Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

English needs accent marks

I still maintain that Virgil is the worst Chapo, he's constantly killing good riffs with overly earnest "actually, I disagree" moments

I've done a 180 on that opinion

seeing them live, he's more of a quiet moderating influence and kind of pushes things back on track as necessary

Virgil is best when balanced by Felix.

like on the carl diggler podcast!

oh this should be fun

And Introducing
#58 "9/11 IN MUSIC!" (ft. Matt Christman)

https://soundcloud.com/and-intro-pod/58-911-in-music-ft-matt-christman

i like 'and introducing' quite a bit

"SoundCloud rap" with Felix was fun. I haven't heard many others. "Meet Me In the Bathroom" book one was funny for just how cool they find all those guys. what else is good?

that episode of and introducing is great, thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qghXZ7apzhA

I’d completely forgotten this limp bizkit music video connection and hooooboy

Matt being a Cake superfan is unsurprising.

will is a Fall fan 😁

Been enjoying Trillbilly Workers Party a lot, and the latest covered Tarence's new piece for the baffler on the grift of appalachian revitalization. Haven't read the piece yet but it's here

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/hollowed-out-ray

I dont think I ever mentioned how endearing it is on Street Fight that they just rip bongs throughout lol

I love that the Chapo subreddit is now just an unofficial Trillbillies subreddit. (I became a patron a few weeks back.)

Michael Brooks (and to a lesser extent, the Majority Report) has p much replaced Chapo for me. none of the insufferable nerdiness, seems more knowledgeable, they're funny/not self-serious, and they're really good broadcasters and speakers, Brooks in particular.

yeah, I also prefer Brooks/MR to Chapo. I've never understood the lack of interest around here. I guess people find Sam Seder annoying.

the new premium ep is extremely my shit.

the trump era has made most of these evangelical freakshows from my youth still hanging on seem kinda quaint but man when the these profoundly venal strains of American conservatism combine like a dumb horny voltron... 😙👌

I watched all the episodes of The Righteous Gemstones that have aired so far before finishing that podcast episode and... it's good

I went to a southern baptist elementary school from k-8 that used text books printed by this crew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeka and I'm surpised I came out of the experience in one piece.

Brooks is good (and I actually like the background people they have on there quite a bit ), and I tend to like the guests. I'm more ensconced in youtube world than podcast world though

Matt Lech's podcast is good too (Literary Hangover)

On a related note, we talked to Jake Flores and Sara June of Pod Damn America/MeansTV fame(?) about podcasting as not organizing, that dang Joker movie, and the problem or relying on media to try to re-engineer the world

https://m.soundcloud.com/givingthemic/57-propaganda-is-good-ft-sara-june-jake-flores

for real the last 15 minutes of "the righteous falwells" with them riffing on American-style Protestantism and the McBride/ Hill trilogy should be taught in every political “science” and religion class in America.

between JFK and EWS they're the ilx film club lately

Wouldn't surprise me at all if Will or Matt spent a week or two as an ILX poster in the Bush years.

felix posted on goon thread in 2009

wait for real?

I could def see Will and Chris posting and/ or lurking on ilm

honestly Amber too

between JFK and EWS they're the ilx film club lately

Which one is gabneb?

Chris’s music podcast is a very easy listen though a little overlong and I’m never going to care as much as him about the early-2000s NYC music scene. Tweeted at him recently and was happy to learn they’re planning to do an episode on Playing The Bass With Three Left Hands

Virgil is gabbneb

always suspected gabbneb was an elaborate bit

gabbneb interviewed Bernie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-oR59o7Pk&feature=youtu.be

daddy's home

Virgil wonk Canada episode, not good

And Introducing... The Fall w/ Will, better

i read a longish wonky healthcare thing by virgil once and it was not good

I heard the Canada ep but there wasn't that much virgil? The @getfiscal bit at beginning was by far the best of the ep

Yeah, almost rendered the rest of the ep redundant

I tuned out halfway through because Virgil was talking seriously about Trudeau so much, maybe it got funny again in the last half.

An update on the socialist truck driver running for congress who basically launched hid campaign on the subreddit. Pretty damn impressive imo

joker ep was pretty good - matt’s reading of the movie was the first thing that actually made it sound interesting to me

One of their best episodes. Critics are "pushing the culture button because the power button is broken". Did Matt come up with that?

The part about people looking at Matt laughing in the theater... yeah I probably would have left.

pretty sure drunk matt came up with it and yeah it is a very neat little phrase

weird how much more i enjoy nick mullen when he doesn’t have his cumtown persona on

Great ep

I could tell I would probably feel most like Felix about the movie and probably won't go see it as a result.