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On midterms eve, Will, Felix, and Katherine give us an emergency update on the developing November Surprise in Michigan, where one truly strange-looking man has thrown a pivotal senate race—and the Democratic Party’s plans to hold the Zionist center—into complete chaos. We analyse the Stevens-Turkis

Ryan Grim of Drop Site News joins us for an international tune-up in the ol’ beltway garage. We analyze not just the forthcoming US midterm elections but the upcoming election in Israel and surprising results in Brazil. We also determine once and for all if mocking the Cheesecake Factory is elitism,

Thanks to the fine people at the Alamo Drafthouse, we're pleased to be bringing Chunks to a series of one-night-only screenings at Drafthouses in the following cities, each with live Q&A with our crew: SF / New Mission, Q&A with Amber Frost and Nate Fisher Monday, Nov 9 @ 6:00pm https://drafthouse.c

In what critics are calling the most on-topic episode in Chapo history, Jake and Thomas of Pendejo Time join us to explain what a “line wife” and a “bucket bunny” is, and how these subcultures have found their way into TikTok virality. We also talk about the Air Force tech that died by falling at a

Amber Frost interviews Yael Bridge and Antonio Rosario, the director and a subject of the new Teamsters documentary Who Moves America. We talk about previous Teamsters struggles, the state and future of union organizing, and how Yael captured their fight on the precipice of a historic strike. Check

The movies? …They’re back Welcome Movie Minders to another season of Movie Mindset! Over the first three seasons of Mindset, Will and Hesse have endeavored to provide a curriculum with a broad selection of oddities, rarities, old movies, and foreign movies beloved by movie sickos but mostly unknown

Greetings Minders, Will here, and to kick off this season, I wanted to do another one-movie episode with Felix like we did last year with CASINO, and I knew I wanted it to be another movie that has cast a long shadow over both my personal mind palace and the chapo extended universe. I wanted it to b

Katherine is back to talk about animals with Will and Felix again, including the bizarre story of a Chicago billionaire paying for a rat infestation. We then return to the ongoing fractures in Mamdani’s base, as a recent ICE shooting makes his decision to keep Jessica Tisch even harder to defend. La

Hello Friends and Movie Minders, Will Menaker here to do some quick SELF PROMO for you. Over the course of a decade of doing Chapo, I’ve talked about many, many movies—some good, some bad, some masterpieces, others made by Ben Shapiro—but all those movies have one thing in common: I’m not in them. W

Chapo All-Star Alex Nichols is back for a quick news roundup. We eulogize Dennis Hastert, speculate on another Epstein associate’s suicide, and explore Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend’s recent house-destroying rampage. We then take a deep dive into a new conservative moral panic: parents being cut off

This week on Chapo, we review The Daily Wire’s Run Hide Fight: Infidels with screenwriter Josh Olson. We did into this failing company’s newest attempt at recreating the racist 80s action movie, this time with about five minutes of Jonathan Majors thrown in. We dig into this movie’s worldview, pitch

Journalist and author Kylie Cheung joins us for a survey of abortion rights in the post-Dobbs landscape. We discuss the anti-abortion surveillance state, the medical establishment’s failure to meet the moment, and the right’s construction of a broadly pro-rape politics. We also discuss the Democrati

Chapo vet Jacob Bacharach is back to talk about the apocalyptic rhetoric coming from AI companies. Are the threats of an imminent disaster real, or is it just desperate panhandling? We then turn to the big New York Magazine piece on Trump’s ballroom project and analyze his strangest bit for immortal

This week on Chapo, Will and Felix go long on two reading series. First, we have a piece in the Jerusalem Post with a plan to finally win the war in Iran by drafting American debt slaves. Second, we have another John Fetterman exposé in the Wall Street Journal showing just how lazy, oafish, and enti

Mark Perlmutter and Thaer Ahmad from the documentary American Doctor join us this week to discuss their time working as doctors in Gaza. They discuss what they witnessed in Gaza during the genocide, their attempts to persuade politicians on Capitol Hill, the medical industry’s willfull blindness to

Hello all, Just a quick reminder you can add all our miniseries as their own unique podcast feeds on your podcast apps. I've posted about this before, but I imagine many of our subscribers may have missed this update. I also imagine this will be very useful for those of you slowly making your way th

Chapo All-Star David Roth returns for a survey of the right-wing influencers running the government: DataRepublican, MomOfDataRepublican, InfantryDort, all of the stars are here! We also check in on another round of liberal struggle sessions about Hasan, and the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos by t

Tom, Tarance, and Aaron are back on the left’s premiere A Song of Ice and Fire podcast to talk about a recent army enlistment drive offering new recruits four days of Grand Theft Auto VI. We also talk about the populist revolt and liberal counterrevolution against data centers, plus Trump and RFK im

The year is 2009. Baquack Odoula is giving birth to Obunglercare and telling Americans that if they like their doctors, they can keep their ashes in urns above their fireplaces after they are rounded up and incinerated (Google “doctor’s plot”). Jay Cutler is filling Chicago Bears fans with hopes of

The titular Guys are back! We continue our coverage of the deteriorating conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln before checking in on two women in politics: Nancy Mace and Natalie Harp. We then do a deep dive into the world of mafia-turncoat-influencers, former made men in the Five Families who now r

It is said that ages ago, champions of content would bestow limited series concerning movies and video games upon their leal subjects. Such were the demands of the common listenership, this particular series detailed the “modern From Soft catalog,” though the episodes themselves reached such immense

Journalist and YouTuber Jordan Shanks-Markovina aka friendlyjordies joins us for an Australian news ep, comparing the MAGA movement of the United States with the right-wing nativism of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. We talk about Australia’s world of mobsters and bikers, one deputy PM’s war on Koalas,

We get to some news that we didn’t get to on Thursday, such as Iran_Ceasefire_FINAL_FINAL.pdf, right-wing influencers pivoting to OnlyFans, and the cold case of Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping. We also respond to some listener suggestions about how to deal with a vulture problem before a lightning round

Jake & Thomas join us to explore some recent Rogan Lore, look at the eschatological facets of Ted Lasso, and contemplate the interiority of some of our acquaintences. Then, our various failures in Iran, our Troops on T, and our bumbling military in general. Jake’s promo for flood & food relief in Ke

c. 2026 Hey friends. Here's the theme song I composed for Chunks, the new comedy anthology from Chapo Trap House. You can watch it here: patreon.com/chunkstv and see the trailer here: https://youtu.be/NBWA5cz6guk?si=vp8WEcPks0VhPVwY chunkily yours, nick