Gods, do I miss role playing...  Virgil is AWESOME as the GM, and the story telling top notch!  I look forward to part 2!!  Keep this up!!!

Fuck Crank’s voice fuckin almost killed me no lie 😂😂

i come here often at late hours, inebriated but vibing  

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First we talk to Ezekiel Kweku of MTV about his diagnosis of the Democratic Party's failure this year, how they can beat white nationalism next time around, and the Æon Flux animated series. Then the full Chapo team assembles to tackle the book "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success" by Bloomberg View blogger and chronically wrong person Megan McArdle. It's a horrible dumb book and everyone gets mad at Will for making them read it.

Ezekiel's piece: www.mtv.com/news/2955564/skin-in-the-game/#ifrndnloc

Real Ames Hours on McArdle's portfolio: http://shameproject.com/profile/megan-mcardle/

Episode 63 - SuccessFail: The McMegan Story feat. @TheShrillest (12/4/16)

Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Bill Corbett stops by the mansion to join us in pummeling the life out of conservative entrepreneur and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza's stupid and bizarre documentary "Hillary's America." The movie is obviously racist and creepy and hilarious and the only accurate costumes were KKK robes.

It was an honor to do a show with Bill and he is now our FailDad.

Episode 73 - Better Call Saul Alinsky feat. Bill Corbett (1/15/17)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The full trap in effect, plus special guest Sam Kriss (@sam_kriss), all of us covering the inauguration of President Wario. 

Weak chinned neo-Nazi Richard Spencer got his head caved in, protesters burned a limo, Colby became an anarchist, irony was shot through the head, and the gang went to Red Lobster for a lovely meal.

Episode 75 - Mr. Chapo Goes To Washington (1/22/17)

Our old pal and first mega-guest Matt Taibbi returns to the trap to talk about Week Zero of Trump's reign, his new book about the past year of campaigning, and causes for hope now that the liberal dream is over.

Episode 77 - No Country For Gorilla Men feat. Matt Taibbi (1/29/17)

2017 Magazine of the Year Award-winning journalist Shane Bauer (@Shane_Bauer) joins us to talk about the protests in Berkeley, his work embedding with rightwing militias, and his time spent as a prisoner in Iran. We took the award from him and now we are award-winners.

Here are some of Shane's articles we discuss:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/undercover-border-militia-immigration-bauer

Episode 81 - The Devil In Mother Jones feat. Shane Bauer (2/12/17)

The show receives another celebrity call as a prominent broadcaster sets the record straight about the globalist demon media. 

The lads then discuss Mike Pence’s Rules For Dating Mother, the sad sacks at the DNC, why American health care sucks (more on that next week) and a magical reading series from National Review’s Jay Nerdlinger about his field trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He did not like it.

Special thanks to Tim Heidecker

Here’s the Museum Nerdlinger: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445336/permanent-february-some-personal-notes-blacksonian-national-african-american-museum

Episode 96 - Night At The Museum feat. Alex Jones (4/2/17)

The international supervillain Sebastian Gorka (James Adomian) calls into the show again, recently hampered by a conspiracy exposing him as a member of the Hungarian fascist Vitézi Rend. Will it stop his plans to push out all other top Trump advisers and achieve global domination?

Then we talk to Alex Pareene about Trump's Syria strikes, the media’s massive, pathetic war chubby, and his piece this week about the rightwing grift that has overtaken its creators and unraveled reality.

Alex's piece: http://fusion.net/the-long-lucrative-right-wing-grift-is-blowing-up-in-t-1793944216

Episode 98 - Gorka II: The Gorkaning feat. Alex Pareene & James Adomian (4/9/17)

We open with a struggle session and own Felix for being too much of an actual dirtbag. The rest of the episode is our positive review of DC Comics' Wonder Woman, why neoconservatives love it, why Lebanon really banned it, and the missed opportunity of making it in the image of the original super horned-up creator. Amber named this episode.

Episode 119 - Bating For Gadot (6/25/17)

NOTE: Ahead of this week's premium episode, we are unlocking our first 2-part gaming episode, "The Pizza In The Gate."

This is the first of a two-part radio play/tabletop game run by Virgil, who locked us in a room to play Call of Cthulhu. Turning the clock back to the 1920s, the guys act out a Lovecraftian cosmic horror-noir. 

Will plays a disturbed, incestuous race scientist, Felix a military valor-stealer turned jazz vocalist, and Matt a medically trained decrepit foot fetishist. They receive an odd message from a grotesque, half-man, half-baseball that leads them to uncover dark secrets in the heart of our young nation’s capital…

UNLOCKED: Episode 74 - Tabletop Game Theory Pt. I (1/18/17)

NOTE: Ahead of this week's premium episode, we are unlocking our first 2-part gaming episode, "The Pizza In The Gate."

It's time to play the game. Time to play the game. [Laughter] It's all about the game, and how you play it. All about control, and if you can take it. All about your debt, and if you can pay it. It's all about pain, and who's gonna make it.

UNLOCKED: Episode 76 - Tabletop Game Theory Pt. II (1/24/17)

Our pal T is back to talk Trump's beautiful brain, Tony "The Braciole" Scaramuccioliado, the Democratic Party's new slogan, and read from Rod Dreher's mailbag. Salut

Here's T's pod, Champagne Sharks: https://soundcloud.com/champagnesharks

Get the premium Sharks here: https://www.patreon.com/champagnesharks/posts

Episode 127 - Dr. Dementia feat. Ricky Rawls (7/23/17)

Tim Faust (@crulge on Twitter) is back to break down the GOP's failed healthcare push, what comes next, and how to seize the moment and push for single-payer and beyond.

Subscribe to Tim's newsletter: http://tinyletter.com/error

Episode 129 - The Affordable Covfefe Act feat. Tim Faust (7/30/17)

Our buddy Shuja (@shujaxhaider) joins us to talk about Charlottesville; the bravery of the IWW, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, PSL, and DSA people there, the coming split of the soft and hardcore white supremacists, the solidarity growing on the left, and the post-lib future staring us all in the face.
Some things to donate to if you can: 

Medical bills for Dre Harris, beaten up at the rally: https://www.gofundme.com/i-was-beaten-by-white-supremacists

Help bail out the protesters who tore down the Confederate statue in Durham: http://durhamsolidaritycenter.org/bondfund/ 

Pool for medical bills run by Cville DSA: https://www.gofundme.com/medical-fund-for-comrades-in-cville

UNLOCKED: Episode 133 - Antifap feat. Shuja Haider (8/17/17)

The Chapo Group has assembled a roundtable of experts to answer the simple, yet essential question of our day: is there a Joker crisis in America? Featuring Jacobin's Jen Pan, Cum Town's Nick and Adam, and of course, a remote piece from our international film critic, Matt V. Brady.

UNLOCKED: Episode 74 - Tabletop Game Theory Pt. I (1/18/17)

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