872 - Crossing the Bosphorus feat. Alex Nichols (10/1/24)
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 also look at Tablet magazines full-throated defense of Adams & the necessity for foreign bribes.
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Comments (108)
Love hearing Matt. Love even more that he cribbed from There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. Parenthood is good for the soul.
Tuning in just now from Asheville, thanks for the shout guys, the love is needed and appreciated. The region is pretty cut-off from the world now; it's surreal, and there's no playbook for any of this. I can try and send updates from the ground; the bullshit from state corporate media is about as rigorous in ethics and professional integrity as one might expect from the Levant Arab genocide PR team. There are many direct connections and parallels between the struggle of Appalachians and the struggle of Palestinians. We could use those quadcopters right now, but they are busy blaring baby noises and taking pot shots at children on rollerblades. I'm safe, busy, and very lucky. Y'all really help me stay sane, it's good hearing your voices <3
love Alex episodes, truly a riffer's delight
Are the hats machine washable?
Man today’s show is gonna be good
Chain Alex to the third mic
I think the reading series is one of the most unhinged articles Chapo has ever covered
I love when chapo and tf are in sync
Check out this journalist at the Eastern Oregon Daily News poking senator Wyden about Israel in a way you literally never see in the rest of the media. https://youtu.be/tgwMo_PMCvk?si=Wo5sXGhdP_yx6_kg
Ron Wyden is a Nic Cage Longlegs looking motherfucker.
Excellent episode Mr. Chapo. The remixed Neeeeeewwwww Yooooork song with his speeches is criminal, and while I am against the death penalty for any crime on principle, sometimes exceptions must be made for the greater good. I can't wait until the TrueAnon episode on the court reporting.
Felix pronounce everyday English words correctly challenge
Oh come on, you’re just being penny-wise, a dollar short!
going out on the Four Lads, hot as hell
Yet another episode where Felix finds a way to talk about fighter jets.
PENNY WISE AND DOLLAR SHORT
There are two ways to be in this world: penny wise and a dollar short, or pound foolish and a day late.
Horseshit episode! Istanbul>>>>France/Italy
And All the bribes Israel is giving to reporters.
just have to do a fact check on Felix I’m afraid, the story about deleting texts in the bathroom was an Adams staffer not Adams himself. Eric Adams did something even stupider because after the investigation started he changed the passcode on his phone and then claimed he forgot what the new passcode was to investigators, he seriously thought if he “forgot” the new passcode that would just stop the entire investigation in its tracks. He claimed he changed the passcode to protect any potential evidence on his phone from being tampered with.
Proof Eric is too stupid and childlike to be tried as an adult.
You think Coumo might run for Mayor?
If that's true, then Adams will be president someday.
thankfully nobody said "Iran will never fire a ballistic missile barrage at Israel" or this would have been Ukraine all over again
The Ukraine bit was because they had Derek Davison on and he just regurgitates US government narratives while claiming to dislike them. They trusted the wrong guy and fell for just the trap that was set for the anti-war left.
“Why is he going to Easter Island?” “To look at the heads!” “I guess that’s kinda cool” I dunno why but this took me out lmao
🗿🗿🗿😎 Eric Adams on holiday
The NYC Mayor's office has famously launched multiple successful presidential candidates. DeBlasio. Rudy. Bloomberg. William F. Havemeyer. The list goes on.
Excellent hate read article; loved the energy at the end
Imagine having your religion reduced to cock n ball torture.
Even Old New Yorrrrk Was Once New Amsterdaaaaam
the Kurğan is already turkish
Am I crazy or did Eric Adams also edit in the drums from "in the air tonight" by Phil Collins into his custom Empire State of mind soundtrack
outta context but The War on Drugs did a sample/pastiche of that song on I Don't Wanna Wait and it rules
So weird to hear a podcast that isn’t TF making the Turkish ice cream man jokes
I know right? Context collapse
Awww yisss Alex Nichols
I flew to Budapest via Istanbul on Turkish Airlines in 2016 and everything was Batman vs Superman branded! I was so puzzled. My guess as to why was that there's a town in Turkey named Batman. The menu was a folding bat, almost wish I'd saved it. They gave us little cubes of Turkish delight with Batman/Superman flags in them after boarding. The food was great for an airline, the man's got taste!
Why are people from Venezuela catching so many strays from the right lately?
Socialist country, not white, migrants, that viral post or story about Venezuelan gangs taking over a apartment, and possibly chavez stealing the election for biden
Excellent deployment by Felix of the🤘Paulie🤘/ Johnny Sack storyline
Clearly Eric Adams knows about the free Turkish delight samples at the Istanbul duty free
The funny thing about that Tablet piece is how rabidly racist it is. Y’all are spot on when you compare it to Der Sturmer- I have not seen a Jewish outlet make sooo many references to George Soros (or “migrant gangs”) before. The mask is off when it comes to racism in the American Jewish community- the author sounds like Laura Loomer.
maybe it's because I have a functional brain and I can remember stuff but wasn't there a strong stand from jewish advocacy groups for international refugee protections? There's a big talking point centered around the legal barriers that countries used to keep jewish refugees out on the leadup and during WWII so hearing this guy talk about the monetary cost of immigrants to the public health system feels especially fucked up, like imagine NYC turning around a boat full of jews from germany in 1937 because it would strain the housing market. It would retroactively and correctly be depicted as genocidal antisemitism
Taking a bribe that comes with a permanent layover in IST is insane. There’s a dozen daily nonstop flights to Paris from JFK. You can fly nonstop to Tashkent from JFK.
Love Alex. What the hell's going on with your levels Will it sounds like you're constantly leaning away
You all laughed when Adams claimed to be various ethnicities but here he is, in writing, being a brother of turkey
Yo we in Atlanta getting gassed rn!!
mf said penny smart dollar short
It's its own thing.
Once again: great timing!
I hate John Tester so bad you don’t even know 🤙
Love chapo but I cannot in good faith listen to 80 minutes on eric adams, especially with everything else going on right now. Honestly means next to nothing to me as a non NY resident.
you are no true hog
"ves-TEEG" can't even tell if these are intentional or not at this point
ask Will why a champion of THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN wouldn't have the pronunciation of "row" (as in quarrel, spat, tiff) (as in "Are ye rowin'?" "I didn't think we were rowin'!") on lock.
F-35 program mentioned at 1:09:02
thank you king, I was late to this ep
Goddamn, Eric Adams rocks so hard. He's just too cool for rules. He's officially my write-in vote. 🤘🏿
this was a little while before Eric Adams, but i attended a Armenian Genocide Rememberence Day rally in 2019, in Times Square. Chuck Schumer spoke and accidentally called it the "American Genocide" multiple times. swear to god
Book is actually only in Spanish. Matt's brain injury has removed his ability to speak anything other than fluent Spanish, but he does it in a very esè type way. You know? Like yo ese! Eh ese! Which is prproblematic for the show given the already problematic name.
❤️ brimless yankee fez and enes kanter kurgan were so crazy thanks for the laughs right now
Death to Israel also I’m gay
Will really mispronounces the kurgan …. There isn’t a single person that’s ever said kur-gawn
What's crazy is that it's...only a movie? Like they say it. So he is reverse Felix by mostly consuming tweets I guess?
Felix begins speaking at 3:16
Please start annotating when Felix begins speaking with cotton candy stuffed in his mouth. This episodes cotton Candy talk begins at 45:30.
Felix begins laughing at 1:57. I'll let Travis handle the rest
Thanks for the GA shout out! I'm under a shelter in place order right now and thanks to this toxic plume of chlorine I am, undeniably, the cleanest Chapo fan ever.
My throat hurts... from laughing! Good ep
This episode could not have come out at a more distracting time
Alex is always great on the pod.
I'm ready to sign up for the Eric Adam's Janissary Corps
Welp Iran just launched missiles at Israel. Tuesdays am I right?
And all the east coast ports are on strike
Listener from AVL, somehow managed to get WiFi to listen to this episode. Really is the little things, thanks y’all 🩷
one correction: it was an aide to Adams that deleted her messaging apps while taking a bathroom break. What Adams did was tell federal investigators that he had changed the password on his phone to make it more secure but he had unfortunately forgotten the new password so he couldn’t provide them access
You know it's an fym crossover when poop is mentioned in the first 8 minutes
It's obvious: Mayor Adams is addicted to khlav kalash and crab juice.
New York City is the Chapo Trap House of Patreon!
Someone needs to hot swap Eric Adam's walkout music out for any version of "Istanbul"
Alex coming on Chapo an immediately talking about poop is everything to me. Now he just needs to get Felix to do the Talk Tauh podcast
Respectfully, the Turkish Kurgan is clearly Brace
I refuse to believe that Eric Adams is guilty of such lame charges. Charge him with something fun enough to be worthy of America's Mayor.
It's amazing that the Supreme Court ruled that giving politicians a tip is legal. unless I'm misunderstanding the ruling, much of the corruption might be totally legal if it happened after he gave the favors
It’s pretty clear - New York is now the Pyongyang of America.
Where is October movie mindset???
tomorrow!
Do not ever fly w Turkish Airlines. Ever! Consider yourself warned.
Terrible take. I flew TA from Atlanta to Stockholm, by far the cheapest route yet comfortable seats, 1000s of movies/shows + pre-releases, good food, literally unlimited beer/wine/snacks provided by big titted Turkish compremat agents. A short layover in one of the coolest cities on Earth isn't bad either. So what if I had to ass mule some Afghani H for the Grey Wolves., still way better than the lumpen prisoner transport experience provided by Amerikkkan Airlines.
Will Matt's book be available overseas? Instant buy for me if so.
I'm told it's available wherever mail goes worldwide
Slip slop I was having gay sex
AHHMAIWWIKAH!
LETS GO NEW EP. WITH ALEX 🔥
Waiting for Eric Adams to get on the witness stand and just go "all you haters are gonna be my waiters!" with a huge shit eating grin
can you release a cut of this without the other guy
Sir, how dare you say this about Will / Felix?
Alex Nichols 🐐🐐
An October (Tuesday morning) surprise, to be sure
What an insightful episode that I just finished. Bravo as usual Chapo!
Alex 😍
SIXTH!!!
Rubicon* (?)
Ah yup
Shoot that Chapo straight into my bloodstream 🫰
Early
Nice