Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

wait people still uber

i was subjected to a podcast recap of some youtube political pundit drama at sxsw

p sure this is a war crime

The 'I love you guys' bit at the end went on too long. When they were bigging up Brendan I was like, 'yeah, if he was that good he would cut this segment way shorter'.

the clip show idea was fine in itself but the delivery was dire - whenever these guys do skits i just feel like i'm listening to half-baked college radio. they're a lot more entertaining when they're just riffing amongst themselves

yeah most of their scripted stuff is Not Good, thankfully they're too lazy to do it that much

the Joe Rogan bit was extremely undercooked, and their Vidal/Buckley impressions were just ok- i thought the Adam Curtis, post-election cheering, "zine," and Maron bits were great. earnest i love yous at the end was enough for a full year, i feel

I would be happy enough if every episode was reading series-style - one ep a week of cracking on a couple of stupid columns and articles, one ep on a book. They get side-tracked enough in those that you still get them riffing and talking about current events.

the Caleb readings are so fucking good

i saw someone call chapo 'the penny arcade of the left' and i can't shake it now

enh, there's plenty of material to clown the chapo folks with but none of them seem nearly as damaged and bitter as the penny arcade dipshits

oh god i just remembered penny arcade

Is anybody else on the Discord server? I've been enjoying it.

There's an interview with Will on monday's Majority Report. Don't worry, Sam Seder's not there.

man, it takes 15 minutes to get past the ad drops and generic set-up in that Majority Report episode, brutal

The revolution will be advertised.

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new premium ep was the best (and most substantial) in a while

Agreed. More book episodes, plz

yep it was great, so was their discussion of Zack Snyder's 300

More book episodes, plz

I think the general sweet spot is "bring in a guest who wrote something worth discussing"

The sweet spot is finding crazy right-wing articles and books and roasting the shit out of them, IMO.

I prefer the lib roasting to the right-winger roasting tbh

I thought the JD Vance takedown was really good, not actually that funny but very smart and nuanced in its tackling of a target a little harder than the average nat review pundit.

That too

can't wait for Jeet Heer's appearance

Well lookee who finally made it on:

https://www.soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-98-gorka-iii-the-gorkaning-feat-alex-pareene-james-adomian-4917

good ep, though they missed a good opportunity to dispel the Bernie bro tag by adding (rightly) that he would probably have bombed Syria too

pareene sounds like a nerdy sylvester the cat

why wd they want to dispel the bernie bro tag?

adomian's gorka impersonation is a+ tho

Tim Heidecker and Adomian should do a podcast series in character as Alex Jones and Gorka. I'd give Patreon money for that.

I remember Adomian from his first appearance saying that he thought Bernie lost the primary due to DNC orchestrated voter suppression (which he claimed to have witnessed "first hand" while voting in L.A.) which I take to mean he had to wait in a line. His Zizek is great though.

remember the coin tosses in Iowa?

oh i will have to finally listen to this to hear AP

btw the up-to-date term is PutinBot

it's right up your alley morbs

i liked their gorka

the Pareene ep is a pretty good starting point

They finally recorded Matt well for the first time in forever

Nice bit of synchronicity with Adomian's delivery of his last name and the place Pareene used to E-I-C at

They finally recorded Matt well for the first time in forever

I suspect he was in the room for a change, or he found a way to record his own fucking audio finally

he was definitely in the room

I had forgotten about the coin flips, there were lots of little stories like that that were spread around a lot.
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/465268206/coin-toss-fact-check-no-coin-flips-did-not-win-iowa-for-hillary-clinton

they're doing a show in Brooklyn at end of the month but tix are gone

new one is so good. "he would bomb Berlin" "but to kill Oscar Schindler" "...does anyone know anything about the girl in the red dress?"

i liked the line that trump is a president that jon stewart could actually take down, re: the 'president bannon' banter

yeah that struck me too, it's probably right.... fuck

I have to admit sometimes I get a little tired of their relentless "it's all so terrible" schtick. It's really no knock on their work, *anything* can get tiresome after nearly 100 episodes.

in their defense everything *is* terrible

well, yeah

felix is bad and not funny