We catch up on the biggest winners, losers, snubs and looks of the Illuminati Humiliation Ritual commonly known as the 96th Annual Academy Awards. Then speaking of Humiliation Rituals, we discuss the State of the Union, the response from GOP Senator Katie Britt, Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law being killed by her own Tesla, and how Zionists are having a hard time finding a date on the apps.

Catch Will, Amber & Felix on stage (and Chris at the bar) along with Girl God and Jacques from Seeking Derangements at the Lodge Room in LA Thursday, April 4:
https://www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/show-pig-a-live-comedy-podcast-spectacular-with-seeking-derangements/

NYC people: keep an eye out for a Movie Mindset season 2 kickoff event. Not fully confirmed yet, but I’d keep May 4th open for now.

Chapo Trap House

814 - A Pond Too Far (3/11/24)

Episode 1 and Fortune Kit’s Charles stops by the show today to look at a few real life individuals who remind us of E1 characters, including the streamer Destiny, who we’ve all seen clips of getting yelled at by Norm Finkelstein last week. We also check in on New York’s bling bishop, the Stonetoss doxxing, South Dakota Governor Kirsti Noem, and some “new” edgy Christians who like boobs, beer, & swearin’. Finally, Charles brings us some updates from one of Fortune Kit’s favorite guys, the king of “what’s a song that’s made up of notes?” vapid twitter engagement prompts, Eric Alper.

Find Episode 1 & Fortune Kit wherever you get podcasts.

Find Charles’ band Solipse’s music: https://solipse.bandcamp.com/track/looking-glass
And the music from E1, including from The Ballad of Brewer Grouse: https://episodeone.bandcamp.com/album/the-ballad-of-brewer-grouse

816 - Streampie feat. Charles Austin (3/18/24)

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/

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

The kids are asleep, and those two guys who join Dan and Sara every week have commandeered the podcast. It was a really shitty week, so they unwind with an extra-long Beer of the Week, and go on to bully the jukebox for a while, then Tim drinks bourbon, and Ben nearly dies of laughter because of the fast part in Blues Traveler’s “Hook.” 

Ben: Two Brothers Brewing Pinch of Grace India Pale Ale 3.75
Tim: Alchemist Beer Focal Banger American IPA 4.75 
BONUS LI-QUAR: Maker’s Mark Kentucky Bourbon “Excellent”

TRACK LISTING:
Mountain Goats - Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton (Live)
Mountain Goats - I Saw the Sign (Ace of Bass) (Live)
Mountain Goats - Golden Boy
Jawbreaker - Chesterfield King
Television - Marquee Moon
Richard Hell - Blank Generation
The Replacements - Bastards of Young
Laura Jane Grace - Androgynous (The Replacements) (Live)
The Replacements - Androgynous
Elvis Costello - (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
The Ramones - I Don’t Wann Grow Up (Tom Waits)
Elliot Smith - Needle in the Hay
Richard Hell - Love Comes in Spurts
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
Mink DeVille - Spanish Stroll
The Damned - Neat Neat Neat
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
Warren Zevon - I Was in the House When the House Burned Down
Warren Zevon - Carmelita
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Coriky - Clean Kill
Egg Hunt - We All Fall Down
Blues Traveler - Hook
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Kind of Life
The Ramones - Happy Family (Live)

BONUS: The Kids Are Asleep Presents: Ben and Tim Present: Bullying the Jukebox

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.

BONUS: The Kids Are Asleep Presents: Ben and Tim Present: Bullying the Jukebox

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