We have always lived in The Zone. We take in the stunning re-election of Donald Trump, the manifest failure of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and the entire Democratic party, and all of the myriad obungles that have brought us to this moment. This has happened before, it will happen again…Reasons to ...
2024-11-08 05:34:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Charles, Alex & Andrew from Episode 1 for a night of Election-themed spoofs and goofs live at the Aratani Theater in Los Angeles. Featuring the Dan Boeckner Christmas Time Players: Dan Boeckner, Nick Thorburn, Alex Fischel & Adam Halferty. And of course, a special...
2024-11-06 00:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s 5 days until the election and we’ve had enough talking this political bullshit so guess what? It’s Time For My Stories. We’re looking at NBC’s new medical drama “Brilliant Minds,” which dares to ask the question “what if a doctor cared about his patients?” We’ve got memen...
2024-11-01 04:59:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Ciao horror-heads. On this episode of the Screamset, we take a trip to the nation of Italy, a country known for its beauty, history, and some of the most brilliant and fucked up horror movies of all time.
First up is Tenebre (1982) directed by Dario Argento. In this quin...
2024-10-31 11:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapo elections unit Dave Weigel and Josh “Ettingermentum” return for one last check-in on the state of the 2024 US Elections. We review Trump’s fascist clown show rally at Madison Square Garden over the weekend, and discuss its potential impacts on the final week of the race. We look at th...
2024-10-29 03:36:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Friedland stops by to catch up on Kamala’s town hall, the possibility of a Trump “October surprise,” Mr. Beast and his poison Lunchlys, and to debate the relative notability of various adult performers.
Catch Adam live in Denver this weekend: 2024-10-25 04:50:42 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode the massacre continues as Will and Hesse get slimed up and examine two horror films by Brian Yuzna that play more like grotesque sex comedies.
In From Beyond (Stuart Gordon, produced by Yuzna, 1986), horror icons Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree and ...
Journalist Max Read joins us to discuss his new piece on the proliferation of “AI Slop”: unwanted, low quality, often surreal content flooding the internet and degrading its various platforms. We talk about the dystopian quality of the trend, the economic factors encouraging it, and how it po...
2024-10-22 02:21:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix & Karim catch up on all things combat sports centered around Karim’s new podcast series “In The Red Corner,” examining the relationship between Donald Trump and the UFC. They look at the long history between Trump and Dana White, the UFC’s emerging status as THE conservative spo...
2024-10-18 04:44:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Death to all other movie podcasts! Long live the New Mindset!
Today we are joined by Nick Newman of The Film Stage to take a trip inside the bodies and spaces of Canada through the early films of our Northern neighbor’s finest cultural export: David Cronenberg.
In Shivers (197...
2024-10-16 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
We start today with Alex and Felix explaining a notoriously filthy video game streamer and his repellent political views/personal hygiene to Will. Then, we check in on the Harris campaign as it continues to search for meaning, substance, moral clarity, strategic vision, & more while election ...
2024-10-15 05:41:44 +0000 UTC View Post
A Peek Inside Donald Trump’s Personal Fantasy Land
Those who believed the results of the 2020 election signaled the final exit stage right of Donald Trump, national figure… were wrong.
Trump did not go away. Instead, his numerous criminal and civil c...
2024-10-15 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, well, well, looks like we’ve got our own October Surprise for you. The video wizard team of Vic Berger, Ben Craw, and Oliver Noble have completed their previously announced mini-doc THE PHANTOM OF MAR-A-LAGO: a look at Trump’s time out of office focusing on his very own...
2024-10-12 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We return to the world of Tay Sheridan & Sly Stallone’s TULSA KING for Season 2. What penny-ante antics have Dwight “The General” Manfredi and his gang of miscreants gotten up to? Somewhere between jacking catalytic converters and extorting Oklaholma’s richest man over government wind...
2024-10-11 06:02:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Movie Mindset brings you a bone-chilling double billing based on the scariest concept in all of cinema: The Sequel!
That’s right, returning ghost Andrew Hudson of E1 & Pop That Corn joins Thrill and Hexe for a Movie Mindset first: an episode centered around the Shriekquels of two boov...
2024-10-09 15:16:18 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been one year since 10/7, so we discuss a bit of what’s changed - if anything - in perception and politics of the war in Palestine. We then look at the 2024 election, the effects of recent and impending natural disasters, and last week’s VP debate. We also discuss Kath’s recent piece...
2024-10-08 05:47:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Brother Séamus joins us to review the week’s momentous events in the Middle East - Iranian missile strikes into Israel, Israeli incursion into Lebanon, ongoing massacres, straining relationships with the Gulf States, sclerotic-to-nonexistent US response, and of course, adult circumcision.
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Welcome back Boils & Ghouls,
Horror Movie Mindset 2 starts today, as you may have noticed. We posted this schedule in the Book Announcement post (by the way, buy the book: https://chapotraphouse.store...
2024-10-02 17:51:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Greeting boys and ghouls, summer is gone, and spooky season officially commences with the return of Ghoulvie Screamset Horror Movie Mindset!
On this episode Will Massacre and Hexxa Deni kick things off with two movies about the spookiest animal of them all: Cats.
First up in t...
Alex joins us to go in on now-indicted Mayor Eric Adams. We go through the many hilarious details of the unsealed indictment, the Turkish Connection, airline bribes, New York to Easter Island via Ankara travel, ice cream trickery, and windows literally falling off of Turkish buildings in NYC. We ...
2024-10-01 16:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Grey Wolves,
(sorry if you're getting this a second time/didn't see the first time, we had to do some last minute adjustments on the site)
The fine folks over at our merch supplier got everything together a day early, and Matt's book is on sale NOW for our loyal patrons. BUT THA...
2024-09-30 17:32:42 +0000 UTC View Post
AJ+ journalist Mohammad Alsaafin returns to the show for updates on the expanding conflict in Palestine and now Lebanon. We discuss where the war stands, the current position & history of Hamas, the status of the “two state solution,” Israel’s goals in Lebanon, Hezbollah’s strategy, a...
2024-09-27 05:55:42 +0000 UTC View Post
¡No Pasarán! Matt Christman's Spanish Civil War, the first book from Matt Christman as a solo author, will be available for order from Tuesday, October 1st - Thursday, October 31st exclusively at chapotraphouse.store.
The book is just under 200 pages, red ha...
2024-09-26 00:16:57 +0000 UTC View Post
🚨🚨ALERT PATRONS:🚨🚨
Chapo Trap House + Episode 1 will present an ELECTION DAY EVE Live Show in Los Angeles on MONDAY, NOV. 4 at the JACCC Aratani Theater in Downtown LA. Laughs, rants, electoral insanity, special guests(?), [don pardo voice] MUSICAL GUESTS(??). Will definitely be...
2024-09-24 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
BLOWBACK’s Brendan & Noah return to the show. We start off today’s show discussing Israel’s massive escalation into Lebanon, and Brendan & Noah point out the many parallels between America’s current position and the various atrocities and mis-adventures they’ve chronicled on Blo...
2024-09-24 05:25:13 +0000 UTC View Post
We had to hop back on the mic this Friday to cover a slew of downright nasty stories that all broke last night: The Goonin’ Lt. Governor Mark Robinson’s account on a porn forum called “Nude Africa” reveals a number of disgusting comments, conservative operator Chris Rufo’s email among a...
2024-09-20 23:53:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Journalists Christopher Robbins & Katie Way from the independent outlet Hellgate return to the show to help update us on NYC Mayor Eric Adams' chaotic administration. We look at the scandal and indictments surrounding a number of top Adams officials, including multiple sets of siblings, all e...
2024-09-20 23:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Ben & Matt of the JUSTICE WARRIORS comic series join us this week. We look at the SECOND Trump assassination attempt in about as many months, Trump’s increasingly intimate relationship with Laura Loomer, and just his insane personal and political arc over the last few months. Then, more ser...
2024-09-17 05:18:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Defector’s David Roth returns to the show for wall-to-wall Kamala v. Trump debate coverage, with a deep dive into Laura Loomer’s elevation to inner-circle Trump entourage and additional coverage of Shannon Sharpe’s sex stream.
Find David Roth on Defector at: 2024-09-13 06:12:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Derek & Danny of the American Prestige podcast join us to review the new film Reagan. Can a film that accurately depicts the 40th president of the United States as a vacuous himbo who eagerly repeats the last thing told to him also portray him as a righteous colossus who single-hande...
2024-09-10 05:59:17 +0000 UTC View Post