854 - Medbed Bugs feat. Alex Nichols (7/29/24)
Felix and Alex provide some Olympics commentary by reviewing the last few Assassin’s Creed games. Plus, a return of our Animal News segment with a discussion of how much screen time captive gorillas should get. Then: Republicans get “weird,” Megyn Kelly critiques Kamala’s rise to power, Trump seems like he’s running out of gas, and Israel gets a January 6 by people demanding their soldiers’ freedom to commit sexual violence. Finally, a reading series on the phenomenon of “medbeds” and the people who hope Trump will unleash unlimited free space healing technology.
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Comments (188)
i can’t name a single thing alex said that didn’t make me laugh. he is the greatest
holy shit he literally calls the bondi beach shooting a minute into the episode 😭
Alex Nichols followed by Kath Krueger, two of my favorite guests back-to-back
I swear I got a parenting tip from gorillas. I had my son sleep on my chest the first several months of his life as gorillas do. It’s the only way I could get him to sleep. 🙏 Gorillas are very inspiring! 😊
Long time listener, first time commenter. I’m a little unclear on some of the terms but is Felix a “grouyper”?
no, he enjoys making fun of them
QAA has a good ep about med beds, or "mid bids" as they're calling them in Australia
Hate Australia all you want, but we can teach our school students to swim more when we don't have to teach them active shooter drills.
why the fuck does every australian go for "YOU HAVE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS" every time an american talks shit. chill
The good people over at the QAA podcast did a great episode about medbeds a while back. Definitely worth checking out as well!
Dang it you beat me to it!
i wonder where will is zooming in from lol
Fuck alex
just show them weed growing/smoking vids, guntubers, MMA, and hardcore porn. these gorillas just nekids, evolve. Grow up, gorillas
the grunge classic at the end had me eagerly awaiting the day i can listen to ed ved in my medbed
Such a good point about right wing boomers wanting handouts of magical/alien technology, but only for their own class. You can't get right wing people to feel an ounce of hypocrisy for getting their pandemic loans forgiven because of this attitude. Socialism for only the deserving is plane nazi shit. I even hear liberals argue that the reason public health care works in some countries but not ours is because America is too large and diverse
Lmao that's the boomer argument for everything. America is just too BIG for healthcare, public transportation, and affordable housing. America would be a socialist paradise if it weren't so darn big!
That Mudhoney outro!
Great episode. Alex has become one of my favourite guests alongside Cath and Amber Frost
So sad to see Amber described as a guest. Not that I’m disagreeing at all.
Lol bill Maher fell off
Can you point out to me when he was legitimately funny?
you guys are a little bit funny, but nowhere near vital anymore. it makes me really sad
what a weird thing to say about a comedy podcast
Is Alex Nichols a psychopath or does he just play one on Chapo?
“Doug Burzum” XD
#varg4VP
apes on phones and medbeds, what are you stealing old bits from boonta vista now?
in a somewhat passé meme parlance you'd say that the '24 republicans are "scaring the hoes" and "being asked to leave the function"
Will bringing back the tin can had me legitimately nostalgic which felt dumb but also heartwarming
Made me wistful for the old days when Matt would record from the bottom of a well.
Anyone know the outro song?
Touch Me I'm Sick, Mudhoney
I like Alex. People who think he's too mean are big weenies.
He’s so obviously joking. Hard to believe he’s too mean IRL
Chapo 2025!
Had a nice morning doing dishes and chuckling away with this ep. Alex rules. Kath rules. Jacques rules. Summer is my favourite, but would I ask for only one season over and over again?
Okay I’ll be the one to say it: after today’s chapo trap house store flub it has become clear that Will Menaker must step down as the president of chapo trap house. His age has become too much of an issue and he should clear the way for a more vigorous choice, Jimmy Carter.
Sure it’s a flub but it’s no Ghris
Thin episode
Increasingly unsure whether “Doug Burzum” is a bit or whether the fellas actually think that’s his last name
I think it's one of those things where you say it as a joke enough that it becomes the truth. I can't remember the guys real name, I just know him as Doug Burzum now
What about headbed and its bed that sucks you off
I thought that's what the Bloomberg machine does.
Jd remains one of the absolute worst vp choices of all time. Incomprehensible blunder by big don. Matt remains Goated with his normal whites theory
politics nerds making too big of a deal of vp pick imo. Normal people don't care.
The medbed is just a goa'uld sarcophagus, stargate sg1 is real
medbeds are the perfect intersection of extremely grim and extremely funny
Plz don’t use anything windows on the medbeds, use the cool Linux distribution North Korea uses, never heard a single complain about it 😎
Flag on the field, point of clarification-- the Baphomet is not actually satanic imagery, it was created by the Knights Templar as a sort of purposefully offensive racial caricature of Muhammad. They would use it to conduct fratboy rituals and practice false conversions in case they were ever taken captive by Muslims. We've never fully reconciled the problematic islamophonic nature of the Baphomet. I'd say for that exact reason it's actually completely understandable why a dweeby, reactionary, aesthetics driven worm like Elon would be drawn to it.
You are believing some ex post-facto state propaganda here. Baphomet was an entirely invented false charge led by the anti-pope and the French Crown, because the latter owed them a large sum and the former were threatened by their power and independence. Thinking that the Templar were actual occultists is the medieval version of QAnon
Hasbulla: medbed accident???
Nadir means lowest point smh
Michael Cheesebro best name ever
there's only one correct choice for a new permanent mic on Chapo and that's Alex Nichols, or Amber A'Lee Frost, or Katherine Krueger. And that's final. Or Jacques. Or Hesse. Or Hesse and Jacques. Or Hasan. Or Adam. But that's IT.
the new Chapo Trap House fulltime cohost announced: it's the girl reading this
ummmm think you meant apogee, Will. I'm smarter than you
Love Alex Nichols so much, by far my favourite guest, super happy he comes so often! Make him permanent sub until Matt returns :)
The Democrats are going to turn Austin, Texas red with their anti-weird messaging.
Karlmala Marx
doug bosom
As someone in chronic pain It's really cool that I spent hundreds of hours researching potential non-addictive pain medications with a fairly large team before the 15 cents we raised dried up and some fuckhead can go "we have a secret magic trump bed that will end your pain" and makes 2 million dollars.
34:53 Probably the realest thing Will has ever said on this show.
Baddie level scaling is the worst thing to happen to RPGs of all time. Oblivion ruined everything.
The med bed shit is really grim to me. I know these people are cranks, but it's so depressing that anyone finds a miracle pod made of alien technology more conceivable than doing anything to fix the healthcare system. Like doing anything to try and make it better is completely off the table.
There was a part in Trust the Plan where it talks about how one person fell deep into QAnon because she had an anxiety disorder. Rumination, as a symptom, makes people fixate on things they can't fix (like Satan, or all-powerful cabals). How much of conspiracy theorism is a result of just untreated health problems?
Richard Dreyfuss came to my college back in like 2008 and read Abraham Lincoln speeches. Even back then he was talking about how our problems are from not teaching civics. Crazy that he still thinks that's our issue.
Which is funny because arguably Lincoln presided over the period where civility had completely broken down - the decorum and structures of civics put aside and the minie ball or canister shot takes front stage.
“Donald Trump, JD Vance and the Republican Party are weird.” So the party has been fully Rod Dreherified.
Its been so funny to read Dreher's reaction to the weird discourse on Twitter
Give apes the vote.
Patreon app played last night's episode fine. Paused it to resume this morning and it won't play. Other episodes play but not yesterday's.
I wonder if Felix reads/likes Borges…can’t believe I’m about to say this, but, at least in terms of like “taxonomy-brain,” there are similarities. I bet he’d get a kick out of Ficciones.
Seeing all the RSS broken comments but both feeds came through on my overcast app this morning. Double checked all the settings, resaved/published eps here, on acast, on soundcloud...let me know if people are still experiencing problems if they try to redownload on their podcatchers? Someone said same issue for last night's Doughboys ep, so thinking it's a system problem and not just us.
Seems like it’s working now
every youth's first experience with technology should be normal like mine: install Ubuntu Server on a leftover Thinkpad and become weirdly tech proficient at age 15 to make Youtube run on an open source cleanroom rewrite of Macromedia Flash see also: becoming a journeyman-level network admin off of Counter-Strike 1.6
The pod is great to confirm that yes, the past few days of news have not been manifested by a ketamine induced fever dream for which I live in. That I am indeed, not having a normal one on this hellsite ya'll.
checking the medal list for the first time in my life to make sure Israel hasn't gotten a W
it is INSANE that ZERO national delegation boycotted over this. look up the list of olympic boycotts between '76 and '84. people used to fucking stand up for stuff
The way Kamala is talking about "the images" reminds me so much of their response to the uproar over the ICE agents on horseback
We should teach gorillas how to play Elden Ring.
Just put Alex on the show
I love Alex as the 3rd mic, always a treat
Calling Republicans too weird as an official play is proof Democrats are taking lines from the Chapoverse. Because Republicans have been weird for a long time, yet it's only now being applied a few months after Chapo has been saying it is the Republicans greatest weakness. Every other circle of influence is screeching about 2025 and the last president(good).
Kamala is a Grey Wolf confirmed
Kamala's "I won't be silent" statement reminds me of Elizabeth Warren's 2020 campaign promise that as president, she will read the names of dead trans teens at her weekly briefings in front of the White House.
Thinking back to last week when we had Manul content, feeling wistful
Greywolves 👎 Maoist Manuls 👍
Trump supporters want free government-provided healthcare. OK, then.
Isn’t the medbed stuff partially recycled from QAnon, I feel like I remember Matt (Felix?) talking on this podcast or another about a QAnon-er who was awaiting free insulin for their kid
I think they're half remembering the movie Stargate
Andrew Tate is a chimp someone gave a tablet. Probably some Bulgarian guy. Bill Maher's interview sounded like it was a word for word adaptation of a Stephen King novel conversation.
Michael Medbed
I understood that reference!
Is it just me but does this Alex fellow frequently "no but" Will and Felix's jokes instead of the more standard "yes and" behavior of fun-having
Been trying to figure out why his episodes feel a little awkward and I think this is the reason
Blumpkin/Burzum 2028
Assasin's Creed: Death to Israel
The Americans absolutely did exile loyalists during the American revolution- 100,000 of them were exiled to Nova Scotia
And it's still lousy with loyalists to this day 🤢😩💀
We're teaching gorillas about humanity with our cellphones! Hopefully they'll take the right lesson from it and exterminate their hairless cousins.
Someone on Fox News asked Donald Trunk what he thought about being called weird. He said "It's-it's-it's-it's-it's weird. It's weird." Later they had Richard Wolff on and he said "That's really...WEIRD!"
arun is leaking
Elysium was a cool movie
The medbeds are actually in space. The real ones I mean. That's why Joe and Hillary fall down all the time. Hard to get used to earth gravity again.
Also nadir means lowest low, not highest high
I was confused too! i think he meant Zenith
Where did the couch thing come from?
JD Vance memoir I believe. /His own writing
QAA has a great med bed episode. Trigger warning: it is extremely depressing
yes was just going to post about that, it's here: https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/med-beds-skye-prince-e274
Yo! I 100% remember that "Civics" rant by Richard Dreyfuss that was mentioned in this episode, it was so wild that I can't ever forget it.
Funny they don’t just redirect /store to .store
This feels like the daily show
if the election was a popularity contest, the person with the most votes would win!
“I dunno, the whole ‘Couch Fucker’ thing seems forced.” Easy fix for that: Couch Fuckah. You’re welcome America.
Get Mark Wahlberg to say it once and America will be repeating it for a decade.
I definitely understand Felix's complaint about Assassin's Creed becoming an RPG just to level scale the entire world around you anyway, but Odyssey is legitimately the best game in the series regardless
Bill Maher fucks them because he pays for it. I heard a porn star talk about fucking him for money before.
So the show is like foreplay for him, that's rad 🙌
That follow up question to kymala was beautiful
You dashed my hopes quite brilliantly sir!
Oh my go what if Elon was Shmorky all along
Fuck me, maybe it's a good thing he's never around his kids...
Lol Aimee Therese. Bahahah that’s a blast from the past
The Babadook
“Mr Trump, Mr Trump, no more water, no more water!” I like Alex, he’s really funny and this is bringing me back around from the Chapo-induced despair I fell into from the infamous “Jack from Seeking Derangements” episode.
"Israel should fight Hamas but kill fewer innocents doing it" is absolutely the worst possible fucking take on the whole conflict. Even the Ackmans of the world have a more coherent viewpoint.
That club random clips was poison
Mr. Nichols never misses.
If the RSS feed isn't working for you, you can right click > inspect the progress bar on the audio player and look for "audio crossorigin=... src="YOUR_UNIQUE_URL and copy that url into the address bar to grab the mp3 file directly so Chris doesn't have to wake up to as many "FIX PLZ" comments. Hopefully this doesn't break any rules (I don't see how since people can download the podcast episodes to their devices and do whatever they want with the files).
Shoutout to Matt/Adolph Reed, Obama as "witnesser in chief"
"Silverback Hentai" would be a good username though
Alex is quickly becoming one of my favorite guests
Desktop setup for apes would go crazy
Gamers In The Mist
Big Podcast is trying to silence Alex from being a permanent cohost.
RSS download is broken.
Alex Nichols my 🐐
Chapo is my med bed
Any episode where Felix talks for more than 30 seconds about video games needs to include a companion fact sheet so normal people know what he's talking about
Alex permanent 🔒
I’m usually a big Alex fan but gotta admit this wasn’t his best
is the ep broke on the rss feed?
I’m having issues downloading too
Trump really is just playing the hits. We've barely had any original worms that work their way compulsively into every day speech like "many such cases" and "many people are saying this."
The “much bleeding took place” line from post assassination attempt truth social post I thought was good.
Love you guys ❤️
just had a DEAD ZONE vision of a 7'6" Barron Trump adopting his mother's maiden name to run as a Democrat in 2044
The American people will never accept a silent k.
Who else here instead of their preferred podcast app
do they talk about venezuela or is it too recent?
What happened now?
You blokes are jealous your home isn't girt by sea
Whatever their politics, I always enjoyed the Olympics until the saga here in Japan four years ago. Now I can't even watch.
And here I was thinking I was the only Chapo fan in Japan.
Right to Rape nation state
Download broken on overcast
Same here
Megan Kelly is the Eylon Levy of the news
She used to be hotter, however. That Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS thing she did throwing a Heil Hitler hand at Trump's 2016 convention went over so well with the crowd.
More Alex, he’s good with you guys.
Come on you call the Republicans weird all the time and it’s true and it’s working. Yeesh.
They acknowledge it's working. It is fucking weird. They are weird. It's only working because Republicans, like that kid in school, can't stop themselves from being weird about being called out. If you just own it, it's not nearly as effective. Republicans by this point are deeply emeshed in online psychodrama. They know and are self conscious about how fucked up they are. It is again, less Democrats being smart or good, and just Republicans fumbling.
I recommend ep 274 of QAA podcast for more info on Med Bed hoax. It's really good and frustrating as hell.
Download not working on PocketCasts
I found out the Planet of the Bass people were on the Simpsons on Thursday, 15 minutes before I met the girl one and hours before I got COVID for like the seventh time
Detroit Become Human is great
They should’ve done trans Muhammad at the opening ceremony. I think the Muslim community is ready!
No one's ever really gone
No one's ever really gone
Holy fuck, listening to bill maher and the hawk tuah girl on club random is about as daunting a proposition as I can imagine in the podcast realm. Not sure if I believe Felix that he actually listened to it, despite his being the world's biggest club random enthusiast.
I had to pause the ep during that clip and collect myself. Felix is made of stronger stuff than I
Oh no don't cancel the half a trillion dollar submarine boondoggle which cements Australia's position as the biggest US military base in the world, please no 😱 But seriously, the only bright spot of a potential Trump presidency for us is the (very remote and unlikely) chance that he would cancel that deal. It's basically the Labor-in-name-alone government's excuse for cutting spending on things which actually help people here because we need to defend our trade routes with our biggest trade partner from attacks by our biggest trade partner.
I’ve been sleeping in an Olympic village style anti-sex bed for my entire adult life. This is among the top reasons i have never had sex. I am 69 years old. Also I’m nude right now
You've held on to a lot of power. The aura of your loins must be heaving.
If captive gorilla's learn incest from club random will they jack off to their gorilla moms or to the zookeepers who raise them?
🦍 > 👶
JD Vance once hurt his back in a self-suck accident while in the marines we were both in the hospital ward together and each got a purple heart true story
We can’t do the AR15 thing in Australia - they aren’t legal
Megyn Kelly for VP!!!
Fuck yeah you beautiful bastards Slop me up scotty
also im gay
Ah but the breakfast
Alex!
🐽
First to be second
On the ball