@user-471956777 yimbies are the most godawful people on the planet and are always doing this incredibly intellectually disingenuous thing where anyone who disagrees with their insane pseudoscuentific beliefs is a nimby

the crime rate in the 90's dropped due to the legalization of abortion

We snap our 78s over our knees and examine some of the industry-shattering changes that music has undergone in the recent past: how we make it, listen to it, think about it, own it, and pay for it — and who gets the money.

Thanks to Sean Agnew from Union Transfer (utphilly.com), Noah Kohll from Color Green (colorgreen.bandcamp.com/album/color-green), John Dwyer from Oh Sees (theeohsees.com), Geoff Rickley from Thursday (rosebooks.co/store/p/someone-who-isnt-me-by-geoff-rickly-paperback-preorder), Jess Williamson (jesswilliamson.com/), and Zola Jesus (patreon.com/zolajesus).

(MOBY is not mentioned in this episode we just had to put a guy as the picture and he is funny looking)

Episode 279: Welcome To The Machine (Taylor's Version)

We take a trip to Israel with Noah Kulwin and talk about Israeli political culture, Netanyahu, liberalism, money, and the Judicial Overhaul. Truly, Israel is a land of contrasts!

Tickets for the final Year of the Smile show in Austin, TX: prekindle.com/event/53167-trueanon-austin

Transcript of Yair Netanyahu telling his friends they can have sex with his girlfriend: haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-01-11/ty-article/the-full-transcript-of-yair-netanyahus-wild-tel-aviv-night/0000017f-e544-d62c-a1ff-fd7ff4de0000

Episode 281: Next Year In Jerusalem

We’re joined by Jonathan Melrod (twitter.com/JonathanMelrod), author of the new autobiography “Fighting Times” (pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1289). We talk about the factory turn of the 1960s, SDS/RYM II, encounters with the Red Squad, and his 13 years fighting in American auto plants and as an activist in the UAW. 

Jonathan's FBI file: static1.squarespace.com/static/605d7866711508185e437efe/t/629e3e73925c4d39eb5082fe/1654537863547/Jon+Melrod+FBI+file_Redacted.pdf

Episode 282: Fighting Times

We take a trip to Lincoln Center to finally answer the question: “Wait, what actually is Shen Yun?” Featuring: drunk monks, uncanny valley Colin Jost, fog machines, the Covid-19 virus, and the torrential storm of the apocalypse. Welcome to part one of our series on the mysterious and freaky Falun Gong.

Episode 283: Falun Gong Part 1: Shen Yun

We take a trip to China to uncover the origins of the Falun Gong, the contradictions between superstition and science, rural ear reading, levitation, and Qigong fever.

Episode 284: Falun Gong Part 2: Qigong Fever

We’re joined by author Lauren Oyler to discuss her new Harper’s article about her experience going on a cruise centered around Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP brand. We discuss performative crying, serial killer branded work-outs, vagina-themed everything, and selling self-actualization. Then, we catch up on an eventful few days in the media, with Musk’s Twitter checkpocalypse, and Tucker & Don Lemon getting the axe at Fox & CNN respectively.

Chapo Trap House

726 - Cruising feat. Lauren Oyler (4/24/23)

Our old friend David A. Banks is back to talk about the release of his new book, The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. We also discuss the complicated legacy of Richard Florida and the false prophets of the creative class. 

Buy the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-city-authentic-how-the-attention-economy-builds-urban-america/18908149

Check out David’s substack here: https://otherday.substack.com/

Episode 287: Creative Ass

Originally posted on June 17, 2022. To make sure you never miss an episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod
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The Utah County Ritual Abuse accusation take an even weirder turn as we look into a firsthand account of the Therapist’s attempts at mind control, manipulation, and terror.

UNLOCKED! Episode 233: Utah Detective

We cover some breaking 17th century news and look at the race car driving heir to the House of Habsburg, as well as the coronation of King Charles III, for a little modern-day Hell on Earth. Then, keeping with the theme of gratuitous puff-pieces in the Times, we look at “Liz” Holmes attempt to rebrand herself as a gee-shucks everyday mom and family woman ahead of her sentencing for medical fraud. Finally, we catch up on the ever-mounting corruption in the Supreme Court, and what our elected officials will fail to do about it.

The piece about heart transplants Felix mentions in this: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opinion/heart-transplant-donor.html
New merch, including Hell on Earth designs and re-stocked Zapata Oil hats, available for order through May 24th here: https://represent.com/store/chapo-trap-house

730 - The Man Who Would Be King (5/8/23)

We interview Oswaldo Zavala (twitter.com/Oswaldo__Zavala), the author of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist (vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826504661/drug-cartels-do-not-exist/), about images, stories, and realities of drug cartels in Mexico and beyond. Plus parasites, stories, violence, the State & much more.

Also by Oswaldo Zavala: La Guerra en las Palabras (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717742/la-guerra-en-las-palabras-una-historia-intelectual-del-narco-en-mexico-1975---2020--war-put-into-words-by-oswaldo-zavala/)

Episode 290: The Beast

We breakdown the charges against soon-to-be-former congressman George “Anthony Devolder” Santos, work though why it is that so many politicians just make up insane shit, and get the accused congressman himself on the phone for some answers.

Episode 292: Liar, Liar

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