Chicago journalist Ben Joravsky starts each show by riffing on the news of the day with his celebrated humor, insight, and honesty. Then he talks politics with activists, elected officials, journalists and all sorts of political know-it-alls. We talk Chicago, Illinois, national (lots of national), international and lefty politics. Find The Ben Joravsky Show wherever you download podcasts.
Ben was getting ready for his weekly chat with Monroe about relatively mundane things like the Democratic victories in Georgia, when the shit hit the fan in D.C. MAGA protesters stormed the capital and seized control of Speaker Pelosi's office. What follows is the escalating disbelief of two old friends, who thought they'd seen it all.
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