We kick off with a rather violent round up of some international animal news. Then, a look at the continuing implication of the Data For Progress-sphere in SBF’s election fraud, and we meet new GOP representative-elect George Santos and the amazing web of lies around his personal life. Finally,...
2022-12-23 02:25:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Danny are joined by Meagan Day of Jacobin to answer the question: What if Bernie won?
This is the last of this season of Hinge Points, thanks for listening. If you have any topic requests for if/when we do more of these, let us know!
2022-12-22 16:37:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Our good friends Liz and Brace of TrueAnon stop by to help us send off The Year of the Smile. We discuss their mini-series on Synanon, a substance rehabilitation program turned violent cult, and how it relates to all sorts of American phenomenon: from 1950’s acid tests to the modern Troubled Te...
2022-12-20 03:12:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Will talks to journalist Jefferson Morley about the impending release of a number of government documents pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination, including, for the first time, definitive descriptions of the relationship between Oswald and the CIA. Then, Matt and Felix join for...
2022-12-16 03:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Danny invite Noah Kulwin of Blowback to explore the question: what if Richard Nixon, not John F. Kennedy, won the 1960 presidential election?
2022-12-15 05:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We review the year in Podcasts, according to the New York Times. Then, Sinema flips, the Young Republicans present the Allen Dulles award, and the CIA has a mental wellness problem. Finally, some movie mindset recommendations for your holiday season.
Hell on Earth launch show/party @ Little...
2022-12-13 03:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post
We celebrate today’s important prisoner swap, and finally bring the 2022 mid-terms to a close with Raphael Warnock’s defeat of Herschel Walker in Georgia. Then, we take a look at the Qanon-addled attempt to overthrow the German government and install Heinrich XIII Prince of Reuss as kaiser. 2022-12-09 03:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Danny invite Everett Rummage, host of the Age of Napoleon podcast, to discuss a potpourri of “what ifs” about the emperor himself.
2022-12-08 15:57:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Our old friend Elon Musk* calls in to give us some updates on company policy and future projects from Twitter HQ. Then we’re joined by Ryan Broderick, author of the Garbage Day newsletter, to discuss all things online, from the woes of politicized moderation, to a future without Twitter, to the...
2022-12-06 06:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Will talks to Ross Grooters, co-chair of Railroad Workers United, Deven Mantz of BMWED Teamsters, and Jonah Furman of Labor Notes about the tentative agreement being forced on railroad workers, the demands of the unions, and where organizing goes from here.
Senior Crypto-correspondent Ben McKenzie stops by to catch up on the FTX collapse and SBF’s downfall. We also take a look at the general state of crypto, the fate of crypto holders, political complicity in the industry, and more.
You can pre-order Ben and Jacob Silverman’s new book on C...
2022-12-02 03:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Danny are joined by Patrick Wyman, host of the Tides of History podcast, to discuss the question: What if Martin Luther died young?
2022-12-01 14:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostWe start off with some Law & Order: SVU talk that flows into a discussion of crime paranoia that cost the Democrats the house in suburban Long Island. Then, America’s epidemic of loneliness and corrupt hustlers trying to scam people into unnecessary for-profit hospice care. Grim! So we ligh...
2022-11-29 03:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Beloved guest David J. Roth returns to the pod to break down some of our Turkeys of the Year with Kanye West and Elon Musk reaching new lows of embarrassing and goofy behavior. Then, we celebrate the impending return of a TRUE visionary with a profile exploring the alpha mindset of Mr. James Came...
2022-11-25 22:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Danny invite Alex Aviña, associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University, to discuss the question: What if European diseases hadn't ravaged Native American populations after 1492?
2022-11-24 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We catch up with World Cup news, engage in some vile orientalism about Qatar, and take a look at American colleges and universities partnering with gambling sites to wring some more profit out of their students and sports programs. Then, an in-depth reading series on a Peter Thiel-aligned movemen...
2022-11-22 04:08:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hakeem Jeffries takes the reins of house leadership from Nancy Pelosi. Trump officially announces his 2024 run. Herschel walker battles monsters. I’m trying to post this on deadline before running to a family dinner so apologies for brevity.
Tons of programming and subscriber announcement...
2022-11-17 23:39:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Grey Wolves,
It's a huge day for space-watchers as we are proud to announce three major new projects & updates to the Chapo Trap House Patreon.
The first is HELL ON EART...
2022-11-17 16:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hinge Points is back for a new season, baby! This first ep is free, but expect new episodes for the next 5 Thursdays, only at patreon.com/chapotraphouse.
Matt and Danny Bessner (from American Prestige) invite Chris to discuss the question: What if Doggerland (the area of land between Britai...
2022-11-17 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Coming Jan 11th from Chapo Trap House:
HELL ON EARTH: The Thirty Years War & The Violent Birth of Capitalism
In this special preview mini-sode, Matt and Chris discuss their new history podcast series, coming soon exclusively on 2022-11-17 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve got more midterms wrap up as Dems clinch the senate, Kari Lake goes down in Arizona, and Blake Masters’ school shooter campaign ads resurface. Then, we round up the first few weeks of Elon’s Twitter takeover and the FTX collapse, two more massive frauds of the billionaire class appare...
2022-11-15 04:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re here with our Midterms 2022 analysis. Felix’s “normal whites” thesis vindicated, GOP in disarray as weirdness on display, the future of L. Ron Santis vs. Toxic Trump…all this and more state by state, race by race coverage within. Plus, we finish on an almost psychedelically incomp...
2022-11-11 03:38:40 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by QAnon Anonymous’ Julian Feeld & Annie Kelly to discuss their new miniseries MANCLAN, covering online masculinity influencers. Julian and Annie’s series pulls together a lot of threads we’ve been discussing lately including loneliness, the rightwing grip on “manliness...
2022-11-08 16:54:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We of course have to start off by taking stock of Elon Musk buying twitter, what that means for le hellsite, how things change, how they stay the same. Then, we finally take a look at the Pelosi hammer incident, and a complimentary Boss Ross piece on how the right’s become the left and the left...
2022-11-04 22:26:19 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s the end of another tour, so we’re once again turning to the phone lines for a Chapo call-in show. So, thanks for the questions, enjoy the answers. And a special thanks to everyone who came out to these live shows, they were some of our best ever.
We’ll probably do more calls in t...
2022-11-02 01:50:50 +0000 UTC View Post
A transmission from the future, hosted by the show’s then-current hosts, Girl God.
Girl God shows at: https://linktr.ee/aprilc47
Our Ft. Lauderdale show is THIS SUNDAY, grab tickets while you can: 2022-10-28 04:54:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s Halloween season so we’re taking a look at the increasing amount terror many Americans are now experiencing previously-benign concepts like “school” and “voting.” We also take a look at the “retvrn” type traditionalists, and how the fantasy of what they want to “retvrn” t...
2022-10-25 03:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Did Jorts the Cat do ableism? Is a “right to sex” the best solution for our alienated males? Will Rod Dreher finally find spiritual peace in permanent Hungarian exile? All this and a farewell to Liz Truss in today’s episode.
Last chance to catch us live this year at Revolution in Ft. ...
2022-10-21 02:34:35 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re back from the first part of our fall tour and kicking around some news items: Kanye continues to find wild new ways to embrace conservatism, Liz Truss’ government wildly flails, Bolsonaro has a pretty wild story about encountering a young Venezuelan woman. Plus, we discuss the vandalism...
2022-10-18 03:07:28 +0000 UTC View Post
In one of our various irregular series, Matt's going to be taking a look at the history of Mexico and U.S.-Mexican relations through time. These eps are going to feature Matt with some guests in conversation, starting with our 19th century All-Star Matt Karp. Matt and Matt are talking about the U...
2022-10-13 22:46:45 +0000 UTC View Post