Alex is back to look at a number of topics including: Putin’s ancient vault, the Brain podcast sex freak, UN supports ceasefire, Jewish Heaven, Trump bankrupting the RNC, Catturd’s dogs, and Royal maladies. Finally, a reading series on the Ancien Cajun, James Carville, and who still has lessons to impart on the best way for Democrats to win from that one time he let Ross Perot hand him an election.



Tickets to the Jaques/Chapo/Seeking Derangements show at the Lodge Room in LA, Thursday April 4:

https://www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/show-pig-a-live-comedy-podcast-spectacular-with-seeking-derangements/

Chapo Trap House

818 - Dr. Brain & the Women feat. Alex Nichols (3/25/24)

Will, Felix and Amber dish on the news of the day, including the resurgence of Havana Syndrome, Erdoğan’s historic losses in recent Turkish elections, and that obnoxious article about Stanford campus activism. But honestly most of this is just riffs on Liam Neeson and Steven Seagal.

Tickets to the Jaques/Chapo/Seeking Drrangements show at the Lodge Room in LA, Thursday April 4:
https://www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/show-pig-a-live-comedy-podcast-spectacular-with-seeking-derangements/

820 - The Neese (4/1/24)

Will, Felix and Amber are here to look at a startling rise in assault in Gay City. Then, a more serious look at the Israeli bombing of World Central Kitchen staffers, and how it seems the ongoing tragedy in Gaza is only made legible to certain parties in Washington and the media by association with celebrity chefs. Also in this ep: more lying SEALs, a UK nudes phishing scandal, bizarre stories out of Ye’s DONDA Academy, and takes on Reacher and Shōgun.

NYC, MAY 4th: Join Will & Hesse for a Movie Mindset Season 2 kickoff screening & talkback of DEATH WISH 3 at Littlefield, tickets now available:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chapo-trap-houses-movie-mindset-screening-of-death-wish-3-w-will-hesse-tickets-877569192077

822 - Curb Your Shogunate (4/9/24)

Alex is back on with us today to catch up on MMA libertarians, bad DJs, and a rudely interrupted Billy Joel. We then discuss Iran’s weekend missile attack on Israel, and get Donald Trump’s somber and thoughtful remarks on the hallowed battle ground of Gettysburg. All this and some Valerie Bertinelli news on today’s show.

NYC, MAY 4th: Join Will & Hesse for a Movie Mindset Season 2 kickoff screening & talkback of DEATH WISH 3 at Littlefield, tickets now available:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chapo-trap-houses-movie-mindset-screening-of-death-wish-3-w-will-hesse-tickets-877569192077

824 - To Look and To Watch feat. Alex Nichols (4/15/24)

Will interviews Basil Zacharia Rodriguez, an activist and student at Columbia University involved with Columbia Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) about the ongoing demonstrations taking place there. They discuss the goals of the protests, the media response, and the University’s economic interests in both Palestinian occupation and displacing New Yorkers in Harlem.

Then, Amber and Felix join to continue the discussion of the media freak-out over campus activism, as well as the trial of Donald Trump, and two reading series exploring the sexual pathologies of Spectator columnists and Rabbi Shmuley.

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

826 - University Challenge feat. Basil Zacharia Rodriguez (4/23/24)

Welcome to Movie Mindset season 2! Will & Hesse look at two films somewhat bookending the career of the great James Cagney: Lloyd Bacon’s Footlight Parade (1933) & Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three (1961). The first is a pre-code musical spectacular, allowing Cagney to show off his song and dance skills as a promoter of live “prologues” for movie houses, the later a cold war screwball comedy, together they show the insane range of Cagney across a career also notable for roles as gangsters and tough guys. But here, we get to see his work making the most racist and offensive musical numbers imaginable to a depression-era crowd, and joke-a-minute comedy chops as a beverage exec trying to keep his boss’s daughter from eloping with a Communist while opening up east Germany to the wonders of Coca-Cola. 

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

Movie Mindset

MM17: Cagney WAS Modernity!

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

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 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

The episode kicks off with a visit from Benzig, then after a very punk Beer of the Week, we describe our “come to punk” moments and grapple with the question, “Did punk rock ruin our lives?” Ben points out the kind of a-historical nature of how we discovered bands - essentially, we became punks at Fukayama’s “end of history.” Continuing our analysis we decided punk rock is friendship, and cousins. The Gang could do a whole episode on the 2040, the punk space formerly run out of Dan and Sara’s basement. Tim posits that we had no choice - we were taken against our will into being punks - but it was a good thing in the end, because we went into the cocoon dorky little caterpillars and came out big ugly punk rock moths. We conclude with a story of Ben’s punkest time ever . . . at a They Might Be Giants show in Detroit.

Sara: Solemn Oath - Punk Rock for Rich Kids American Pale Ale 4.0
Dan: Pabst Blue Ribbon - Beer of Punk
Tim: Whalers Brewing Company Rise American Pale Ale 3.75
Ben: Brewdog Punk IPA 3.0

Track Listing:
The Misfits - Where Eagles Dare
FEAR - I Believe I'll Have Another Beer
Dead Kennedys - Police Truck
Dillinger Four - Doublewhiskeycokenoice
Powerline - Stand Out (Goofy Movie Soundtrack)
Green Day - Brain Stew
Ludacris - Ho
The Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job?
Osker - Strangled
Osker - Alright
POS - We Don't Even Live Here (Weird Friends)
The Studs - Donner Family Christmas Party
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Against Me! - We Laugh At Danger (And Break All the Rules)
Adolescents - Kids of the Black Hole
Blink 182 - All the Small Things
System of a Down - Chop Suey!
Disturbed - Down With the Sickness
The Dicks - Hate the Police
The Ramones - Happy Birthday (The Simpsons)
Vitamin String Quartet - Birdhouse in Your Soul (They Might Be Giants cover)

Punk Rock Saved / Ruined My Life

15. Punk Rock Saved and/or Ruined My Life (Punk Rock)

Four friends share laughs after the kids fall asleep. We talk a lot about beer, a little about politics, then turn to our topic of the week - sprinkled liberally with clips from punk rock songs, cult movies, and classic Simpsons episodes.

15. Punk Rock Saved and/or Ruined My Life (Punk Rock)

The Kids Are Asleep

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