Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

Pretty sure the podcast is going to be dedicated to talking shit about Warren for the next 4 years

oh they get class consciousness alright

Like 4 million Americans are gonna die from CoronaVirus and people are lining up today to make sure people can’t afford vaccines

Warren has a plan to turn the houses of old coronavirus victims into gif trauma shelters

just now catching a sense that this show has more or less peaked in terms of cultural relevance.

Media mentions, sure. Cultural relevance? Debatable.

their patreon subs keep rising.

https://graphtreon.com/creator/chapotraphouse

?? says it's down 100k and 20k patrons compared to Oct 2019 unless I'm reading that wrong

nevermind, the All tab is weird for some reason

either way that's nuts

hey comrades, how many millions of $ were we supposed to give to wealthy white brooklynites before we start saving all the marginalized and at risk ppl again? i forgot..

as if I have ever subscribed to this patreon

Don't look at me, I steal it

I hear it when my gf listens to it and she sure as hell isn't paying for it

maybe it's just all the live shows lately, them tying the show so closely to Bernie's political fortunes, and just the growing sense that some kinda *moment* is currently unfolding that's gonna create a new before and after...but I find myself a little exhausted with them and I'm projecting that outward. then again maybe a Biden nomination will re-invigorate their sense of purpose.

Though also that's kind of a bullshit line, it's five bucks a month and they routinely signal boost worthy causes to donate to and/or they just straight up fundraise for xps

from a $ pov I feel like biden getting the nom and then losing to trump is the best thing that could happen to them

they will be unbearably butthurt when Bernie doesn't win the nom tho obv

Also unlike most other pods they have no upper tiers w silly rewards

If they ever took action against the black wolf feed I would def stop listening tho

pretty sure they've said they don't care abt the black wolf feed?

lol @ thraeds upmiss

Ben Dixon got a tenfold increase in podcast patrons after he dropped that Bloomberg clip on Twitter, so I’m guessing hitting mainstream attention drives this

hey comrades, how many millions of $ were we supposed to give to wealthy white brooklynites before we start saving all the marginalized and at risk ppl again? i forgot..

*is actually Warren die hards

Also, I want more ppl making good money, not fewer.

I think it’s nice when someone makes a decent living and no one has to be exploited. Hell I don’t even know if I can say that, though the separation is several degrees #rationalizations

I'm black wolf too but the wealthy white brooklynites thing is dumb as hell - Will and Felix openly acknowledge their economic privilege, Amber and Matt came from working or middle-class backgrounds, Virgil was apparently so wealthy he graduated from college with six figures of debt

Biden getting the nomination and winning would be the best thing for them

oh hey

Here is a trailer to my and @nkulw's new show, Blowback, about the Iraq War. Comes out next week. thanks pic.twitter.com/3ZSzu5mkdz

— Brendan James (@deep_beige) March 10, 2020

paywalled 'til June with Stitcher Premium

unfortunately

you'll be able to find it I'm sure

RIP chompo house you were a good pod cast

all Bernie all the time is pretty much their worst mode anyway, they're gonna soldier on

ok....what is a black wolf?

someone who pirates the Patreon feed

I became a were wolf saying a werewolf chant.Is any body elese werewolves?
― conner Smedley, Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:35 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

....talking dust

I've been trying with True Anon; I kinda love Liz (virtuosic levels of vocal fry!) but I'm still finding that a whole hour+ of Brace is just too much Brace.

I'm guessing each Chapo is making like $400k/year if you include all the live shows and stuff they do and take out expenses. Great for them! I'm assuming it's a similar career trajectory to a pro athlete--15-20 years if they're really lucky, more likely shorter, could just drop off abruptly. God forbid people make a high upper middle class living for a little while while making an enormous difference for political causes.

I'm also glad they inadvertently helped create a broader ecosystem of lefty independent media that can subsist solely on small donations

felix was on the majority report once and said he was making $108k per year, can't remember if he said before or after taxes

may have been the michael brooks show tbh, i watch both too much

I've been trying with True Anon; I kinda love Liz (virtuosic levels of vocal fry!) but I'm still finding that a whole hour+ of Brace is just too much Brace.

It's the only thing i have Patreon sub for. It's great - though the interviews are always slightly maddening. There's an immense amount of interesting stuff but they're both completely incapable of staying on one topic for more than thirty seconds.

i want to check out true anon, i have a friend that vouches for it, but idk if i can get used to liz's hardcore vocal fry

i've come to prefer michael brooks and majority report to chapo

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