Journalists Christopher Robbins & Katie Way from the independent outlet Hellgate return to the show to help update us on NYC Mayor Eric Adams' chaotic administration. We look at the scandal and indictments surrounding a number of top Adams officials, including multiple sets of siblings, all embroiled in bribes, extortions, and various other forms of graft. We also discuss NYPD scandal in light of the recent subway shooting which left multiple people injured and one bystander braindead. Follow He...
Sep 20, 2024•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ben & Matt of the JUSTICE WARRIORS comic series join us this week. We look at the SECOND Trump assassination attempt in about as many months, Trumps increasingly intimate relationship with Laura Loomer, and just his insane personal and political arc over the last few months. Then, more seriously, the continued blatant demagoguery around immigration stirred up by Republicans that Democrats and the Harris campaign seems unequipped to respond to. Finally, a few stories that seem to have crossed fro...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Will, Felix & David Roth review Trumps masterful rhetorica gambits from Tuesday nights debate with Kamala Harris. Subscribe today for access to the full episode and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse
Sep 13, 2024•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Derek & Danny of the American Prestige podcast join us to review the new film Reagan. Can a film that accurately depicts the 40th president of the United States as a vacuous himbo who eagerly repeats the last thing told to him also portray him as a righteous colossus who single-handedly defeated the scourge of Soviet Russia. Sure! Why not? We consider the dim boomer hagiography presented to us by the director of other timeless classics such as Casper: A Spirited Beginning. American Prestige is m...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Long time friend of the show James Adomian stops by to catch up on some news, including the conservative rumor of bikers traveling to Colorado to fight Venezuelan gangs, the North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate who was a five-night-a-week customer at a porn store, and the Swifties for Kamala Zoom call. We also check in with some of our old friends Elon Musk & Sebastian Gorka. James new stand-up special Path of Most Resistance is available now for purchase at 800 Pound Gorilla: https://800p...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Chapo 2024 Elections team returns to the pod to look at the state of the presidential race post-Democratic National Convention. Kamalas positioning in the election remains strong, but what does her convention performance tell us about a potential Harris administration? Is the Trump GOP really bungling this? Exactly how shitty is JD Vance as a VP pick, and is Tim Walz committing Dog Fraud? And just how much can the Democrats cover their ears and pretend Gaza doesnt exist after the convention?...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alex back on the pod today as we touch briefly on cranks from the past and Yes nitrous fixation. Then, Biden and his team continue to seethe about being kicked off the ticket, while Tim Waltzs midwestern diet sends the right into some sort of race-based rage. Then, despite his possible PTSD, Trump is still able to toss off some casual insults to cherished American institutions that would get any other politicians run out of town and Bolsonaro attacked by bees.
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Boeckner recounts the saga of Canadian journalist being elicited by a nice Chinese man and his wife. Subscribe today for access to the full episode and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse
Aug 16, 2024•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Were joined by video doc king Jon Bois to discuss some of his recent projects with Secret Base, specifically REFORM!, a history of Ross Perot and the Reform party. Jon shares his fascination and research into this bizarre eddy of American electoral politics, the various cranks and characters that populated it, and how the Reform Party prefigured a swath of our current political landscape. We also touch on James Rebhorns character in Independence Day, slipping on banana peels, and the best and wo...
Aug 13, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Washington Posts Jeff Stein stops by to discuss his extensive new piece investigating the ever-ballooning U.S. international sanctions regime. Despite Biden recently bragging hes leaving office with the U.S. not involved in any foreign conflicts, the U.S. now has sanctions in place in over a third of all nations around the world, including more than 60% of developing nations. Jeff walks us through this increasingly central policy of worldwide economic coercion, how it shapes American imperia...
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Will, Felix & Samus discuss western reporting on recent unrest in Israel that tries very hard to elide the root cause. Subscribe today for access to the full episode and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse
Aug 02, 2024•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Felix and Alex provide some Olympics commentary by reviewing the last few Assassins Creed games. Plus, a return of our Animal News segment with a discussion of how much screen time captive gorillas should get. Then: Republicans get weird, Megyn Kelly critiques Kamalas rise to power, Trump seems like hes running out of gas, and Israel gets a January 6 by people demanding their soldiers freedom to commit sexual violence. Finally, a reading series on the phenomenon of medbeds and the people who hop...
Jul 30, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Will, Felix & Kath discuss the moral imperative of Gaza with a new Kamala candidacy. Subscribe today for access to the full episode and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse
Jul 26, 2024•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Were joined by streamer Hasan Piker for an honestly unprecedented news round-up. Joe Biden is OUT of the Presidential race (and possibly dead??), and Kamala Harris is now the presumptive nominee. Mere days after avoiding getting his head blown off by millimeters, it appears Donald Trump has LOST the mandate of heaven. And Trumps VP pick, as recently as last week a symbolic football-spike in a race presumed already won, is rapidly deflating when put in front of real people. All that plus Lord of ...
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT AND THEY SHOT AT ME! Kath joins us today to review a somewhat eventful week, from Trumps shooting and the various reactions to it, to more extremely statesmanlike appearances from Joe Biden, to ol JD from the holler makin it all the way to vice presidential nominee, weve got a lot to go over. PLUS, were joined for a bonus interview by Middle Tennessee DSAs Mina Parkinson to hear about their project abolishing medical debt through QUILT, as well as the right-wing Daily Wire...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Were joined by Ryan Grim & Jeremy Scahill of the NEW independent journalism venture Drop Site News. We look at how the Biden campaign meltdown has pushed the war in Palestine out of the news, and the relationship between Bidens long history of bad policies and the current crises hes leading. Plus, mainstream medias failed coverage of both topics, and some Drop Site reporting on Democratic megadonors gives a glimpse into Joe Bidens aggrieved and petty motivations. Support Jeremy & Ryans independe...
Jul 09, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast As a special endcap to this season of Movie Mindset, Will, Hesse & Chris interview the director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walkerand many others, the great Alex Cox. They discuss the Los Angeles of Repo Man, his visual style, his approach to making political films, and various genres, writers, and actors he admires. And of course, we get to the bottom of who killed JFK. Alex is currently crowdfunding what may be his last movie, My Last Movie on Kickstarter. Please consider kicking in and becoming...
Jul 03, 2024•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Last weeks stunningly bad debate and a few shocking Supreme Court rulings have rapidly taken the 2024 Presidential Race into relatively unprecedented waters. Weve assembled the CTH election unit of reporter Dave Weigel and analyst Josh aka Ettingermentum to survey the state of the race, Joe Bidens quickly diminishing outlook, and potential surprise outcomes that may lay ahead. Plus, key tips and tricks to master your playthrough of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Find Daves reporting at Semaf...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Will talks to musician and climate journalist Jael Holzman (Ekko Astral, Heatmap News) about her experience as a congressional reporter at outlets like Axios and Politico, and the conditions that led her to quit. We discuss the institutionalized bias against accurate reporting on topics like climate change and trans rights & healthcare, the outrageous complacency with baseless stories from the likes of LibsofTikTok, and other incidents of casual lavender scare that permeate the D.C. press corp. ...
Jun 27, 2024•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Were joined by journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous and filmmaker Kavitha Chekuru to discuss their new film The Night Wont End: Bidens War on Gaza. The film examines the lives of three families as they try to survive the continued assault on Gaza. Will and Felix discuss the film, the civilian toll of the war, the U.S. state departments continued obfuscation around civilian casualties, and the complete breakdown of international human rights law around the war. The film is available in its entirety o...
Jun 25, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Featured player Alex Nichols returns to look at the creeping criminalization of the edgar haircut in Tekkkxas, the jomney sun-ization of the U.S. Navy, the state of the American young fascist movement, and Joe Bidens floundering celebrity outreach program. Keep an eye out on our Patreon for a new series of Vic Berger videos covering Trumps time away from the White House in Mar-a-Lago, premiering exclusively at pateron.com/chapotraphouse starting June 18.
Jun 18, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast We talk to Lance Oppenheim, director of Ren Faire, the new docu-series on HBO. Ren Faire looks at the drama behind the scenes of the enormous Texas Renaissance Festival. When capricious 86-year-old owner and founder King George Coulam attempts to retire, his underlings, the obsequious & loyal-to-a-fault Jeff and the ambitious & conniving Louie, are pitted against each other in their attempts to gain control of the park. Its a darkly comedic real-life Shakespeare story, but it also touches on a l...
Jun 13, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Last week, we looked at Trumps felony convictions and the various weaknesses that brings his campaign. This week, we turn to Biden world. First, Hunter is in court on federal gun charges, leading us all to learn about his bizarre taste crack music. Then, we spend the majority of this ep reading through the absolutely addled interview Joe Biden gave to Time magazine last week. How cooked is he? Can we make sense of any of this? How could we get two candidates this bad leading their presidential t...
Jun 11, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast We have Alex on today to first and foremost look at newly released soda rankings. Then, we catch up on reactions to Trumps conviction, examine the many Rubicons people are always crossing, and ask if Barron will be Augustus Batman or something. Then, two new banger campaign ads from new MAGA star Valentina Gomez. Finally, a long reading series about Erik Princes far-right podcast group chat, and the various good & normal opinions shared there from the many luminaries in his orbit.
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chief Chapo foreign correspondent returns to take us around the wide world of conflict. We get an update on the war in Gaza including the bombing of Rafah, the failing floating Pier, and the Biden administration's attempts to broker some kind of deal between Israel, Palestine and Saudi Arabia without gaining any concessions or movement toward peace in the process. Plus, we discuss the death or Iranian president Raisi, the situation in Ukraine, and what the hells going on in French New Caledonia....
May 29, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast We sit down with Mike Cheslik, the director of the new(ish) silent comedy action farce Hundreds of Beavers. We discuss his Wisconsin influences, ultra-DIY approach to filmmaking, making your film exactly as stupid as it needs to be, and the inherent humor of watching a guy in a mascot costume get wrecked on camera. There are still a few in-theater opportunities to catch Hundreds of Beavers: https://www.hundredsofbeavers.com/tickets/ And its also available for rental at home on Apple and Amazon....
May 27, 2024•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Pendejo boys are back ostensibly to cover some new Greg Abbott shenanigans out of Texas, but we also look at the ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the collapse of Red Lobster, a GOP candidate out of Missouri literally running against being weak and gay, and Chiefs kicker Harrison Butkers redpilled address to Benedictine graduates. Find Pendejo Time wherever you get podcasts, and subscribe to their patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/pendejotime Also check out the ...
May 21, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alex is on today as we catch up with the weekends drama over the 2024 Eurovision song contest and ask which is more real, twitter or Eurovision (those are the only two options). Then, some disastrous new polls for the Biden campaign, Trump searches for a VP and praises Hannibal Lecter, and Bret Stephens & Gail Collins search for the true value of a commencement speech and decide its about telling kids to get off their damn phones. Check out WFYM radio: https://chapofym.podbean.com/
May 14, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Were joined by a former university administrator (who prefers to remain anonymous, though we have reviewed and verified their credentials) for an insiders perspective of the current state of college administration, and a discussion of just why colleges and universities around the country are reacting with such extreme opposition and often violence to the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests. Topics include increasingly corporate university structure, internal bias against certain perspectives and st...
May 10, 2024•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Will talks to Anny Viloria Winnett, a UAW 4811 ASE Trustee, Graduate Student Worker at the UCLA School of Public Health, and an organizer involved with UCLAs pro-Palestinian encampments. They discuss last weeks violent assaults on the UCLA encampments, first from a group of Zionist vigilantes and subsequently by the LAPD. They then discuss the universitys response, keeping the movement resilient and safe in the face of such opposition, and some answers for all the media who want to know why are ...
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