Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

Not a single Bull Durham joke, disappointing.

lol I had the same thought re Tim Robbins (in fact I thought "Oh wait, is that one of those repeat past guests?" probably conflating Tim Faust and some other guy in my mind)

could not get through the Tim Robbins intvw tbh

Haven't listened yet but I imagine him to be one of those guests who kind of doesn't *get* the podcast and acts like he's on Terry Gross

yeah not far off

he knows he's with leftists, and laughs at some of the jokes, but his tone doesn't match the show as much as some other actors who have appeared

The way he describes this Bobbo thing is the sort of deal they’d make fun of any other time, but it’s not very awkward except when he doesn’t believe their appreciation of “Mission to Mars.”

for half a sec I thought it was the I Think You Should Leave guy and was pretty excited

Da Bears

book looks fun & interesting. I remember in the earlier internet days, chained to my desk and being amused and curious about this nascent NH “free state project”. Luckily I was safely past my college libertarian phase and it didn’t go beyond point and lol

Matt’s Trump impression actually manages to get even worse over time. Someone please ban it.

Too much Amber in the Sorkin ep

MILO SHE READ THE TRANSCRIPTS!!

She's intolerable, just constantly cutting off everyone

Also, I'm a Felix fan but if you were too lazy to watch a movie for a podcast just dip out of the episode instead of trying to drop random jokes that don't land

I watched a few minutes of the West Wing Thing Reunion Thing - Dave Anthony looks nothing like what I expected and Josh Olson looks 20 years younger than I would have guessed. He's got old guy voice.

Olson seems like an absolute delight and a mensch. I've been listening to WWT during Covid and they get a surprising amount of mileage out of their righteous lefty anger vs smug Sorkin brain. really love how the intent at the outset was to just dunk on the politics, agreeing that the writing & performances were above reproach.,, but pretty quickly into the project degenerates into shock & dismay how painfully shitty the writing actually is once Sorkin's bag of tricks lose their novelty.

Also, I'm a Felix fan but if you were too lazy to watch a movie for a podcast just dip out of the episode instead of trying to drop random jokes that don't land

this is exactly how i felt, maybe he needs to take a lil sabbatical (and do episode 1 for a few months to cleanse his palate) (but also mostly because he's great on e1)

Aren't they all on sabbatical? Seems like the regular feed and Patreon/Black Wolf feed combined are averaging 1/week for the last couple of months.

Which is too bad, because one of the recent ones pointed to a Biden Presidency and getting to shit talk Democrats in power might revitalize the show a bit.

they're still doing an ep every 4 days or so. whether I actually listen depends largely on subject matter + lineup

latest qanon anonymous, infiltrating and recording their conference, is amazing

btw i don't know maybe ppl know this already but found this site, easier than the reddit for black wolf

https://www.bullhorn.fm/blackwolffeedchapopremiumfeedb

Will’s dad died

aw, fuck.

he seemed like a cool guy tbh

so sad, yeah he did seem cool and they had a really enviable relationship from what i could tell

also the FBI definitely had/have a file on him which we should all aspire to imo

(apparently I got my Robert Menakers confused and was thinking of his pop there.)

Will's father was Daniel.

man I would find True Anon a lot more listenable if Brace and Liz could tell/explain a story in an even semi-coherent way. this Hunter episode is all over the place.

Robert was Will's grandfather

didn't occur to me til now that there's a decent chance I read a Daniel Menaker piece in the NYer at some point, curious to go back through them and see if any ring a bell

one of my many distractions lined up for today: enjoying felix's halloween twitter posting (mostly for the replies)

I like Bernie and supported him but we need to hold him accountable https://t.co/0mgTpgBvw7

— condom taste tester (@ByYourLogic) October 31, 2020

He absolutely nailed the voice on those.

Voting isn’t the only thing.

Hell

it’s barely a thing

but it’s part of a large repertoire of giving a damn

that’s it. that’s the tweet

— condom taste tester (@ByYourLogic) October 29, 2020

matt's post-election vlog is really something

https://youtu.be/w9mYPUzI0eQ

Yeah pretty amazing

they had james austin johnson who does that incredible trump impression on their election night stream, it was amazing to hear him do it in real time. he is a master

https://youtu.be/bauPFoY2F1Q?t=13741

Belden Christman 2024

the sweatiest ticket of all time

yeah this mf is indeed spittin

Excellent point by Matt on new show that Trump should host a late night show.

I hope Matt refuses forever to improve quality beyond vaseline smeared miniDV camcorder.

alternately, that he goes full breadtube with graphics and 25 hours a week devoted to editing and Final Cut Pro filters

With the Haymarket episode, I think the radicalization of Gareth and Dave on The Dollop is complete

Gotta confess I found that show less enjoyable when it became less about weird shysters and more about uh massacring strikers

they were really very much in their zone on the post-election premium. As they openly acknowledged, a Biden presidency is going to be much better for the show.

nice peek into “Mothership”, the firm who gave us the sweaty shrieking borderline creepy fundraising emails for Harrison, Ossoff et al. libs and MAGA rubes, we’re not so different (in the eye of the grifter)

The goldendoodle CJ Craig detail was just god laughing at us

sometimes I think the “satire is dead” people are being a little extra, but then

it was nice to have them describe the peculiar sense of alienation of feeling ambivalent about the results even amidst the celebrations, while not begrudging people their joy, because it made me feel slightly less weird about having a similar experience