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Episode 239 - Fact Fight feat. Matt Bruenig (8/23/18)

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, and Sonny Lunch. Finally we talk about something actually important: the nationwide Prison Strike.

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2018-08-24 18:39:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 237 - Our Cool Friends

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, https://www.facebook.com/therihlah, https://therihlah.com

Episode 235 - Q Let the Dogs Out? Feat. Will Sommer (8/18/18)

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 "The Way of the Shadow Wolves".

Ending music: The QAnon Song by Thought Gum

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2018-08-10 07:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 233 - Frost/Christman Presents: The Purges

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 — 1962-1974"

You can find A Threat of the First Magnitude here:

2018-08-02 03:35:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 231 - Quiz Boys feat. Michael Kupperman

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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Double A *beep beep* M L O! feat. Karina Moreno (7/18/18)

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 getting nicked outside the TESCO.

Have You Considered Buying the Book?

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Episode 227 - PEN 15 (7/11/18)

​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.

Episode 225 - The Poster's Crusade (7/6/18)

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: http://chapotraphouse.com/book/

Episode 223 - Fight Court (6/27/18)

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 mid-week hungover, which more or less reflects our state of agony and ecstasy at the world ahead.

Bonus - Felix interviews Tarpley Hitt (6/25/18)

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: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/the-real-story-of-rapper-xxxtentaci...

Episode 221 - M. Night Shyamalan's The Villages feat. Osita Nwanevu (06_21_18)

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.

Episode 219 - Da r@ntZ0ne feat. Alex Nichols

​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 book bears he loathed so much.

Episode 217 - Feeling Q and Sad rn (6/7/18)

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 particularly egregious example of the New York Post's anti-union propaganda, and we finish out the ep with a look at the latest conspiracy theory vomited out of the Qanon-adjac...

Episode 215 - Patriots, Pragmatists & PissPigs (5/31/18)

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, we make the novel observation that most late night comedians suck.

Episode 213 - In Conclusion, Palestine is a Land of Contrasts feat. @ intifadarling (5/23/18)

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.

Episode 211 - Sergeant Hands (5/17/18)

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.

Episode 209 - Death Becomes You feat. Barbara Ehrenreich (5/9/18)

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 canards that surround the American medical industry and our ideas of health, wellness, our bodies, and the great equalizer awaiting us all.

Episode 207 - Law And Ordurrrr

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.

Episode 205 - The Energy Shiftening feat. Will Sommer and QAnon

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 AdomiQanon

Episode 203 - The Truth about Cats & Syria feat. The War Nerd

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 possible US Civil War and close with a reading from Dolan's new translation of The Iliad, arguably the greatest war of all time.

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2018-04-19 17:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 201 - The Social Networth feat. Libby Watson

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 testimony, and the wretched and evil secret society known only as the "Winston Churchill Tommy Gun Society Dinner Club".

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Episode 199 - Ready Chapo One (4/5/18)

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)

Episode 197 - The YIMBY Failing Project feat. Shanti Singh (3/28/18)

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’s Pinkerton-patrolled company towns, candidate cities for Chapo’s new content factory, and YIMBYism, the hot new fad among poorly socialized free market liberals.

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Episode 195 - Frost/Christman: Marx and the Movies (3/22/18)

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".

Break Up Rex ft. Derek Davison

It's Felix and I'm back with a Derek Davison Special Retrospective on legendary Rex Tillerson. 

Derek's Patreon, please subscribe ho https://www.patreon.com/davisond13/overview

Episode 193 - AIPAC: All Eyez On Me feat. Noah Kulwin

- 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 recent reporting on their annual conference for Jewish Currents for a look at how The Lobby continues to exert influence pretty much every U.S. politician in the game.
2018-03-15 19:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 191 - The Shape of Whiffen feat. David Cross

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 View Post

Episode 189 - All That Is Solid Melts Into Sauce feat. Patton Oswalt (2/27/18)

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 return...to The Sauce.

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2018-02-28 21:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 187 - Mumsnet feat Marcus Barnett (2/21/18)

Mumsnet - A message board for Mums

- 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 spying charges, the various fops of U.K. politics, and the state of the U.K. left. We also discuss the arming teachers and if we should embrace or be skeptical of the dic...