TOTAL VINDICATION OF MATT CHRISTMAN THOUGHT! We begin this week discussing the avalanche of Epstein emails, who they implicate, and if this might actually, finally be the scandal Trump can’t shake. We also talk about the shutdown capitulation and the real reasons why the Democrats folded. Then, in the second half, ...
2025-11-14 00:30:25 +0000 UTC View Post
As we inch closer to war with Venezuela, historian Greg Grandin returns to Chapo for a history lesson about the War on Drugs as well as Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. We also talk about the US’s long-running economic interests and petty feuds in Latin America, particularly regarding the region’s oil supplies. We the...
2025-11-11 01:50:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello mindsetters! Today Will and Hesse bid goodbye to Spooktober with the sickest and most depraved movies we’ve yet to cover, courtesy of the beautiful island nation of Japan!
Audition, a very patient and meditative kitchen sink romance about a single father trying to have it all, and Pulse, a very prescient f...
2025-11-07 17:33:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Zohran Mamdani is the next mayor of New York. Join us for a quick roundup of Tuesday’s elections, Jim Treacher’s feud with Greg Gutfeld, Kash Patel’s country superstar girlfriend, and (hopefully) our definitive statement on Graham Platner. Then we interview Daniel Kolitz about his harrowing article about the Gooniverse ...
2025-11-07 00:52:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Jasper Nathaniel is back with another report from the occupied West Bank. He tells us about a band of West Bank settlers attacking him and locals in the olive fields of Turmus’ayya, including an old woman who was beaten unconscious on camera. He then talks about the Israeli military and intelligence’s response to the crim...
2025-11-04 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapo Victims Unit officers Lt. Copen “Dutch” Hagen, Dr. “Venom” Cap Jackson, and Lt. Columbot continue their investigation into a series of child murders in Neo-Islamabad. Dr. Cap Jackson takes the case to trial as Lts. Hagen and Columbot race against time to rustle up the evidence against the nefarious real estate c...
2025-10-31 02:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Candidate for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joins us to catch up on the final few days of the campaign. Will and Zohran discuss Andrew Cuomo’s embarrassing campaign against him, how he plans to protect New Yorkers from Trump’s threatened federal incursions into the city, NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch, and how he in...
2025-10-30 21:40:33 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s a call-in show! We respond to nineteen calls ranging from serious predictions about the Trump era and beyond, the future of the Middle East, Warren Zevon stories, books for kids and high schoolers, and trying to wean a friend off H3H3. Also: gossip about John Fetterman and Jair Bolsonaro.
YEAR ZERO: A Chapo...
2025-10-28 01:48:28 +0000 UTC View Post
In this edition of Ghoulvie Screamset Horrortober, Will and Hesse are joined by the writer, director and star of STRESS POSITIONS, Theda Hammel, to discuss two horror films about serial killers.
First is Michael Powell’s PEEPING TOM (1960) which stands along with Hitchcock’s PYSCHO as one of the first movies to conn...
2025-10-25 18:27:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapo Victims Unit officers Lt. Copen “Dutch” Hagen, Dr. “Venom” Cap Jackson, and Lt. Columbot investigate a series of sordid murders that have rocked Neo-Islamabad in the wake of the Sultanization of the city. Can this ragtag team of renegade cops overcome lyin' dirtbag skells, Coptic street gangs, and their own rule...
2025-10-24 02:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The Grand Finale of the Players Club Season 1. Nothing to add to last week’s copy so here are some alternate titles we had for this episode:
Horrible Bosses V
The Bipolar Express
I’ll Show You Who’s Never Been Boss
Miller’s Crossing
Missio...
2025-10-23 23:11:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Get tickets at: chaporeanimatorstream.com
Greetings Movie Sickos,
Here is an appealing offer to kick off your Halloween week, indeed you’ll b...
2025-10-21 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Secret Base’s sports-data auteur Jon Bois is back to preview a new series: a history and analysis of mound charges in baseball, coming this November. We talk a little bit about recent sports news including Dana White’s new boxing league, Shohei Ohtani’s generational run, and the Seattle Mariners (RIP). We then ...
2025-10-21 04:26:14 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s edition of Ghoulvie Screamset Horrortober we have two films for you that are connected by a secret phantom theme that might surprise you, but not if you ever listened to this show or seen either of these movies.
First up from 1935 is James Whale’s classic sequel Bride of Frankenstein...
2025-10-17 05:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Journalist and Chapo Trumpology correspondent David J. Roth joins for a look at Trump’s current state of mind. Why is he fixated on death and the afterlife? Does he miss Joe Brandon, and is the feeling even stronger than that? Then we turn to the recently-leaked Young Republican group chat, their sick riffs, and what it say...
2025-10-17 01:28:43 +0000 UTC View Post
[The original recording for The Phantom Pain was 12 hours of tape recorded over three sessions, so we split this into two parts. Pour one out for Brendan for editing this behemoth, too.]
Anyone can give up this fight by uninstalling and playing Battlefield 6. But the feeling of arguing about this fucking game? That, we'...
2025-10-16 14:54:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We have another call-in episode on the horizon, so you know what to do: send an UNDER 30 SECOND voice memo or recording to calls@chapotraphouse.com. The production team will select the best ones and we will answer your questions later this month!
2025-10-14 18:52:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Drop Site’s Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill return to talk more about the ceasefire deal in Gaza. We discuss what finally led to this moment, whether this ceasefire will be any different than the previous ones, and the future of Gaza, Israel, and the Gulf States. We then turn to the media’s coverage of Gaza: Jeremy...
2025-10-14 01:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
[I uploaded a .WAV file for this by mistake and it was over a gig; tried to fix it and the whole thing got corrupted. Reupping here.]
On this week’s episode of Ghoulive Screamset Horrortober, Hesse and Will are joined by Tom Sharpling of The Best Show, to break down two horror sequels, one of which could fairly be des...
2025-10-10 02:48:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Tulsa King Season 3 has premiered, and we’ve got Bryan Quinby to check back in on our boy Dwight Manfredi, his plot, smuggle fifty-year-old bourbon, as well as his newest nemesis in the Dixie Mafia. We also speculate on the future of the Sheridan cinematic universe and compare the worldviews of the two Stallone brothers. 2025-10-10 01:07:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The 1970s have shaped up to be an incredible decade for Big Boss. He’s doubled, perhaps even tripled or quintupled his bodycount (sexual). He’s marginally added to his other bodycount (people he has killed). He has come up with a completely baffling reason to decide The Boss actually sucked that will allow him to pretend ...
2025-10-09 03:36:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We have NEW MERCH for you all this fall! Go to https://chapotraphouse.store/ and check out our two new hats, two new shirts, plus restocks of some old favorites!
We ALSO have an exciting announcement: a LIVE WATCH PARTY of Stuart Gordon's Re-Anima...
2025-10-07 01:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Séamus joins us to talk about Trump’s proposed “Gaza peace plan” and what horrific policies it would actually entail in practice, as well as the Democratic Party’s desperate attempts to triangulate on the issue. We also wade into the increasing possibility of regime change in Venezuela as well as ICE’s pillaging of...
2025-10-07 01:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Now unlocked for all listeners!
Will interviews Los Angeles reporter Memo Torres, whose site L.A. TACO shifted from covering food and culture in the city to some of the most indispensable and horrific coverage of ICE raids available. Memo tells us about what happens to people when they get kidnapped, covering t...
2025-10-04 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Andrew Hudson returns to continue our discussion of Pete Hegseth’s rallying of the generals. We talk about Pete’s new warrior policies for the armed forces, his stricter standards for fitness and (and looser standards for sexual harassment), his new makeup office, and Trump derailing the whole thing to riff about battlesh...
2025-10-03 01:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings Horror Sickos,
Listener, please light a circle of candles and begin to scrawl out the ancient sigils in salt, and begin the accursed chant … “Let’s All Go to the Lobby, Let’s All Go to the Lobby, and Grab Ourselves a Snack”
That’s right! Spooky season is upon us and to inaugurate another edit...
2025-10-02 23:18:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Boo! It's another scary season of Ghoulvie Screamset with Will and Hesse! We've got five exciting and terrifying double features this month (maybe with some special guests along the way!) The first episode will drop tomorrow night after the premium episode and then on Thursday nights thereafter. As always, there's a viewing g...
2025-10-01 23:30:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The year is 1974. A decade after Operation Snake Eater, Big Boss finds himself in business with new best friend Kazuhira Miller. Their hobo union/private military contractor hybrid, Militaires Sans Frontières (Medecins Sans Frontières had been founded just 3 years prior in 1971, but Big Boss probably tried telling people it...
2025-10-01 15:48:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Zue Jernstedt joins us live from the Global Sumud Flotilla to talk to us about delivering aid to those in Gaza and weathering attacks from Israel.
UPDATE: Now unlocked for everyone!
2025-09-30 21:09:43 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s Chapo—in person! Will, Felix, and Brendan James of Blowback (formerly Chapo Trap House) gather at Will’s apartment to talk about Eric Adams dropping out of the NYC mayoral race. They then read a profile of Adam Jentleson and his new PAC, Searchlight, and its novel plan to win elections by pulling ...
2025-09-30 01:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
