on their high horse about “Liberal Arts Degrees” not preparing students for “Real World Jobs” you can point them our way. 

We are also all Sons of The South, though the term has undergone a change in meaning in recent years, graduates of The University of Georgia, passionate about the politics and the media of our changing region, and about the success and failure of our schools’ football team. (TYLER SIMMONS WAS ONSIDES). 

Greg’s a tremendous guest, a go to for reporters and others who want to grok Georgia’s changing politics, and an all around mensch! 

You can find his latest work via the AJC website: https://www.ajc.com/staff/greg-bluestein/

Greg's Twitter: @bluestein

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Gabe Sterling is a Damn Good Dawg. Some folks in the UGA diaspora shy away from that appellation, but in this case it is the truth. He represents The University of Georgia and The Pillars of The Arch as well as nearly anybody in the public eye – and certainly better than some of the elected officials who claim to be part of Dawg Nation.

 Of course he’s much more than that – Young Republican Extraordinaire, Political Consultant in his own right, former elected official, candidate for office, and spokesperson for Georgia’s Secretary of State in a maelstrom created by the President of the party he’s worked most of his adult life to build and maintain in Georgia.

 When that whole controversy was at it’s height – when Gabe was telling President Donald Trump to “Cut it out before somebody gets injured or killed” a lot of people would ask Dave what he knew about Gabe:

 “Gabe Sterling is the type of guy you make the banker when you play Monopoly – because unlike the vast majority of people you know – he’s not going to cheat and slide money out of the till when you’re not looking.” In other words, he’s the type of umpire you want calling balls and strikes when everything is on the line." (The anti-Eric Gregg if you will?)

 Most importantly, maybe, Gabe,  like your erstwhile co- host The Chairman has said “Go Dawgs!” on CNN. As the man says “it’s the little things.”

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Carter King from America’s Favorite Cosmic Space Country Band Futurebirds joins us today to talk about inspiration, band dynamics, pandemic plans, and whether Dave can manifest a tour with Futurebirds and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard using only his mind? 

Futurebirds have been building up their fanbase, touring the country, and putting out records for over 10 years now, and always feel like they’re just on the cusp on becoming a household name. With three strong songwriters, and a sound that’s an amalgam of many things but doesn’t hew to just being one thing, they can be a tough act to subscribe. But since the pandemic is over for you bitches (as long as you got that Vax) you can go and do the one thing that will make you a BirdsHead – go see them live. 

The Chairman and CHRID have had the pleasure of seeing them live several times, in several iterations, together and apart – and every time they bring the heat. From Dave’s kids getting onstage at the show at Waverly on Dave’s birthday, to encoring with “Rocks Off” and “Six Days” on the road at the MMFA, going to see DBT with their pedal steel player, KIFFY, they’re a fun band and a good hang. 

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Brandon Miles Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bmah/

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Legendary political consultant and Director, The USC Center for The Political Future Bob Shrum keeps walking us through the history he continues to witness. 

Last episode, Bob took us from meeting then-Senator John F. Kennedy as a high school student volunteer for the 1960 Democratic National Convention, on up to hiding below the stage to make sure the TelePrompTer didn’t fail during Senator Ted Kennedy’s concession/retrenchment-as-elder-statesman “The Dream Will Never Die” speech at the 1980 Democratic Convention.

In Part Two, we talk about Ted Kennedy’s loyalty and how it manifested itself in the “veterans” of his office always coming to his aid, a vast swath of Governors, Senators, Mayors and other elected officials, Bob’s lowkey place in the pantheon of American gourmands, the continued need for good creative to do persuasion, and his deep and abiding love and admiration for his amazing wife Mary Louise Oates aka “Oatsie” – and her work in opening a homeless shelter in LA leads us back to that most southern thing of all: Football. It Just Means More!

Dave does one of his favorite things, and invites a famous and accomplished guest to come visit him in Alabama, with the promise of a dinner at a Frank Stitt restaurant. This will continue to be a bug, until someone takes him up on it, when it will become a feature.

You can learn more about Bob’s work and the mission and programming of The Center for the Political Futuure via their website: https://dornsife-center-for-political-future.usc.edu/

Bob' twitter: https://twitter.com/BobShrum

The Los Angeles Downtown Women’s Center (for Oatsie): https://downtownwomenscenter.org/

 Chris and Dave are back to talk about their soon to be released  interview with Shane Greer, the death of Rush Limbaugh and some upcoming guests and potential guests on the show. 

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The power of storytelling in advertising is something that this weeks guest, GOP ad maker Ryan Horn believes deeply in. We talk about this, his career and his hopes for a post-Trump GOP, AND get his pick for the best crappy quarantine TV show. 

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This week we talk about the ongoing post election kerfuffle. Dave gives us some personal insight on vote counts and recounts, and we ponder if any of this really means anything in the end. Then, with Steve Covid laying waste to much of the college football slate this weekend, we turn our eyes to Augusta and wonder if The Masters should be nationalized. 

This week, we try to make sense of the Election on the "day after": Most of the results are in, but some races (including POTUS) are still undecided. Who succeeded and more importantly who failed miserably? Also, the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Superspreader Party comes to Jacksonville. 

This week we check in on the state the race now that "Donnie Got The 'Rona", and then we remember legendary guitarist and bandleader, Eddie Van Halen. 

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This week, we put our spin on the first Presidential Debate and check in on the state of the election in general. Then, we celebrate International Podcast Day with some of our new favorite pods. 

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This week, we're learning about math and the census, breaking down fast food restaurant fights, being mostly excited about the return of SEC football and discussing the new trend in "Drive In" concerts.

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This week, we talk about the influence of money in politics, sandwiched by our coverage of the beginning of the NFL season including TV ratings and the kerfuffle over Skip Bayless' comments about Cowboys QB Dad Prescott. Then, we watched Sidney Pollock's Aretha Franklin documentary, Amazing Grace, and we think you should, too.