August 7, 2026

Chadismo Skynet feat. Ben Fogel and Mattie Lubchansky

We've brought on friend of the show and writer Ben Fogel to talk about the hard-right turn in Latin America, and the list of freaks is a mighty one: the gradient scale of Bolsonaro failsons, the Peruvian dictator's daughter, the fast food restaurant family crime syndicate, and many more. November is still recovering from an illness but thankfully we have Mattie in detention onsite.

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tabula_rosa69 · August 14, 2026

I work with someone in a company that does resource extraction in LATAM and it's been crazy watching after this wave of election results how quickly they went from "):> we don't know why our indigenous people hate having money, why don't they want us to despoil their lands for resources, they don't know what they're missing" to "there are no indigenous people, these are narco-terrorists occupying our company's ancestral resource-extraction sites, we will build the biggest concentration camps history has ever seen & fill them with anybody who opposes our operations". So that's neat. Look forward to that coming to the area you live in the next ~10 years

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Arsene Lupin conduit of identity theft · August 13, 2026

As an unlucky resident of Balneário Camboriú let me just give you a quick mayor update: The current mayor Juliana Pavan is the daughter of the previous mayor, and said previous mayor is now the mayor of the adjacent city of Camboriú. They're pretty much in that center right group and the most famous act by Juliana Pavan was forcing electric scooters to need license plates after she was run over during her first week in the job.

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Garrett Norton · August 10, 2026

Have you seen about the bluetongue disease wave in UK livestock? There's not much in terms of news report but a farmer friend says it's getting really, really bad. I feel like I'm seeing an economic iceberg on the horizon.

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Olafo Waffle · August 9, 2026

If these Latin American countries were smart, they would bar dual Nationals from running for public office.

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Liz and Ash at UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA!! · August 9, 2026

i am here for matie future

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Benjamin Young · August 9, 2026

Loads of Colombians in Seven Sisters we’re campaigning for El Tigre a few weeks ago. What is it that makes so many diasporas totally cooked?

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untitledearth · August 8, 2026

Riley said notable with a pause that made me think he was calling Mattie a notable as in "local notable"... and I think she should starting having that in her intro

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Rxk Lenderman · August 8, 2026

Mattie fourth mic just do it

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Robyn fooks · August 8, 2026

I hope Nova is enjoying her lovely vacation tied to the radiator in a lesbian polycules basement.

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kiwi · August 8, 2026

Man, this was NOT a fun episode. Like, I love y'all and I still laughed a bunch but holy shit is the entire thing extremely depressing and frightening to learn about. TF at its peak I suppose but it's been a while since one of these eps that just has me feeling defeated at the end.

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KMB24 · August 8, 2026

Another Mattie ep? The hogs are blessed.

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James Rule · August 8, 2026

Even more reasons to want the AI bubble to pop and hope the tech loses steam when the infrastructure supporting it vanishes.

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Sadie · August 8, 2026

One of my partners is Chilean and Kast being elected has been heartbreaking. UpCh basically did a left-Obama by running on change with Boric, doing fuck all, and then putting up an arrogant idiot woman (Jara) to run on the legacy of broken promises. The only good thing about Kast is he's so incompetent that he keeps tripping up over his dick every time he tries to do anything.

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Ponyus · August 8, 2026

Dang, novas been out for a while, hope she's allright poor gal

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Edarden · August 8, 2026

I went to high school and ran cross country with one of Jim Caviezel’s idiot children. He was an of-age senior who liked to hang out with freshmen girls. He also wanted to be an architect but believed beach front property in California was cheaper than inland property because of the long term up keep costs associated with sea air. Someone tried to pull up Zillow to show him he was mistaken and he accused them of manipulating the website.

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Santiago Poveda · August 8, 2026

Commenting from Colombia it's going to get so fucking bad. Great episode. Also fun fact a Colombian is responsible for creating the fruit AI series, this country loves AI slop.

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Phillip Alden · August 8, 2026

So South America is becoming exponentially more enmeshed with the Trump “dynasty” that will die the same day he does, and more enmeshed with the AI underwear gnomes who are, at the moment, about to be forced to admit there’s nothing in “step b.” They didn’t tear down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom. They tore it down to build the largest house of cards in history. Sounds like winning to me. Oh, and if you’re upset about the desecration of the White House, remember that it was built by slaves, and when they burned it down it was rebuilt by slaves. I, for one, am excited about the return of the East India Trading Company. But I thought we had already done that and called it “Amazon.” The world is a bigger place so I guess we have room for two East India Trading Companies. I’m going to buy a large container ship and call it “The Batavia II.”

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Andrew Davis · August 8, 2026

Your Sayyid Qutb riff was great Hussein. Real Shohei Ohtani on the Angels hours.

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Joshua Fitzpatrick · August 8, 2026

Ben Fogle! I loved you on Cash in the Attic

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Shiv · August 8, 2026

No such thing as too much Mattie

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Nick Gully · August 8, 2026

No Gods No Rileys

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Ajusco Huerta · August 8, 2026

If history and family stories are to be believed, im not feeling too hot about a possible repeat of the 70s and 80s in the Americas. Who would have thought that the school of the americas moved from Benning to Miami

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kaninchen ZERO · August 7, 2026

finch whose beaks evolved into coke spoons

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barry · August 7, 2026

Petition to make it trash mayors no future and be done with it

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etienne · August 8, 2026

the 2010s: age of Podcast Proliferation the 2020s: age of Podcast Consolidation

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Vast and Trunkless · August 7, 2026

TF wheeling Mattie into the room on a TV cart.