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865 - Mr. Powell Goes To Washington feat. David Sirota (9/5/24)

David Sirota of Lever News stops by to discuss his new podcast mini-series Master Plan, detailing the five decade long deliberate scheme to legalize corruption in the U.S. We examine the plots from a relatively small group of familiar figures (Roger Ailes, John Bolton, David Frum) to eliminate corporate oversight and dump unlimited money into the American political system, as well as the myriad methods they used to achieve this: from strategic court appointments, to dairy subsidies, to propag...

864 - Gent’s Video feat. James Adomian (9/3/24)

Long time friend of the show James Adomian stops by to catch up on some news, including the conservative rumor of bikers traveling to Colorado to fight Venezuelan gangs, the North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate who was a five-night-a-week customer at a porn store, and the Swifties for Kamala Zoom call. We also check in with some of our old friends Elon Musk & Sebastian Gorka.

James’ new stand-up special Path of Most Resistance is available now for purchase at 800 Pound Gori...

863 - A.I.: Attentional Intelligence feat. Hesse Deni (8/29/24)

Wonderful Hesse joins us this week, and we start with yet another bizarre RFK Jr. animal story (we’ve now had Whale, Bear, Dog and Worm for those keeping track). Then: Trump’s Arlington bungle, how to talk to your kids about the Trump shooting, the death of various saints, the Brat-ification of the Democratic party, and Jerry Seinfeld assassinated by Hindu nationalists. 

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862 - The Donkey Show feat. Dave Weigel & Ettingermentum (8/26/24)

The Chapo 2024 Elections team returns to the pod to look at the state of the presidential race post-Democratic National Convention. Kamala’s positioning in the election remains strong, but what does her convention performance tell us about a potential Harris administration? Is the Trump GOP really bungling this? Exactly how shitty is JD Vance as a VP pick, and is Tim Walz committing Dog Fraud? And just how much can the Democrats cover their ears and pretend Gaza doesn’t exist after the co...

DNC Live Delegates Video

One more piece of media from our live show, our Delegate Endorsement Videos.

Thanks to all our delegates:

Episode 1

Island Boy

Stavros Halkias

Chris Hansen

Trillbillies

Tim Heidecker

Sarah Squirm

Seeking Derangements

Pendejo Time

DNC Live Show Intro Vid

Just wanted to share this because it's so sick. Exceptional work from Jason Forrest Hogg.

861 - DNC LIVE (8/22/24)

The Chapo Trap House x TrueAnon live show from Aug 21 with special guest Hasan Piker. Musical intro from Yung Chomsky. Reviews of nights one and two of the DNC, TrueAnon shoe leather reporting from around the convention, oppo dump on Kamala Harris, and a reading series from Chicago legend John Kass. We also nominate the President of Podcasts.

Special thanks to all our Podcast Delegates!

A Few Tix At Door For Chicago Show Tonight

Was just told there will be a handful of tickets left at the door for the show tonight at Park West in Chicago. Like a few dozen. Doors at 6:30. Should be a banger if anyone wants to come through last minute.

860 - Super Taco Tuesday feat. Alex Nichols (8/19/24)

Alex back on the pod today as we touch briefly on cranks from the past and Ye’s nitrous fixation. Then, Biden and his team continue to seethe about being kicked off the ticket, while Tim Waltz’s midwestern diet sends the right into some sort of race-based rage. Then, despite his possible PTSD, Trump is still able to toss off some casual insults to cherished American institutions that would get any other politicians run out of town and Bolsonaro attacked by bees.

859 - Our Home And Native Land feat. Dan Boeckner (8/15/24)

Our now Ohio-dwelling Canada correspondent Dan Boeckner stops by for an update on the Great White North. But first, some commentary on the Trump/Musk Twitter space debacle, and a new batch of gaffes from JD Vance. Then to Canada: a smattering of bad takes from Canada’s media class, Iranian bot nets causing campus activism, gender transformative mine clearance in Ukraine, Chinese “elicitations” of op-ed writers, and the eternal saga of Canadian “anti-communist” memorials being propos...

858 - That’s Not Entirely Accurate feat. Jon Bois (8/12/24)

We’re joined by video doc king Jon Bois to discuss some of his recent projects with Secret Base, specifically REFORM!, a history of Ross Perot and the Reform party. Jon shares his fascination and research into this bizarre eddy of American electoral politics, the various cranks and characters that populated it, and how the Reform Party prefigured a swath of our current political landscape. We also touch on James Rebhorn’s character in Independence Day, slipping on banana peels, a...

857 - Our Keir feat. Eyup Lovely (8/8/24)

We’re joined by Eyup Lovely to look at the absolute shambles of the U.K. under the Keir Starmer ministry. Starting with this week’s nation-wide race riots egged on by years of anti-immigration sentiment espoused by both Labor and the Tories, we also take a deep dive into Keir himself, his career, his background, and some of the more grotesque media toadies that puff him up.

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856 - Bear Market feat. Jeff Stein (8/5/24)

The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein stops by to discuss his extensive new piece investigating the ever-ballooning U.S. international sanctions regime. Despite Biden recently bragging he’s leaving office with the U.S. not involved in any foreign conflicts, the U.S. now has sanctions in place in over a third of all nations around the world, including more than 60% of “developing” nations. Jeff walks us through this increasingly central policy of worldwide economic coercion, how it shapes A...

855 - Take Me Out To The Ballgame feat. Séamus Malekafzali (8/1/24)

We’re joined by Beirut bureau chief Séamus Malekafzali to look at another eventful and disturbing week of events in Israel and its neighboring countries. Starting with yesterday’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh - potentially by remote bomb planted months ago in his Tehran residence - we discuss Iranian intelligence failures, Israel’s intentional sabotage of the peace negotiating process, western reporting on the Israeli rape riots, policies of pure revenge, sexual assault...

854 - Medbed Bugs feat. Alex Nichols (7/29/24)

Felix and Alex provide some Olympics commentary by reviewing the last few Assassin’s Creed games. Plus, a return of our Animal News segment with a discussion of how much screen time captive gorillas should get. Then: Republicans get “weird,” Megyn Kelly critiques Kamala’s rise to power, Trump seems like he’s running out of gas, and Israel gets a January 6 by people demanding their soldiers’ freedom to commit sexual violence. Finally, a reading series on the phenomenon of “medbed...

853 - My Beautiful Laundrette feat. Kath Krueger (7/25/24)

Bibi Netanyahu brings his dirty laundry to congress, and we discuss how the rapidly coagulating Kamala campaign will define itself on the moral red-line of Gaza in the coming days and weeks. And: JD Vance continues to humiliate himself, Jordan Peterson conducts an expert interview of Elon Musk, and RFK will command the masses to go to the country.

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852 - Do the Dew feat. Hasan Piker (7/23/24)

We’re joined by streamer Hasan Piker for an honestly unprecedented news round-up. Joe Biden is OUT of the Presidential race (and possibly dead??), and Kamala Harris is now the presumptive nominee. Mere days after avoiding getting his head blown off by millimeters, it appears Donald Trump has LOST the mandate of heaven. And Trump’s VP pick, as recently as last week a symbolic football-spike in a race presumed already won, is rapidly deflating when put in front of real people. All that plus...

851 - Elvira (7/18/24)

Chapo Trap House SALUTE to the Singin’ Senators! 

RIP Lou Dobbs. Biden’s slow shuffle to the emergency exit door. Aukus Aukus AUKUS! Trump shooting sizzle. Dispatches from RNC. Larry Craig at Benny Johnson’s Foam Party. JD Vance Groyper Squad. Gaetz botox overload. O’Brien speech thoughts. The Advocate’s Devil.

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850 - Enter the Battle Box feat. Kath Krueger & Mina Parkison (7/15/24)

I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT AND THEY SHOT AT ME! Kath joins us today to review a somewhat eventful week, from Trump’s shooting and the various reactions to it, to more extremely statesmanlike appearances from Joe Biden, to ol’ JD from the holler makin’ it all the way to vice presidential nominee, we’ve got a lot to go over. PLUS, we’re joined for a bonus interview by Middle Tennessee DSA’s Mina Parkinson to hear about their project abolishing medical debt through QUILT, as well as the ...

849 - Scream On It feat. Seeking Derangements (7/11/24)

Will traveling today. Inmates running asylum. Seeking Derangements join Felix & Chris to discuss Jacques’ accidentally questionable jewelry, more declinin’ Biden, Kamala’s whole deal re: space & time, executive pardons of gay soldiers, spittin' on it, Trump & Clooney, and more topics of the day.

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848 - Straight Drop Kitchen feat. Ryan Grim & Jeremy Scahill (7/8/24)

We’re joined by Ryan Grim & Jeremy Scahill of the NEW independent journalism venture Drop Site News. We look at how the Biden campaign meltdown has pushed the war in Palestine out of the news, and the relationship between Biden’s long history of bad policies and the current crises he’s leading. Plus, mainstream media’s failed coverage of both topics, and some Drop Site reporting on Democratic megadonors gives a glimpse into Joe Biden’s aggrieved and petty motivations.

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847 - Spanish Civil War, part 3: No Pasarán! (7/4/24)

CIVIL WAR! In the cities, fighting between CNT ANARCHIST MILITIAS and government forces breaks out, while NATIONALIST FORCES under General Francisco Franco bring the Army of Northern Africa back to the peninsula. Meanwhile, the arming of the workers leads to SOCIAL REVOLUTION in the Republican Zone, and the CNT and Generalitat enter into a fragile structure of DUAL POWER in Catalonia. Western governments turn their backs on the Republic, as Franco becomes GENERALISSIMO and lays SIEGE TO MADRI...

Movie Mindset Bonus: Interview with Repo Man Director Alex Cox

As a special endcap to this season of Movie Mindset, Will, Hesse & Chris interview the director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walker and many others, the great Alex Cox. They discuss the Los Angeles of Repo Man, his visual style, his approach to making “political” films, and various genres, writers, and actors he admires. And of course, we get to the bottom of who killed JFK.

Alex is currently crowdfunding what may be his last movie, ...

846 - Sundown of the Erdtree feat. Dave Weigel & Ettingermentum (7/2/24)

Last week’s stunningly bad debate and a few shocking Supreme Court rulings have rapidly taken the 2024 Presidential Race into relatively unprecedented waters. We’ve assembled the CTH election unit of reporter Dave Weigel and analyst Josh aka Ettingermentum to survey the state of the race, Joe Biden’s quickly diminishing outlook, and potential surprise outcomes that may lay ahead. Plus, key tips and tricks to master your playthrough of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.

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845 - We Need The Machines feat. Adam Friedland (6/28/24)

Host of The Adam Friedland Show, Adam Friedland, joins us to recap what was certainly one of the most uh, historic, U.S. presidential debates.

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Bonus: Axios and Allies feat. Jael Holzman

Will talks to musician and climate journalist Jael Holzman (Ekko Astral, Heatmap News) about her experience as a congressional reporter at outlets like Axios and Politico, and the conditions that led her to quit. We discuss the institutionalized bias against accurate reporting on topics like climate change and trans rights & healthcare, the outrageous complacency with baseless stories from the likes of LibsofTikTok, and other incidents of casual “lavender scare” that permeate the D.C....

MM26: The Lattice of Coincidence - 80’s Yuppies vs. Punks

Will & Hesse are joined by producer Chris to look at two thematically related films: 1984’s Repo Man directed by Alex Cox, and 1985’s After Hours directed by Martin Scorsese. Two slightly surreal comedies both dealing with moving between “square” and “underground” cultures, one set in NYC depicting a yuppie descending into a purgatory populated by downtown artist types, and one set in LA depicting a punk ascending into the legitimate world of legali...

844 - Journey to the End of the Night feat. Kavitha Chekuru & Sharif Abdel Kouddous (6/24/24)

We’re joined by journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous and filmmaker Kavitha Chekuru to discuss their new film The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza. The film examines the lives of three families as they try to survive the continued assault on Gaza. Will and Felix discuss the film, the civilian toll of the war, the U.S. state departments continued obfuscation around civilian casualties, and the complete breakdown of international human rights law around the war.

The film...

843 - Such Sights to Show-Me feat. Devin O’Shea (6/20/24)

Happy Summer Solstice everyone. Continuing our I guess now semi-official States Series, we’re joined by journalist Devin O’Shea to look at Missouri, the Show-Me State. Ranging from The Bodyguard (1992)-style scandals around the current congressional election, Springfield-like nuclear disasters and tire fires, to the infamous Veiled Prophet ball and its consequences, seedy dealing and nefarious actions abound in the gateway to the west. Would you believe me if I told you ther...

MM25: It’s a Miserable Life - The Films of RW Fassbinder

Hesse and Will are joined by Eddie from the Extended Clip podcast to talk the tender and merciless work of German New Wave master RW Fassbinder with two searing films. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, a beautiful and unlikely romance between a Moroccan guest worker and an elderly German woman is threatened by the suffocating prejudice of German society, and In A Year With 13 Moons, a transgender woman takes stock of her life and attempts to reconnect with her past. In both films ...