935 - It’s Joever feat. David J. Roth (5/19/25)
We planned this episode to cover the spate of stories revealing just how out of it and diminished Joe Biden was during his term, and new details about the political flunkies and media stooges who were complicit in covering it up. But yesterday Biden’s team announced an almost certainly life-ending cancer diagnosis. So we’re joined by David Roth to discuss how it’s finally well and truly Joever.
Find David’s work at Defector here: https://defector.com/author/david-roth
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Comments (167)
On a scale from Adam friedland to David Roth, this episode is definitely David Roth
unfair to biden's doctor, my understanding is he did try to take blood but the syringe poked through biden's arm like meringue
Roth is the GOAT
Mourning Joe
Iz oe
Kudos to Will, foreseeing the importance of the Pacers' outside shooting!
love Roth go Phils
Just take Biden to the medbeds, EZ
Back Slaps!!!!!!!
Surprised Rudy Giuliani has enough money to buy a drink at a bar.
Spiraling over what feels like the most dire point of the genocide in Gaza and the cancer in Biden's ass is my north star. Literally the only thing that makes me feel a shred of warmth right now
I’m just like, why are we talking about Joe Biden? I just don’t care.
He and the people that enabled him is the main reason we are in such a dire place right now.
Looks like Gerry Connolly took the news of Biden's cancer diagnosis as an opportunity to make it all about Gerry Connolly. By dying. What a diva
joe biden getting all cherries at the health slots and going HELLLOOO Like Mr Jackpots
Biden would be like if Badcoop, rather than Dougie, got hit with the Black Lodge r-slur gun
Whenever I see "feat. David Roth" I know it's going to be a fucking belter of an episode
The only viable replacement for Matt.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1krl1po/the_bidens_went_to_insane_lengths_to_cover_up/ The Biden's spent ages covering up Beau's cancer as well, it seems more likely than not that they knew for a while before announcing Joe's cancer.
I mean the cancer is literally at the point were it's incurable there's literally no way to survive it really especially at his age. That tends to mean especially since it's spread to his bones that he has probably had this for a few years.
the all 22 punt return bit was incredible. Roth is the goat
🐐ED OUTRO
KAT's catch and shoot 3 takes the Knicks to the finals in 5. lock.
Bing Bong
Neurology is urology in a piss-brained country. - Elias Canetti
The Joe shit was childish as fuck. The cunt has cancer and Will can’t help act goofy about it. I just don’t get the end game. I seriously believe Will would be a republican if not for the podcast (money). He has fully reverted to a New York private school boy since 2022. He can claim it’s because of Gaza and Bidens Zionism, but it’s just his little rich boy arse returning home. You have to be as thick as two short blanks to think Biden wasn’t getting blood tests etc all the time, and Will is not. But he will happily repeat the republican talking points that Bidens had cancer for years. It’s super frustrating because 10 of thousands of poor and working class people are going to die from avoidable cancers, but Will just wants to yuk it up about an 83 year old and push attention seeking conspiracy theories. For the first time i am thinking canceling my pateron because it feels like Im sending my cash to Don Trump Jr.
its funny when bad things happen to bad people
the looney tunes eraser/screwball bit is hilarious
My theory is that Biden has known about this cancer for a while and elected not to treat it in order to avoid a primary in which a progressive could’ve won concessions. Lots of old guys with prostate cancer actually choose not to go through chemo because they expect some other condition to end their life before the cancer. His public senility forced his hand, and all was lost
It wasn't all lost. If he'd dropped out with enough time to be primaried then they would've had to fight for a further right candidate like Kamala. She gave fuck all concessions to the left.
the opening biden-bladerunner bit is mind-destroyingly good, i'm floored, my abdominal muscles are seized
the ending as well, Chris has outdone himself. Incredible.
I'll cheer for any team that isnt in New York, LA, Vegas, or Denver
Because those places make you feel insecure
I’m not a bad archer….
Does anyone remember that official campaign video from Biden in 2019 where his team was reciting the alphabet and failing terribly?
don’t cry because it’s jover, smile because it jappened
David’s sports references were gold
Omfg the outro
TIMBERWOLVES MENTION LETS GO
Pl h a m- k 😖🤬☹️⌚️ jk b as a M and m n ll S j c! 🎥
- Joseph Robinette Biden, 2023
Every time Felix talks about mma he makes a bad point or is just completely wrong about something. Dustin Poirier accordion’d Connor’s leg not Kabib
i believe everything felix says about mma because it's the only time in my life that i willingly listen to anyone talk about mma
Roth is the Both
I don't think Saturday Night Live did more than like 2 Biden impersonations like 5 years ago. I am actually going to make a prediction. Saturday Night Live will stop existing at the same time as Israel. Once those types of people are gone it's done. Will there be any Palestinians left at that time? Who knows.
Dear Mr. Roth, will Toronto ever win another Stanley Cup, please, my city yearns for freedom.
No.
thunder are gonna sail To the chip unimpeded
stop
New York really needs a Knicks title. We also need a subway series this October.
Thanks for the PSL shoutout. My main reason for joining the Party instead of DSA was all their Twitter drama lmao
Fuck Jalen Brunson
Your mother follows your advice
Also, they should have just let Andrew Hudson be the president. Like, who even cares
Let Charles be president
I missed a few seconds of context and got confused when Felix referred to the "grapefruit juice regime" so I looked up Biden Grapefruit Juice and found a WaPo article from 2022 where a reluctant Biden supporter is upset that her favorite grapefruit juice from Whole Foods is becoming more expensive
Need a where are they now follow-up
I keep thinking that I'm the last person alive who thinks of Joe Biden and recalls the 1988 primaries, when he got caught pretending he was Neil Kinnock and ate shit
Felix just needs to pose as an adult son or cousin and he could easily get a tour of most national labs. APL has bring your kids to work day! They have mock up missiles that were developed in the labs there in most the lobbies, and critically, most scientists are yappers. Felix could probably just wander the halls and ask questions for hours before anyone thought it was strange.
What a fecking show! Just thinking maybe I’m too cynical. But NO!
i love Felix's new voice for when he's impersonating a crazy guy or a scamp and he says "blehh!" or in this episode when he impersonated biden's anal polyps saying "hey what about us!"
I think of it as his "goblin voice" and it wrecks me every time
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a neurologist isn't a specialist you just see as a routine part of normal aging? Like. Maybe if you're 85, they send one in just to check, but it's not like taking an eye test to keep your license
Yeah my grandma was only seeing one regularly bc she had a brain tumor
Libs genuinely believe giving lip service on any issue is the equivalent of implementing that policy, and don't you dare ask any follow up questions.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken even has a blues-rock song called Lip Service! (It’s about getting head.)
The problem with framing Joe Biden’s hubris and the fall from grace that it led to as tragedy, is that we have to view Biden as a hero with some degree of honest intentions, which absolutely no regular American does any more. He’s at best an embarrassment who basically shit his pants on stage in front of the who country or a genocidal monster. In either case, he failed to make anything better and set the stage for fascism, so his hubris getting the better of him is not tragedy, it’s the bare minimum of accountability
Do you think my health insurance will cover my prostate removal procedure if I tell them it’s for donation purposes?
Imagine how crazy Joe's body is about to get
Ending clip reminds me of when someone replaced the Coney Island story at the beginning of “Sleep” by Godspeed You! Black Emperor with Biden’s Corn Pop story https://youtu.be/VsyUbcy8NU4?si=-MAoRmZTjW5aSnM8
I saw them recently, and they were great, but it would have been cool to hear from my man Corn Pop
a prostate you could eat a meal off of
That Biden Mongolia clip at the end 😅
Google ai says the Thunder already won the wcf in a sweep
bet the house on it
I think the neurologist & other doctors Biden was seeing were focused on his Parkinsons, which he also definitely has.
I said “get me Roth”
Billy Porter twirling in Homer Simpson’s Muumuu 😂😂😂
Jill Biden seems to have evaded all scrutiny but I'm convinced she's one of the most cynical, demonic freaks in this whole thing. Without her full commitment to gaslighting everyone around her for years none of this would have been possible.
The vanity fair photoshoot the weekend after the debate while everyone was calling for Biden to drop out would be too heavy handed to include in a novel. “Ok, you want to establish this character is obsessed with status and image but it’s too cartoonish.”
Listen up, fat, time to die
felix confirmed democratic centralist
Having the framing around Palestinian humanity for Kamala be ‘a concession’ is case and point example of their absolute complicity and approval of the war crimes in Gaza
Remember when aoc said they are working tirelessly for a ceasefire? Guess she was lying 😮
I had someone close to me tell me that they thought I was just being a hater when I said he had dementia all those years ago
Biden really was America’s grandpa. - committed war crimes overseas that he’ll never talk about - amassed intense amounts of political power, wealth, and status that he’ll never transfer to the next generation - enjoyed healthcare that the next gen will never be able to afford - racist Rest in Piss Grandpa Joe
Felix begins speaking at 2 minutes and 17 seconds
The Knicks sacrificed Tatum’s Achilles to get gentleman swept by the pacers
Beating the Pacers is called "getting gentleman's swept" now?
lmfao imagine if he somehow got a 2nd term and then this
What even is a prostate and why is it in his bones
Cum pump
Listen, fat… kill yourself…
This try-hard nihilism is ghoulish.
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Chris - Tell Will to look up the difference between pathos and bathos in Greek thought.
Good Phillies pulls on this one. I listened to the Biden Blade Runner soliloquy like 4 times.
The whole tragedy bit had me thinking of Joe as Tatsuya Nakadai riding a horse at the end of “Ran” with Hunter on the back
I wish they would do a study on how toxic the stress is for presidents. None of them would want to have their health questioned, but it’s so clear that everyone who takes office leaves worse off. Except trump, he doesn’t care about anything enough to let it stress him out.
My favorite part of when Biden talks is when he starts suddenly whispering to us.
Uhh, what I said was I didn't notice a decline 😁
Never thought I’d hear a Darren Daulton reference in a chapo ep
Check this out: BRICS suit guy
Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from, Bleedin' Eye Joe?
Joe Biden? the guy from The Onion? that's nuts, I was just wondering what happened to him
Fucking DEEP CUT Looney Tunes reference!
I’m sad to see somebody considers Duck Amuck a deep cut. Like, it won an Oscar, and it’s the apogee of the Bugs and Daffy relationship, but i guess at this point all Looney Tunes references are deep cuts.
Chapo film production note: Movie: Hair Plug Tagline “The rules don’t say a senile old man with an aggressive cancer can’t be president!”
Chapo Films Presents: Lil’ Battlefella A Frost/Nixon-style behind-the-scenes look at Biden, racing to save his presidency with one last interview to convince America he still has a working brain, and instead says “hububuh” on camera.
DIAMOND DAVE
Bye Joe, thanks for everything!
It’s Joe’s turn….again.
“Like tears in… in… well, anyway…”
Any cute chapo listeners wanna help inspect my prostate?
I'm eating off a prostate RN
Tapper holds the title belt for worst Philadelphia sports fan. Embarrassing.
I normally listen to most news, pods, shows, and analysis at 2x speed just so that I can pretend I got twice as much done while actively choosing to do nothing. Chapo always gets my undivided attention at 1x speed, but I think I may need to scale back to 0.5x in order to give this john the vibe time the occasion demands.
In Houston, we listen to all Chapo chopped & screwed
Listen jack, I've had hearts going in the chat sice the Win Dixie down the street started serving the blacks!
I'm shocked this title wasn't used before but it was really saved for the perfect moment
Evil people live the longest because they know the flames of hell await them
If you're frightened of dying and holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, the devil's are really angels, freeing you from the earth.
Joe sees devils because they are devils, because there ain’t nothing liberating about where he’s going
You know what the tragedy is? Joe is still the lucky one. I'm so fucking tired
Toon Town Joe is such a great bit 💣👀
pulling my prostate out of my asshole as I listen to this episode
C'mon man, Roth is the best, jack.
Roth IS the best, bub! Love Chapo/Defector crossovers.
One great Biden answer was when he was asked about his segregationist past and he responded by saying that black people can't properly raise their children because they don't keep the record player on at night and that he will invade Venezuela. And all the pundits were like: "a strong debate from Biden".
I JUST listened to a podcast talking about "Brother, where art thou", Dapper Dan and George Clooney. Is this a glitch in the matrix or is Clooney just on everyone's mind right now?
So many possible worlds / but we've got this one
Coming spring 2027, an exciting spin off from Pixar's Sodaverse - "Polyps"
King Biden carrying Hunter lifeless in his arms, “Lend me a crack pipe. If that his breath will mist or stain the pipe, he lives ”
Owned lmao
*Tiny dancer plays. Wow. I didn’t know that. I just — you’re telling me now for the first time.
haven't finished yet but one thing I've been thinking about is how Zionists, of which Jake Tapper is one, are turning on Biden because their planned narrative to explain why they murdered 200k people and didn't even get their hostages back relies on creating the perception that Biden was stopping them from executing their Very Real And Good Plan Which Definitely Exists the Israelis started cultivating that perception a while back even tho he was literally letting them act with total impunity for such a long time that even THEY were shocked
Great point
So sad, just wish I could see him again. He was so strong and alert how could this happen to a kid from Scranton
'I've seen things, things you Mac's have never seen. OK, I've said enough. Tears in the rain, time to die'
Never been this joever before RIPBOZO
Chapo got scooped by Biden it really is the joest of times
The libs have been telling us that Joe Biden is progressive down to his bones and now the diagnosis confirms it.
🔥
Like when homer got his “not insane” certificate.
Enjoy the hell of presinalds, scumbag
Listen Jack, every day I wake up in a burning pit while the ghost of a Palestinian child assures me he is working very hard to end the hell fire. They call it contrapposto, Jack
Biden 2028
Biden -Biden, 2028 Has there ever been a father-son ticket?
If trumps “RBG death reaction video” was scored to Elton’s tiny dancer, what song will be featured in trumps reaction to sleepys big sleep? Best answer wins the 20 bag they found in the WHITE House library!
Joe scarboroughs 9/11 song
“Billy Porter wearing Homer Simpson’s obesity muumuu” 🤣🤣🤣
Anyone got DOCTOR Jill Biden’s phone number? I just want to check if she’s ok or needs some comfort or whatever…
Here's how Joe can still win
Can’t wait to vote Biden for a second straight election in 28!!
Hopefully there’s a live Trump response from the tarmac when Brandon goes.
Joen't know what you got, til it's gone. RIP 😴
Finally going home to Strom
That big plantation in the sky
Please provide equal time for Sammy J Hagar
Hashem will welcome him with open arms
Joe Biden
Say his name
RIPBOZO rest in piss you will not be missed, no hell is too hot bitch
Big nap for sleepy joe 😴😴😴
Maybe he'll get enough sleep in the next world
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