Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

She literally had to redirect the conversation *herself* multiple times to stuff they had specifically just asked her to talk about

Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests

mansplain alive

I mean yeah, very much so in this past episode -- you have a guest who both worked in tech AND is an activist in SF housing, we really don't need to hear YOUR take on these subject based on the fact that you visited facebook once and read some articles

Yeah, Shanti is great.

The riffing gets annoying(sometimes Matt, usually Felix) and they’d do better to tamp down on the morning zoo tendencies when actually having a guest on who knows her shit.

I’m seeing their live show on Sunday, so we’ll see how that goes.

Live show was good. Extended riffing on K Williamson.

Impromptu AMA time to make up for the local of episode:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/895ovk/an_impromptu_ama_with_the_hosts_of_chapo_trap/

"Jeff Fuck" is the funniest running gag and has made me laugh randomly at least a dozen times in the last week lmao

new ep is up, i enjoyed it. east coast tour in august

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-198-asked-answered-4318

And drew their animal people character personas according to the descriptions of their answers! pic.twitter.com/gwMoH41ABb

— kunsypt (@kunsypt) April 4, 2018

Virgil seems to be much more assertive and generally a presence in the recent, west coast editions. Does being out of Brooklyn help? Maybe its having the chance to catch up with his mom Alexis.

Matt V Brady's Ready Player One review was worth my $5 this month.

the rockabilly player one riff was v good

that was one of their best in a while, surprisingly, though it got a bit wearying near the end

And each of em got reeeeeeaaaal schticky at parts

There's such a wealth of stuff dunking on RP1 now, I'm not exactly complaining but it's a bit exhausting.

Shout-out to IDEOATV for being ahead of the curve on it.

Red Scare is really good

Not a fan of the Kurt Eichenwald bit (even w/ Adomian), he's really too pathetic to be funny

The only time I really get heated about Chapo Trap House is when Amber rags on the Alamo Drafthouse!

I think their food is really good >:(

The one in SF has terrible food

I hate theaters with food on principle but Alamo is the least bad of the lot.

When the first Studio Movie Grill opened up here, the seats were shitty office chairs.

Not even good Hermann Miller shit, the $19 cubicle farm special

I thought that Ready Player One show was great. Also really enjoyed Amber's "Klassic Krusty" quip.

Good thread on their (pretty icky tbh) abortion discussion from the last ep, one of the few times I missed Amber

“Abortion, technically, still is the red line.”

I’ve yelled about how leftist men are completely incapable of effectively contemplating or discussing the politics surrounding abortion but this segment of Chapo was a train wreck that is illustrative of what I’ve been saying.

— the arizona rose (@oppenfailer) April 10, 2018

yeah I couldn't believe how wishy washy they were

Lately I'm just finding them harder to listen to in general, but I have spent nearly 200 hours of my life with them -- more than some people I consider friends. So it's not totally surprising. I feel sort of like their grand point (an important one) has been made very effectively and they're just rehashing it while acting as the sort of gossip podcast for the world of second-tier centrist political media figures and the extremely-online contingent.

I feel sort of like their grand point (an important one) has been made very effectively and they're just rehashing it while acting as the sort of gossip podcast for the world of second-tier centrist political media figures and the extremely-online contingent.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 10:15 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree with this. my patreon subscription stopped working because the credit card it was on is maxed out and i didn't bother to rectify the situation. gone from a must-listen twice a week on the day of release to an occasional listen

Plus there's always the black wolf subreddit in case a particularly tempting one comes up.

oh good to know (i knew the premium content was easy to find but didn't know where - I've never visited the site reddit iirc)

re: that thread, there are some leaps

Like:

There are individual democrats who deeply believe in Roe v. Wade and want to protect it but to think that there’s something natural in a liberal ideology that requires abortion as an issue is just ignorant. It’s 100% negotiable for the center left.

— the arizona rose (@oppenfailer) April 10, 2018

doesn't contradict Matt's line about being pro-choice - that they're so weak ideologically makes them susceptible to finding compromise and wiggle room. She's also conflating "Democrat" and "liberal" in those posts - the Democratic party line is that you "don't have to be pro-choice" but that's because Pelosi and Schumer still want to sell the idea of a Blue Dog contingent and a big tent with centrists and etc..

Virgil’s out making new friends again

Please pray for Barbara Bush, who is currently in critical condition after attempting to give birth to a goblin.

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) April 15, 2018

The goblin is currently in stable condition and will be elected Texas Railroad Commissioner in 2044.

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) April 15, 2018

i want an episode of amber and ernest talking about moving

we need to hear from ernest

FWIW my impression is that there is a pretty strong divide among the center-left over whether abortion is an absolute redline or not. There are definitely otherwise center-ish democrats, especially but not exclusively women, who think the party should never back a non-pro-choice candidate.

So I think "it's 100% negotiable for the center left" is kind of a simplification. There are many centrists for whom it is non-negotiable.

A majority, I think! What a crock of shit to claim that anti-choice has a place in the mainstream of the democratic party. Scum like Lipinski are rightfully on the margins, and widely reviled

I don't even know why (because it was business as usual) but I found their segment on Syria pretty repellent. I think I'm out on these jr. high dipshits.

what did you find repellent about it? I found it more inoffensive and unfocused.

Although the Power/Slaughter takes were pretty hilarious in a dark sort of way

Would really love to know how and why you guys listened to a 90 minute podcast that dropped right before midnight last night

Um, it's called a morning commute? We have jobs.

just all the sneering "Macron is my boyfriend" and "America needs to go down" shit. It's not that I even disagree with anything, just they seem unable to rise above their twitter beefs to talk about anything serious. It's like trying to talk about health care with someone who just wants to talk about how their personal doctor is a nerd.

I had a long post-ice-storm commute this morning.

Idk what y'all expected from the Syria segment but "unfocused" is fair. Both interview segments were stronger. xps

Midnight was ten 1/2 hours ago. Catch up, man.

american does need to go down tbf

some do

lmao autocorrect

anyway yeah idk man that's the podcast they make, I'm sure there are Serious Lefty Foreign Policy Podcasts but CTH has virtually never been one of them except in the interminable Felix one-off/solo interview episodes

It's not that I even disagree with anything, just they seem unable to rise above their twitter beefs to talk about anything serious.

Always assumed this was the m.o.? It's a comedy podcast. The guests regularly talk about serious stuff tho.

xpost what Simon said

yeah, if you want serious analysis, listen to (the excellent) citations needed - while chapo does touch on that sometimes, it's usually only with guests who can help focus the discussion

the syria segment was pretty terrible but in fairness i dunno what else they could say about it - the situation is super fucked-up, there is no clear right solution, but performative bombing def seems like a wrong answer

yeah man, i understand that they attempt to be funny. however they often fail.