Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

seems like somebody has gone #corporate

― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Thursday, June 8, 2017 9:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously looking forward to these guys getting hired for corporate gigs, ted talks. Gotta embrace the orb

their post-uk-election euphoria on today's episode is fun

it's nice to hear them jubilant about...anything, really

mind you if i never hear them attempt an ulster accent ever again it'll be too soon

it's amazing to me that Matt can go off on these incredible & engaging monologues about leftism and existentialism, and then reverts to idiotic jokes about Tesco. it's just fucking 7/11 with a different name. whenever they do British accents or make fun of British stuff they sound like the typical and contemptible "LOL bacon" people that they love eviscerating themselves.

also I've started listening to Cum Town way more religiously than Chapo. realizing they're just incredibly insufferable nerds ~40% of the time.

tesco is not comparable to 7/11 mate

more like 9/11 amirite tesco shareholders

i mean, we could have a poll, Tesco vs. 7/11, but they're both just convenience stores. it was embarrassing hearing Matt ask Jonathan Shainin what Tesco was like, as if it were Oz or something. again, "LOL bacon" level humor.

tesco is a supermarket chain that has smaller branches called tesco metros. theses are definitely much more in the grocery store vein than 7/11s which are really corner stores and are for carbonated drinks, taquitos, freezies, cigarettes and scratch cards rather than like fruit and vegetables, things to make a meal from

ok so it's analogous to Wawa or Sheetz here in the States. last time I went to a Tesco was in Dublin a few months ago and it was an express one iirc. self-checkout and all that

Ya when I was in a state of total despair at UK politics it was oddly comforting that these dudes just saw it as a half legendary faerie island inhabited by victorian Cockney elves. Could get grating in differeNT circs

it struck me as the type of masturbatory nerd fantasy that they eviscerate other people for constantly. i'm surprised that Matt has never been to the UK.

Never visiting uk probably crucial to maintaining an interest in its culture politics and society tbh

Wait, he said he lived there for 6 months, didn't he?

He briefly mentions being in NI this episode.

it struck me as the type of masturbatory nerd fantasy that they eviscerate other people for constantly. i'm surprised that Matt has never been to the UK.

It's a running joke - not a funny one - how is that similar to the "Hillary is Dumbledore" shit they make fun of?

they're both not funny

it's amazing to me that Matt can go off on these incredible & engaging monologues about leftism and existentialism, and then reverts to idiotic jokes about Tesco. it's just fucking 7/11 with a different name. whenever they do British accents or make fun of British stuff they sound like the typical and contemptible "LOL bacon" people that they love eviscerating themselves.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, June 13, 2017 11:53 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^this

tho i was wondering about this -- a friend of mine who is also otherwise very thoughtful, makes fun of HP, is a chapo listener, etc, will occasionally go into "bad accent lord von swaddlebottom" type humor and it occurred to that if want to do some jokes about the UK (or the southern US or wherever) and part of doing the joke properly is getting the accent right, and you can't do that, then better to just go straight into cartoon comedy mode

"better" = easiest

as someone who has never been to the UK and may never go I find overblown comedy UK accents and names funny, obviously ymmv

i'll admit that as a kid this place was a consistent lol factory

https://goo.gl/maps/Tqyyc8HjHUB2

whenever i see a sign for clitheroe on the motorway i always think "CLIT HERO"

and jimmy clitheroe obv

OI MATES LISTEN TO THESE CHAPO WAPPOS INNIT MORE SPOTTED DICK

always happy to hear from Nagle, who has been hitting the 'cast circuit pretty hard. A friend picked up Kill all Normies, looking forward to getting my grubby paws on it.

Yeah, it's a good book. More SomethingAwful mentions in it than I would have expected, which on reflection isn't surprising.

sheesh, this GCC episode giving a high level view of the current state of Qatar/Saudi politics and how our current presidential administration is even less clued into reality than the average American is making me go O_O

I'll try to finish it up later, but it took a half hour to even mention how the US interacts and they haven't touched on al Jazeera yet and jeez

I confess I had a hard time following that.

these guys kind of suck and are not funny

I'm lazy and vox dot com explainers are horrible so I make do with chapo interviews ;_;

idk maybe they dont suck. but there is something very smug and self-congratulatory about them that is off-putting

they're nerds who finally got some people to like them

it's a bombastic speaking style but idk it sounds more like they're trying to be enigmatic ad&d dungeon masters than actually full of themselves

like a lot more drama club than debate club

I think they would freely admit/embrace that distinction.

Also this is a general purpose new left media thread now so counter-suggestions are encouraged

oddly enough, the venn diagram of drama and debate clubs has an overlap where Ted Cruz lives

r'lyeh?

yeah after i started listening to cum town my tolerance for Will and Felix in particular really plummeted, now i just find them obnoxious and unfunny. I still like the other three.

i just can't bear to listen to something called 'cum town' with a logo font of jizz, sorry

yeah it sucks... i label the ones i download "Mullen, Halkias, and Friedland" w/ pictures of a castle so it looks like a prog rock band. seriously if you like Chapo you'll probably like Cum Town, too. but if you hate Stern ymmv

I tried with CT but I just can't. Too aimless for me.

speaking of venn diagrams, I'm a fan of this one

https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18268656_10213093279586099_937333125103132937_n.jpg?oh=e08142d005df83f7299a9e28b2fa8e7d&oe=59CD4BAE

Can there be a podcast that is just Amber interviewing people? The guests on here are often interesting, and I've enjoyed Frost's writing for quite some time, but Felix, Matt, and the other one just seem like morons.

Clearly there is one group that is obviously too right-thinking to belong on any type of Venn diagram. A group of people who are so smart and ideologically pure that anyone who disagrees with them for any reason must be an incoherent, pedantic coward

Seriously, I agree with like 95% of what the chapo hosts say, but the smugness and sanctimony is staggering

otm and also they're nerds and nerds are generally insufferable and have fucked up speech patterns

Although I gotta repeat what I said upthread about Matt: he often goes in deep and is usually pretty insightful and passionate and well spoken. I got tired of Felix's limited comedic abilities and Will's smugness is suffocating. Matt has his moments of weird out of place dorkisms but he's imo the most consistently insightful one on the show.

Can there be a podcast that is just Amber interviewing people? The guests on here are often interesting, and I've enjoyed Frost's writing for quite some time, but Felix, Matt, and the other one just seem like morons.

Amber does have another podcast w/ Sam Kriss, linked upthread

Also for people who find the dry boys annoying, I recommend either Katie Halper's show or the new podcast by Josh Androsky. I like what I've heard of Street Fight but it is a little niche/local for me.