905 - Roko’s Modern Life feat. Brace Belden (2/3/25)
Beautiful Brace Belden joins us to look at Trump’s tariff’s, possible annexation of Canada, halt on federal funding, and other breaking admin news. We also discuss New York Mag’s party report from the NYC MAGA scene, and Brace briefs us on what we should know about the murderous “Zizian” rationalists, and how they fit in among all the other people who’ve broken their brains online.
TrueAnon’s in-depth coverage of the Zizians here: https://pod.link/1474001390/episode/a778bfc3221464a5eff8d657bc89eb8a
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1:09:50 did Brace have a bisexual awakening? He said he doesn’t do Grindr because it’s dangerous (not because it’s guys looking for guys) and keeps referencing twinks and other gay lingo
Uh, like Will and Felix do on every episode? ;P
Thread here for discussing which Protoss unit is the most autistic. Observer? Adept? Archon?
Whatever their basic builder unit is called. Quietly working away
Lol @ BBeldon in 2025. Probs doesn’t remember who Lucy Parsons is; new thing is hating on the left, tongue-in-cheek but a self-described liberal (objectively worse). Brace’s idea of anarchism sounds culturally reductionist and based purely in weird identity politics instead of the history of class struggle. You can give your studded belt away now, it’s all good dude. Also noticed Chapo guys increasingly trying to sneak in lil dunks on rust belt & manufacturing cities. I’m sorry you guys feel insecure about not knowing how to use power tools at age 40. Less irrelevant coastie shit. More episodes about meaningful resistance.
There's so much silliness here, but maybe let's just focus on that last part. This podcast has never been about meaningful resistance. It's a comedy show.
“I don’t fuck with Grindr because it is dangerous…” idk my dude sounds a little asexual to me
I have a bone to pick with Brace depicting StarCraft as stupid media
Anyone know who the outro was? Song?
Same, I know brace was in a band I’m wondering if that’s them?
Loved the outro music
Who was that? Fing awesome
Hawk Tuah x Greaseman collab
I need her to learn about snarlings
Make Montreal Hong Kong and make the Gulf Islands Taiwan (mainland BC can suck it tbh)
Did not expect Bojangles to catch a stray on this ep
Felix once again barely disguising his giantess fetish
He's disgusting
After listening to the two TA eps and now this, I am really living for the way that this story has totally melted Brace’s otherwise very articulate brain into goo. He keeps trying to give a high-level summary that puts it all into perspective and literally can’t lol. It’s so good.
I had to turn that TA episode off 3/4 of the way through. It turned into Dad ranting.
Oh man, don't take the Protoss from me.
Similiar but Smaller Sinister Angular Gay Guys is my band name
So the Zzyvians just crib from classic sci-fi for their fantasy world. (Just like the Scientologists, Heaven's Gate, & to some extent the Mormons.) At just under an hour in when Brace says their fear is that the AI God will poach their consciousness from the future to torture them for not serving It on this section of the timeline, that is a straight steal from Harlan Ellison's classic 1967 story, "I have no mouth, and I must scream." (Not a fun read, but a provocative idea.) There was no time-travel in the Ellison story, but otherwise it's a direct rip-off.
The next American Civil War will be between cults based on LotR and Star Wars
Trueanon plus Chapo equals Cumtown
If you guys could talk about something important next episode that would be cool
Imagine complaining about an ep with Brace.
Hey Felix, any chance for coverage of Mr. Robot on the next go-round of This Is Sus/Time For My Stories? Was reminded of it the other day and always found it to be a pretty interesting specimen among prestige dramas, and something that really captured a particular moment in the #occupy to #resistance pipeline
I actually non-ironically liked that show and would still defend it as a piece of entertainment, but it's hard to do after the creator went full shit lib
so funny, boils down to not wanting to pay rent and unfortunately too stupid to cope with reality. the landlord seem so accommodating to them tho.
Doing DEI seminars in the forest with Dr. Tituba, Ed.D.
I saw Goody Proctor with Roko's Basilisk
roku city's basilisk sounds like it's basically one degree of separation from christianity... "if you don't do everything you can to show god you love him now, he actually raises you from the dead and stomps you out for eternity. it's called hell." fucking lazy writing if you ask me.
It's Pascal's Wager, but you replace God with Skynet.
dead boring takes on canada as per usual
You guys should try doing something worth remarking on. Your prime minister's literal addiction to blackface is the only reason I've cast a glance in your direction recently.
The last President of the United States of America and The Master of Mankind.
What did Bourdain ever do to deserve this
Felix’s least likable trait is that he always, always, always has to start hating on anything that more than ten people on the internet are enthusiastic about. He’s an online culture hipster
funny thing is that Montreal would be the Singapore where you're legally allowed to speak english to the Québec Malaysia
Wagon Wheel Nationalism
Norman Mailer invented the calling yourself an N word thing
Independence for Quebec!
don't think that real heads wouldn't notice that there have been two (2) episode titles in the last eight and a half years referencing seminal Nickelodeon show Rocko's Modern Life, considering cancelling my pledge in disgust also Felix's conception of dei training in corporate offices is pretty much spot on, it's a "here's how you behave so that we don't get sued" and is mostly just annoying for regular people who mostly seem to have worked out not to be a dickhead through standard means
This is true, but would add that the average corporate employee is becoming stupider and more attention-deficited so that can-figure-it-out cohort is shrinking every year
Crazy to hear walter kirbs name went to school with his daughter
Love the outro song selection Brace!
what's the track called?
Can we nuke the Bay Area already. The zizians and Roko’s asslicker sound like what happens when there’s no mega churches or accessible pussy around.
Are you kidding? these people are having orgies all the time. All that tech money gets pussies wetter than a sweaty Patreon subscriber.
Brace was on just a day or two too early to talk about Trump's Gaza plan. #sad
Felix the ronin groyper
Lone Wolf and Cub but cub is like a 60 year old Archie Bunker type, still diapered and in a stroller
Not sure if that music at the end was gg allin or bb belden
BoJangles slander :/
I briefly worked for a startup that Shaun Maguire cofounded ten years ago and it is so funny to observe his cooked brain now
If you don't have a diagnosis and a medical history going back to your childhood (not saying childhood diagnosis, but come on autism isn't nothing you should have had developmental delays of some kind), you're not autistic. None of these people are autistic. No one in Silicon Valley is autistic. They asked Musk what his symptoms were and he was like "I'm like awkward and I get into things." THAT'S NOT AUTISM!!? JFC I hate tech people. What's worse is they were using fake diagnoses to avoid taking responsibility for their financial crimes before (and we saw how well that worked out for SBF), but now Musk is using it to avoid responsibility for mass murder. Including actions that will kill actual autistic people.
The broligarchy and teen girls on TikTok have this delusion in common.
Awwww shit Brace in the trap 😎
The jug hooters don't know about the cruel kids article because they aren't on groyper twitter, they're on catturd twitter, they're busy catching up on news like Peanut the Squirrel
Felix doing his "uuhh uuhh everyone calls themselves freaking autistic nowadays because they have interests" bit falls a little flat when done alongside his performative "yeah I'm interested in warplanes I bet you've never met anyone as weird as me before" thing episode after episode
The difference is he doesn't pathologize it.
Do you think Anthony Weiner ever contemplates how his immense horniness directly led to the trump era and the subsequent ruination of the country?
Nope! I'm sure he continues to think only about his weiner.
Got my copy of No Pasaran today! Thanks Matt and Chris. I originally subscribed to Patreon for the Hell on Earth series. I'm sticking around despite my favorite character's short sabbatical.
Can’t wait to hear Will sound off on how cleansing Palestine entirely by pushing the people into Egypt and Jordan and turning the West Bank into nothing but settlements is good actually
Why does this podcast attract the most r-worded comments?
Ah, Brace. Our favorite reactionary, always online, edge lord.
It's a skip for me, unfortunately.
The Zizzians are followers of the teachings or Dr. Zizmor
I thought they were followers of the deceased Australian bodybuilder
I used to be in the skeptic atheist community until it started collapsing on itself and I realized how shitty a lot of those ppl are, and one of my former friends from it has a podcast and had Aella on 😳 like girl , don’t you know?? I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the skeptic ppl I knew ended up in the Zizian thing lol
I used to read all the Slate Star Codex blogposts so now I recognize all the weird bay area shit now, pretty fun
It's annoying enough that the rest of Canada hates us, but listening to Chapo talk about Toronto made David Lynch's take on Canada look like an ethnographic study!
You are beginning to understand what it's like living in Portland Oregon.
Great episode! The Zizians remind me of Aum Shinrikyo (ie “you have to murder a bunch of people and be evil to save future humanity after the apocalypse.”)
hey Chris, my coy of No Pasaran showed up today! it looks great
calling someone a pussy refers to "pussy cat" just like scaredy-cat does
I thought it was short for pusillanimous
What’s with the zizians? Who gives a fuck?
well they are killing people
This AI god just sounds like an inverted Santa clause, or robot Santa clause from futurama
THIS is how veganism gets mentioned on the pod? Vegan Siths?!! Fine. Sure. Maybe a missed opportunity to discuss the how actually terrible factory farming is and how most of us are complicit and yes, veganism is a consumer boycott that the left should be encouraging. It intersects with environmental issues, labor issues. It's an actual revolutionary act we can incorporate into our daily lives. How could a good person do bad things? Big ag marketing duping you into thinking what happens in a slaughterhouse or a factory farm is something you'd accept as normal, necessary, and justifiable.
I think it was a good approach to touch on the fair bit of veganism and then move on since nothing about their behavior logically follows from the vegan bit: “they think factory farms are Auschwitz, which I agree with, but they are still crazy people.”
Yeah, I’m pretty sure a J6 dude got shot by the police a couple towns over from me in Indiana like 24 hours after he got pardoned. Shits wild.
Crazy didn’t know anyone else who listened to this show knew Jasper or Pulaski county. my husbands family still lives out there.
Thank you brotha LUV.
Huma IS fucking sexy. No wonder Hilary kept her around.
Toronto is not perfect, but it's not as terrible as Felix and CIA asset Brace Belden make it seem.
Cope and seethe
I hope quebec conquers the USA & forces everybody to learn french
Anytime bb is in the house I know we in for a treat
I was 13 on a road trip with my family. My Okie uncle driving over the Golden Gate Bridge said “This here is what me and my trucker buddies call the GAY BAY!”
The triple entendre explained: White Chinese White Chai Knees Right Chinese Mr Belden is one of our greatest minds omfg
WHO HITTING THE BILLIONAIRES WITH THE DOMINICAN RAY
Gay chapo listener wondering mid pod if his Apple Music has been turned on
Malevolent A.I. neo-HumaSoros3.0 is going to favor me way more than the rest of you guys because I’ve been thinking about her for 5 years straight
lol that 19 year old girl who wants to say “retarded” is like the average red scare listener
Average female red scare listener. The average Red Scare listener is male and a Patrick Bateman aficionado
To clarify, this isn't based on Zyzz the bodybuilder right? Some other guy?
Its based on the teachings of Dr. Zizmor
“If we’re going to criminalize a dick being visible through sweats, it’s like a constitutional crisis.” That’s why I pay for this shit.
Love people who know nothing at all about Canada talking about Canada
It was a good beer commercial to be fair.
Has there been a Brace appearance where he hasn’t made fun of Amy Schumcher atleast once? What is Lawrence of Arabia’s obsession with this chubby gal?
We love Brace don't we folks?
Brace is wrong about BC being an alright state, there's no way he knows what lays beyond Vancouver
Quebec also LOVES having places named slurs https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3184317
11 place names with the N word
Imagine if New York mag found out about FSU 🤣
Lilly Phillips is famous for something else haha
end song?
Tighten Up by Braces old band Warkrime
Oh no, the CIA asset is back on the show
Well...that's it guys. Saying the R word is officially lame and only pussies say it now. Jury is out on saying pussies, but I think if lesbians stop saying it, then we'll have to retire it as well.
Idk how anyone can stand his voice
have you forgotten which podcast youre listening to bratha lmao
White Chinese power! 🇨🇳
To be Canadian listener is to be under constant attack, and now you guys are throwing shade at StarCraft? C'mon man.
felix w the lily phillips dog whistle 👀
I love Brace but it’s becoming more and more apparent that he stole his whole shit from Redbar.
Daesh on fools notice
Don't talk shit on Bojangles.
NC rise up
"He's 19 years old, he's not paying taxes - he's living off his rich parents while he studies Philosophy at some expensive university, like everybody else!" - Will "Silver Spoon" Menaker
Will had an actual job lol
I knew Zizek was up to no good
Zizek’s diet is strictly dairy.
Got my copy of No Pasaran today y'all, thanks so much; just happened to show up on my birthday!
There are no accidents Danny. Happy birthday. Make it count, ifykyk...
Got confused again because my brain always mixes up Frazzledrip and Razzlekhan
Is Ziz Dark Woke? Is computer my friend?
I can’t believe the mavs gave Luka away
Take fuggin Alberta and shut aaap
Maybe SOMULENCE wasn't CROMULENT enough
there will be at least one person in the replies defending the zizians for pwning their landlord epic style
I've seen more MAGA flags in Canada than on the west coast of the USA
The thin blue line Canadian flag sucks so hard. Like, at least it works design wise on the American flag, give me a fuckong break
There is a legitimate argument for Montreal to be made a city-state.
Ey man don't hate on discord , I wouldn't have found chapo or Tf without it .
Temporarily reversing my opinions on landlords for this one guy
I love the Chapo x brace videos just wish Liz was here to
Rich people dancing like charlie brown in a hotel
Can I be White Chinese and practice Huma Abed Nationalism or do I have to pick one?
It's like nazis listening to jazz music
I *am* a democrat
It's like when you smoke weed and say shit like *we're on a rock floating through space or we're in a simulation* with Golden Dawn type behavior.
Classic conservative podcast refusing to let a woman speak. Justice for the world’s greatest liberal podcaster, Liz Franczak.
Anti polish sentiment as well
Hell yeah I get a third true anon this week. Liz and yung chompskee sound weird
thanks for the MTL love boys 😁 glad you enjoyed yourselves in our city
If America invading Canada results in the destruction of BC I will deem it historically progressive.
That vine drop
Respect for trying to stay topical for about 10min, then admitting not one of them knows much more than Trump about what a tariff is.
As a Montrealer I've long advocated for city state status, glad to see Chapo gets it
It's just based Dorsia
We definitely arent supposed to even know this many people exist. No wonder we all feel bad when we’re bombarded with the hottest and most successful people plucked out of 8 billion.
CARRIER HAS ARRIVED
Lol was that Warkrime at the end
name of song at the end?
Brace's old band Warkrime?
they got the wrong trueanon host on for this episode. Liz actually knows what a tariff is
I need her take on the Luka trade soo bad too
It is pretty funny how much of a curve republican women are graded on. The most mid women in a white sorority are Pam Grier to maga
We need a priestly cast to translate the internet to the commoners, serve the powerful elites and make excuses for their excesses.
cool episode, no idea wtf u guys are referencing (I'm not american so i'm missing cultural context), but you sound like you're having fun
You are not alone
Felix’s ‘Michael Mann Nationalism’ is just the films of Michael Bay
I don't know, Brace. Is Jacques "fine?"
Garbage day is a very dangerous day.
I think we should just declare ourselves true inheritors of the Anglo zone then we can get cores on Canada, Australia, and the UK. Trump definitely never played HOI4
What do you think the Five Eyes Alliance is other than United Anglos International
I’m p ppl
lol Brace I was just remembering the Cory Booker plane story after seeing he voted to confirm yet another GOP psycho
I think the big cultural moment is that rich people who have been pretending/insisting they aren't for decades now are just going to be unabashed about it.
I always thought my first cult psyop would happen when i was in my 50s
The Lana song had me tripping
I had already listened to the first part of TrueAnon’s Zizzian coverage and the moment they brought up them being a Rationalist movement I wanted to kill them with fire.
To those wondering what the end credit song is pls do as I am and just go watch a Tony hawks pro skater gameplay vid with ur favorite soundtracks im also you
“It’s like watching King of Queens; I don’t want to become a UPS driver or whatever” lmao
“BasedHunterNationalism, we love the song Dota” 💀
I picked an absolutely batshit time to start to transition (a little over a month before the burger reich took over) but at least I live in Maine and they haven’t outlawed HRT nationally for adults yet emphasis on YET (Brian killme)
We love Big Brace Belden, don’t we folks?
No
Love a good chapo episode am a newer patron from meeting yall starting with Felix on Hasan’s streams💗💗
Jesus, dudes, fuck the price of eggs talk. Musk and 20 something tech bros have literally been given the keys and told to have fun. Maybe cover that shit. God damn how is no fucking media accurately capturing the gravity here and how is no one proposing any fucking options for action?
This country ain't changing, so you may as well kick back, relax, and enjoy the content...
soyfacing
They’re doing a remake of American Psycho? Oof 😔
American Cum Peach 🍑 🍆
what’s the end song?
As a Cajun Jew (we exist!) I am terribly offended by Brace comparing Cajuns to Quebecois. Quebecois speak gutter French and are descendants of filthy lumberjacks and fur traders, while the Acadian people speak only proper French befitting a most gentle race of yeoman farmers.
literally zero cajun speak french you just say "cheri" and "merci beaucoup" as an affect and fail to communicate with your actually french speaking grandparents
Who is this band at the end of the episode? I really like it.
womyx in puppetry foundation took me out lmao
inspired by Tony Bourdain telling me to wear a shirt
Tonight, at apprx. 0030, I fell asleep on slop watch duty. I have dishonored my comrades, Mr. Chapo, and most of all, myself. Please send the bill for the bullet to my family. 😔
brace a fed confirmed
I buy it
Love the chap house and always will, but the next time I recognize the joke of an episode title will be the first.
This is now me entering hour 6 of listening to Brace talk about this subject this week
Pod-pilled. At some point 'the grass' gon' creep in and touch YOU!
Haven’t heard the ep yet but my mom went to high school with the guy who made Rocko’s Modern Life and he made a full two page cartoon in her Senior yearbook. Do people have any interest in seeing it? I’d need to dig it up.
yes absolutely that rocks
Coindexter
What song are they playing in the background a little after 15:30?
Young and Beautiful - Lana Del Rey, from The Great Gatsby movie. Great song
brace brace brace brace BRACE!
racial jake
Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and 32 seconds today
Jack in to this shit 4L
I will defend Toronto only because the distillery district has the best Mexican food I’ve ever had
https://youtu.be/ORdoARhOd3Q?si=rxFn2egyNK_oUPoU
Spunkyyyyyyyyyy
Saw Brace's name, screamed like a woman seeing Spike and Buffy kiss!
idk why Garry Tan blocked me
Got rejected back to chapo and goon
Slopppppp
Oh fuck not these zizian freaks again
Just got Matt’s book today!
dayum another one
I have to go into the office tomorrow morning this'll be my little treat to listen on my way.
Start your morning off right with a hearty bowl of Slop. 🥣
The Sunday Evening Pleasantry
Big Dick Brace on the mic
Thats why they call him Brother Love
First
Cool