On our maiden voyage, we deliver an elegy for JD Vance's bestseller 'Hillbilly Elegy' while also paying homage to R+B legends Gerald Levert (RIP), Keith Sweat, and Johnny Gill.

*Upon further review, Eric Williams, whom we do a bit about on this one, is a respected scholar whose words we clearly took out of context and drew the wrong conclusions about. His radical critique of capitalism and the slave economy was a gap in our knowledge, and we're embarrassed to say we botched that one. But, still, fuck JD.

Episode 1: JD Vance A Snitch

Our live show from Derry, New Hampshire. Defeat the Rat, get this bread.

Shout out to Matt Kowalski (https://soundcloud.com/killer_kowalski) for the Low Hopes Remix and twitter user @FilbertNuts for the Rat Mode graphic.

TOUR DATES:
ALL TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: www.chapotraphouse.com/tour
Las Vegas, NV Feb 18, @ House of Blues
San Diego, CA, Feb 23, @ The Observatory North Park
Sacramento, CA Feb 28 @ Ace of Spades

Chapo Trap House

392 - Live from New Hampshire: Full Rat Mode (2/10/20)

Our live show from the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, featuring Brace Belden and Liz Fanczak of the TrueAnon podcast.

398 - Live from San Francisco: Mind Palace of Fine Arts feat. TrueAnon (3/2/20)

Defying quarantine Matt and Virgil go to back to work tuning up electoral politics. Can Bernie still win? Will we all die? Does Biden know how to open PDF? Our greased up pundits go under the hood to find the answers to those questions and more. Later they speak with Branko Marcetic, writer for Jacobin and In These Times and author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden.

Don't bother buying tickets for our NYC live show because it will be cancelled, unless you're just really into getting refunds. (Also the Roger Rabbit screening is cancelled, but you could have guessed that.)

BONUS - Beltway Garage: Reboot feat. Branko Marcetic (3/15/20)

We pledge eternal fealty to our beautiful "boaters." We also take a deep dive into an amazing bungle in the jungle, and examine Joe Biden's digital strategy of emulating c.2013 Upworthy.

[sorry about will's audio in the beginning, we had a bit of a Zoom goof but it gets fixed halfway -ed.]

416 - Operation: Guaido (5/4/20)

And introducing…the Song Machine! We track the rise of Denniz Pop and the Swedish music production juggernaut in American pop music through John Seabrooke’s 2015 book “The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory.”

Songs
Tag Team - Whoomp (There It Is!)
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Swemix)
Heino - Medly Volksleider 
Ace of Bass - The Sign
It’s Alive - Pretend I’m God
Backstreet Boys - We’ve Got it Going On
Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)
Crooked I - Everythang
Britney Spears - …Baby One More Time

And Introducing Podcast

#74 THE SONG MACHINE! pt. 1

And introducing, on lead vocals, it’s Scott Walker. Over a six decade journey from teen dream crooner to brooding experimental composer, Scott Walker has explored the dark bleeding edges of pop music with his inconic vibrato and iconoclastic production. And today we’ll be learning all about Scott from a bunch of articles and the 2006 documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man.

We’re joined by Matty Monroe, the host of the Indieheads podcast and the MODERATOR of the r/indieheads subreddit. Check out Matty’s stuff here:

Indieheads Podcast: https://rindieheadspodcast.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/IndieheadsPodcast
https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads

Songs in Order:
The Walker Brotherss - There Ain’t No Sunshine
Jacques Brel - Amsterdam
Scott Walker - Next
Scott Walker - 30 Century Man
The Walker Brothers - The Electrician
Scott Walker - Dealer
Pulp - I Spy
Scott Walker - The Cockfighter
Scott Walker - Cossacks Are
Scott Walker - Clara
Scott Walker - Jesse
Scott Walker - Corps de Blah
Scott Walker - Epizootics
Scott Walker - Brando

And Introducing

#79 SCOTT WALKER (ft. Matty Monroe)

Journalist Talia Lavin joins us to discuss her research on the alt right, q-anon, and why boomers think there are underground child sacrifice sex tunnels everywhere. We also talk HP Lovecraft, the Michigan militia who tried to kidnap their governor, and Trump.

TALIA LAVIN
@Chick_in_Kiev
Patreon.com/TaliaLavin
SATANIC PANIC Q ANON PIECE:
https://newrepublic.com/article/159529/qanon-blood-libel-satanic-panic
BOOK:
https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/talia-lavin/culture-warlords/9780306846434/?utm_expid=.OyywKgKNQfKo0ZgN1WBZtg.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

MUSIC
JAKE HART - Go Away
IG: JakeHartEatsBrains

DEAD OIL - Drip
https://dead-oil.bandcamp.com/releases

MERCH (SHIRTS, BANDANAS, POSTERS)
PodDamnAmerica.BigCartel.Com

PATREON FOR BONUS EPISODES
Patreon.com/PodDamnAmerica

@PodDamnAmerica
@feraljokes
@ptakjokes
@andersleehere

LISTEN TO ALEX'S THIRD PODCAST AND ALSO WHY YOU MAD AND WATCH REDACTED TONIGHT OK BYE

Q Detective w/ Talia Lavin

And introducing, on lead vocals, guitar and bass...it’s Mr. Billy Corgan. Yes we’re talking through the legendary frontman and sole consistent member of gen x rock titans Smashing Pumpkins, a person who is constantly portrayed as either alt-rock’s greatest villain or saint, depending on who you’re asking. And today we’re joined by Struggle Sessions Leslie Lee III to dive into some of Mr. Corgan’s most intimate thoughts and feelings about his life and career through the best access we have...his mid-2000’s LiveJournal called simply “BillyBlog”.

Check out Struggle Session at sesh.plus

Songs
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
Smashing Pumpkins - Nothing and Everything (Live on Pulse 1988)
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha
Smashing Pumpkins - Transmission (Live, featuring Peter Hook)
Billy Corgan - Take Me Out to the Ball Game

#81 BILLY CORGAN! (ft. Leslie Lee III)

And introducing, from Iceland, our NATO ally to the north, it’s BJORK. The most famous musician from the isolated northern island, Bjork has built an incredible career and international  fame from her unique voice and genre-exploring, endlessly idiosyncratic music. And today we’ll be exploring all things Bjork from her coffee table book BJORK and a 2004 Bjork New Yorker story called “Bjork’s Saga”.

Songs in Order:

CarlosAndres90 - Army of Me (YouTube FL Studio cover)
Bjork - Ruby Baby
Recordings of Bjork at age 11:  https://www.openculture.com/2014/09/the-album-bjork-recorded-as-an-11-year-old.html
KUKL - Dismembered
The Sugarcubes - Birthday
Bjork - Human Behavior
Bjork - Army of Me
Bjork - Alarm Call

#82 BJÖRK!

We didn't feel like working this week so we did a dumb one. Some of you guys love these, some of you hate these, either way, you all will be mad. Happy New Year.

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