We check in with fact WARRIOR Matt Bruenig to discuss the recent Mercatus Center study on Medicare for All, how its findings were misrepresented in the media, and Matt's own noble victory in un-misrepresenting them. Then we hoot and holler about the dogshit Politicon lineup, the guilty verdicts for Trump's not-so-loyal soldados,...
2018-08-24 18:39:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Derek Davison is back and we're ready to get real and talk about how cool the world is, with a special focus on Turkey's economic troubles at the hands of FETO, the interest rate lobby, and fake friends.
Check out Derek's project on Ibn Battuta at @therihlah on Twitter, 2018-08-17 02:27:29 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by trifecta Chapo guest, the Daily Beast's Will Sommer for updates on the extremely online right, including the recent Patriot Prayer Proud Boy rally in Portland and a look at fractures in QAnon community and mythos. This leads us to revisit what may very well be a foundational text of QAnon: Steven Seagal's "...
2018-08-10 07:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Amber are joined by Amber's friend Kal to discuss the 21st century's first great political horror series: The Purge. Later, Amber is joined by author Aaron J. Leonard to discuss his book "A Threat of the First Magnitude: Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union — ...
2018-08-02 03:35:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Cartoonist Michael Kupperman (@MKupperman) joins us to discuss his graphic memoir "All the Answers" about his father's role in a seedy, overlooked root of our pop cultural history: the Quiz Kids.
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Guest co-host Brendan joins Will to talk with Karina Moreno about the recent Mexican election and Mexico's new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Later, Amber and Matt join Will to discuss our president's treason against our flag and forefathers, Russia, MS-13, and A Very English Scandal involving Amber's mobile gett...
2018-07-19 16:23:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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Greetings and semper games. As you may have heard, we have a book coming out. While a lot of people have already sprung for a pre-order, we wanted to touch base with you, the subscribers who fund Chapo, seeing as we still don’t take money from advertisers like WonderWear, the antimicrobial one-...
2018-07-18 17:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For today's episode we watched RANGE 15, a movie that's basically Super Troopers if every member of Broken Lizard was Elliot Rodger or Dylann Roof.
We review Dan Pfeiffer of Bod Bave Bamerica's "Yes We (Still) Can", a book so asinine it sends Matt into almost unheard of levels of rage and brings Felix to passionately defend inner-circle Clintonites over Obama's bland comms cronies.
As an antidote, buy our book: 2018-07-06 05:38:46 +0000 UTC View Post
A good news/bad news episode. Good News: democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning victory in the NY-14 primary. Bad News: the dismal nightmare that is the U.S. Supreme court. Then a somewhat uplifting discussion around how the left may come out ahead in our current round of civility politics. Idk, we're all...
2018-06-28 03:28:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix interviews reporter Tarpley Hitt about her definitive profile of soundcloud rapper XXXTentacion, who was recently murdered in Florida. They discuss X's life, death, the brutal charges of domestic abuse leveled against him, and the meaning of fandom in a lonely America.
Read Tarpley's profile here: 2018-06-26 03:11:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by Slate staff writer Osita Nwanevu to call various people Nazis, talk about the one sided rules that govern "civility" in our discourse, and to gaze into the abyss of Trump's true base: rich old assholes in retirement compounds.
We finally learn the backstory behind Rand Paul's suburban NAP violation, then check in with some Italian-Americans whose hearts have been broken by one of their favorite guys. Then Alex Nichols joins us to discuss Dennis Miller's barely coherent podcast, and we take a final toast to Charles Krauthammer and the children's boo...
2018-06-14 18:56:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Sickos on Patrol....
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Hello Muddah, Hello Fadda, here I am at Camp QAnonon...
After a round up of the Trump administration's latest bouts of oafishness and corruption, we examine former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's political ambitions and his particular brand of centrism. Then, Amber brings us a partic...
2018-06-07 20:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Felix's birthday, and he's celebrating it by calling in while he waits for his shiny new gaming computer to arrive. We discuss Dinesh D'Souza posting his way to a presidential pardon, the results of Virgil's "Cards Against Humanity" run poll, and the mind-numbing evil of the "Patriots & Pragmatists" group. Also, w...
2018-06-01 16:58:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix talks with @intifadarling, a Palestinian-American activist based in Ramallah. They discuss the context of the May 14 massacre of Palestinian protesters in Gaza, the political situation between Israel, America and Palestine, and the future of the Palestinian people.
It's a movie ep. We review "12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers", a film about how in the weeks following 9/11, our Troops were assisted by their equine friends to definitely, decisively and absolutely win the War in Afghanistan once and for all.
2018-05-17 17:18:47 +0000 UTC View Post
In an interview we know you won't feel *nickel & dimed* by hahahaha we talk to the great Barbara Ehrenreich about gorilla mindfulness and her new book Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer which attacks the many delusions and canard...
2018-05-10 02:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Will is on teacher's strike. Felix, Matt, and Virgil are here to take on the legal mind of the century Michael Cohen, incels, and Twitch.
2018-05-04 03:23:02 +0000 UTC View Post
While maintaining highly advanced OpSec, we score an exclusive interview with online's secretest source of truths, the mysterious QANON*
We're then joined by Will Sommer to check in with a few of our old friends.
Finally, we discuss Joy Ann Reid's amazing case of the time traveling blog hack.
*James Adom...
2018-04-27 16:15:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by John Dolan aka The War Nerd to learn why war is not about weapons or strategy, but people. We get a brief history of the Syrian conflict to date, discuss the use of chemical weapons, recent US airstrikes and another short history lesson on Hezbollah. We then ask the War Nerd to War Game out a possi...
2018-04-19 17:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Official Chapo "Washington DC" correspondent Libby Watson checks in to drain the swamp and talk about all the latest drama consuming our nation's capital including: Feds doing a sweep on Michael Cohen, Scott Pruitt's love of trendy eatery "Le Diplomat", Trump courting Alan Dershowitz, Paul Ryan's retirement, the Zuckerberg testi...
2018-04-12 15:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Brilliant pop culture pastiche and satire or cultural apocalypse? We discuss and debate the implications of the Steven Spielberg film "Ready Player One" and hear from International Movie Correspondent Matt V Brady (@MattVBrady)
2018-04-06 18:37:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang takes a break in the middle of their West Coast tour to talk urban housing with Shanti Singh (@uhshanti), co-chair of the DSA SF Housing Committee and steering committee member. While Will cooks up a banquet they discuss the sanctity of the Atlantic’s op/ed roster, Baseball Crank’s mpreg fantasy, Silicon Valley...
In the triumphant return of Frost/Christman after an eighteen month hiatus, Matt and Amber discuss two films related to both history and socialism: Raul Peck's "The Young Karl Marx" and Armando Iannucci's "The Death of Stalin".
It's Felix and I'm back with a Derek Davison Special Retrospective on legendary Rex Tillerson.
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2018-03-17 23:31:13 +0000 UTC View Post
- We bid farewell to our friend Professor Stephen Hawking, may he travel forever among the stars.
- We're joined by returning guest Noah Kulwin, on just the day the subject of his first appearance, Silicon Valley Blood Scammer Elizabeth Holmes, is charged with "massive fraud", we then turn our eyes to AIPAC, discuss Noah's rec...
2018-03-15 19:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Topics include: Sam Nunberg's drunken Full Ginsburg, Utah's Rappin' Reps, Rod Dreher and his readers contemplate interspecies relationships, Yale's Whiffenpoofs contemplate the female gender, plus Felix and David disagree about Louis Farrakhan.
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2018-03-08 00:14:26 +0000 UTC
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Patton Oswalt returns to The Trap. We discuss the relative performance styles of the Black Israelites and Donald Trump, then move on to talk about Trump's public interactions with the Parkland survivors, reactionary 80's action films, Jon McNaughton's terrible art, and America's stunted self-awareness. Finally, we together ...
2018-02-28 21:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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- It's a hungry boy time as we argue the best American fast-casual hoagie & propose a 2nd act for America's disgraced horny congressmen.
- We then segue into a discussion of BRITISH fast food and condiments with our friend from Madchester, Marcus Barnett, as well as Corbyn's recent ...
2018-02-22 20:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post
