We have always lived in The Zone. We take in the stunning re-election of Donald Trump, the manifest failure of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and the entire Democratic party, and all of the myriad obungles that have brought us to this moment. This has happened before, it will happen again…Reasons to be scared, reasons for hope, and assurance that we’re still ready to ride with you all every day.
2024-11-08 05:34:04 +0000 UTC
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We’re joined by Charles, Alex & Andrew from Episode 1 for a night of Election-themed spoofs and goofs live at the Aratani Theater in Los Angeles. Featuring the Dan Boeckner Christmas Time Players: Dan Boeckner, Nick Thorburn, Alex Fischel & Adam Halferty. And of course, a special visit from Santa.
2024-11-06 00:28:09 +0000 UTC
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It’s 5 days until the election and we’ve had enough talking this political bullshit so guess what? It’s Time For My Stories. We’re looking at NBC’s new medical drama “Brilliant Minds,” which dares to ask the question “what if a doctor cared about his patients?” We’ve got memento’d bikers, Three Stooges-induced heart attacks, TikTok witch psychosis and more, all solved with the miraculous application of empathy (and taking your patient’s party drugs).
LOS ANGE...
2024-11-01 04:59:24 +0000 UTC
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Ciao horror-heads. On this episode of the Screamset, we take a trip to the nation of Italy, a country known for its beauty, history, and some of the most brilliant and fucked up horror movies of all time.
First up is Tenebre (1982) directed by Dario Argento. In this quintessential Giallo slasher an American mystery author arrives in Rome to promote his latest novel while serial killer stalks the city, killing women with a straight razor, seemingly inspired by the aut...
2024-10-31 11:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Chapo elections unit Dave Weigel and Josh “Ettingermentum” return for one last check-in on the state of the 2024 US Elections. We review Trump’s fascist clown show rally at Madison Square Garden over the weekend, and discuss its potential impacts on the final week of the race. We look at the closing arguments & strategies of both campaigns, the increasingly strained relationship between the electorate and the media, key senate races to watch, and give final chances for Trump & H...
2024-10-29 03:36:44 +0000 UTC
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Adam Friedland stops by to catch up on Kamala’s town hall, the possibility of a Trump “October surprise,” Mr. Beast and his poison Lunchlys, and to debate the relative notability of various adult performers.
Catch Adam live in Denver this weekend: https://comedyworks.com/comedians/adam-friedland
And keep an eye out on YouTube for his tour special and new episodes of The Adam Friedlan...
2024-10-25 04:50:42 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode the massacre continues as Will and Hesse get slimed up and examine two horror films by Brian Yuzna that play more like grotesque sex comedies.
In From Beyond (Stuart Gordon, produced by Yuzna, 1986), horror icons Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree and Barbara Crampton team up to give a kinky body horror spin on HP Lovecraft, which features deranged and horny scientists who invent a trans-dimensional “resonator” that opens a gateway to “the be...
2024-10-23 18:02:50 +0000 UTC
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Journalist Max Read joins us to discuss his new piece on the proliferation of “AI Slop”: unwanted, low quality, often surreal content flooding the internet and degrading its various platforms. We talk about the dystopian quality of the trend, the economic factors encouraging it, and how it portends poorly for the future of online.
Max’s AI Slop piece:
2024-10-22 02:21:02 +0000 UTC
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Felix & Karim catch up on all things combat sports centered around Karim’s new podcast series “In The Red Corner,” examining the relationship between Donald Trump and the UFC. They look at the long history between Trump and Dana White, the UFC’s emerging status as THE conservative sport, the tensions between super-Democrat Ari Emanuel and his ownership of the league, and UFC’s bid for global prominence, including the many threads of crimes and controversies flowing through the U...
2024-10-18 04:44:23 +0000 UTC
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Death to all other movie podcasts! Long live the New Mindset!
Today we are joined by Nick Newman of The Film Stage to take a trip inside the bodies and spaces of Canada through the early films of our Northern neighbor’s finest cultural export: David Cronenberg.
In Shivers (1975), the clean, manicured luxury of an apartment complex becomes the site of disgust, shit, blood, and the total breakdown of society as an epidemic of parasitic leeches spread through sexual contact a...
2024-10-16 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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We start today with Alex and Felix explaining a notoriously filthy video game streamer and his repellent political views/personal hygiene to Will. Then, we check in on the Harris campaign as it continues to search for meaning, substance, moral clarity, strategic vision, & more while election day looms. Meanwhile, in MAGA-land, a look at the J6 defendants behind bars: putting on plays, podcasting, recording billboard #1 hits, punching holes in the prison drywall…is life in the big house ...
2024-10-15 05:41:44 +0000 UTC
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A Peek Inside Donald Trump’s Personal Fantasy Land
Those who believed the results of the 2020 election signaled the final exit stage right of Donald Trump, national figure… were wrong.
Trump did not go away. Instead, his numerous criminal and civil cases and the launch of his 2024 presidential election campaign kept him front and center of nearly every news cycle of the ensuing 4 years.
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2024-10-15 01:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Well, well, well, looks like we’ve got our own October Surprise for you. The video wizard team of Vic Berger, Ben Craw, and Oliver Noble have completed their previously announced mini-doc THE PHANTOM OF MAR-A-LAGO: a look at Trump’s time out of office focusing on his very own Neverland, the Southern White House, Mar-a-Lago.
It's a half-hour full-spectrum look at Trump in exile at the resort and all the bizarre remoras who surround him, all with Vic’s signature st...
2024-10-12 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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We return to the world of Tay Sheridan & Sly Stallone’s TULSA KING for Season 2. What penny-ante antics have Dwight “The General” Manfredi and his gang of miscreants gotten up to? Somewhere between jacking catalytic converters and extorting Oklaholma’s richest man over government wind farm contracts, Dwight continues to carve out a niche in dumb guy TV history, AND our hearts!
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2024-10-11 06:02:04 +0000 UTC
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Movie Mindset brings you a bone-chilling double billing based on the scariest concept in all of cinema: The Sequel!
That’s right, returning ghost Andrew Hudson of E1 & Pop That Corn joins Thrill and Hexe for a Movie Mindset first: an episode centered around the Shriekquels of two boovies we’ve covered before:
Drawing (bright red) first blood is the zombie movie of all zombie movies: 1978’s Dawn of the Dead! George Romero’s colorful follow-up to the Ur-Zombie flick Nigh...
2024-10-09 15:16:18 +0000 UTC
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It’s been one year since 10/7, so we discuss a bit of what’s changed - if anything - in perception and politics of the war in Palestine. We then look at the 2024 election, the effects of recent and impending natural disasters, and last week’s VP debate. We also discuss Kath’s recent piece in the Nation about the return of the #resistance, and Elon Musk’s funny little dance at Trump’s recent rally. Idk, we’re all starting to get that familiar icky feeling in the pits of our stoma...
2024-10-08 05:47:05 +0000 UTC
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Brother Séamus joins us to review the week’s momentous events in the Middle East - Iranian missile strikes into Israel, Israeli incursion into Lebanon, ongoing massacres, straining relationships with the Gulf States, sclerotic-to-nonexistent US response, and of course, adult circumcision.
Buy Matt’s Book: https://chapotraphouse.store/products/no-pasaran
Come to our 11/4 Election Eve s...
2024-10-04 05:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back Boils & Ghouls,
Horror Movie Mindset 2 starts today, as you may have noticed. We posted this schedule in the Book Announcement post (by the way, buy the book: https://chapotraphouse.store/products/no-pasaran), but re-posting here for visibility. And, as promised, here's our "where to watch" guide for this season:
Greeting boys and ghouls, summer is gone, and spooky season officially commences with the return of Ghoulvie Screamset Horror Movie Mindset!
On this episode Will Massacre and Hexxa Deni kick things off with two movies about the spookiest animal of them all: Cats.
First up in the The Black Cat (Ulmer, 1934) horror movie gods Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff menace a wholesome American couple with their evil European sex perversion in an Art Deco fortress.
Then in Cat...
2024-10-02 11:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Alex joins us to go in on now-indicted Mayor Eric Adams. We go through the many hilarious details of the unsealed indictment, the Turkish Connection, airline bribes, New York to Easter Island via Ankara travel, ice cream trickery, and windows literally falling off of Turkish buildings in NYC. We also look at Tablet magazines full-throated defense of Adams & the necessity for foreign bribes.
¡No Pasarán! Matt Christman's Spanish Civil War is available NOW along wi...
2024-10-01 16:06:23 +0000 UTC
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Hello Grey Wolves,
(sorry if you're getting this a second time/didn't see the first time, we had to do some last minute adjustments on the site)
The fine folks over at our merch supplier got everything together a day early, and Matt's book is on sale NOW for our loyal patrons. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL: every piece of merch on the site is available 10% off TODAY only. That includes three hot new designs.
2024-09-30 17:32:42 +0000 UTC
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AJ+ journalist Mohammad Alsaafin returns to the show for updates on the expanding conflict in Palestine and now Lebanon. We discuss where the war stands, the current position & history of Hamas, the status of the “two state solution,” Israel’s goals in Lebanon, Hezbollah’s strategy, and of course, western media’s shortcomings in covering the war. Plus, just a little on Eric Adams for some levity.
Find Mohammad’s work at 2024-09-27 05:55:42 +0000 UTC
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¡No Pasarán! Matt Christman's Spanish Civil War, the first book from Matt Christman as a solo author, will be available for order from Tuesday, October 1st - Thursday, October 31st exclusively at chapotraphouse.store.
The book is just under 200 pages, red hardcover with gold foil embossed title, with several beautiful illustrations from Julia Gfrörer. Edited by Megan Day, design + layout by Jon White, produced by yours truly. Manufactured by Gorham Pres...
2024-09-26 00:16:57 +0000 UTC
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🚨🚨ALERT PATRONS:🚨🚨
Chapo Trap House + Episode 1 will present an ELECTION DAY EVE Live Show in Los Angeles on MONDAY, NOV. 4 at the JACCC Aratani Theater in Downtown LA. Laughs, rants, electoral insanity, special guests(?), [don pardo voice] MUSICAL GUESTS(??). Will definitely be An Event.
Ticket link here goes live at 10:00am PT on Tues 9/24: https://link.dice.fm/b1eb3de54f54
Promo co...
2024-09-24 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
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BLOWBACK’s Brendan & Noah return to the show. We start off today’s show discussing Israel’s massive escalation into Lebanon, and Brendan & Noah point out the many parallels between America’s current position and the various atrocities and mis-adventures they’ve chronicled on Blowback over the seasons. Plus much more on Blowback’s current season focused on Cambodia, and the many crimes, colorful characters, and surprising sources of magnanimity they’ve uncovered through t...
2024-09-24 05:25:13 +0000 UTC
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We had to hop back on the mic this Friday to cover a slew of downright nasty stories that all broke last night: The Goonin’ Lt. Governor Mark Robinson’s account on a porn forum called “Nude Africa” reveals a number of disgusting comments, conservative operator Chris Rufo’s email among an Ashley Madison data leak, journalist Olivia Nuzzi caught canoodling with RFK Jr., and representative Matt Gaetz revealed to have brought an underage girl to an orgy. We unpack all these stories in a...
2024-09-20 23:53:01 +0000 UTC
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Journalists Christopher Robbins & Katie Way from the independent outlet Hellgate return to the show to help update us on NYC Mayor Eric Adams' chaotic administration. We look at the scandal and indictments surrounding a number of top Adams officials, including multiple sets of siblings, all embroiled in bribes, extortions, and various other forms of graft. We also discuss NYPD scandal in light of the recent subway shooting which left multiple people injured and one bystander braindead.
2024-09-20 23:49:59 +0000 UTC
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Ben & Matt of the JUSTICE WARRIORS comic series join us this week. We look at the SECOND Trump assassination attempt in about as many months, Trump’s increasingly intimate relationship with Laura Loomer, and just his insane personal and political arc over the last few months. Then, more seriously, the continued blatant demagoguery around immigration stirred up by Republicans that Democrats and the Harris campaign seems unequipped to respond to. Finally, a few stories that seem to have c...
2024-09-17 05:18:10 +0000 UTC
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Defector’s David Roth returns to the show for wall-to-wall Kamala v. Trump debate coverage, with a deep dive into Laura Loomer’s elevation to inner-circle Trump entourage and additional coverage of Shannon Sharpe’s sex stream.
Find David Roth on Defector at: https://defector.com/author/david-roth
And subscribe to Defector here: 2024-09-13 06:12:38 +0000 UTC
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Derek & Danny of the American Prestige podcast join us to review the new film Reagan. Can a film that accurately depicts the 40th president of the United States as a vacuous himbo who eagerly repeats the last thing told to him also portray him as a righteous colossus who single-handedly defeated the scourge of Soviet Russia. Sure! Why not? We consider the dim boomer hagiography presented to us by the director of other timeless classics such as Casper: A Spirited Beginning
2024-09-10 05:59:17 +0000 UTC
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