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Popular humorist James Adomian (@JAdomian) joins the Trap this week to discuss Chris Christie's 9/11 Memorabilia Raffle, Jesse Ventura's "Conspiracy Theory," Dilbert, Garfield, and his impressions of Slavoj Zizek teaching sex ed and alt-right Paul Giammatti.

Plus, Felix gets written up in the New Yorker and Alex Jones embraces a new Pan-African political philosophy.

Episode 46 - No Cucks In A Foxhole feat. @JAdomian (10/4/16)

Will, Matt, Felix and Virgil wake up in The Zone to take in the election results, process the shock, and accept Bill Mitchell as our new dad. More importantly, we discuss the failures of America’s expert/lanyard class, liberal ass-covering, the impotence and irrelevance of the Democratic Party, and our new purpose and priorities under the coming Trump regime.

Reasons to be scared, reasons for hope, and assurance that we’re still ready to ride with you all every day.

Episode 58 - We Live in The Zone Now (11/12/16)

A Turkey Day treat for all! Our pal T (@RickyRawls) stops by the Park Slope Mansion to discuss his run-ins with the Anime Nazis/alt-right, their racial narcissism, and how Leon Festinger's "When Prophecy Fails" applies to Democrats after the election upset. We also wonder why Mike Pence even wanted to see Hamilton in the first place.

Here's an interview with T on the alt-right: http://thoughtcatalog.com/daniel-hayes/2016/11/an-interview-with-a-black-man-who-loves-standing-up-to-alt-right-trolls-on-twitter/

Episode 61 - Who Makes The Nazis? feat. @RickyRawls (11/24/16)

As we walk through Rod Dreher's criticism of the show, Amber makes fun of Felix's love of Les Mis.

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Episode 62 Teaser - Do You Hear The Dirtbags Sing

In this magical Christmas episode Kath Barbadoro joins us again to talk about the Lynchian underbelly of New Hampshire, political economy, the embarrassing turn at Mother Jones, and the really just fantastic and affordable meals on offer at our favorite neighborhood bar & grill, Applebee’s.

We finish off the year with a scintillating reading from Ben Shapiro’s racist and poorly-written novel, “True Allegiance.” 

Enter code "CHAPO" at Applebees.com to buy $50 in Gift Cards & get a $10 Bonus Card FREE.

Here's the article by Naomi LaChance: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/12/the-legacy-of-mother-jones-is-haunting-mother-jone.html

Episode 68 - Applebee's Christmas Spectacular feat. Kath Barbadoro (12/23/16)

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)

The genius Tim Heidecker is on the show, we talk about Alex Jones selling out, comedy in the age of Trump, and President Hamburgler wandering around the White House in the dark with old cartoon-style pajamas and a candle. We conclude with a new entry of "True Allegiance," with a special reading from Tim as Brett Hawthorne.

Episode 79 - Our Values Are Under Attack feat. Tim Heidecker (2/6/17)

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)

Update: This episode went offline for a little while last night after Brace got in contact with concerns about his security. We wanted to play things safe and took it down, but now it's back up. 

A conversation with @PissPigGranddad.

Episode 82 - War Is Heck feat. @PissPigGranddad (2/13/17)

We talk with writer Angela Nagle about her work studying the alt-right, its different stripes, divisions, and contradictions. Far before Milo fell from grace, Angela predicted that the alt-right would splinter and cannibalize sooner rather than later.

Here's Angela's article: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/paleocons-for-porn/

Episode 86 - Fash The Patriarchy feat. Angela Nagle (2/26/17)

We talk to all-time Chapo guest returning champ Derek Davison (@dwdavison9318) about Dr. Sebastian Gorka, one of the many pygmy Strangeloves of the Trump foreign policy crew. Derek also takes us on a tour of the mideast and what to watch in Turkey's referendum, Iran's elections, and Syria's ongoing shitshow. Felix starts eating near the end

Episode 88 - Sebastian Goku feat. Derek Davison (3/5/17)

In our last show of the Pittsburgh Era, we reunite with Jacob Bacharach (@jakebackpack) to talk Scott Adams, hypnosis, the time he met Glenn Beck, and whether Dilbert has fucked. 

Then we discuss PA's long history of manmade disasters and conclude with an anti-reading series from Jacob's new novel, "The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates."

Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Doorposts-Your-House-Gates-Novel/dp/1631491741/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Episode 94 - The Brian Johnstown Massacre feat. Jacob Bacharach (3/26/17)

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)

Our live show at Harvard University, where we held a tournament to decide the most evil person to ever emerge from the institution.

Episode 100 - Chapo Goes To College (4/17/17)

Rob Delaney stops by to talk healthcare, Bill O'Reilly, sniveling Democrats, and Gorilla Mindset. Then Matt tells us about the Juicero and Felix and Brendan reveal a new single by P.J. Dade, "U Give Me 3nergy."

Message from P.J. Dade below:

I am an evangelical Christian, the owner of a secondhand boat store, and yes, that was me in the news report about “bathroom encounters.”

I sell rudders and motorboards during the day, but I have passions outside of work. Obviously, God is number one. But passion number two is my awesome wife Klyeelissa and my kick butt little guy Mason Jesse James Treibart (the best 4 year old in the world ;) ),  Passion the third is, you guessed it, Evangelical EDM.
 
Yes, Evangelical EDM is the thirteenth largest growing music genre in the entire world, but I'm not in it for money. My entire life, I've been searching for a way to tell people how my soul felt. I tried to find it in the bottle, in the pipe, and yup, through the bathroom stall. But every time I thought I was breaking through, I was just putting barriers between my spirit and the world. With Evangelical EDM, I know that I'm finally speaking the true voice God gave me.
 
So I decided to send the boys in "The Trap" my newest song, "You Give Me Energy." I could try explaining my life, my journey, my triumphs, and my pain to get these guys to understand who they're mocking when they mock evangelicals, but they wouldn't understand it. the universal language of music is how neighbors can see eye to eye, though. It's been like that since the Book of Genesis, and it's like that now. 

So without further ado, I hope you can begin to start to think about considering who I really am, and who you could be.
 
Blessing throughout you, your family, and the world.

"You Give Me Energy" lyrics

[intro]
This song is dedicated 
To a group of people I fail every day
But they're special enough to forgive me
I'm talking about my family and the Lord Jesus Christ 
Let's go 

Every day is just another chance
You can do evil as long as you come right back
Forgiveness is how the angels dance
It doesn't matter if you were born here or in Iraq

You are the best of me
You give me Energy
Once I was lost at sea
You give me energy

He's in our hearts before the coffee's in our cups
God is our breath every time we hiccup
He is the fistul of uppers when we crash
He will pump your stomach if you swallow sin for cash

You are the best of me
You give me energy
You wipe the sweat from me
You give me energy 

Slouched in a stall, my luck's run out
I refuse to die, refuse to doubt
He is with me all around
I pick myself up off the ground  
‘Cause even if you relapse in the hole
Your Wife understands it’s one step towards your goal

You are the best of me
You give me energy
The Holy Ghost nests in me
You give me energy 

[outro]
I'm sorry for everything that I have done
That I will do, and haven’t done
And you're welcome for our son

Episode 102 - Maintaining Emotional Control feat. Rob Delaney (4/23/17)

Audio of our live show benefit for the Center for Reproductive Rights on April 27th at Littlefield NYC. Sorry about the weird compression, but our voices are nice and clear, so take it, you pigs.

Episode 104 - We've Always Been Here (4/30/17)

It's a jam-packed sode with special Chapo health correspondent Tim Faust returning to brief us on the dystopian Republican healthcare bill that passed in the House. Then we hop on the line with writer Miya Tokumitsu to talk about the tyranny of work over your life, and a future without it. 

We wrap things up with a reading series with Chapo all-star David French. 

Here's Miya's article in the New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/141663/united-states-work

Episode 106 - Work No Play feat. Miya Tokumitsu & Tim Faust (5/7/17)

We debut our trailer for the ripped-from-the-headlines thriller "The Fresh Connection." We interview Matt Bruenig about his new policy shop. We check in on two special congressional elections. 

And we return to Ke7en.

Here's Matt's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mattbruenig

road trip chapo

Joe Powers