Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

Nostalgia Trap has some good episodes
General Intellect Unit
The Joe Rogan Experience

bret easton ellis podcast is p good for film discussion, repetitive hysterical Hollywood liberals rant, great interviewer (when he has a good guest)

If you don't mind solo podcasts, Champagne Sharks is good. Struggle Session has its moments. I keep meaning to check out Season of the B.

The Joe Rogan Experience

*spit-take*

lmao

https://i.imgur.com/x3thKLY.png

loool

hahahahahaha amazing

The Hope Never Dies author is in town for a book reading at Powells this week, too

MH, if you’d like pod recs, try these:

Trashfuture (UK)
Boonta Vista (Aus)
Michael & Us (Can)
Swampside Chats (from the Communist league of Tampa)
Zero Squared (from Zero Books)
Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person (slight bias for this one)
Little Beruit
Aufhebunga Bunga (UK)
Dead Pundits Society
HellaBlack Podcast
This is Hell!
Against Everyone with Conner Habib
Against the Grain (from KPFA)
Pod Damn America
Current Affairs
The Michael Brooks Show
Too Long 4 Twitter
Beast Coast
Left Coast
49th Parahell (Can)
The Discourse, with BJ Sutton

Oops, that was directed at man alive, not mh

I’m gonna stick to american public media’s “marketplace”, thanks

Eww

Cool list, kingfish. I really like the Michael Brooks Show. Lots of discussion of African and South American politics. the Chapo guys show up on there often.

god the QAnon segment with Will Sommer was dizzying in its descriptions of cascading stupidity

Yeah reading about conspiracy theories self-destructing/spiraling out of control like that makes me alternate between despair and relief.

More Qanon/Patriot Prayer coverage with Jared Holt here,who was mentioned in the ep:

http://49thparahell.libsyn.com/episode-seven-holt-the-phone-with-jared-holt

Nice: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-interview-with-parquet-courts-a-savage

I find it funny how unobjectionable the Vice interview was. Like, almost anyone on Rolling Politics would have given similar answers (except maybe on the Mueller stuff). They've gone soft already!

I couldn't really get into the Parquet Courts interview, felt like reading a Spin or Voice article from the late 90s. Did it get more interesting as it went on?

not really. their efforts to branch out into sports/music/etc episodes generally bore me though

Sort of reminded me of the value of actually good and well-listened music writers because I really felt like they were fumbling around trying to sound intelligent while talking about the whole death of rock/rock revival thing, which had SO much written about it at the time.

I dug it because I _was_ a budding rockcrit/writer back then.

Also, the bits about how we’ve replaced a language of aesthetics with one of moralism

Actual laughter (not just the usual smirk of recognition) on my commute this morning as Felix extolled, at length, the virtues of the Krassensteins.

I see them doing a bit of book promo: Will on Blogging Heads with a somewhat skeptical Robert Wright

Gonna try the audiobook (free via audible trial, obviously) and see how far I get

not really. their efforts to branch out into sports/music/etc episodes generally bore me though

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, August 20, 2018 12:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm still kinda surprised more ppl on this thread weren't mad they had PFT Commentor on but i guess just chalk it up to not knowing enough about Barstool & their past toxic misogyny stuff...

https://people.com/sports/espn-host-sam-ponder-slams-barstool-sports-sexist-essay-calling-her-slut/

I've seen it brought up, including on the subreddit. I assume not much was made of it cause no one had an issue with PFT himself (that I know of)

PFT is a universally beloved internet figure who Barstool keeps around as a shield against the site's overall odiousness and worthlessness.

yeah, big cat seems like a horrible human

fuckit, i just came into a lil money, maybe ill just buy the damn book on lunch break

Actual laughter (not just the usual smirk of recognition) on my commute this morning as Felix extolled, at length, the virtues of the Krassensteins.

this is easily their best interview

https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/chapo-trap-house-wellness-theories-interview.html

i didn't know what cordyceps were so i clicked/googled and now all of my ads are for cordyceps

Today’s intro was the best since Brendan imitating all of them.

v good ep

Street Fight started playing automatically after, from 6 days ago, Will M as guest. Really enjoying it - never checked out Street Fight but I like this guy a lot.

well that confused me for a sec

Street Fight is good, couple of anarchist stoner dads. They put out a lot of episodes so I don’t try to keep up and just listen to the latest episode whenever I have time.

yeah they're propbably the most straightforwardly likeable, affable figures in all of nu-left-media-dom

well that confused me for a sec

― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, August 21, 2018 2:54 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shortly after Simon started this thread last year, your comment upthread ("hi guys") confused me and I actually thought you were Will Menaker for a sec.

I thought so too

hahaha i will state for the record that i'm not will menaker, although i am also a soft mid-30s bearded white leftist who is underratedly funny (srsly yall not excelsiing me enough) and knows what cordyceps are, so i can see why yall are confused even w/ the name

ftr my actual podcast doppelganger is travis mcelroy

pls say hi to felix for me :) love the pod

Audio quality on the audiobook is worse than the podcast (at least for Will and Matt, who sound like their mics were tin cans attached to string, haven't gotten to Felix or Virgil yet).

I liked the first and last sections (on the broader world and work/labor) most. The middle was too heavy on well-trod material from the 'pod, with the culture section as easily the weakest. I don't really know who that stuff is intended for. I'm looking forward to reading some very confused/bewildered/bored reviews though

I just read the intro and yeah I have no idea who this book is for. It’s like Ulysses for internet ephemera.

Like imagine getting probably a pretty healthy book deal for something that’s guaranteed national press and using it to do gags about inscrutable two year old Weird Twitter in-joke “the Beer Nerd.”

When I did my joke dog book they made me take out a reference to Calvin Johnston because it was too obscure!

Fun thread:

Popular Democrat: "White genocide is real and it's extremely good" #VerifiedHate pic.twitter.com/ncLwOvsLea

— Blue Check Watch (@meme_america) August 22, 2018

the clientele on their subreddit all seem pretty young, like lots of 18 year olds talking about how they used to be ‘chuds like two years ago’. i imagine there’s a market for this we don’t fully understand

I've seen a few ex-chuds on there but ex-libs are much more common.

the Harper's review is good and funny but I'd prefer to read reviews from haters

tons of teenagers & undergrads on the subreddit