739 - Greatsword of Artorias (6/8/23)

If this is a deliberate strategy by the RNC (it's not), then wouldn't it be easier to just have one guy in the first place?

Hall wingfield

i guess so, but i think they're past needing clickbait and i don't rly see it as that, bc clickbait is intentionally misleading. and clickbait doesn't rly work for a podcast format since it takes longer to get to a point. wouldn't they want to do the same thing on patreon to get more subbers to listen too? the $ they bring in provides plenty of creative independence so idk if it's that either. it doesn't rly bother me it just confuses me lol

natfos 💌

YouTube and Spotify require clickbait thumbnails/titles to get more viewership, patreon they have more creative independence since listeners are already subbed

teacup

i don't think they're clearly doing that as a strategy, but it's certainly an option for them. i saw osita nwanevu say a few days ago that the large number of candidates means they are not serious, which i think is wrong.

jack flowers

Seems clearly the RNC is segmenting the electorate with lots of duds in the primary to coalesce at the right moment a-la Biden V Bernie. Or not, idk fight me

Jacob Teasdale

Nah fuck you - I want to see the car that kills me

William

...as the Cold War was re-heating in '78, Lancaster narrated a 20-hour, internationally syndicated series on the Soviet Union in WW II called _The Unknown War_. This came five years after _The World at War_ kind of broke the media silence in the NATO west regarding the Soviet War, but still, that took something on Lancaster's part. I watched some a long time ago, and now I want to give it another look...

Frederick Von Drasek

Felix needs a shot clock for his riffs. He’s funny when his jokes don’t take 5 minutes to deliver a mediocre punchline

Elliot Matheny

i'm sure hundreds have asked this but why do you guys use different episode titles, thumbnails, and descriptions on spotify vs patreon? it is so unnecessarily confusing

natfos 💌

heh thought he was the funniest one

egage

Piggie needs his slop

Degzo

Very easy to not defend lazy, shitty jokes, but here you are. I like the show, just don’t like the world’s worst ongoing bit.

TL

And you're paying his bills! Neat!

AKorgar

Nice

Donald

Jesus Christ Felix is so fucking annoying.

Degzo

Need to hear everyone’s thoughts on Paramount+’s “The Family Stallone”.

The piggies are clamoring for their slop. It's me. I'm the piggies.

Tristan Clark

You know what time it is folks 🪣

I am become reply guy

Very easy to cancel your subscription

Shane

can it be slop time

Frank

Love paying $5/month to hear the same fat joke 9 times every episode. That’s comedy, folks.

TL

Felix thinks Taylor Swift would love him, and Adam Friedland thinks Scarlett Johansson would like him. Hmmm.

Hector Jaime

after you shit on cyclists please get to the moron runners who like jogging in the road at dawn against the flow of traffic. those people can get fucked.

sean

People who drive in NYC have got to be some of the dumbest people in the country.

Alex

he lives in LA and can't drive. like common man. the one place on earth where the weather is good for biking 95% of the time and they ruined it by turning it into a big clogged highway. but yeah let me unload on how cranky mamils are so bad we need concentration camps

etienne

the guys up at Patreon HQ put in another masterclass update where the app sends me a push note about the fact that one of my subs might have posted in the recent past and then when i click on it it loads for 35 seconds then just shows me my normal feed. fully aware we are paypig hogs

etienne

felix gets a pass for lashing out at bikers due to his autism

dawood

Swear to god I will unsub if there's another boomer brain anti cycling episode

buttface

It’s tough but not as bad as most people make it out to be. You just need to learn to be ok with not understanding everything on your first (or third in my case) read.

Byron's Glowing Filament

That's right, they're made out of boats. Checkmate libs

Tim O'Connor

Uh, what do you think space SHIPS are made out of?

Jack Hume

dissapointing car-brain chapo think driving is faster than cycling in nyc (cringe)

Joachim Macdonald

boats suck! 🤘🏽space force

Shivvy

My main gripe about this show is how cringe and not funny felix can be when he attempts to be crass. the constant griping about fat people too.The way he talks about other peoples body shape/size makes him sound like a fucking pig imo.

kenneth hammond

At first I thought the cyclist comments were just a little funny, now after reading people in the comments whining about it, I realize it's actually very funny

All of these recommendations have inspired me to get a copy. It seemed so daunting until I read comments like this.

Poppy Chulo

she's the occluded mahdi

Greasy_Jones

Stick at Gravitys Rainbow Matt, if anyones qualified to pick up on all the references its you. Ive read it twice an i'm a moron

philfinn

Obviously. And Chris is the angel Gabriel, communicating their messages to mortals. Virgil is Lucifer, the fallen angel.

Michael Landreth

Much as Matt does Inebriated Past, I would love an episode where Felix goes through all of the lore of Dark Souls / the themes of FromSoft games

Sam Tung

I love paying money to someone to threaten me with death by sword for the sin of riding a bike - I guess that makes me a paypig!

Eugene Koontz

Very funny riffing.

David Andrews

I have seen the Schwarz Gerat

bbbbb

The cyclist hate is nothing new and I can take it. But Felix saying that if you bike in NYC "you're not going anywhere anyway" is maybe his dumbest take of all time. It's hands down the fastest way to get around in the city. Up to 3 times faster than the train and beats cars unless you luck out with traffic and parking.

Gay Eel

By this logic, Amber is the disappeared and transcended Mary Magdylane?

Yoseph Needelman

Will doesn't riff as much because he is hosting the show, but when he does, it's great. The rest of the time, isn't he the one that does the research and finds topics?

Dan

Will, Matt and Felix are the father, son, and holy ghost triumvirate for people who stan a podcast so hard it becomes their religion.

Michael Landreth

Great episode fellas. Unrelated but was wondering if will was ever gonna do an interview with Alan Moore again. Thanks.

Zakir KH

I thought I was the only one who didn’t remember when I went to see Taylor in NJ also Chapo talking about Taylor Swift crossover I never expected

Caroline Molina

All-timer ep

Corndog

No no no, cyclists are fags.

Poppy Chulo

My grandpa didn't DIE at Guadalcanal so MEN could pee SITTING DOWN !

Adam Mohr

And yet somehow every episode without him is hot garbage 🤔

Scot Forsythe

If there were aliens like trump could keep quiet about it

Ben Zaretsky

Gulf war eras tour did not get the laugh it deserved

Nbsp1

Will telling cyclists to get a job when that's probably exactly where they're biking to while he's coasting off of Matt and Felix's talent every stream is pretty rich.

infinitesunrise

Says the fat ass who doesn’t bike

Chris T

Who needs a samurai sword when you have a ULock

Hayden Duncan

wait a sword guy is trying to say cyclists are annoying? to be fair though i would love to clothesline someone who's riding on the sidewalk

james

It’s not nostalgic honestly.

Nakatomi_Jones

There will never be enough dead cyclists to satisfy me or god.

Poppy Chulo

Nostalgia is the mind killer. I will not nostalgia...

Poppy Chulo

we know :(

Rohmer Simpson

Cyclists deserve every ounce of hate they get

Nathan E Simpson

I feel like Felix would really love Gravity's Rainbow. It has some of the funniest bits in any book I've ever read and it's very much his style of humor.

Although there’s prolly a lot of things I like at 35 that I wouldn’t like, if I hadn’t first been into it at 12.

Nakatomi_Jones

I mean.. I agree, everyone I’ve met who likes it too, is the worst. But I love it, rewatched the whole series twice since first seeing it at like 12

Nakatomi_Jones

Always love listening to the pod, boys regularly put up a double-double. This one was like putting up a triple-double each, well done fellas

Nick M

Is Red Dwarf worth it? All the kids I remember liking it were the worst, so I skipped out.

Chris T

Perfect episode

Dick Wolf

Damn, people have feelings about Gravity's Rainbow

ROU Sentient Lichen

Ahahahaha yonic P

ROU Sentient Lichen

Every time they make a gay ass reference to something like dune or red dwarf I want to kill myself bc I get it

Nakatomi_Jones

Valor She Stole

Zach Pierce

After hearing Matt talk about the Germans trying to build the world's largest tank ever I have now have a new appreciation for Dr. Algernop Krieger as a TV show character.

Michael

And that's one of the tamer sexual encounters.

Yairo Martis

cum and pee

Rohmer Simpson

100%!

Yairo Martis

It is Gladio-brain the book

No

Support for NATO collapses after US produces remake of Come and See with timothee chalamet

No

Get in the fucking V2 Gottfried

No

someone brought up on twitter the first version of the trump/pence 2016 campaign logo where a phallic T was penetrating the yonic loop of the P

etienne

Electrical college

江戸 ねビル

Gravity's Rainbow is not impenetrable. Sure, many passages are dense, but if you track back and slow down you soon find yourself nodding along, muttering "oh I get it, the dutch dominatrix is shitting in the octogenarian brigadier's mouth"

A funeral home, lol

SoldierBlue

Against the Day is great, late 19th century & early 20th revolutionaries shaking things up with lots of steam punk style weird science, psychic conspiracies, etc. And in Mason & Dixon he made the hypocrite "moralist" William Bennett (A Book of Virtues) wet his pants with rage by just discussing Washington's & Ben Franklin's correspondence on the uses of "Indian Hemp" etc., Bennett wanted the book proscribed by the Historical Index Librum Prohibitorum Society for depicting Franklin smoking weed, drinking ale and singing saucy songs. Given his involvement in Paris' Hellfire Club, if anything the Franklin portrait was tame.

Mark Schneider

Exactly. Just read on and page back if you need to. Someone needs to do a digital e-book of it with hyperlinks at every allusion and reference. To really fry readers' minds.

Yairo Martis

The whole light bulb sideplot, getting dunked head-first in a toilet at a club in the Boston area by Malcolm X, Dutch colonists extincting the dodo, German proto-genocide in Africa, and of course becoming your own penis.

Yairo Martis

It fucking rocks, dude. It's also full of sexual perversions.

Yairo Martis

Matt would either die or ascend Childhood's End-style if he read Gravity's Rainbow. There's so many allusions and references to history that his mind will achieve criticality.

Yairo Martis

Sure. I just tend not to care much for this particular postmodern literary style and I find engaging with it more frustrating than rewarding. As I said, I will probably still attempt to read it. I thought The Crying of Lot 49 was alright.

Axel Herrera

Bunch of old dads sitting around complaining about cyclists on their radio show.

Travis Albert

Just because it’s long and complex doesn’t means it’s “about everything.” It’s about very specific things. It just delves into every aspect of them. A book you need to read if you care about half the shit Chapo or other leftist podcasts love to discuss (and I’m hoping Chapo is joking about their take on it lol).

Byron's Glowing Filament

they're good books. like you're allowed to read them an enjoy without having to write a english lit term paper about them if you want

etienne

Gravity’s Rainbow just sounds awful. That kind of intolerable, manic “maximalist” literature that’s “about everything”, like Infinite Jest. I’m probably still gonna read it though.

Axel Herrera

Klacik 2024!

Ian Fletcher

Even GR isn’t unreadable as long as you’re not the kind of person who needs to understand every single thing going on. Best book ever written imo.

Byron's Glowing Filament

can't find anything about the hunter 21 savage song. Made up?

Jonathan G

A lot of his books are way more accessible than GR too! Crying of Lot 49 is a super easy read that anyone can enjoy. His books aren't an IQ test lol

SeymoreButts

Classic Man sounds like a song by Charles from e1.

nack

I would say the amount of cunts on bikes is about proportional to the percentage of lunatics behind the wheels of cars, only getting hit by a cyclist probably won’t kill you.

Richard Perez

Pynchon is my favorite author and you are all wrong.

Scott

Yeah the nav apps are weird that way. Dunno if the following will make sense but here goes: one time when I was delivering in southern Queens/Brooklyn (basically where one goes to be executed by a minor Boardwalk Empire button man), I was directed - via the bicycle directions tab - to take an entrance ramp onto the Belt Parkway i.e. suicide. Quickly learned to simply decline orders based on geography.

Rohmer Simpson

I did 3 months of uber eats near the end of the pandemic out of sheer boredom and it was kinda fun but the thing kept sending me to West Island suburbs and across highways. I wouldn't mind getting back at it on a purely like for fun and exercise basis but I found a life since

etienne

Addendum: feel I should make it clear that I am not in the least an athletic individual and ought not to have been a challenge to apprehend. But I saw them doing a grid pattern search or whatever and I fuckin ditched them cunts.

Rohmer Simpson

I was a bicycle delivery guy for the last several years I lived in NYC. Every shift was 90% normal and chill, but for the other 10%, let's just say, I was very much not a good person. I did have one moment of pure triumph and that was when I slowly rolled out through a red light at a sleepy intersection in the Queens wilderness, a black & white lit up and pursued me, but I lost them by going the wrong way down a crosshatch of 1-way streets. Then I locked my bike against a lamppost, walked home, came and got it the next day. Very satisfying farewell to New York City's largest organized crime syndicate, the NY Pricks & Dicks.

Rohmer Simpson

I'm the world's biggest annoying vehicular urban cyclist and sometimes I too want to purposely crash into other annoying cyclists to teach them a lesson. Nothing more envigorating than doing a almost legal Stop at a corner to let a family mom through and getting buzzed at 25kph by 10 e-bikers

etienne

"Nukes are the most annoying and universally disliked group in the navy." Respectfully, wrong. I was an IS; us and the Cryptos are/were the absolute bottom of the barrel.

Rohmer Simpson

It’s true; I broke my arm a month ago getting doored in Brooklyn

Chris T

My grandfather was in the original chapo trap house

Major bit me

When Matt said "Burgum, Burgoo - delicious squirrel stew" I really felt that.

buttface

I was in the navy. Nukes are the most annoying and universally disliked group in the navy. They whine constantly and act like they are better than everybody cause they scored a few points higher than average in the kindergarten ass entry test. The nuke disrespect is appreciated and endorsed. Thank you for your service.

nathaniel newland

Pizza ranch dessert pizza let’s go

Dante Scaglione

when I bike in PHL I legit look at it like Paper Boy. I don't throw things anymore tho.

carl

DoD guy and a Lockheed PR guy walk up to a podium holding hands: "Yeah, aliens exist. We killed them; shot 'em down when they told us we aren't ready for nukes. Now we're using their tech to keep you safe and defeat the Chinese menace. That will be all."

C. Andrew

Yes, that way I can finally understand what the hell Kingdom Hearts was about.

Valerie

On the one hand, Russia's disruption of the Ukrainian Civil War last year caused blowback in the form of a bunch of apathetic people becoming Nazis, but on the other hand, how many people will be signing up to be a Nazi after they lose to Russia for the 2nd time? But yeah, Dirlewangers are basically the Groyper Battalion.

Doug Cartel

Felix should do a podcast where he just explains the plots of video games

Nick

Ok haha yes Ukraine has a complicated past with Nazis, anti semitism and Austro- Hungarian death’s heads, but in Mongolia, where I live, beween Russia and China, if I freaked out evrrytime I saw a swatstika …well that would be pretty stupid…

Scot Forsythe

I’m a bathroom man. you can be me if you poop and pee I’m a bathroom man

sir peepus

“Gravity’s Rainbow, it’s magically obscure!” -MST3K The Indestructible Man

I hope Felix gets hit by a car ❤️🙏

Andrew

Quality slop back, class action suit averted

Ernest Ambrus

lol, the man definitely rolls cleric

Owen

Another insane thing about the “Nazi efficiency” myth is that their wartime economy was largely built around enslaving people and working them to death

Andy Palmer

One of those perfect 9/10 episodes

Agent Grange

True shotels too cool for him. His communications lady whose always on twitter is that guy outside Nito with the massive church mace.

More Human than Human

Perfect timing, just beat the artorias dlc and now I’m drowning against the pursuer in ds2

Owen

Dark Souls 1 is my all time favorite gaming experience. Playing first time blind and with no FROM experience may never be topped for me.

More Human than Human

Seems like more of a Lloyd’s Talisman kind of man.

Owen

Of course Mike pence frames the most basic ass bitch Bible verse

Greg

JIDENNA

Michael S. Judge

Ron DeSantis wields dual shotels. Or a mace. He’s one of those faith user characters whose the most evil guy in the game

More Human than Human

I was just done going through my own Autistic dark souls related side quest (DS2 Santier spear in my case.)

Luis Lopez

Not to be a pedant, but 650,000 people live in Portland. I was one of them, wearing a gas mask to get to work.

Spenny

Classicman was a really short lived image comic where the protagonist used combat swing-dancing to defeat his enemies

skrrt vonnegut

King Arthur's DIE required reading is "Knight Fragility."

Samuel Z Goldberg

I told artoreuis not to hang out on discord

J. A.

*snort snort smile* piggie no like movie slop.

A Witherspoon

Swordswordswrordsword

T S

RIP IRON SHEIK

Basil

baby radagon just rizzed up queen marika. is he the new elden lord? or is marika just using him for clout?

saintbeau

The only video game talk I want to hear about is Tears of the Kingdom. But that’s just me.

Corey Reynolds

Virgil is dating Taylor swift????

Richard Cardenas

What’s the news???!!

Caz VanDevere

Hell yeah dude

J. A.

Felix placed a Sworder on Etsy

NYCM&AHole