Seeking a Fren: Episode 3 - Matty Goes to Hollywood
Added 2024-12-25 12:00:13 +0000 UTCAfter a generational collapse, the various factions of the right find themselves scrambling to pick up the pieces of the wreckage they wrought. They decide to break from the establishment Republican Party to pursue new strategies involving new technologies—one that’s short-term successes would be matched by its long-term consequences.
This episode draws from Lee Fang’s The Machine, Theda Skockpol’s The Tea Party and the Remaking of American Conservatism, Claire Bond Potter’s Political Junkies, Gabriel Sherman’s The Loudest Voice in the Room, and Matthew Lysiak’s The Drudge Revolution. For a full list of sources, check our works cited doc here: www.chapotraphouse.com/seeking
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“10 year old with an airsoft gun, a flip video camera, and paralyzer by Finger Eleven” Felix described my entire childhood
Taylor Bray
2025-04-11 19:17:51 +0000 UTCastounding commitment to the bit. bust a gut at o'Bloodborne
cosmia
2025-01-26 05:01:37 +0000 UTCjust call Obama by his name, or at least pick one nickname and stick to it FFS
claude
2025-01-24 13:54:01 +0000 UTCI can barely stand his voice for a two minute clip
Jon W
2025-01-23 13:45:35 +0000 UTCI agree. Incredibly distracting and annoying like a precocious child showing off.
Sarah S
2025-01-15 23:59:42 +0000 UTCWhat’s the number 1 most evil Rolling Stones song?
Wingus
2025-01-13 16:58:14 +0000 UTCBasshunter clip at the end thank you sir
Zackary Kelley
2025-01-13 16:12:59 +0000 UTCWould love to hear a 6 part series just on Crowder
Paige Glowacky
2025-01-09 23:56:26 +0000 UTCThe crowder clip on how tough israelis are has aged like milk
Wyatt the Wallaby
2025-01-09 01:25:41 +0000 UTCHe was doing his "Debate Me" schtick on UT Campus the year I graduated. There's no real counter to a clown like that. He's got the Jester's Privilege. And it's not like he's going to air anything that makes him look bad.
Jon W
2025-01-07 14:39:49 +0000 UTCNo one should be forced to listen to Steven Crowder
Jon W
2025-01-07 14:37:29 +0000 UTCI know how yah feel mate. One I fall for badly is reading Facebook comments and spending ages arguing with arseholes. Leaves me fuming haha
Archie MacLellan
2025-01-06 10:50:53 +0000 UTCThat one actually got me
Jon
2025-01-03 05:49:30 +0000 UTCO'Bubblebath
Jamie McAfee
2025-01-02 20:34:49 +0000 UTCO-Bloodborne got a laugh out of me
Axhole
2025-01-02 18:50:56 +0000 UTCBasshunter sent me down a memory hole I haven't been to since I tried breaking my Pandora algorithm by rejecting every song it tried playing
Mountain Dew Or Crab Juice
2025-01-02 14:00:08 +0000 UTCThat crowder clip talking about Israel Palestine is why I hate the internet. I hear it I abhor its stupidity then I spend a pointless ten minutes imagining how if I had reach I’d destroy him in a debate. This comment is a sublimated gasp.
Hardcore Virgin
2025-01-02 11:37:13 +0000 UTCMan I almost fell off a ladder at "Obituary"
Alex Lorden
2024-12-31 20:20:32 +0000 UTCYou can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
Gabe
2024-12-31 17:02:17 +0000 UTCI remember when my friend told me about that song... over vertrilo during an IceFrog DotA loading screen.
Luke T
2024-12-31 06:18:12 +0000 UTCHe had the electoral numbers to back it
bruce moment
2024-12-31 06:08:02 +0000 UTCKamala lost. But also, these people getting "what they want" doesn't make them any less personally detestable
bruce moment
2024-12-31 06:06:49 +0000 UTCVI SITTER HAR I VENTEN OCH SPELAR LITE DOTA
bruce moment
2024-12-31 06:05:52 +0000 UTCLee fang jumpscare
bruce moment
2024-12-31 06:04:30 +0000 UTCWelcome back Matt! Missed you!
Casey Smith
2024-12-31 05:27:46 +0000 UTCExcellent episode. Thank you.
Studio Novaya
2024-12-31 02:08:29 +0000 UTCDied and went to Muslim heaven at Ocrumbo
wigglybuddy
2024-12-31 02:04:25 +0000 UTCTiny bit disappointed that this didn't follow a more Hell of Presidents style format, i think it would have been great to have Josh presenting the historical background to highlight the color and character in Felix's commentary. But this is still a lot of fun as-is, as an elder Zoomer i'm enjoying how many names are pinging faint memories of people my parents would complain about when i was 6.
Kompy
2024-12-30 23:40:37 +0000 UTCFelix's side projects are always underrated. So far I'd rank all 3 eps of this above almost all episodes of Hinge Points and half of the inebriated past. No shade to Matt, I love him and I love history, IP on Mormons and Gladio is so of the best shit to come outta the side projects. I'm just trying to convey that I don't get the hate, or, at best, lack of interest in this historically layered, piece. It's dense, with a lot of great historical analysis and I feel is, thus far. Slept on.
Eamon Short
2024-12-30 06:40:04 +0000 UTCIt's doomed to fail eventually after getting stronger for a while. It's not just going to keep getting stronger exponentially like the Disco Stu graph
Tommy
2024-12-30 00:44:30 +0000 UTCBizarre take- the entire series is specifically about the right wing. But I guess when you would listen to Felix read the phone book it doesn't matter if it makes sense.
buttface
2024-12-29 20:14:42 +0000 UTCO'bloodborne, nice
Noah McClellan
2024-12-29 14:03:47 +0000 UTCHoly shit that Basshunter drop.
Luke T
2024-12-29 04:35:53 +0000 UTCIt isn't even close. I hear it in Christman's voice...
Matthew Krueger
2024-12-29 00:54:45 +0000 UTCClearly neither of you has read "The Secret".
Matthew Krueger
2024-12-29 00:50:36 +0000 UTCUnder My Thumb is my favorite Stones song, but I like getting held down and having my hair pulled.
Ralley Taura
2024-12-28 23:04:49 +0000 UTCRead the room homie
Chris Ryan
2024-12-28 20:39:19 +0000 UTCIf you take it as a commentary on the specious ineffectuality of the libs, it’s not really so glaring. I know what you’re saying though
Chris Ryan
2024-12-28 20:19:18 +0000 UTChave some self respect
buttface
2024-12-28 20:06:57 +0000 UTCThis is the hardest I’ve ever had to concentrate on any Chapo series but it’s also entertaining and great intel, and as a OG swarthyvillain stan I would happily listen to Felix read the Minnesota phone book if that’s what he felt like doing
Chris Ryan
2024-12-28 19:53:40 +0000 UTCI enjoy the project and applaud it for compiling the history and creating a coherent narrative, but I totally agree with your point here. It’s glaring. I know most of it was done before the election. It would have landed differently if ettinger’s posture would have been validated rather than what actually happened. Which was, quite frankly, embarrassing as fuck.
Sam
2024-12-28 17:57:33 +0000 UTCI had an awesome Toyotathon. You?
Chip’s Mom Dre
2024-12-28 15:59:39 +0000 UTCWhy is the tone of this written as though the conservative project was ultimately doomed to fail when they are the ones currently in charge of everything?
buttface
2024-12-28 14:16:32 +0000 UTCCrowder is that kid on the playground who threaten everyone with comedy. But when the real homoerotic rodeo comes to town he gets owned by his wife leaking a video of him.
Khemith
2024-12-28 07:14:59 +0000 UTCBarfsack Insane Ocrumbo
Andrew Cross
2024-12-28 05:43:40 +0000 UTCI tried to do that but every time you replay the episode all the names are different. Idk how they did it. I’ve been replaying it at 20X speed and at this point I’ve heard 1,000+ different variations of Obarfbag. I can’t even remember Obungler’s real name anymore. On one of the later play throughs I’m pretty sure he was just saying slurs.
Isaac
2024-12-28 05:03:45 +0000 UTCmhh yes perfect pairing with 114 "Meat The Press" 2017-06-17 about insane tea party websites
etienne
2024-12-28 04:39:19 +0000 UTCa merry chrysler to you
etienne
2024-12-28 04:32:03 +0000 UTCas I am listening to this the tech-bro populist alliance that reelected trump is crumbling predictably over H1 visas... you can't have a DrudgeReport.com without skilled workers.
Chuck Skooch
2024-12-27 20:03:39 +0000 UTCO'Bedn'Breakfast
Mark Schneider
2024-12-27 16:26:31 +0000 UTCNo it is not adumb question, I am pretty sure it was matt walsh.
christoph.s
2024-12-27 15:20:07 +0000 UTCObloodborne
David Brown
2024-12-27 15:14:21 +0000 UTCMidwesterners be like “the tenure anniversary”
Christian Bendillo
2024-12-27 15:00:24 +0000 UTCYou catch the man!
Professor Jokes
2024-12-27 12:10:44 +0000 UTCHot fire.
Charles Frum
2024-12-27 11:22:20 +0000 UTCIt's amazing how Steven Crowder manages to conjour up this visceral feeling in me of just primeval disgust
Don Friðrik Ólafsson
2024-12-27 10:22:34 +0000 UTCGood point. That was an omission. 'Hell on Earth' is the beefiest contribution to the Chapo catalog to date.
Zen Ben
2024-12-27 09:29:04 +0000 UTCthese are so good. Cheers Felix
Sean Muth
2024-12-27 06:29:13 +0000 UTCHello? n Earth??
Austun
2024-12-27 05:12:45 +0000 UTCMay be a dumb question but who is the "young angry blogger" speaking at the tea party event? Sounds like Matt Walsh to me but I'm not quite sure
Liam Sweeney
2024-12-27 03:21:48 +0000 UTCI lived through this time period, and somehow I never realized Matt Drudge was gay
Brad Plumb
2024-12-27 02:31:40 +0000 UTCCry
Dude Where's My Quran
2024-12-27 00:56:37 +0000 UTCLove that Baquack Obamailure got a shout out. LF forever!
James Cook
2024-12-26 20:14:52 +0000 UTCFront 242!
Erik Amundsen
2024-12-26 18:56:12 +0000 UTCWith the way this narrative is unfolding, when this series ends the last song HAS to be The Doors' "The End"
Ghordo
2024-12-26 17:24:58 +0000 UTCHey so not to be a nit picker but the opening story on Episode 3 of “Seeking a Fren for the End of the World” date is wrong. It was 2014 not 2012. Don’t know where to post this but it’s a pretty glaring error that I think should be fixed if possible.
Patrick Pinney
2024-12-26 17:17:45 +0000 UTCThe Crowder audio clips made me want to fucking kill myself
Rohmer Simpson
2024-12-26 15:03:17 +0000 UTCThey made shirts with Obama in a PLA cap
DRV
2024-12-26 14:18:41 +0000 UTCif obioshock didn't make you laugh you're lying
RubbishBinMan
2024-12-26 11:43:37 +0000 UTCThat’s wrong and you should be ashamed
Thomas
2024-12-26 09:46:02 +0000 UTCObaMAO sent me into orbit
B
2024-12-26 09:39:39 +0000 UTCNo it’s funny you’re just a curmudgeonly buzzkill
Craig
2024-12-26 08:25:22 +0000 UTCwrong
BLURT
2024-12-26 06:53:31 +0000 UTCMy favorite is still Barfsack Ocrumbo.
BLURT
2024-12-26 06:53:13 +0000 UTCOBedAndBreakfast
interzoa
2024-12-26 04:16:31 +0000 UTCIt's like a showcase display for our favorite fully inarticulate freak figures. The secret formula of being a cultural outcast and pampered wealthy made these guys an unbeatable avant garde of political propaganda, having both the motivation to try new mediums and the money to cover the initial failures of these ventures. This allows them to hang on long enough to catch the fall of the next general crisis since this mixture is generative of local capital idealism that speaks to the politics of a mental breakdown middle class. When I hear liberals say they need a joe rogan but for their side it gives me the hunch this is the autumn years for this medium's propaganda potential. I mean it's the autumn years in general
interzoa
2024-12-26 04:15:03 +0000 UTCAudibly laughed in my car to O’bituary
Jason
2024-12-26 03:46:48 +0000 UTCThis is the most substantive Chapo series since Will's 'Poppy' trilogy.
Zen Ben
2024-12-26 02:31:23 +0000 UTCDeep respect for Felix – that is truly a Hercules effort to come up with that many variations for Odrama.
OtherRussert
2024-12-26 02:00:37 +0000 UTCIt is a little more than I knew before 😂 enlighten me if you want !!
Nora
2024-12-26 00:53:28 +0000 UTCThe 30 different riffs on Obama's name are cringe and don't do anything to serve the narrative.
Tedd Staaack
2024-12-26 00:30:23 +0000 UTCObloodborne got me
Drew
2024-12-26 00:19:54 +0000 UTCThat’s not even an EIGHTH of his story, lol
TatsuMaki
2024-12-26 00:12:07 +0000 UTC“As a Black man” I wince every time you call him Obungler… but I can’t argue with it.
TatsuMaki
2024-12-26 00:05:26 +0000 UTCHappy Hondadays everyone:-)
Chip’s Mom Dre
2024-12-25 22:57:51 +0000 UTCAbsolute KUDOS for “The Old Man’s Back Again” as part of the soundtrack.
George Mitri
2024-12-25 21:11:41 +0000 UTCTucker spank us, everyone. Merry CHRISTmas gang.
Andy Kraushaar
2024-12-25 21:00:08 +0000 UTCAMAZING episode! Fucking thank you! I have been interested in Drudge and the beginning of Coulter, Kavanaugh, etc. since that Monica Lewinksy American Crime Story lol
Nora
2024-12-25 20:52:18 +0000 UTCOk I gotta come back to this and list the dozens of name variations for Obummer
CJ
2024-12-25 18:13:49 +0000 UTCI can’t believe you didn’t mention Obasketball once
Brian
2024-12-25 17:46:13 +0000 UTCSong ID's please
Evan
2024-12-25 17:13:54 +0000 UTCWhen ya introduce a new monster character a very very small interlude helps Solidify who they are and their impact
Samson Rambler
2024-12-25 13:25:15 +0000 UTCBest one yet! Breaking up the segments with live audio and music interludes kept me way more engaged! Dude felix ya killing it now
Samson Rambler
2024-12-25 13:23:04 +0000 UTCThe Slop of Christmas Present
Matthew
2024-12-25 12:44:48 +0000 UTCjust quit my job to move halfway across the country. told the Christians at the private school that I worked at that I thought the church had been captured by a political institution. strange bedfellows, these republicans and christians
Aaron Carter
2024-12-25 12:42:59 +0000 UTCAh!
Whucko Jaang
2024-12-25 12:32:59 +0000 UTC
