824 - To Look and To Watch feat. Alex Nichols (4/15/24)

Field Desires

I love Alex Nichols. That is all.

Will immediately taking an L on RDR2. Shake my smh.

after looking at jeevacation i cannot believe it is Mr epstein himself unless someone hacked it postmortem

no, mr lawyer, i do NOT listen to any podcasts

🎯optical waiting room playlist

I saw Gorillaz live in NYC a few years ago and it was AMAZING!

Iran is about to find out…that Biden asked them nicely to please let Israel get in a symbolic strike to save face. Shiver me Timbers

I think Trump gets seasick IIRC. In the 80s he bought Adnan Khashoggi’s yacht and built a marina in Atlantic City and tried to get the America’s Cup hosted there. He sold the yacht and the Plaza Hotel to Al Waleed bin Talal, the Saudi price who runs the Kingdom Fund whose father was a Naserite so-called “Red Prince”.

Nobody funnier than Alex! Please keep having him on.

Give Alex the third mic!

I saw Grimes DJ set at Primavera in 2022. It was the best/worst thing I’ve ever seen. Same deal, it was so quiet and I don’t think she knew what was playing.

Alex rules

Alex rocks. All the best to Matt, hope to hear him when he is up to it/back from paternal leave.

Love Alex, he’s consistently a funny and entertaining guest.

TJ Stiles—the historian who responded to Trump’s Gettysburg speech—blocked me on twitter because I disagreed with his comment that Nicolas Maduro was the worst dictator in the Western Hemisphere.

give alex a permanent mic NOWWWW every time he’s on he somehow makes me laugh even harder

Hey, Hatsune Miku is not algorothmically generated in any way. You have to manually put in what syllables she's signing and what notes she's hitting.

Why so much hate for Lex Fridman? There's so many worse podcasts. Lex seems like a pretty genuine guy to me and seems strange to hate on him so much.

Well jeez, the Austrian school only works under nazi like conditions (ahem strong bond prices supported by military might) so considering Argentina and Brazil are both competing to be the Israel of Latin America then, yeah this sounds about right…

I thought the hoarse whisperer dork had money and just delighted in getting what amounted to pocket change for them donated from suckers?

Holy fuck this is a terrible take

Loving Alex’s eps, dude makes me laugh. Guests in general have been great. Also I instantly thought about Liz Hurley as well, good job Felix

As an Austrian I would like to think that we drove the Austrian school of economics out of the country bc of their shitty ideas.

Road House featuring George Floyd.

This guest is the reason I won’t let my daughter date nerds. Gonna go have some coffee and tv

I saw Blur (who I ❤️) at Coachella in 2013 and even then they were joking about being irrelevant to that crowd, crazy that they still get booked at it. I think Coachella used to be geared towards a slightly older demographic, there would always be an older broken up band that would get back together just to play it.

what's that sick outro music

A Brazilian athlete telling America to read a dead Austrian economist is just normal.

I think everyone should love bomb fatterman with questions about considering suicide again

Unable to commit regular suicide, Fetterman coommts political suicide instead.

Now listen to Miku singing bizarre love triangle

The boys missing the obvious fact implied by Trump's Gettysburg speech: that Trump is a reenactment guy. They dress up in fun costumes, shoot fake guns, and are by law required to be either as fat as him or more. He goes to Gettysburg to watch the dads play war.

Johann Sebastian Bach MENTIONED 🗿🎶🗿Wtf Is marrying someone other than your cousin🗿🎶🗿

Missed having Matt on for the gettysburg segment.

very cute that chris said "hatsune miko" to imply he doesn't know who miku is. you are just not that subtle honey

Alex needs to immediately rethink his position on computer cars. The reason the car with four different doors and crank windows is still running is that it’s not filled with shorting out computers and faulty firmware updates and shit. A 10 year old car is far less reliable than a 20+ year old car!

When are you guys coming to Denver?

Didn't Trump meet Jeffrey Epstein on Khashoggi's yacht?

Assad’s emails got leaked years ago as well and it really gives context to his playlist. Assad is a huge I-love-my-wife guy. Like half the emails were just that.

God i fucking love every alex episode

Can confirm, I was at the boy scouts boat speech

Alex is too funny lmao, S-tier guest

Foaming at the mouth as Will incorrectly says the new installment in the BAD BOYS franchise is BAD BOYS FOR LIFE, which actually came out 4 years ago, instead of BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE. And Chris didn't even check him!

Alex with the Nichols on here

Roadhouse remake was good except for Conor McGregor. Didn’t even attempt to act. Mostly just smiled without blinking.

The final defeat for the Socialist Bloc and the legacy of Eugene Debs will be when Trump runs his Presidential campaign from prison but actually wins. That's an L we'll never fully recover from.

The rotating third mic format is working rather well tbh. Still miss Matt though, hope he's recovering!

10/10 on that cut to panama

Yesss more Alex

I lived in portland so long, one time I landed at ohare and saw a Hasidic Jew and my first gut reaction was to roll my eyes and mutter fucking hipster before I realized i was surrounded by actual diversity lol.

Funny, that vocaloid rendition of Bach's "Mattäus Passion" is the same one that prompted me to record the "Allemande" that ended up on the soundtrack to Matt & Chris's "Hell on Earth" series. https://chapotraphouse.bandcamp.com/track/allemande

More Alex always

“I care about private property” get fucked asshole you can’t own land it’s not a fucking ps4

America's chest-beating militaristic jingoism is based on - moreso than WW2 (when we arrived late and claimed all the spoils) - the annihilation of 90-100 million Native Americans. We don't have that juice anymore. Sure, we can make millions upon millions of innocent people dead or, if alive, envy the dead, but the whole thing about knocking a country over and .... doing what exactly? If Trump or Biden send troops into Iran (or fucking *Mexico*), that would be this country's last greatest mistake. More merciful to put our troops in giant shipping containers and seal off the vents.

The Roadhouse remake could have been ok. McGregor was fucking abysmal. I kinda liked Gyllenhaal as Dalton.

Real talk McGregor's whiskey sucks as bad as he does

“4 hour interviews with people Rogan didn’t want to book.” Perfect description of the Lex Friedman podcast.

Thrilled to learn that Will and Katherine are Billy Joel heads

Watched Tom hanks movie where he goes to Saudi Arabia that HAS to be a Chapo movie episode (prayers sent)

Thanks for the episode guys

Chris dropped the ball by not catching that insane Justice set at Coachella

the Gorillaz' biggest song is a preset, and there's a Tik Tok that shows how Grimes screwed up

can someone do an edit to remove Alex Nichols, hands down the worst guest they get on this show

I see we’re getting away from the 20 second interludes, salute

outro song?

I think the rule is: Felix will give up trying to pronounce a name after the second syllable

Ode to joy is not Bach. Also solid ep :)

every day america and israel are getting better at keeping information from getting out, I guess every now and then russia drops a cruise missile on a building in Kiev and then 3 days later some newspaper in Poland or Germany is like "we sadly announce the passing of General So and So from completely normal causes"

How did Will forget the horse whisperer lmao

McGregor needs to be a Fast & Furious villain

best part of coachella discourse was all the influencers there being perplexed and slightly pissed at having to see clowncore https://youtu.be/ePH5LNddhmo?si=xMfXhXirZBXC4G56

Love Chris coming in like a reporter on the scene at Coachella

Alex avoiding correcting them about Miku and thus not revealing how much he knows about fucking vocaloids was just tremendous

conor mcgregor is the most awkward screen presence i’ve ever seen and i hated it.

Alex is so good

Alex Nichols is funny as hell.

Felix: “So, do they get dipped in the toon stuff?” Not beating the allegations.

I had also memory-holed Hoarse Whisperer. Memory holes are underrated

I miss Matt. No disrespect to Alex.

Audio quality good this week? Safe to look at comments, or we raging?

Trump owned a boat in Gary IN once. A gambling boat, flew in flew out. Big news of the day around here. Hell, he had William Shatner host the Miss USA pagent at the Genesis Center in Gary IN. Think old Detroit with a smell of molten iron wafting through the air.

I always love Alex Nichols, keep having him on frequently. Joke about Sting and Seinfeld was good

You know, Mr. Moicano, America doesn't come to your country and smack Bolsonaro's dick out of your mouth...

Hell, Dutch, I dunno about this plan, and I'll be damned if I can see why we're building fuckin' railroads to Poland

Fetterman's influence in Braddock was Harvard graduate moves to working class black suburb of Pittsburgh and introduces gentrification by way of converting a shuttered public school into an art gallery and building a park no one asked for

Conor didn’t ’beat up’ that old man, the old guy barely flinched, Conor became part-owner of that bar and banned the old guy for life

why would anyone listen to vocaloid bach when the swingle singers exist and have been doing that schtick for like 70 years

Felix is like I know gorillas are cartoons I’m not a fucking idiot

All this talk about Coachella and not a single mention of how stunning my darling wife, Lana Del Rey, looked that night 🙄

I thought Coachella was a music festival where you did a bunch of drugs and get a new type of clamydia no doctor has ever seen before. Why the hell would they want to harsh that vibe with 35 year old virgins who smell like soup and unironically Naruto run?

Felix clearly isn’t that familiar with Moicano’s skills, he’s actually a very solid fighter. Easily a top 10 lightweight talent and action fighter.

"Robert E. Lee, who’s no longer in favor — did you ever notice it? He’s no longer in favor. “Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.” They were fighting uphill. He said, “Wow, that was a big mistake.” He lost his big general. “Never fight uphill, me boys,” but it was too late." "Never fight uphill, me boys" is one of those phrases that would work equally well in a high school year book, or an epitaph. Trump at his most free-wheeling, completely ahistorical best.

I go to Gettysburg and I look and I watch, wow, so beautiful. And the hill, folks! They had a hill and our great beautiful Robert E Lee said ‘don’t go near that hill!’ but they went up the hill. So tremendously beautiful

Ya boo bay ya boo bay

Wiggly wap

Damn, I guess I'm second.

Oh how nice first