Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

gonna be a lot of pictures and lists... charts too

I place decent odds at the book being passable and better than the live event from their collected backgrounds: Will was an editor at a publishing house, Amber is a longtime writer, teaches intro-comp, and edits at Current Affairs, Virgil & Felix were (sporadic) writers. Matt’s the one who’s self-admittedly horrible at writing, if better at the theoretical bits.

i know they all came up as twitter funnymen but their humor doesn't really work in text imo, needs their goofy voices and delivery. their email newsletter is pretty whatever for the same reason. amber's writing is good but isn't really the same as the chapo house style.

anyway i'm curious about this but as a young white brooklynite in the music industry i would rather ritually disembowel myself than be seen reading this in public.

Richard Wolff is going to guest, so I might listen. (Been enjoying his series on Marx)

prof richard d wolff i luv u

Thank god they gave Felix the day off.

Wolff is an old crank imo, chapo should have Marshall Steinbaum on

wolff is a cranky but beloved grandpa imo, i want him to feed me werther’s originals and tell me about class struggle

chapo old marxist economists house - they should get bob brenner on

thought this was v nice. i like how he went into the naturalization of economics: supply and demand being accepted as a natural law a la gravity, etc. in school classes i often heard "People are born greedy/selfish, that's just the way they are" nice to see such intellectual laziness called out

Yeah, I liked this ep and wish they’d do more of them. We need a shit-ton more introductions to the history & theory and whatever at you can to ease the on-ramping and (incremental?) left radicalism of people, the better.

Keeping Felix out of the theory eps(remember the book club ep on Mark Fisher last year?) is indeed a really good idea

I appreciated Matt in the last episode - “does it make anyone else feel old as shit when he does that?” Yes, yes it does.

A week late but when I read that Amazon description of Chapo the Book that Simon posted I can only hear it in the voice of Adomian's Gorka impression.

I’ve been working on this for 11 months. Please share and subscribe pic.twitter.com/s4GewNMXtq

— Brendan James (@deep_beige) February 23, 2018

Yeah, you’ll wanna skip the first 5-10 mins of the show this week

peterson vs. zizek. love it

Felix's first bit as Jordan Peterson in the cold open is hilarious. "I am so sick of women hitting the dab on young men! They say the have to do it to 'em--you never have to do it to somebody!!!!"

cum town jp riff from the latest premium episode was very powerful.

i enjoyed menaker sr. apparently not understanding a single thing felix said this episode

the cold open was awful save for Menaker Sr.'s punchline

yeah, high concept bits (or bits at all, really) are def not their strong suit

I liked the Baseball Crank

Felix's first bit as Jordan Peterson in the cold open is hilarious. "I am so sick of women hitting the dab on young men! They say the have to do it to 'em--you never have to do it to somebody!!!!"

Was gonna day I liked the Baseball crank anime

“high concept”?

If only you could combine Felix and Mullen’s impressions of JP

Yeah, Felix's Peterson was fantastic.

Matt's Zizek was solid too but that's a strangely easy impression to do.

MC's Zizek is pretty good, he's done it before, and it's not a very hard impression to do but he nails the cadence & coke/cold sniffs.

haha xp

LOL @ "I can't believe I'm in Brooklyn"

the richard wolff episode was so great i could listen to him talk all day

yeah, he’s awesome

You should listen to his solo podcast, then. It's good! xp

oh cool yeah i didn't know about him before

He’s done some good convos with Abby Martin over the last year, too

https://youtu.be/6P97r9Ci5Kg

Oswalt obviously loves these dudes.

also on Twitter I caught Felix agreeing to show do Ella Guro's podcast, which I'd been meaning to check out anyway!

I love when Patton is on Chapo

patton's obvious affection for the hosts is v sweet

Sweet and somewhat surprising tbh - I'd figured that corner of comedy would be all-in-for-Hillary centrist dems.

Virgil is making new friends everyday:

Get your facts straight. The “AR” in AR-15 doesn’t stand for “assault rifle.” It stands for “automatic rifle” because the AR-15 is in the machine gun class of calibers.

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) March 1, 2018

ha I just read that thread for some reason. what is wrong with everyone?

lmao I almost linked that on the gun control thread

lol

Matt guested on Trashfuture, a UK pod worth your time.

http://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/towards-a-political-theory-of-smashing-ft-matt-christman/

They get into the history of the Luddites, and what happens when people respond to automation forcing them out of work.

hope they talk about CAPTAIN SWING

and what happens when people respond to automation forcing them out of work.

can you tell me? it just happened to me and i need guidance.

Traditionally, they smashed the looms

Did NOT expect to see Laissze’s Faire namechecked in this one:

https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/texas-candidate-richard-wolf-memes-facebook-something-awful-chapo.html

I know he's technically dead to chapo now but hey brendan's stevie nicks cover is....not bad!

https://soundcloud.com/deepbeige/gypsy

re: Richard Wolf, comparing candidate answers here is a hoot

https://voterguide.dallasnews.com/2018-primary/races/40/#candidates=candidate-82,candidate-83