Episode 185 - Own Your Own Immigrant! (2/15/18)

Oh that's fucking brilliant. Almost makes me want to listen to that (for me) otherwise unlistenable podcast.

Phil Hostak

Heinz hits the bliss point. No other compares. I suspect Tarragon may be the reason, partly.

Ellen Harold

no idea, did she?

Ivan

didn't she try to kill herself a few months ago or something?

yall should do a Balkans ep w/ Lily Lynch from The Balkanist

Ivan

That would be awesome. Phonetic spellings of all words and names massacred by Felix and Will.

Phil Hostak

One of the things that I admire about Chapo is that they train their biggest guns on real conservative intellectuals who have by-lines in established print publications. They don’t waste too much time on minor Pepe losers on Twitter. They punch up, like good socialists.

Zen Ben

Meghan wants to give schoolkids little plastic keys to wear around their necks for when they charge school shooters.

Ed Irwin

Megan has obviously done her homework. Exactly this is happening in Australia at the moment. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-13/exploited-foreign-workers-falling-into-blackhole/9418976" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-13/exploited-foreign-workers-falling-into-blackhole/9418976</a>

Phil S Stein

Holy Shit.<a href="http://glenweyl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Headshot2016.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://glenweyl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Headshot2016.jpg</a>

Ben Trenary

As an immigration attorney I’ve done dozens of consultations with white people who bring in “their” immigrant with the hopes of being able to “sponsor” them. White people literally think this is how it works.

Stephen Robbins

Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom! <a href="https://youtu.be/qu9gva2LZBw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/qu9gva2LZBw</a>

Phil Hostak

I love Matt, but nobody sounds more like Master Shake than Matt when he's worked up.

Jake

Fiverr was where you'd pay a guy 5 bucks to yell at a bush. Clearly, it's the vision of the future.

Weoooo

probably the funniest Chapo so far

Brandon R

7 months. That's how long it would take these immigrants, working 40 hours per week at Five dollars an hour, to JUST pay for their 6000 passage. Fucking heinous.

Lucas Potter VII

May I suggest you move that umlaut from “prost” (prosit) to “tschüss”

Elise

This whole gig economy reminds me a lot of the movie Dogville... Any of you seen that?

Gnome Choomsky

..."I think man is the most interesting insect on earth." Holy shit, they're fuckin' twins...

Frederick Von Drasek

Seriously, I work in a pretty high-paying industry where H1-B visaholders have been heavily used as substitutes for American workers and they are regularly underpaid and overworked, with contracts that have them often working up to 70-80 hour weeks. They are regularly shuffled around the country by the companies that manage them and get separated from spouses and children in the process.

no

Dear god will one of the other Chapos please play the Metal Gear games, I feel so bad for Felix every time he deep cuts a reference

Josh Mattyasovszky

The fact that E-Poz's scheme is similar to H1-B and J-1 visas is not an argument in favour of his scheme but an argument against the H-1B and J-1 programs. H-1B allows you to get a green card eventually, but the backlog for the applications is several years long and all that time you need to have an employer sponsor you. Also H-1B workers are way underpaid (= exploited) compared to people in similar jobs who don't have H-1Bs. With both H-1B and J-1 you are bound to your sponsor/employer unless you can find a new one quickly or manage to change your status to something else. One thing E-Poz's scheme also conveniently forgets is dependents. What about Sofia's children? It really is just an au pair program but everyone is supposed to get in on the exploitation, not just the upper middle class - and obviously it doesn't solve any of the real problems with immigration in the US today, namely that there's a huge swath of second-tier Americans and labourers who don't have any rights and whose lives are subject to political whim.

Antti Helin

Great episode....listening to it during a teeth cleaning and kept laughing and spitting water on the dental assistant wearing a jesus fish necklace and a disgusted scowl.

Dan Blair

i don't imagine that y'all listen to irish sports podcasts (except maybe felix), but ken early of second captains just did a fantastic interview of a normie academic and IT columnist (laura kennedy) on jordan peterson's book. he lets her hoist herself on her own petard, and does so brilliantly. early would be a great guest; an excellent writer, he's in our tribe, and there would be a lot of opportunities to work the irish jokes angle. ;)

John Harwood

Will is 100% right that you guys should do a show on Lilly

Kyle LoPinto

Listen, I know you guys are hyped for your own book but... How about reading us more of that Seagal master piece? Or did you already get a cease and desist?

hot_local

I cant listen to post malone till we find out if he likes trump. I think that dude is a milkshake duck to the fullest

Daniel J Lynch

Please hire Jordan Peterson to record the audiobook of your book.

Robby Vocke

I'm extremely here for Matt quoting Professor Brothers by heart

Tom Berman

Too bad Amazon doesn't have a category for Guardianship of the Jurist

Arthur Fretheim

matt saying “tschuss” instead of “pröst” is so fucked up

no

Great, chill, shit-talking episode. Loved it.

Phillip Millspaw

42% trying to create product or service where there is no market. Invite a Peruvian to join in that fumbling.

Erik Weissengruber

Why encourage the big business of delusional small businesses: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-small-businesses-fail-infographic-2017-8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.businessinsider.com/why-small-businesses-fail-infographic-2017-8</a>

Erik Weissengruber

Same

DeadassReagan

Once again, Kermit, no; Master Shake, no; Jordan is Marvin the Martian. <a href="https://youtu.be/LkbWF-kDK8Y" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/LkbWF-kDK8Y</a>

Phil Hostak

Bastards aren't available on bookdepository yet, and Amazon charges an arm and a leg for delivering to my neck of the jungle.

Igor Calija

I'm glad Chapo brought their nocs to the crossroads on this one.

Jack Poulson

Will this book be on sale in the UK at any point? If not, can anyone put me up for a couple of days in the summer?

Jonathan Boud

If u do an east coast show PLZ come to Baltimore

Ryan Palm

Oh my god professor brothers reference "Let's just fuck this duck, shall we?"

ghvghvgh

"Smash that into my butthole!" Will Menaker

ghvghvgh

Just so you know, Matt, I got your reference to "The Critic".

TV Marty Tonight

#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Ideologies & Doctrines > Radical Thought Seems right to me

guysmiley

PROFESSOR BROTHER FREENK

Terence Petersen

In a book, would they misspell all the words they mispronounce on their podcast?

DoctorCocktopus

Indiebound

Stu Sherman

Lot's of angry lifestylists in the comments. Do yall go around scolding people for having Iphones and calling themselves socialists? If you're mad at paying the wrong person, just steal the book. Otherwise, shut up and stop pretending you participate in an elevated form of capitalism.

Haemu

OH NO AN AMAZON LINK, CHAPO IS AARON ECKHART IN BATMAN

chili cheese a plenty

Michal, that idea is not supposed to be used to absolve yourself of choosing convenience over the well being of other workers. 'Capitalism is inherently evil, so there's nothing more wrong with buying blood diamonds from Amazon' is dumb as heck.

Hank Single

Including a link to buy from one of the worst employers on earth is crummy. Practice what you preach.

Hank Single

Bret Stephens sounds is a lost Mark McKinney character.

stink nasty

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Chapo Trap House

It's coming out under Touchstone, who are a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster who belong to CBS. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism ( but Verso, Repeater, Zero or Haymarket would have been nicer I guess ).

Michal Dzurenda

fuck off i haven't yet

Hampus Bystrom

Is there a way I can order the book straight through the publishers rather than Amazon or B&N (since they're evil)?

Sabo

But... do you really think marketing “Buy Our Book” so hard to patreon supporters is wise? We’ve all already preordered it

gamethatneverends

oh god

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