945 - Hashtag Fordow Fail feat. Libby Watson (6/23/25)
Libby Watson returns to the show! We discuss the weekend’s limited US strike on Iran and Trump’s baffling behavior around what already may be a winding-down conflict. We also talk Democratic & media responses, and where Iran might go from here. Then: all eyes are on Zohran in the NYC mayoral primary, voting is tomorrow, we discuss Zohran’s campaign and his chances of bringing this all home. Finally, we celebrate the love & marriage of an old friend of the show with their NYT vows section announcement.
Find Libby’s new show “What’s All This Then” wherever you get podcasts, and all her other links here:
https://linktr.ee/whatsallthisthen
New merch for the summer up at https://chapotraphouse.store
Comments (137)
Hey! It's the only 'Lib' who doesn't get the bullet! Always a blast to have her on the pod!
loving all the casino references since the movie ep
Hooting and hollering over Will correcting Felix about the Expanse, definitely a show worth threatening suicide over
Libby is such a great guest
Mt Rushmore Chapo guest. The only good Brit now that Bowie is dead.
Please have Libby back early & often! She’s always been awesome in her own right, but after listening to this ep it’s also clear that her presence activates some dormant power in Felix that turns his banter up to 9,000 💎
gruesome gavin as the boneitis guy was so good
Learning Felix doesn’t drink and Will loves the Expanse makes me happy
Debate is their love language” had me so shook
"It's not a real argument like is Cum Town bad" New immortal Felix bar
I think the word being reached for is "gestalt," which interestingly enough is what transformer Fandom people call the combiner robots, so it's very funny if "transformer guy" is the word non-hypernerds use instead
I assumed she meant a voltron
Nice seeing LW doing the Trinity of Chapo, YKS, and Hollywood Handbook
Libby’s always a great guest
She's an honorary Chapo
dying at the thought of trump driving south jersey like that 2015 video of him and barron so he can get out at each gas station and yell at the arab guy pumping gas to stop raising the prices
hegseth as henry hill for his 8 am press conference was so good
BYOB is true Abundance praxis
My friend's mom's boyfriend who's in the army got sent to Germany to stage for moves into the middle east
I was gonna follow Libby's new pod, but I'm a 1% (milk drink)er, and after the slander I endured on her last appearance on Guys, I simply can't abide.
Will talks about Netanyahu the way Jesse talks about Mr. White in Season 6.
Breaking Bad has 5 seasons
This doesn’t come up in the episode but the Felix JD Vance bit where he goes “Oosher Oosher” gets me everytime
When it comes to bad plastic surgery in Trump’s orbit, how is nobody talking about Caroline Leavitt? She’s only 27!! 😩
LETS FUCKING GO NY HELL YEAH
Loving the amount of Felix Lore we got in this ep
Zohran for the fucking winnnnnnn
Hell yes. Libby rules!
The animal sanctuary where they got married is infamous for management that neglected animals and abused staff. They then filed SLAPP lawsuits against whistleblowers.
Source?
40:00 for real though bring back the expanse
Someone go to Venice and trap Jeff Bezos in an escape room that teaches him about the importance of The Expanse
Fettlife
Have Derek Thompson on now
I hope Zohran remembers to execute Chris Matthews in Central Park. Promises made, promises kept.
Can jews finally come back to New York City? I haven’t followed very close to see if Zohran was proposing a birthright/Aliyah type of policy for American Jews in diaspora to return to the only place we are staff NYC
Looking good for Zohran
Zohran you have to stop you smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch too bad. They'll kill you
Rookie mistake of letting your gf know what cum town is
Holy shit the cumtown endorsement effect is real. Thank God Adam didn't fuck this up for everyone.
The American strike was a painful but valuable lesson for the people of Iran. The Americans cannot be negotiated with. This time Iran will accept the mutual defense pact the Russian Federation offered, and next time it will be Russian planes and AA systems defending the skies. The next act of aggression is coming; it is inevitable. Iran must accelerate towards nuclear first strike capability, even if this does not deter the homicidal maniacs in Washington it will buy them some time. The war between NATO and a Euro-Asian coalition is approaching, fast. Now is the time to chose sides. Let there be WAR!
ask the Armenians how good the russians came through
I love Jennifer Seabird
If libby is on more, my wife might be able to actually listen to chapo....
Harold I've had enough of you! (Sopping) For the last time you're mashugina! I don't know why I put up wit it!(solid enough to cut a diamond(he's a jewlaaa))
alcoholic time math joke felt like a precision guided strike on my lifestyle oof
Time is always right to find Jesus. You know who the best of planners and disposer of affairs is though?
No airtime for "Paperboy Love Prince" in the mayoral election?
between cm punk drama in WWE and rachel acheson, the XVX community cant stop taking Ls
great Felix ep
As an Irish latina person we do not claim Kimberly gargoyle
Libby should be permanent third mic until Matt is fully back IMO
So glad to hear Libby again, she's always a stellar guest
Woah, Brianna Wu is showing up again? Lol.
If you could have told me five years ago Israel would lose a propaganda war so hard it would bring Wu back into currency as a self-appointed spokesperson
Ana Kasparian defended Trump as a peace candidate just months ago
Felix got his Briana Wu lore wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1O6S7MWXb8&t=8154s Good video about her here.
man i hope i never hear about nyc again
It’s insane how many irritating internet “personalities” came out of Gamergate.
The most mentally stunted among us learned that you can monetize your illness for a lot of money in 2013
Would love to never hear Felix talk about being bricked up again.
I liked it
great ep, I said ewwwww out loud when it was revealed who the wedding announcement reading series was about
This is all pretty ridiculous but I’m glad that Will threw in the comment about how he’s making light of it but this is still a serious matter. It’s hard to have confidence in this whole shitshow not getting incredibly dangerous. The good news is that Iran seems to want nothing to do with a war with the US.
Nobody wants anything to do with a war with the US...the problem is making the US feel that way.
My only regret is having boneitis
That was an amazing pull. I laughed so hard. Because yea, that's him.
Why would you psychically harm me by mentioning Brianna wu
DeBlasio was an objectively bad mayor. I think Zohran will be much better for nyc than that clown.
I lived and worked in New York during the De Blasio years. Why was he so bad
Marsha Fudge, come on Chapo
Libby is podcast guest royalty, don't keep her on the bench so long next time
what the fuck is AOR
Alexandria Ocasio Rword
Every time you guys mention Brianna Wu I feel a chill down my spine as if I'm being challenged to a duel by a mind-rōnin
are you with me dr wu
Went to a wedding recently and the couple identified the tables by tarot cards instead of numbers, and before I went in the boomers outside warned me I better be prepared for some absolutely wild no-rules tradition breaking event
No holds barred reception
My go-to comparison for Gavin is the sleazy guy who tries to negotiate with Hans Gruber.
This is very good
I would’ve gone with “Waiting for Fordow”
Hearing about that losers wedding at the end made me insanely grateful. I was just at a friend's wedding which was a blast and beautiful and heartfelt and had zero cruelty squad targets walking around it. Made me cherish this past weekend even more.
Libby is one of the OG Chapo goats
Is Felix back in NYC? Thought he moved to LA.
Expanse gang
Just one of my moms
Whitney Tilson's YouTube ads are not well written because there is one specific one that was using language that was connotative for Zohran that was running before the debate. Everytime I saw it, I was like is this supposed to be tearing him down?
The Boston accent that lady did in Reacher 3 was was a New England minstrel show.
My culture is not a costume
Finally, I get to try out some of my punny polling firm names. Here's two on a common theme: Factorial Facts, or Factful Fractals.
We need “The Fudge” merch now.
Shane Carwin mention!
I'm morbidly curious about the kind of guy who votes for Cuomo because of a Glenn Dubin endorsement.
You should have Charlotte on soon too!
"If you vote for Zohran, he's going to kill you." Stop, stop; I'm already voting for him, no need to convince me.
What did Felix say before "I'm an AFAB"?
“I’m she they”
When the piano came in at about 38 minutes, I thought an ad was starting for a second
The Expanse hell yeah, all power to the belters
Oye Beltalowda
if you die of heat stroke while waiting in line to vote for Cuomo, you go to Liberal Valhalla
You get to be the safety officer scolding the conservatives at the socially distanced lil nas x concert for eternity.
Kerrick Flynn sounds like the name of Wolfe Tone’s most overeager supporter, who died at Vinegar Hill by tripping and rolling head over heels into British bayonets.
The detail about requiring everyone to write a letter for the wedding is so great since there is 100% overlap between the people invited to this wedding and people who use chatgpt to write anything longer than a tweet. You got no real heartfelt letters! Just dumb slop from your shitty associates!
I swear we need S8 of Avergence 😩
Caught by the fudge
Zohran bringing that sleeper "Go ahead, I don't shop here." energy.
Cannot be understated how much your average conservative voter despises and fears Gruesome Gavin. If he leans into that, I am very bullish on his chances.
Kamala would have bombed Iran because the most passionate people in the room would yell at her.
Re: Irish latinas. The biggest demographic of immigrants coming to Ireland is south/Central Americans. We are only a generation away from actual Irish latinas.
Hot af. Would be great to complete the breeding program and introduce the Peruvian Japanese to thicc Irish stock.
The McElwee wedding is so specifically my personal hell that it almost feels targeted.
Girl math, but it's the ballistic targeting computer guiding the GBU-57 bunker buster.
Woke math. You know they are going to start talking about DEI if it doesn't look good enough. Actually I think they already did, talking about Iran's ability to have hypersonic missiles. No DEI universities in Iran was what they said. We are going to convert to Islam as a country. Possibly ironically, then sincerely. Saladin as Chad.
Say what you will about Libby but when shits going sideways, give me a riffer.
Zohran was incredible when he was in charge of those teenagers and the gay robot and now that he’s escaped from the glass thing he’s ready 2b mayor
can’t wait for Felix to be calling the other last Jew in New York a debauched triple goy
Deep cut Chapo there.
Double D Mcelwee is such a fucking freak
It was the SciFi series called Ascendence and yes it should’ve been renewed
Hell yeah this is the return of an all time great guest right here.. I’ve listened to the post Limbaugh death episode a bunch over the years, Libby rocks!
Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and 23 seconds tonite
I'm glad Libby's back, I liked her
Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran
Bomb Israel
Thank god for my slop doing an overnight
Nice, Libby’s great. The Thomas episode of What’s All This Then had me dying
https://www.lamichoacanameatmarket.com/receta/chilaquiles-rojos/
I wasn’t going to vote for Zohran until Stavvy and Nick Mullen told me to on IG. I am now 66.6% convinced to vote for him…
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER!
This mf said Zorhan
4th
What's All This Then mentioned!!! Shout-out to Libby and Charlotte!! (:
Been a long minute since Libby was on the show. Good tidings!
Yay! Felixs' sister next🤞🤞🤞
Been in a coma for a month, what’s new?
Everything going great?