We take stock of last night’s brutal Supreme Court decision assaulting Texas’ women's’ reproductive rights, as well as the court in general and the increasingly barbaric reality of living under permanent rule of a reactionary electoral minority. Then, The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein join...
2021-09-03 01:49:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Once more into the breach of Afghanistan takes: the media now turns to our precious abandoned military ordnance to hand-wring over, and Britain continues to feel the cold shoulder of the Biden administration. We also cover China’s new gaming ban, and an effort to gin up a BDS movement against t...
2021-09-01 03:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post
As the entire media and natsec establishment continues to turn on Irish Joe, we promise to continue decoding the proofs, dedicating our own time & patience to keeping Joe strong as he brings about the storm of withdrawal.
2021-08-27 15:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
We start off discussing Jeopardy!, Tesla Bots, and how all these conservative radio hosts keep dying of COVID. Then we talk about Tony Blair crying about Afghanistan and step inside Tom Friedman’s mind palace to explore the Taliban’s strategic cousin and nephew reserves.
2021-08-24 02:27:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This is now a Based Biden podcast. We cover more fallout from the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and celebrate the true hero of the story: Zebulon, Afghanistan’s last Jew.
2021-08-20 04:23:46 +0000 UTC View PostWe look at the brutal, stupid, and embarrassing end of our brutal, stupid, and embarrassing twenty year occupation of Afghanistan.
2021-08-17 04:18:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We do a deep dive into the history, culture, purpose, and various crimes of the Navy SEALs.
2021-08-13 02:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We review Obama’s 60th Birthday Bash on Martha’s Vineyard, which we were all of course invited to. Then, we take a look at the ongoing “Havana Syndrome” phenomenon, in which U.S. intelligence operatives continue to report un-diagnosable symptoms supposedly generated by a non-existent supe...
2021-08-10 03:45:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Journalist David Dayen joins us to discuss the ongoing eviction moratorium bungle as well as his new piece in the American Prospect covering the anti-union captive-audience tactics of the ironically named No Evil Foods company. Then the boys chat about Steven Crowder, Andrew Cuomo and which Unive...
2021-08-06 03:49:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We start today looking at Democrats’ feckless failure to extend the eviction moratorium. That being a fairly dismal topic, we try to lighten things up with two reading series checking in with how some old friends of the show are handling their new post-election lives in DC.
2021-08-03 03:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Woodstock ‘99 survivor and/or perpetrator Bryan Quinby to let him set the record straight and/or hold him accountable for his nu-metal crimes as outlined in the new documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Range. We talk music, culture, logistics and the intersection of all ...
2021-07-30 03:32:19 +0000 UTC View Post
We take a look at the 2007 Antoine Fuqua/Mark Wahlberg film “Shooter,” a fascinating relic of the 2nd G.W. administration that asks the question “what if a hardass marine sniper operator type fuckin merked Dick Cheney?” Also, Matt brings up some deep lore from the author Stephen Hunter’...
2021-07-27 04:52:57 +0000 UTC View Post
We start by taking stock of the whole vaccination situation, wondering if there’s any way to reason with vax-skeptics and, when you’re only freedoms in this country are consumption choices, probably not. Then speaking of consumer choices, we look at the Black Rifle Coffee Company’s growing ...
2021-07-23 02:42:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the first episode of Chapo all-stars Derek Davison & Daniel Bessner’s new foreign policy podcast “American Prestige”. To get more, go here: http://patreon.com/americanprestige
In the premiere episo...
2021-07-20 02:35:26 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Chapo foreign policy desk Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner to check in with America’s various “oopsies”, “uh-ohs” and “oh butterfingers” accidentally enforcing our hegemony around the world.
Derek and Danny have a new podcast, American Prestige, covering just...
2021-07-20 02:33:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Blowback’s Brendan James and Noah Kulwin join us to discuss the permanently ill Bolsonaro, new dispatches from the desk of Donald Trump, and of course, new developments relating to Cuba. We discuss the embargo, protests, domestic social media campaigns, and of course, Mr. Worldwide’s take. 2021-07-16 05:49:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Tides of History’s Patrick Wyman today to take a historical look on things, starting with a brief discussion of the assassination of Haitian president Moïse, and the increasing privatization of violence. We then turn to Patrick’s new book The Verge, examining the crucial ye...
2021-07-13 03:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by original rap genius Gangsta Boo (@GangstaBooQOM) to discuss Warren Beatty’s perhaps overlooked 1998 political satire “Bulworth”. Is this the masturbatory ego fantasy of the white male liberal psyche, or is there something actually hilarious and genius going on here? Is it ...
2021-07-09 07:25:10 +0000 UTC View Post
What’s one band you’re ALWAYS thinking about? We start asking some universal questions. Then, we take a pair of articles that again push the idea of Biden as a transformational progressive president and ask who are they for? Why do we keep getting these? Aren’t we all just eating ice cream?...
2021-07-06 03:16:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Constitution - Washington
Get in the Presidency, George.
Episode 2 is up now on Stitcher Premium, with new episodes out on Fridays.
Use the Patreon-only offer code “CHAPO” for 50% off an annual membership. And like, at this point that’ll get you this, Time For My Stories, ...
2021-07-02 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Best Show's Tom Scharpling stops by to discuss his new memoir “It Never Ends,” being a long-term Trump-watcher, Billys Crystal & Joel, online bullying, and bathrooms from hell. We then read the most inane Megan McArdle we’ve ever read on the show, and discover that even a McArdle pi...
2021-07-02 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s a jumbo sized Chapo today, starting with a return of our smash hit segment “Animal Facts” to start off with 20 min of levity and speculation on which of Nature’s magnificent creatures are conduits to the spiritual and/or extraterrestrial world. Then, after one of Will’s maybe sweat...
2021-06-29 04:50:55 +0000 UTC View Post
We lead off pouring one out for a real one, RIP John McAfee. Then it’s time to wring our hands over our precious institutions while reading a piece demanding we stop telling Justice Breyer to retire. Finally, it’s a double dose of Pure Kass with two of maybe the most inane op-ed columns we’...
2021-06-25 00:09:38 +0000 UTC View Post
NYC mayoral elections are tomorrow so we give our final review of the candidates - not great! Then we check in with a Chapo favorite we’ve not discussed in quite a bit but are happy to return to, offering a tentative defense of perhaps The Baseball Crank’s best ever take. Finally, a long and ...
2021-06-22 04:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
Matt and I are doing one of these Stitcher Premium shows. It’s called “Hell of Presidents” and it’s our story of American history told through the office of the President. Over 13 narrative episodes and 7 bonus eps, we’re going to be covering the life & presidency of ...
2021-06-18 04:04:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Historian Matt Karp joins us to try and unpack this whole Critical Race Theory thing. We discuss how history manifests in culture, what we should really be trying to do when we study the past, the importance of change, and how we should think of the Civil War in 21st century America.
Check ...
2021-06-18 03:58:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Another triple reading series ep, we’re spoiling you listeners. We start off with a profile of Data For Progress’s new found clout with Dems in the drivers’ seat, but who’s data? And what progress? Then it’s on to the Federalist, for an author who’s simply furious that a living wage f...
2021-06-15 04:25:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The Seeking Derangements boys come by to chop it up with some Jacques lore, magnetic children, the future Salvadorian Volcanic Bitcoin Paradise, and an amazing reading series on Yashar Ali, apparently a grade-A scammer of wealthy resistance libs.
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A loose and chill hang out ep as we come to you from Atlantic City after our successful appearance at the FRQNCY1 festival. We pitch some of our concepts to revitalize AC and solve America’s Trump problem in one tidy package, lament the purging of some truly wonderful cranks and goofys from twi...
2021-06-08 00:32:18 +0000 UTC View Post
LAST CHANCE to grab tickets for FRQNCY1 happening tomorrow/today SATURDAY, JUNE 5th. Chapo’s set is at 7:30pm EST, but catch the beginning of the fest with EPISODE 1 pod, starting at 1pm est. Tickets available through the end of the show at: 2021-06-04 23:42:32 +0000 UTC View Post