Wow -- a five bagger for sure. Plus, maybe, a little cassette tape. Greggheads are gonna love this one.

Alex joins us again to catch up on the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests and the range of responses to them, from blatant attempts to provoke the protesters, to complaining about encampments ruining your teaching of silence. Then, Kristi Noem killed her dog, the defrocking of an AI priest, and Trump expressions that live in our heads.

Tickets to Will & Hesse’s Movie Mindset screening & talkback of Death Wish 3 in NYC on May 4: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chapo-trap-houses-movie-mindset-screening-of-death-wish-3-w-will-hesse-tickets-877569192077

Chapo Trap House

828 - 59’33” feat. Alex Nichols (4/29/24)

Will & Hesse talk to Radu Jude, the director of the new comedy feature Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. The film features an overworked production assistant as she drives around Bucharest shooting videos for a large multinational company as a satire of the malaise and indignity of modern life. Will, Hesse and Radu discuss the film’s send-up of TikTok masculinity influencers, the relationship with earlier films edited into the movie, the various versions of Romania Jude depicts and much more..  

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is now in theaters and will be streaming on MUBI starting May 3.

Movie Mindset

Movie Mindset Bonus: Interview With Director Radu Jude

Tom, Tarence and (welcome to the show!) Aaron from the Trillbillies join us for another week of horror and spectacle around the War in Gaza. We touch on the ceasefire agreement being rejected basically as we were recording, some of the clumsy NYPD PR response to last week’s Columbia raid, and the pundit class tantrum over being denied free access to interviews with protesting students. But we also have some levity, in John Fetterman’s freakout over vat meat, the Biden admin’s flaccid signaling over marijuana legalization, and Patrick Bet-David’s praise for future God-Emperor Barron.

Find Trillbillies wherever you get podcasts, and subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

830 - Vat Grown Oaf feat. Trillbillies (5/6/24)

Will talks to Anny Viloria Winnett, a UAW 4811 ASE Trustee, Graduate Student Worker at the UCLA School of Public Health, and an organizer involved with UCLA’s pro-Palestinian encampments. They discuss last week’s violent assaults on the UCLA encampments, first from a group of Zionist vigilantes and subsequently by the LAPD. They then discuss the university’s response, keeping the movement resilient and safe in the face of such opposition, and some answers for all the media who want to know “why are you here?”

Bonus: UCLA Encampment Update

We’re joined by a former university administrator (who prefers to remain anonymous, though we have reviewed and verified their credentials) for an insider’s perspective of the current state of college administration, and a discussion of just why colleges and universities around the country are reacting with such extreme opposition and often violence to the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests. Topics include increasingly corporate university structure, internal bias against certain perspectives and student organizing, and the foreign influence over university operations.

Bonus: Inside Higher Ed

Alex is on today as we catch up with the weekend’s drama over the 2024 Eurovision song contest and ask which is more real, twitter or Eurovision (those are the only two options). Then, some disastrous new polls for the Biden campaign, Trump searches for a VP and praises Hannibal Lecter, and Bret Stephens & Gail Collins search for the true value of a commencement speech and decide it’s about telling kids to get off their damn phones.

Check out WFYM radio: https://chapofym.podbean.com/

832 - Real World Blues feat. Alex Nichols (5/13/24)

The Pendejo boys are back ostensibly to cover some new Greg Abbott shenanigans out of Texas, but we also look at the ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the collapse of Red Lobster, a GOP candidate out of Missouri literally running against being “weak and gay,” and Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker’s redpilled address to Benedictine graduates. 

Find Pendejo Time wherever you get podcasts, and subscribe to their patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/pendejotime

Also check out the Pendejo Time album here: https://pendejotime.bandcamp.com/album/pendejo-time

834 - Weakness Will Get You Nowhere feat. Pendejo Time (5/20/24)

We sit down with Mike Cheslik, the director of the new(ish) silent comedy action farce Hundreds of Beavers. We discuss his Wisconsin influences, ultra-DIY approach to filmmaking, making your film exactly as stupid as it needs to be, and the inherent humor of watching a guy in a mascot costume get wrecked on camera.

There are still a few in-theater opportunities to catch Hundreds of Beavers: https://www.hundredsofbeavers.com/tickets/

And it’s also available for rental at home on Apple and Amazon.

Movie Mindset Bonus: Hundreds of Beavers with Director Mike Cheslik

Chief Chapo foreign correspondent returns to take us around the wide world of conflict. We get an update on the war in Gaza including the bombing of Rafah, the failing floating Pier, and the Biden administration's attempts to broker some kind of deal between Israel, Palestine and Saudi Arabia without gaining any concessions or movement toward peace in the process. Plus, we discuss the death or Iranian president Raisi, the situation in Ukraine, and what the hell’s going on in French New Caledonia.

For more Derek: 
The article on Germany Derek references at the end of the pod: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/whats-the-matter-with-germany
Subscribe to Foreign Exchanges: www.foreignexchanges.news
And American Prestige: www.americanprestigepod.com/

836 - Pier One Imports feat. Derek Davison (5/28/24)

We have Alex on today to first and foremost look at newly released soda rankings. Then, we catch up on reactions to Trump’s conviction, examine the many Rubicons people are always crossing, and ask if Barron will be Augustus Batman or something. Then, two new banger campaign ads from new MAGA star Valentina Gomez. Finally, a long reading series about Erik Prince’s far-right podcast group chat, and the various good & normal opinions shared there from the many luminaries in his orbit.

838 - Enemies of the Group Chat feat. Alex Nichols (6/3/24)

A tribute to On Cinema at the Cinema and a tip o' the hat to the facebook group.  Great for fans of The Kinks.

we are the james bond preservation society 
god save Dr. No, moonraker, and goldeneye
we are the peter jackson oscar write-in academy 
god save middle earth and good ole bilbo baggins 

protecting the old ways for me and for you
expert opinions and the latest reviews
what more can we do?          

we are the buttered popcorn appreciation consortium 
god save VHS and the movie buffs that are coding them
we are the marx brothers appreciation consortium 
god save groucho, harpo, chico and all the smaller ones

preserving the old ways for me and for you
protecting mark proksch from tim’s abuse
what more can we do?

we are the jack decker appreciation affinity
god save america, agent kington, and Davidson
we are the TCH junior arts fund memorial
god damn Dr san whose acupuncture was poisonous
 we are the on cinema on Facebook community
Timheads, greggheads fighting like in a family

preserving the old ways from being abused
with movies like Tom Cruise in them, you can’t lose
what more can we do?

on cinema society

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