Actual laughter (not just the usual smirk of recognition) on my commute this morning as Felix extolled, at length, the virtues of the Krassensteins.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
I see them doing a bit of book promo: Will on Blogging Heads with a somewhat skeptical Robert Wright
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
Gonna try the audiobook (free via audible trial, obviously) and see how far I get
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
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/
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
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)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
PFT is a universally beloved internet figure who Barstool keeps around as a shield against the site's overall odiousness and worthlessness.
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
yeah, big cat seems like a horrible human
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
fuckit, i just came into a lil money, maybe ill just buy the damn book on lunch break
― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
this is easily their best interview
https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/chapo-trap-house-wellness-theories-interview.html
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
i didn't know what cordyceps were so i clicked/googled and now all of my ads are for cordyceps
― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
Today’s intro was the best since Brendan imitating all of them.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
well that confused me for a sec
― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
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.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
yeah they're propbably the most straightforwardly likeable, affable figures in all of nu-left-media-dom
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
― 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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
I thought so too
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
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
― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
pls say hi to felix for me :) love the pod
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
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).
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 23 August 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
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
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
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!
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
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
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:40 (five years ago) link
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
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 23 August 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
I've seen a few ex-chuds on there but ex-libs are much more common.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
the Harper's review is good and funny but I'd prefer to read reviews from haters
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
tons of teenagers & undergrads on the subreddit
― flappy bird, Friday, 24 August 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
On the Slate podcast: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2018/08/chapo_trap_house_s_virgil_texas_matt_christman_and_will_menaker_join_guest.html
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 24 August 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
The Verge has a profile of the wonderful Natalie Wynn (aka ContraPoints)
“I die laughing every time TheGoldenOne is included in your videos,” writes one commenter. That, indeed, is the point. And it’s bigger than just making a funny for its own sake.The strategy captures a dynamic noted by fellow LeftTuber, film critic Lindsay Ellis, in her analysis of the satire in Mel Brooks’ The Producers. She argues that aesthetics of the earnestly anti-Nazi film American History X are eagerly aped by actual neo-Nazis, but the uproariously campy rendition of Hitler’s Germany in The Producers is not. Real life Nazis are not, Ellis notes dryly, singing “Springtime for Hitler.” In the end, despite all the controversy about the film, it hit them where it hurt.Wynn’s strikes as ContraPoints are similarly surgical, and what parses as lighthearted jocularity or inexplicable sexual attraction at first quickly resolves into a virtual pantsing. It’s a prologue to an elegant crash course in the history of postmodernism and why Peterson’s obscurantism makes him difficult to argue with. Calling Jordan Peterson “daddy” and portraying him as a robot lovingly watching Wynn bathe doesn’t ennoble him; it erodes him. That was made clear when Peterson’s sole response to Wynn’s carefully argued video was a mere “no comment,” when he had thundered at and even threatened more earnest (less flirty) critics.
The strategy captures a dynamic noted by fellow LeftTuber, film critic Lindsay Ellis, in her analysis of the satire in Mel Brooks’ The Producers. She argues that aesthetics of the earnestly anti-Nazi film American History X are eagerly aped by actual neo-Nazis, but the uproariously campy rendition of Hitler’s Germany in The Producers is not. Real life Nazis are not, Ellis notes dryly, singing “Springtime for Hitler.” In the end, despite all the controversy about the film, it hit them where it hurt.
Wynn’s strikes as ContraPoints are similarly surgical, and what parses as lighthearted jocularity or inexplicable sexual attraction at first quickly resolves into a virtual pantsing. It’s a prologue to an elegant crash course in the history of postmodernism and why Peterson’s obscurantism makes him difficult to argue with. Calling Jordan Peterson “daddy” and portraying him as a robot lovingly watching Wynn bathe doesn’t ennoble him; it erodes him. That was made clear when Peterson’s sole response to Wynn’s carefully argued video was a mere “no comment,” when he had thundered at and even threatened more earnest (less flirty) critics.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/2018/8/24/17689090/contrapoints-youtube-natalie-wynn
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 24 August 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
contrapoints owns
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 August 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
Chapo: the Playboy Interview
https://www.playboy.com/read/chapo-trap-house
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 24 August 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
If the audiobook matches up performance to who wrote each part, Virgil is the best writer of the bunch by a long shot.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 24 August 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Matt’s not much of a writer, Will is more of an editor, Felix just riffs, and Brendan was an actual reporter.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 24 August 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
And together they became the
― President Keyes, Saturday, 25 August 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
funny I thought Virgil's chapters were generally the weakest, though the nadir is of course Matt's recycled Prestige TV chapter. they should really just not cover pop culture at all beyond bad conservative agitprop
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 25 August 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
i'm 100 pages in and the funniest section of the book so far are the illustrations & descriptions of Wine Mom, App-Hole, Liberal Hawk, etc. I'm assuming those were written by Felix, they sound like him.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 25 August 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
Felix and Virgil have a sense of timing, Matt and Will are very 'and then and then and then.'
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 25 August 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
I appreciated their extended plug for the prison strike in today's ep. Reminded me to donate.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
I can't believe you all are actually reading this
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:18 (five years ago) link
i'm reviewing it i have an excuse
― flappy bird, Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
can't knock the hustle
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 August 2018 05:16 (five years ago) link
I stole the audiobook and just treated it like another set of episodes
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 25 August 2018 07:32 (five years ago) link
Wait, did I just read a playboy link... for the article?
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 25 August 2018 07:49 (five years ago) link
bananaman...... welcome to the resistance
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 August 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
We at Chapo Trap House would like to extend our thoughts and prayers to the family of John McCain and offer them a coupon for 5% off the audiobook version of The Chapo Guide To Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason. It’s in Vietnamese though.— Chapo Trap House (@CHAPOTRAPHOUSE) August 24, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 August 2018 09:55 (five years ago) link
The offer has expired.— Chapo Trap House (@CHAPOTRAPHOUSE) August 26, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 26 August 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/chapo-trap-house-plumbs-the-most-perverse-possible-outcome-of-trumps-presidency/
The reality is that the voting base that horrifies them so is really a small percentage of people who have been empowered by the alienation of the majority, and of course by gerrymandering and voter suppression. The solution to those problems is a genuine left-wing political movement that liberals simply aren’t comfortable with. So instead they favor a managed, bureaucratic form of democracy.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 27 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
that's a good interview
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 02:03 (five years ago) link
yeah, I'd recommend that to anyone who is inclined to think they're just contrarian airheads or whatever. I don't even think the US Politics thread would find much to disagree with in his analysis there.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link