Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

the new premium episode sounds great, but yeah i saw that pic & wanted to scream at the screen BUY SOME HEADPHONES

guys bear with me but i think the sitting around with mics and not treating it like a serious show is...part of their thing idk

they gotta have the right vibe maaaan

i don't care as long as the episodes sound as good as the one today, and as long as they don't lose another episode because of a fucking cat

The Heidecker ep was pretty weak imo, otm about it just turning into an hour of making fun of trump (except for the Shapiro stuff which is always good). Ironically it's Matt of all of them who falls most into the trap of "OMG he's so dumb!" which makes him sound like the average liberal on facebook.

https://www.amazon.com/Gorilla-Mindset-Control-Thoughts-Emotions-ebook/dp/B0100Q4S7E

After hearing all the Cernovich/Gorilla Mindset references I really wish they'd do a reading series. I can't bring myself to read it but I want to know what's inside.

I dunno, the dude's twitter is bad enough:

https://twitter.com/cernovich/

Whoa, afternoon premium show

sweet double header

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-82-war-is-heck-feat-pisspiggranddad-21317

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-81-the-devil-in-mother-jones-feat-shane-bauer-21217

"does the tank have an aux cord?"
"yes"

the pisspiggranddad interview was interesting but it was pretty weird how they didn't seem interested in following up on his 'lol we don't have child soldiers as long as you don't think 14-year-olds are children' comment

I'm having a hard time with the ppg interview - maybe I'm not ironic enough but the interesting topics are getting buried in Metal Gear jokes and lulz.

yeah, they aren't very good at interviews.

I'm starting to get a bit annoyed with the attention these dudes get. Even in relation to other podcasters, like Michael Brooks, the sidekick on the Majority Report, is ten funnier and smarter than these guys put together. Listening to them is like the taste of Mountain Dew on your tongue for an hour.

Well, that's the stylistic difference, isn't it? Majority Report is Sam Seder's show, so it would come down to how much you dig Adam Seder's stuff.

Adam Sam Seder

Sure. Hes got his own show too. But yeah I like Seder a fiction more than the Chapos

Phone corrected fuckton to fiction

I liked the PPG episode but generally I value the dumb joeks more than the sociopolitical import

i'm just going to assume that they did an episode about the power puff girls

re: quality of interviews, they vary wildly. the Adam Curtis and Ricky Rawls eps were good. generally I prefer them to stick to journos.

Sure. Hes got his own show too. But yeah I like Seder a fiction more than the Chapos

And there you go. These guys are just getting a lot of attention because they're both serving a function and offering seen as new and different to a lot of people. Similar to how Air America(incl Sam's show) got plenty of focus when they started broadcasting.

Offering something seen as new and different, I should say

the hour-of-Mountain-Dew comparison is where I'm at too. these guys are just so deeply jaundiced about everything that it starts to drag on my soul listening to them for too long. I followed them on Twitter and then immediately unfollowed the most exhausting guy (I think Will?) and honestly I'm probably gonna cut the cord with the whole outfit before too long.

Scahill's Intercepted is much better at interviews

re: quality of interviews, they vary wildly. the Adam Curtis and Ricky Rawls eps were good.

true. i dug the one with Matthew Karp a lot. been meaning to pick up his book.

We'll, this interview was depressing.

We'll well

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-LST28hghCs/TPGverGCZ0I/AAAAAAAAA24/FaonZx0mhZ8/s1600/get%2Bloose%2B2.JPG

PPG's band

which brings us back to DOE DOE DOE DOE

i wonder if the whole 'laughing at dads in family court' thing is kind of misguided and not a good look idk

A lot of the interviews have been good, I think the problem was probably the guest this time.

Matt doing an AmA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/5v6fiy/hello_reddit_i_am_cushbomb_ask_me_anything/

https://m.soundcloud.com/user-253233419/whale-vomit-episode-1-they-built-the-fjords

Amber and Sam Kriss have a show now. Sam sounds like he's recording from a small closet.

huh

last few Chapos have been really solid, Angela Nagle in particular was great

xp- can't imagine something i wannna listen to less lol

Latest Patreon episode is great.

Zeeeeeero interest in any Sam Kriss prodcast.

yeah I tried with it and the sound quality + total lack of structure or theme wore me out.

amber is my least favourite of the hosts, sam kriss is my least favourite guest

yeah agree that the last one was really good. not to bring up stern again but like that show they are at their best when they are cracking each other up (i know this wears thin for other people but i find it infectious).

it's interesting to watch them evolve and learn a difficult medium as they go. they are essentially talented amateurs, so i'm ok with shows being really uneven.

I love Sam Kriss but having him on a podcast with someone trying to agree with him is a terrible dynamic, he's at his best skirting this very precise edge of "my take is bad but bad takes are actually good and important", this was totally unlistenable.

saw True Stories last night and realized Virgil got his name from the town the movie is set in.

StreetFightRadio/Chapo coverage in the Pittsburgh alt-weekly for the upcoming live show:

http://m.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/columbus-ohio-based-podcast-street-fight-radio-brings-its-leftist-comedy-and-the-chapo-trap-house-podcast-to-spirit/Content?oid=2320807

Is Street Fight Radio any good? I keep meaning to try them out but haven't gotten round to it yet.

Two stay-at-home dads/stand-ups from Columbus. Pretty jocular and open and easygoing on the air.

I listen to Street Fight from time to time. The guys are very likeable but the show drags sometimes. I usually listen to my Chapo, Cum Town and The Dig with Daniel Denvir eps first, then it's a toss-up btw Katie Halper show, Street Fight and Delete Your Account depending on guests.

Also Doug Henwood if there's a new one is somewhere in the upper range of the hierarchy.

FWIW one of them is not fully a stay-home dad bc he drives for Lyft.

Latest premium Chapo was p good but I hate when a show has a guest and then doesn't utilize the guest. You can't assume they'll just vibe, you have to do something to get them involved. He said like three things the whole show.

Yeah, it was a disappointing underuse of a guest. 40 minutes of Garfield talk and Caleb took up the entire time

agreed but the garfield shit is funny as fuck imo

latest episode rules, it's a "clip show," and not only do they acknowledge the shit sound quality, but also Will's fucked up mispronunciation of words - he pronounces "zine" phonetically instead of "zeen" and everyone piles on. thank god. Matt as Walther howling in the void is amazing, and reminds me of whenever Howard Stern puts tons of reverb on his mic and sings In the Court of the Crimson King.