897 - Urquellization (1/6/25)

I think the criticism of the movie's obsession with speed in playing jazz is 100% valid (based on what I have heard from musicians/jazz fans that are much more knowledgeable than me), but yeah I agree that Will had a disappointing take. The main character's obsession with being great and pleasing his band director are both portrayed as being harmful (the MC breaks up with his GF to concentrate on music more, he's obsessed with pleasing a man who probably caused a student to commit suicide...) and I felt like it did a great job at depicting what this kind of person's life really might be like and what kind of sacrifices they really might have to make to become one of the greats.

Martin Lightgold

Matt chiming in with some one liners swells my heart

Baby truck

Don’t make it personal

Thomas

"You went to the Brandon store and got some Brandon" 😂😂😂😂 first time I've heard Matt in years. It's so nice 12:44

HollaHollaHolla!

Big L from Will calling Whiplash one of the dumbest movies ever.

Taylor Fredrickson

Sooo nice to have Matt back!!!

Micheline

This was a banger. Great success and fun for you all in 2025!

Matty O.

The thing is Stefan WAS smart. He basically had the same intellect as Steve Urkel but wasn’t a spaz. And Mayra was way hotter than Laura.

TatsuMaki

A comment so perfect, even the gods take notice.

Schwartz666

Long shot but if any chapo is somehow reading this, the PBD convo reminded me of Minnect, his incredibly stupid app where you can get business advice from former mob bosses, Terrell owens, and Charlie Kirk. Worth visiting if you want a laugh.

GDFB

i have been waiting lol

Hudson Nicholson

Yglesis, a man with an intellect as sharp as his physique

Devon Singrey

Ok that was unfair to overwhelm Felix with the Patrick Bet-David portrait live on the show, cmon

james

“Next episode on Thursday” Oh Will. My innocent sweet summer child. Episodes hardly ever come out on Thursday anymore. They usually come out on Friday evening.

Seph

Hope and and family are doing ok in the LA fires.

josh williams

He has aids!

HarshMalarkey

Damn how good was it hearing Matt's voice again? Literally made my day.

NitroDickclapp III

Hell yeah dude, me too. Hearing his voice has legit made my week. Good luck dude, hang in there 👍

NitroDickclapp III

naw he’s got the right take and also he doesn’t have refined movie taste

dan

Love to Matt and his family. Not having a great year of mental and emotional health and it was shockingly uplifting to hear my parasocial pal's voice again.

M1nd Fl4y3r

I heard MAGA-socialist hate fucks really slap

Studio Novaya

Ben David whatever the fuck was talking to Phil leotaro?

jfk truther

My read on the movie is that Miles Teller’s character is delusional and his pursuit costs him everything. His ending is a shallow, hollow victory. During that dinner scene with his family, his rant of how he was the best jazz drummer in the nation was pathetic because yeah making poverty wages and teaching HS Percussion was probably the path for him and everyone was like “so?”. At the end of the day its art so read it however

Burrito_Bandito

I’m a drummer but Whiplash never appealed to me because the plot seemed to be as Will described it, which is why I rejected that path— and my peers who followed that path ended up making poverty wages teaching high schoolers to play drums, while mired in debt

William Hubel

I didn't know he was giving a speech at my work last year and I excused myself behind him when I was walking to the restroom and was just like, Whoa that guy was tall lmao

nat

God I hope so

nat

Hearing Matt unexpectedly chime in was such a good surprise, I didn't expect him to come back for more than that episode! And we absolutely need to know the Yglesias/Menaker lore

nat

Oh my god dude, I have no fucking idea. I’m heartily sorry you had to write all that for someone dumb like me.

Rohmer Simpson

Hope the boys in LA are staying safe this week

Ovine Escorts LLC

Messi was in the Panama Papers 😂

Joe Schmoe

It hit me today how genuinely grateful I am that Matt is ok and now back on. Not just for his ability to add depth to the show and make sense of the world. Also because the world would suck a little bit more without him in it.

Jon

As a JD Vance style Appalachian, UNICEF does a ton in the region and he's been one of their spokespeople and largest individual donors since 2010. The Leo Messi Foundation does more physical stuff in Argentina, but since he started playing in the MLS it's also given money to preschool programs in the poorest parts of the US.

Garrat M

Luv a gud plznr

William Hubel

Zuck looks like he’s spent a couple billion just to look vaguely like an uglier version of someone who called him gay in HS

William Hubel

Right? So much happened.

Jessica Rios

I got my far right MAGA boyfriend to listen to Chapo and he loves it. We listen to it together every week and bond over it. It’s one of my favorite parts of our relationship. lol.

Jessica Rios

Wow big whiff from Will with his Whiplash take. Usually you’re spot on Mr Movie Mindset.

Burrito_Bandito

Felix, weekend science competitions are absolutely a thing! I was part of a two time bronze medal winning remote sensing team at the Minnesota state Science Olympiad. Our school also had a very strong Boomilever team. Come on!

Torbjörn

I'm gonna need the trillbillies to weigh in on this one

zona

To be fair Messi's charities are pretty much the only reason kids in Appalachia have had dental and pediatric care for the past decade

Garrat M

Probably because Trump talks about shadowy actors and grand conspiracies with the aim of persecuting him PERSONALLY whenever he suffers an embarrassment on the level of having toilet paper stuck to his shoe

Thomas

Idk if you were gonna go this route either but I also find it worth mentioning that “the top X corporations are responsible for Y percent of the emissions” is a meme argument, those companies use cheap and dirty manufacturing processes to provide cheap consumer goods for the masses of the societies of the world that reply to observations about agribusiness’ environmental impact with “hurr durr AOC say cow fart bad and hurt enbironment but that can’t be cause I want to eat hamburger every day 🤤🤤”

Thomas

Not to get all ethics 101 but you’re replying to a descriptive argument with a normative one. E says “assuming a constant level of technology wrt environmental impact, impact only scales with population” and you say “that can’t be true cause it leads to bad stuff” (I also disagree with the substance of your argument but w/e) Also, “technology will figure it out and stuff” is utopian scientism. I also know you’re probably using AI as a funny example of waste that can be solved logistically w/o need of intervening tech solutions but AI is like a fraction of a fraction of GHG output

Thomas

Uno dos tres catorce

Paige Glowacky

🤣

K H

Who gives a shit?

K H

The chapoperator?

Thomas

I believe in the right to be mediocre

Anderson Orsburn

Was Matt’s reference of the socialist classic sitcom Dinosaurs? Regardless glad to hear him chime in with a zinger. First episode that I subjected my OG pinko mom to; glad I did. You had her laughing, especially once I explained Kekistan and valuetainment to her. HB1 makes me think of the Saudi system; Bottom line people move to the U.S. to work because of U.S. military fucking up their homes. It is by design, a feature not a bug regarding our economy being dependent on exploiting labor. The interesting thing about HB1 is just that it is the white collar version so not included in labor movement — many of the tech giants are in blatant non-compliance with the FLSA as are most large organizations, for starters. It isn’t a matter of whether HB1 should exist or not: it is a matter of overall enforcement of the labor protections that we do have and protecting non-citizens equally in our workforce. Then there’s the Gates rabbit hole so yeah scratched the surface and hit some jokes.

Studio Novaya

Being a varsity athlete trains you in the art of shamelessly cheating which is a broadly applicable life skill.

K H

Purr An Umm

ploob

Why did I think this had something to do with Czech beer?

October

only euro-pilled metrosexuals like me can clock a F1 driver off a painting

etienne

After the And Intro episode about Bono now I support him getting the medal

Drew

Occam's razor, bud. We'll see what the full take is on Thu show.

Schwartz666

Nah. That movie is way dumber than I originally thought too. Mostly Will is pointing out how Vivek has misread the movie if he’s citing it as something to aspire to, but I agree with Will. The story is enough for a solid short film, but doesn’t really go anywhere as a feature.

aKg

I think you’re both missing the point in this ep’s conversation. Vivek cited it as something to aspire to. He’s the one who clearly doesn’t see the toxicity. Will is pointing out all the negative aspects that Vivek seems to be overlooking. Tho I will admit that I initially loved that movie too, but as I’ve broadened my exposure to other cinema, it doesn’t really hold up all that great. And the director’s subsequent work does make a case for him being another dummy with big budgets.

aKg

“Most of all, [liberals] want to feel like they’re doing something for somebody while also exploiting them.” - Felix summing up the entire lib/neolib ideology in a single sentence.

aKg

Clutch pronunciation of "annum" and "timbre"

D.O.D

Yeah, it was giving a little bit of Jacques energy

A person you vaguely know

I love how that Matt is proving all of the chuds wrong. I’m super pumped to see the gang!

A person you vaguely know

Did he say, Felix? I love how it was just glazed. I really feel it hasn’t been off the show for a clean three years lol welcome back, bro.

A person you vaguely know

whoops Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and fifty three seconds

Travis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR61Pb0fznQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYhuEhC63NQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMdLUFKbhu8 And for a bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjAGEvluAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgbJQl-aMnA

Ghordo

Matt 🙌

Terra Pin

Odd to take the cyber truck story at face value. No one heard the guy shoot the deagle in the video etc

Starry Pr1nce

Oh 100%. I know a guy who was a gunner on an AC-130. Those gun ships aren't well ventilated at all to maintain air pressure, so the entire control hub fills with fumes while the gunners do their things. He's got Stage 3 lung cancer and early onset dementia.

Antonio Kaisen

Look who's back in the mf house with a bff for your mfm.

Casey S

Blame it on the a-a-a-…melfloquine. Just like SSG Robert Bales does for the Kandahar massacre of 2012.

Noctor

Incredible misreading of whiplash by the “movie guy”

Sam

Felix's Pentagon joke is an instant classic

Tommy

As a first time parent of a 1 year-old, Matt talked a lot more than me during most 1 hour meetings. Glad Matt is back.

Jerimiah

If Dunning-Krueger was a commissioned painting it’d be Patrick Bet-David’s “Thinking Room”

Tommy McCormick

Yeah very un-Movie Mindset of Will. Especially if you listen to the director say anything about the film. The first thing he says agrees with Will, it's a tragic ending for the character. The audience stand in Paul Reiser, during the finale has 4 seconds of the best non verbal acting ever conveying the awe yet deep terror at what his son has been driven to. And given the diner convo in the second act, we know where Andrew's path leads.

Eamon Short

yeah! apparently because her mother told newsom to kill it. it started bc indians in management positions at big tech companies were being vile to the dalit employees honestly most of these people come back to india and treat everyone horribly so it’s kinda fun to watch them whine

Ipota

Love hearing Matt again

ElmerHomero

Vivek wants to be Dark Urkel from Dark Urkel Tribute

Bob Johnson

Ballcells SEETHING

tapwaterskeptic

The Based Replacement

Adeline Rines

the indian caste thing in the us is FASCINATING. didnt harris shoot down an anti-caste discrimination bill in california because it would piss off her and her brahmin friends? this shit is nuts

etienne

go on the wikipedia page for the carlyle group and ctrl-f "farenheit" its all in there

etienne

The H1B thing is tricky. On the one hand my internationalist socialist principles tell me to oppose them. On the other hand, most of the players on my Gaelic football team are Irish on H1Bs here for the craic.

Ben Burke

Correct

Woke Batou

Love that Matt's on these, he really completes that golden honey chet baker chapo sound. Also Gattaca is one of the greatest and saddest movies ever.

Robert Kurvits

Matt ❤️

Jason

Is Felix drunk? Lol never the less I’m loving it

Cyn

Haha didn’t catch that there was a 12/25 episode. Listened to this and it was just hey Matt’s back now. Really thought they were playing it cool. Welcome back!

Hellohellohellllo

And neither is Bill Nye

Smartalec

I always thought Adrian Dittman was too well spoken to be Elon Musk.

Michael

Life Is Burger

Marc Silverstein

That chapo hiatus was painful

Marc Silverstein

We are so back

Beth

Lmfao

Ben

I’m fucking dying at Messi I didn’t see that in the original picture

Ben

The convo about immigration was the first non-stupid take on immigration that I’ve heard in 65 years.

Jack Gude

That was my favorite part of the episode.

BLURT

I can see the MAGAs getting behind Vivek’s post. Don’t underestimate how conditioned the poor have been to hate themselves.

Hey_Blinkin

The boys are back in town (the boys are back the boys are back)

Smooth Shrek

Felix saying his version of the thinking room just has Trigger, Agent 47, and Master Chief really vindicates Khamenei when he said all of America's heroes are fictional.

Agent Grange

petition to give Lionel Messi’s medal to a true American hero, Joel Hans Embiid

Reece Coren

That’s really interesting, thanks for replying. I’ve mainly heard of Indian H1B holders from a family member who works in tech, and the extraordinary success they (or, I suppose, some of them) seem to have in working their way up the ladder of the bigger tech companies. I guess, as with everything though, the game is rigged against most people.

Podcast subscriber 78

Again, so good that Matt back, and we can hear him regathering his strength. 🥲

George Mitri

So happy Matt is back

Conner

What’s the Rubenstein 9/11 connection?

CMC

Whiplash is good and the take is reductive

Baked B

Felix is getting gangstalked

Subscriber 1

stinking room

William Beamish

Just so happy to hear Matt's voice

Spicy Peanut

Didn't liz cheney also get PMF??

OC_da_OG

Stroking my shit with joy listening to Christman

Goonba

What was the CIA dumping in your water supply yeesh

C. Andrew

MORE POLISH HATE!? THEIR LIVES ARE HARD ENOUGH!!!

justDave

Google maps is pretty useless.

Gert

Thank you for your service.

Gert

Honestly fuck Ramaswamy for 1) trying to turn a real economic issue into "jocks v nerds" bullshit and 2) basically saying American culture is inferior and churns out morons. The state of American education IS horrific. It's extremely sad that the bourgeoisie has decided that a population with near 25% illiteracy is acceptable. Of course Democrats wouldn't approach the issue any differently. I was surprised that Bernie was willing to break with the duopoly establishment to say what he did.

Sai

Yes, he did. https://www.lasvegasoptic.com/news/cybertruck-that-exploded-in-nevada-stopped-to-charge-in-las-vegas-nm/article_5dc5d2bc-c95b-11ef-90d3-f306a0656e02.html

Nathan

I worked at MS. The tech companies pay the h1b workers about half an American wage, but then another third or more of their workers are contract working Americans who are desperate to go w2. When the tech companies want to inflate stock they lay off full time workers, keep going with contract and h1bs, and make some contract workers full time. The contract companies dont give contract workers days off, sick days, vacation, or health care. MS also hires the spouses of h1b workers in non tech jobs, like admin or tech writing. Its a scam. Total scam that depresses wages. H1bs, in the beginning were monitored by the DOL, and you used to have to prove that an American couldn't do the job, before you could use it. It's a scam that helps the tech companies not just in the US, but also at their hubs in India and China, especially, in that the h1bs have language abilities often not had by Americans. It's a scam that depresses American wages and assists with offshoring

jbwhat

I think Livelsburger was actually just a Trump fan was on his way to an extremely fun New Year’s Eve party when his car spontaneously combusted

Sierra Bangs

India needs more three idiots and less RRR if it ever wants to create world class engineers.

Nathan

That’s not a Chicago accent he’s just retarded.

Nakatomi_Jones

I know he has a very refined movie taste but whenever he dislikes something it seems like he chooses the most dismissive interpretation possible of it lmao

Jackson

I wouldn't be surprised if there are environmental impacts to all of this as well. I think lead dust exposure is probably overblown for your casual indoor range shooting enthusiast but I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being a meaningful issue (as well as who knows what other toxic exposure from ordinance etc) for certain roles in the military.

D

Biden screeching over the lounge piano very Lynchian

Steve Miller Band

Great to hear the trinity again.

Uncle64

Did he really first drive to Las Vegas NM? My man and I saw a cyber truck there last week and were shook because we never saw one here before. Are you being serious?

Jessica Rios

Magic Johnson is not dead. lol

Jessica Rios

incredible book!!

Shannon

Yeah, as far as I can tell, 90% of Bollywood movies are about dumb, irrationally optimistic ripped guys who hang and dance a lot. Nobody romanticizes male friendship and layabouts more.

Jason Matthews

I was in the running for an H1B before I had to move back to India and I have a lot of friends on h1b it’s so exciting to be the center of discourse for a few weeks usually no1 in america cares too much about Indian. My take is that NRI types living in the US tend to be pretty casteist and conservative, don’t feel too bad 4 them lol 🤷‍♀️

Ipota

That’s the OPPOSITE point of whiplash Will!

Drew Malcolm

Not really a betrayal because there’s never been a true coherent MAGA idea besides, support Trump and his various grudges/resentments, and the guy was never consistent. It’s just dumb they demand MAGA to love this idea of ramming through a bunch of Indian workers. You can do it but they’re not going to love it and you need someone else to blame for it. Trump seems to be getting worse at politics somehow.

Taylord

It is. The episodes on Ft. Bragg explain this

Antonio Kaisen

I say this with love but Will’s Whiplash take is fucking CRAZY

Big James

that community sounds like a gang

SM21

Not that surprising. Psychosis tends to go for the thing right in front of you (as Trump is all the time) and not the deep reference. Which is why so many think they’re Jesus Christ and not, like, Matt Yglesias.

Taylord

What makes me think he has brain damage was his paranoia. Look up cases of old NFL guys who go crazy and kill themselves; it reads exactly the same. They isolate, become violent and unpredictable, they get super paranoid. I wish we could see this guy's brain.

Antonio Kaisen

Does Vivek think that other countries don't also enjoy cool athletic fictional characters? I won't pretend I'm an expert on global entertainment but I've seen a fair number of international action movies and they don't generally feature bookworms saving the world with math

Chris Rose

He apparently drove to Las Vegas, New Mexico before driving to Las Vegas, Nevada so seems likely he had brain damage.

Nathan

No, that’s the kind of thinking that leads to eugenics, genocide, etc. We have plenty of food, water, land, housing, and resources for everyone. What we can’t sustain is AI companies who require 100 acres of rain forests to be obliterated in order to make 30 seconds of Minion/Wicked porn.

Rohmer Simpson

This is Anti-Chicago hate

Ryan

Every time Will says Matt’s name now I make sure to do a 10 minute standing ovation in my car, complete with a heartfelt song tribute by the ghost of Marilyn Monroe

Reece Coren

the "end of the rainbow" for Vivek was getting asked by the Ohio State football coach to give a motivational speech to the team. however, his youth of brute toil rendered him unable to notice that the texts were just the dude from The Rooster and the whole thing was a prank

Dom Camella

I hadn't heard of that book, thanks!

Laura

I'm from/spent most of my life in/currently work at Livelsberger's hometown and went to his high school, if you all have some questions about what kind of depraved de-industrialized German settler environment he grew up in. Unsurprisingly, I'm also the guy with the dad that voted for the anti Christ for lower taxes. Those two things together probably say a lot.

Nick L

The irony is that I think all sides of inter-groyper conflict are funded by the same sources, now. Trump 2024 was, among other things, a consolidation of internationalist anti-internationalism, vis a vis Bannon, Orban, and De Santis, and eco-fash futurism, via the Silicon Magisterium. The rival presidential campaigns were part of a process of rough wooing, and the beleaguered and sinking Trump Team caved.

Jason Matthews

To say something good about the War Criminal medals, another podcast covered that Jane Goodall did not applaud for the other recipients-- guess she learned some humanity from those non-human primates she lived with. I'm only partway thru your discussion, hope you include the little Genocide sycophant David Pakman being invited to observe & get a pic with Brandon taken, but not worthy of an actual medal.

Mark Schneider

Little Rishi Sunak used to brag (falsely, I'm sure) that his family was "too poor" to own a TV when he was growing up. At least Vivek didn't pretend he was too poor to do so.

Mark Schneider

I mean, if we refuse to change our consumptive habits, then the problem is overpopulation.

EaZy E

So there's a little known open secret in the special operations community that we all have varying degrees of CTE. That, combined with some fire ass cocaine that was really easy to track down, probably fries our brains faster than normal. We'd spend a year deployed standing basically next to breach charges, IEDs going off, and dropping frags into rooms down the hall then return to base to practice that, do coke, drink exessively every night, and pound Adderall. 100% my grape is going to degrade into jelly as I get older, but it'd probably have been worse if I was in the regiment for any longer than I was. Hell, I already deal with chronic headaches.

Antonio Kaisen

Right?? And didn’t they only play one really cheesy song? Did anyone involved step foot into a music school or talk to a musician? I’m not even talking about technical inaccuracies that are necessary for any narrative, but Whiplash just flattened that whole world.

Sean Enright

I feel like prime Matt would've latched onto the Vivek/Elon vs. Groyers H1-B feud as some kind of cosplay of the 20th century conflict between international finance capitalism and the nationalist manufacturing capitalism. Like the war is over and finance won but the losers still get out to the park every weekend to reinact their chud grandfathers's Gettysburg.

Plainwrap

Matt Yglesias' dad unfortunately wrote the basis for Peter Weir's Fearless.

Kenny Hedges

The thing I found baffling about Whiplash is that somehow the people in the lower band at the most prestigious music college in America are legitimately bad at their instruments

Thomas

finlindizaation of urkel

Hudson Nicholson

THANK YOU Will for your opinion on Whiplash. There’s so much good drama that could have been squeezed out of the big band dynamic, real life stuff like with Buddy Rich. This movie could have been plug and play for any activity. Also JK Simmons is scary but he will say yes to anything, and Teller is only believable playing extreme sickos like in Too Old to Die Young. It dovetails with your also good opinion about Tár. Very realistic sociology for a conductor.

Sean Enright

They all want New Deal America without any of the policy of that country. That's been the US conservative outlook since the 90s

Christopher E Musgrave

Someone should make a whiplash parody where Vivek goes through intense training to become the best at lying about curing Alzheimer’s.

Nathan

MAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT

E.D. Hartwood

The number of times in Elon's life where he could have just quietly collected his money

Christopher E Musgrave

Lots of the guys who are engaging in “wow Trump has really betrayed his base on H1B visas” are hardcore online ideologues stuck in their own echo chamber. Magnifying that is lots of them are e/acc weirdos (or adjacent weird right wingers who absorb their rhetoric) who feel they’re in direct competition with H1B workers for coding jobs. In the minds of the mass of Republican voters, H1B workers fit in the “we want the good ones who come legally!” category. Add in how Rs basically support everything Trump does the second he does it and it’s nbd This isn’t to say the mass of conservatives don’t have a general xenophobia - they do; nor is it to say that you couldn’t get them to take either position at any given moment in time using a little rhetoric - you could, I’m just saying “we want the good ones” is the baseline

Thomas

Will saying they're going to talk about the terrorist attacks and US military culture at Ft Bragg has me hoping they're going to have Seth Harp on the show.

Laura

dadjokefan

They ride again

Matt Colston

Matt and Felix truly rocking in this ep but let’s not miss an opportunity to recognize the exquisite sound clip editing in this one. What a good and fun job by Chris!

Scoundrel Babe

Love you Matt

cfriend

Matt!!!!

Ben

Yeah let’s fucking go

Ben

“ Schizophranics “ …

Nakatomi_Jones

I did that too!

Laura

Are Indian and Chinese H1B tech workers “exploited” the like agricultural workers from Latin America? On its face, yes - both groups are unfairly forced to work harder than Americans for lower wages because they are trying to gain a foothold in their new country and really don’t want to go home. But in the case of tech workers, they are often incredibly successful at doing this, and within 2-5 years are making $150K+ at Facebook or some other company, and living the American dream in Seattle or the Bay Area, to the extent that such a thing exists anymore for anyone. That doesn’t happen for agricultural workers. Many tech workers are also educated in their home countries, and are fleeing economic conditions that make it undesirable to live there, but not impossible or in utter poverty the way that some agricultural workers are. I just think that’s a really important thing to point out, if you are trying to do the Leftist thing of “I am anti-globalist but not racist, because the workers being brought are exploited so I’m helping them too.” I don’t know what Bernie’s actual statement was on this so maybe I’m off-base, but I think it’s worth thinking about the differences.

Podcast subscriber 78

I love Matt occasionally chiming in and dunking from half court.

Siddhartha

Nobody’s tracking that, they just loved her when she starred in GORILLAS IN THE MIST

Rohmer Simpson

Felix cooking

Rohmer Simpson

Matt lfg

Grayson Sussman Squires

LMFAO

Jessica Rios

Just knowing he’s there makes me happy.

Jessica Rios

The secret key is a fleshlight

Where there’s a Wills there’s a Way

I'd love if given the years of bread the guys could give Dr. Wendy Painting and her book Aberrations in the Heartland of the Real about Tim McVey and the OKC bombing a shout out

Collin S

May the best science win

ploob

Put the painting of White Goodman taking the bull by the horns in a thinking room

Demented Avenger

Stefan Urquelle had looks and brains

David Rachinsky

I wouldn't let Jane Goodall off the hook. She's been giving speeches at the WEF sounding like a maltusian eco fascist, citing overpopulation as the main problem behind climate change. She just likes junkets and luncheons

Justin Thomas

We’re a nation of Waldo Faldos

MCL

"In the early 1990s, we watched Urkel ask 'Did I do that?' so that we didn't have to ask the same question of ourselves."

Tommy

My bio lab had a contest to see who could make the best stuffed Mole. You had to go to home-ec and sew it and add your costume. I made “Steve Urk-mole”. This is American science education (I’m a 38 year old engineer)

A.

Adam Curtis saying "HyperUrquelization"

Mike R

I bet Vivek has never actually watched Saved by the Bell. He wasn't cool enough to watch a TV show

Tommy

Imagining Vivek binging clips of 90s sitcoms on YouTube and then being like “truly western civilization has been in terminal decline, especially after what Mr. Feeny from boy meets world did to my friend Ben Shapiro.”

Beej

Hearing Matt in the background laughing and occasionally interjecting with "huge hog" is such a balm. It's good just knowing he is well enough to sit in.

Lono's Oboe

Vivek isn't Steve Urkel or Stefan Urquelle. He's Urkelbot

Tommy

raise hell 🤘 praise dale 🏁

siobhan

It'd be so much cooler if it was 😂

Bo Galindo

https://savedbythebell.fandom.com/wiki/S.A.T.S.

Robert Moreau

Messi had the decency to not show up for the medal.

Warbs

I didn't think Juan Soto would go to the Mets. We all get things wrong sometimes

Tommy

Didn't Zach from saved by the bell get the best SAT scores and get offered a prestige scholarship?

Robert Moreau

They should have given Matt a medal...

Tommy

Screech was valedictorian of Bayside.

dablatney

I miss the old-school science contests, where you competed to see who could build a ray gun the fastest, and the loser was shot with a ray gun.

Daniel Chamberlain

Screech built a robot with human emotions

Vincent

Adrien Dittman budded off of Elon’s back like an amoeba. As do all his reply guys. They’re placed in a nutrient bath given an X account.

Zach H.

Never thought I'd have an emotional moment over hearing the words 'huge hog' but I didn't expect Matt on back to back episodes lol

kmd

You can say to the H1B visa people "What did you expect Trump to do?" but the real surprising difference this time is they''re standing out in front of it and actively trying to convince MAGA immigration is a good idea. They're not blaming Democrats for stopping them from banning immigrants or doing a bureaucratic snuff out of it - they're straight up lecturiing MAGA and being like, "Immigration is good because white people are lazy." The H1B visa expansion is a policy you're supposed to sign at 12 AM with no publicity (like Clinton's defense of marriage act), not try to persuade. It does show how clueless Trump generally is as a politician, and Musk/Vivek x10 more so.

Taylord

The fleshlight only opens the passage for the chosen one, it's literally custom dick fitted. And you gotta be hard. "...Doc I'm going to need stronger ED medication, I gotta get back in there and turn off the cloning machine. They probably got a whole society in there by now and I need to get it under control. Yeah blue chew does NOT work anymore I'm going to need ultra-violet chew"

The True Horror

Welcome back boys ❤️

Drew Middleton

its not dale earnhardt...

siobhan

Fannie Lou hammer getting one of them medal of honors is crazy cause Biden woulda hated her

GnarlyRaeJetson

Proclaimed “movie mindset” will missed the point of whiplash entirely. Shame.

Cameron

Sniping Tim Miller and Brian Lehrer in the same segment was innnsannneeee

Brian Rooney

It's a mall Micheal, how long could you hang out there, all weekend? Of the 6 malls that were within a 20 minute drive of my childhood home, 4 have been completely demolished, 1 is roughly half-sized (renovated into a health/rehab clinic) and the last stands as a bulwark of suburban consumerism and American excess. How dare Vivek call into question the Pinnacle of American Excellence that is the Mall. When the family needs new shoes, I know the best way to buy them is to go to the one big building filled with smaller buildings; first stop, Foot Locker, then down to the other end of the mall to Lady Foot Locker, then we double back past the food court, perhaps grabbing an Auntie Anne's pretzel along the way before we hit Kids Foot Locker. Finished the objectives of our shopping excursion, we stop at Jamba Juice to rehydrate before the long trek back to 2 sq Mile parking lot to find the car and drive 5 minutes back home.

Mountain Dew Or Crab Juice

Always love to hear Matt! I appreciate you!

Poseylock Jimmismits

I've been pointing out that Trump is a magnet for schizophrenics for years! And not just being glib. It seems like every time I encounter someone talking to themselves, from homeless people to general crazy people online, they've got Trump's name on their lips. There's definitely something there.

Brad Plumb

Matt's back baby!!

Eric Murphy

No sweat, my pet

Schwartz666

Tech wing won. Deep pocket

bruce moment

😳 I figured Matt coming back was just a one-off! Once again my ignorance knows no bounds.... 2025 lookin up, baby! #YearoftheDryBoy 🥰

Schwartz666

Let's keep getting matt quips on the pod y'all ❤️

Jacob Klein

🤔 did they ever make a Family Matters porn parody? I'm not gonna check... "Ohhhh, yeah Steve... you did do that! Uhh"

Schwartz666

With a name like that, you're obviously an expert. ☝️🙄

Schwartz666

In 9th grade I got a silver medal in astronomy at Science Olympiad. It's a thing but Vivek doesn't know about it either. He could cite specifics from every episode of 90s TV but not even the name of an actual existing science competition.

Matelda

Might be crossing wires with the “frens” frog posting of what like 2-3 yrs ago? Need a doctorate to track all this brainrot

Sam Bondurant

Zoroaster's Tomb got me 💀 lol

Matthew

This is such a betrayal of the basic meaning of MAGA. Not because it supports immigration or the interests of elites over the hogs, all that stuff has long been compromised and indeciferable. It's not fun. These are the keep bigger boobs in my video games please people. The devoted disciples of treat culture, that elected hamburger president. That superficial throwaway jock culture is the whole substance of the ziggurat these small men are standing on

Christopher E Musgrave

schizo-frantics my god felix try using words in front of people IRL

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A VHS INTO THE SLOT. ITS CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING

Okay, which one did that

Christopher E Musgrave

I don’t get Felix’s revisionist Kekistan take, the flag is based off the iron cross. The account who said “all discrimination is cringe” was probably one of Elons alts.

grummy

Inside me there are 2 Steve Urkels. One is Steve Urkel, the other is also Steve Urkel

Delalelilolu

The casual racist factory banter at around 14m made me play it back to get the full patter down. Laughed both times. Sue me.

Zen Ben

Sputnik moment : Vivek wants America to wake up from WW2 with a planned economy ?

Riley Bloomer-Ludwig

Pvt Joker: TWO ALL-BEEF PATTIES,

Andrew Cross

Not that good.

Jonathan Nathan

I'm excited to find out how he pronounces it. I'm hoping for something really good like "shizzofreenics."

Jonathan Nathan

God, Vivek is such a freakin' idiot and a tool.

THEKILLERWHALE

Can’t wait to LISTEN

Riley Bloomer-Ludwig

The way Felix pronounces "schizophrenics" is going to give me schizophrenia.

James Roche

Welcome back Matt ❤️

Colm Freeman Smyth

the sleepover rule holds scarily true in my experience

Leyland

Money like I’m Batman Whip came outta Halo She said “you got cash man” I said “if you say so”

Thomas

Love hearing Matt on the pod again welcome back brother

Carolyn

happy new year chapo trap house

Jeemar

First

Aiden

Having Matt back is such a delight

Megan Rudy

Im dressed like a toddler to celebrate!

Shivvy

What’s so MAGA bout war anyway?

Zach Pierce

I don’t need of your MAGA war. It feeds the rich while it buries the poor (ain’t that fresh)

Zach Pierce

Here to jerk my urque

Joe

Matt!! 🙌

Jessica S

Welcome to the only good thing in 2025

ZazaSal

I missed my large son Matt <3

Buttfarts

We love cushbomb.

Cody Ross Rex

Slop slop slop slop slop

calvin kilby

Get Jaleel White on the damn pod!

Patrick Gremillion

Foist

Jon