David Sirota of Lever News stops by to discuss his new podcast mini-series Master Plan, detailing the five decade long deliberate scheme to legalize corruption in the U.S. We examine the plots from a relatively small group of familiar figures (Roger Ailes, John Bolton, David Frum) to eliminate co...
2024-09-06 04:22:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Kamal...
2024-09-04 05:48:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Wonderful Hesse joins us this week, and we start with yet another bizarre RFK Jr. animal story (we’ve now had Whale, Bear, Dog and Worm for those keeping track). Then: Trump’s Arlington bungle, how to talk to your kids about the Trump shooting, the death of various saints, the Brat-ification ...
2024-08-30 06:34:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The Chapo 2024 Elections team returns to the pod to look at the state of the presidential race post-Democratic National Convention. Kamala’s positioning in the election remains strong, but what does her convention performance tell us about a potential Harris administration? Is the Trump GOP rea...
2024-08-27 04:49:38 +0000 UTC View PostOne more piece of media from our live show, our Delegate Endorsement Videos.
Thanks to all our delegates:
Episode 1
Island Boy
Stavros Halkias
Chris Hansen
Trillbillies
Tim Heidecker
Sarah Squirm
Seeking Derangements
Pendejo Time
2024-08-25 19:33:45 +0000 UTC View PostJust wanted to share this because it's so sick. Exceptional work from Jason Forrest Hogg.
2024-08-23 03:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Chapo Trap House x TrueAnon live show from Aug 21 with special guest Hasan Piker. Musical intro from Yung Chomsky. Reviews of nights one and two of the DNC, TrueAnon shoe leather reporting from around the convention, oppo dump on Kamala Harris, and a reading series from Chicago legend John Ka...
2024-08-23 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Was just told there will be a handful of tickets left at the door for the show tonight at Park West in Chicago. Like a few dozen. Doors at 6:30. Should be a banger if anyone wants to come through last minute.
2024-08-21 21:55:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Alex back on the pod today as we touch briefly on cranks from the past and Ye’s nitrous fixation. Then, Biden and his team continue to seethe about being kicked off the ticket, while Tim Waltz’s midwestern diet sends the right into some sort of race-based rage. Then, despite his possible PTSD...
2024-08-20 03:51:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Our now Ohio-dwelling Canada correspondent Dan Boeckner stops by for an update on the Great White North. But first, some commentary on the Trump/Musk Twitter space debacle, and a new batch of gaffes from JD Vance. Then to Canada: a smattering of bad takes from Canada’s media class, Iranian bot ...
2024-08-16 05:59:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re 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 t...
2024-08-13 06:36:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Eyup Lovely to look at the absolute shambles of the U.K. under the Keir Starmer ministry. Starting with this week’s nation-wide race riots egged on by years of anti-immigration sentiment espoused by both Labor and the Tories, we also take a deep dive into Keir himself, his car...
2024-08-09 05:54:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein stops by to discuss his extensive new piece investigating the ever-ballooning U.S. international sanctions regime. Despite Biden recently bragging he’s leaving office with the U.S. not involved in any foreign conflicts, the U.S. now has sanctions in place in o...
2024-08-06 05:34:58 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Beirut bureau chief Séamus Malekafzali to look at another eventful and disturbing week of events in Israel and its neighboring countries. Starting with yesterday’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh - potentially by remote bomb planted months ago in his Tehran resid...
2024-08-02 05:40:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix and Alex provide some Olympics commentary by reviewing the last few Assassin’s 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 Kamala’s rise to power, T...
2024-07-30 06:27:24 +0000 UTC View PostBibi Netanyahu brings his dirty laundry to congress, and we discuss how the rapidly coagulating Kamala campaign will define itself on the moral red-line of Gaza in the coming days and weeks. And: JD Vance continues to humiliate himself, Jordan Peterson conducts an expert interview of Elon Musk, a...
2024-07-26 06:12:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re 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 LO...
2024-07-23 22:56:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapo Trap House SALUTE to the Singin’ Senators!
RIP Lou Dobbs. Biden’s slow shuffle to the emergency exit door. Aukus Aukus AUKUS! Trump shooting sizzle. Dispatches from RNC. Larry Craig at Benny Johnson’s Foam Party. JD Vance Groyper Squad. Gaetz botox overload. O’Brien spee...
2024-07-19 06:10:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT AND THEY SHOT AT ME! Kath joins us today to review a somewhat eventful week, from Trump’s 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...
2024-07-16 06:52:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Will traveling today. Inmates running asylum. Seeking Derangements join Felix & Chris to discuss Jacques’ accidentally questionable jewelry, more declinin’ Biden, Kamala’s whole deal re: space & time, executive pardons of gay soldiers, spittin' on it, Trump & Clooney, and more t...
2024-07-12 05:44:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re 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 Biden’s long history of bad policies and the current crises he’s ...
2024-07-09 04:50:22 +0000 UTC View Post
CIVIL WAR! In the cities, fighting between CNT ANARCHIST MILITIAS and government forces breaks out, while NATIONALIST FORCES under General Francisco Franco bring the Army of Northern Africa back to the peninsula. Meanwhile, the arming of the workers leads to SOCIAL REVOLUTION in the Republican Zo...
2024-07-04 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
As a special endcap to this season of Movie Mindset, Will, Hesse & Chris interview the director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walker and many others, the great Alex Cox. They discuss the Los Angeles of Repo Man, his visual style, his approach to making...
2024-07-03 21:09:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week’s stunningly bad debate and a few shocking Supreme Court rulings have rapidly taken the 2024 Presidential Race into relatively unprecedented waters. We’ve assembled the CTH election unit of reporter Dave Weigel and analyst Josh aka Ettingermentum to survey the state of the race, Joe...
2024-07-03 01:26:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Host of The Adam Friedland Show, Adam Friedland, joins us to recap what was certainly one of the most uh, historic, U.S. presidential debates.
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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 clim...
2024-06-27 19:43:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse are joined by producer Chris to look at two thematically related films: 1984’s Repo Man directed by Alex Cox, and 1985’s After Hours directed by Martin Scorsese. Two slightly surreal comedies both dealing with moving between “square” and “und...
2024-06-26 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous and filmmaker Kavitha Chekuru to discuss their new film The Night Won’t End: Biden’s 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, th...
2024-06-25 03:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Summer Solstice everyone. Continuing our I guess now semi-official States Series, we’re joined by journalist Devin O’Shea to look at Missouri, the Show-Me State. Ranging from The Bodyguard (1992)-style scandals around the current congressional election, Springfield-like nu...
2024-06-21 04:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hesse and Will are joined by Eddie from the Extended Clip podcast to talk the tender and merciless work of German New Wave master RW Fassbinder with two searing films. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, a beautiful and unlikely romance between a Moroccan guest worker and an elderly German woman...
2024-06-19 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post