Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

I was recently thinking of how impossible it would be to keep up with all the content if you listening to all 12-15 hours a week of the Majority Report, as well as the shows from its hosts current and former (Michael Brooks Show, Literary Hangover, Ring of Fire, Doomed!, the Antifada) and its regular guest hosts (Bex Dixon, Pareene, Brendan Sutton, Nomiki, Virgil Texas)

luckily I find the Antifada hosts too annoying to even want to keep up with it aside from Matt's history-focused guest eps

yeah i tried listening to it and it was basically like a bunch of high school kids saying, "Well we're COMMUNISTS"

I really enjoy liz's vocal fry but found true anon too obnoxious. I've listened to a couple other North American leftist podcasts here or there but nothing has ever stuck

Matt and Virgil on the politics of the Simpsons, for kicks

https://talkingsimpsons.libsyn.com/the-simpsons-politics-special-with-virgil-texas-and-matt-christman

Brett and Bryan from Street Fight are still the best of the pod-leftists but the shows aren’t focused enough for me to listen to regularly. Similarly, Sam Seder’s show is too much like listening to terrestrial radio but lefty.

Srsly Wrong is my favorite. Very smart, funny, and empathetic explorations of different concepts with a particular focus on libertarian socialism. They're funny without doing the whole "dirtbag thing". Not that I mind dirtbag stuff either.

The Matt Who Laughs

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡FULL JOKERFICATION ACHIEVED🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/bm6aN83jIH

— jokerfied_cushbomb (@cushbomb) March 12, 2020

Blowback has H Jon Benjamin and James Adomian, Stitcher Premium paying for the big voice guns

HERE WE GO: Free sampler ep of my and @nkulw’s new show Blowback, about the Iraq War.

feat. @HJBenjamin & @JAdomian

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— Brendan James (@deep_beige) March 17, 2020

started listening to the beltway garage but was kind of like not in the mood for their shit right now

Virgil + Matt wonk episode is a hard pass in the best of times

Episode 2 of Episode 1: Joe Biden is out and it's like having your brain beaten with a sack of doorknobs

in a good way

though every once in a while i realize he's going to be the Dem nominee and gulp

Twitch chatting with Will, Kath, Chris, and Matt. Matt brings on his old adorable pug who’s in pugjamas.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/574815027

as i wait for the next ALAB (lol) i have to ask if the pareene pod ("politics of everything") is any good

i wonder how it could be

do you think anyone discussed on this thread is good mordy?

(not that ive listened to any of the rest of it myself)

Pareene's podcast has one near-insurmountable hurdle to clear, which is that all podcasts are terrible

maybe if yr a GOTH they are

If the Dr Martens fit, etc

rise of the gothbag left

Etsy is on the case

https://www.etsy.com/market/goth_bag

talia levin's moby dick podcast is def gothbag left

The Pareene podcast is officially a New Republic podcast, so it’s a little more segment-y and professional

I do not fucking do podcasts but was thinking of giving this a listen and then I just saw this.

omg the podcast is already too powerful pic.twitter.com/a69fwVEbyq

— Alex Press (@alexnpress) March 26, 2020

the pareene one was ok, most of it was a very factual interview with an experts on pandemics and US health politics, with a brief and to me not interesting appearance from commentator-comedian walter shapiro talking abt biden

xp same but I’d subscribe to this

Petition for big John to start an onlyfans where he reads classic books of the working class from his living room ❤️

— Chaka Deanus (@Nondomjovi) March 26, 2020

Amber is way into the "ironic" race science

Oh good.

Yo can somebody just give me a quick definition of “jokerfied”? IDGAF about comic book culture but I started listening to CTH about 3 months ago and they won’t stop using this term. I feel like I should know what they’re on about and it’s driving me nuts.

It's like when you realize you're the villain and you lean into it kinda? Like when Arthur kinda fully becomes the joker in joker (spoilers)

interested in Blowback but not interested enough to subscribe to Stitcher, I assume I can wait it out until it's on non-Chris Hardwick shit eventually right?

I read "jokerfied" as basically a more flamboyant version of being "blackpilled", which is to say, the current state of our world and our politics has driven you to theatrical nihilism.

@whiney: it's being posted on the blackwolffeed subreddit.

would rather opt for patience than piracy

Blowback seems a little too much for people who were 12 in 2003

I mean I figured it was more or less synonymous with “blackpilled” but for the professional class, like

Whoops, posted too soon

...like a kind of institutionalized kool-aid nihilism, but they apply the term so broadly that I thought there might be more to it

opening segment really not great but the interview with the nurse was good and infuriating, and I actually learned a few things (ie the physical impact of the respirators on the human body)

what’s up with virgil? hasn’t been on the show in aged and hasn’t even tweeted for over a week

any studies on what COVID does to IBS?

Virgil's working on creating an automatic Whip-It machine that can keep him sedated until this is all over.

I bet Virgil wouldn't quit vaping

i’m on the new @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE episode talking about the connections between Hollywood sicko George Lucas’s ATTACK OF THE CLONES and its connections to the DNC’s child grooming and secret assassination programs

(and Star Wars Expanded Universe lore) pic.twitter.com/VSj5LYnxx7

— hayley (@hayleyglyphs) April 3, 2020

I've been half tuned out for the last lil bit but this...I will listen to

idg Tim Heidecker

ok the My Pillow episode was pretty entertaining

very happy the rest of the nation is getting to know a great all time Minnesota weirdo

lol Red Scare X Steve Bannon

wow I'm shocked. look at me over here, making my shocked face