965 - A Chorus Line feat. Alex Nichols (9/2/25)

Hilarious that TAFS interview with Taylor Lorenz came out like a week after this episode, lmao

Getting high on cocaine in order to write a song about weed is pretty funny

The Disney channel games reference was a deep cut that made me think of friends of mine who finally heard their parents say they love them at 30 💀

The glee in Will's voice dropping Kingdom Hearts as a potential series to cover on The Players Club in the future caught me by surprise. The idea of Will trying to explain Kingdom Hearts' absolutely opaque, inexplicable lore to Felix could be a peak Chapo moment

Can someone hook me up with the name of the Spanish hotel California at the end, I need to make my Mexican father in law love me

Will doesn’t have kids? I thought he had 3. Did he disown them lol

I spent so much time thinking y'all were talking about Tyler Mahan Coe from the Cocaine & Rhinestones podcast

U NOT slick Felix… u knew what the Disney channel games was… I seen you in the bleachers

So gratifying to hear someone challenge Taylor on her weird tech opinions

Honestly this show sucks ass without Matt. Just another podcast.

I was chatting w a girl and she sent me a meme from that American Girl Doll account :( it didn’t work out :(

i remember back when i was a kid the sun had sunglasses and a smile—it is a tragedy what they have done to my boy

had to save this for today so I could go two for one with Chapo and a Birds win tonight

My grandma fell in her driveway and broke her odontoid process (the little post from your second vertebra that the top one turns around) and she still lived a few more years into her mid 90s. She was also so ready to die the last few months and was mad that her healthy habits made it so she was still here. She told us not to wear masks because she wanted to get sick, somehow her and my grandpa never got symptomatic covid.

The only bad thing about children not having phones or TV is that other children have them. Speaking as someone who didn’t have TV as a child.

My wife didn't watch TV. Absolutely no cultural touchstones/reference points. She don't even know who fucking Urkel is!!! She is clearly a Soviet sleeper/child spy and I'm still trying to crack her activation sequence...

I believe that the scene where Vito is trying not to think about how much time has passed while working is the only scene in the sopranos with internal monologue voiceover

PLEASE do kingdom hearts

Some of this is just making Dem influencers more robust in the face of shrinking platform ad dollars. You sorta want your paid influencers secure enough on their own that they survive another "adocalypse" and are ready to scoop up the audiences of dead channels and podcasts. The only problem is that, and I know this is sort of making an argument FOR markets but, you may just be backing dudes that don't actually have the juice to capitalize on other channels shuttering. That's something the view count, ad dollar, market place selects for. Which should be their goal

It’s such a classic Democratic Party technocrat move. Take people who are already doing what you want them to do and make them sign an utterly despicable contract that legally forces them to continue doing it. Contractual obligation fetishists

make this guy permanent

Felix should prioritize covering the first person narrative game series I specifically played a lot (Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Bioshock, Doom, Half-Life, GTA, Red Dead)

I have a 2 year old and I fully support Will’s perspective. Not sure when we’ll allow him to have a smart phone at easy use but it’s gonna be a while and I don’t support them having at it a school any time soon.

will saying $8K/mo isnt a lot of money 😂😂

I am skeptical if the dark money influencer thing is solely to pull in new supporters to the Democratic party. They also want an internet version of MSNBC to pull left leaning people into media that will poison the well against Democratic primary challengers and future Zorhan’s etc.

is "i just... yah.... uhh..." felix's catch phrase

the internet is catering to ppl with money, boomers? shit sucks

Teeth like baseballs, eyes like jellied fire

Chorus is emblematic of the problem with political liberalism. Its has lost its dynamism, it's ability to incorporate critiques of it. Being popular on social media like the crew says, involves understanding what people like aesthetically and politically. The people running these operations just inherited these decaying institutions and assume everything they touch will turn to gold.

Is Felix watching a pornographic version of action team now? Like for science?

I love Taylor Lorenz but yes, she's got some genuine hot takes. It makes her an interesting person instead of the usual NPC's that most people are

school children need phones in class so their parents can argue with teachers in real time

Y’all have been rich and famous way too long if you think $8k/month “isn’t even that much money”

Thought it was an interesting observation about dead eyed psychopaths gaining credibility by their willingness to say and do anything in pursuit of power (as long as they align with one's interests).... Maybe that's the proper lens through which to view Graham Platner. Though I do fear that even if his supposed politics are sincere they will meet with a bourgeois brick wall in the Democratic party in the exact same way Sanders did. I think it's pretty clear that populist proletarian politics cannot be meaningfully pursued within a party that is designed to serve the bourgeoisie.

One of the most boomer segments of any episode. Lmao. Erasing street art for gamer pc time. Just absolute fiends. This is what happens when adults are all engaged in make work instead of begrudgingly nurturing children. The kids learn all the bullshit online. If your kid is getting internet poisoning, make sure they have adblock, because even as an adult it is just withering. Kids are online for the same reason adults are. Because doing stuff is hard, and the idea of messing up causes anxiety. So it's easier to watch endless videos. If someone is there to help you when you inevitably mess up, it's not as bad. As someone that tries to do stuff and messes up, yea it sucks, and depending on what it is it can go from tedious and frustrating to dangerous. Which is a horrible progression loop. Also, very hard to get manuals for a lot of new stuff. The people who should have shame have none, and the people who can think, won't because they don't want to get embarrassed. It's a product of a diffuse society with no cohesion. Everyone is everywhere and thus nowhere at all. I am HERE! See me? I am HERE!

As one of the few chapo fans that actually has kids in high school I would never let the school take his phone away I would give him a burner phone before i let them take it away 🤷‍♂️

Even at pre-Trump prices, who could afford American Girl dolls?

So 1630 is a Bloomberg thing? Because I didn't know who Brian Taylor Cohen was, but I was curious where all the money in 1630 came from. Because it seemed like most of the people were kind of uninteresting losers. This is definitely something Bloomberg would be involved with imo. Good Felix pull.

You guys ever going to look into what Covid does to your body long term, or just keep buying the Biden/RFK line?

I do like Taylor Lorenz too, but her stern defence of social media, phones, especially for children is very confusing to me. I don’t really understand how a person educated on the topic can come to these conclusions.

Only we’re allowed to call Adam a bug. The people who saw the Richie Torres interview haven’t earned it. They haven’t been in the trenches hearing him steal jokes, and step on bits for years and years. (I actually love Adam.)

Idt Alex understands what the phones thing is about. It’s just about not letting students have phones on them in the classroom. They can watch Skibidi Toilet the other 16 hours of the day.

@42:00 Great day for “no show” jobs if anyone’s heard the Kawhi Leonard news

"$8000 a month is not that much" Fat Cat Will strikes again

i choose to believe the sun is different now because i think its really funny. i mean dog shit used to be white and now it isnt so who knows

8000 a month isn’t a lot? Wtf will guess it’s time to unsubscribe and steal the rss feed

$8000/month is “not that much”?! Chapo really made it.

9 candles in a menorah.

I literally had some guy on Facebook post a pic of a cloud and say "why are we letting them do this" real old man yells at cloud energy

With love and light - that American girl doll account is actually pretty funny and popular among us millennial women. Learning that they’re being funded by the ~establishment~ was surprising

The american girl doll reminds me of the university chicks accounds which is barstools ig for center left women

The big ice cup noise near the end pleased me and made me feel like I'm there, thank you thirsty person

I think I'm more interested in 'growing up with cell phone' takes from... People who grew up with cell phones

Boys … the Bowie pull … I love you kids so much

What was the outro music?

"Hotel California is a song by reggae musician Bob Marley originally recorded for his 1976 album Hotel California."

Alex was hittin dingers the whole ep, just spectacular

Alex missed the real kicker on the Hotel California cocaine sessions. That other band that kept having to clean the cocaine out of mixing desk when it came in after the Eagles used the studio the night before? Black Sabbath. The band that recorded a song called "Snowblind" and dedicated that album to the "great COKE-a-cola." The Eagles did so much coke that *Black Sabbath* was appalled.

What is the completed thought of Will about Lorenz's take on DSA libs?

Holding your hand in the flames of an 8-candle Menorah would make you a sort of inverted Shamus. _Kiiiiinda_ fits.

Seeing all the weird physical stuff happening with Trump got people theorizing he was dying, but they didn’t factor in that the reason Trump’s body can fall apart like that is because he drank the Death Becomes Her potion and can technically never die

Listening to these goofs making 8k a month while I work my ass off for less than half that is bleak

I think the kids having phones debate is kinda of a stupid political discussion, but I do think there is something to the fact that the introduction of smartphones has impacted the mental health of more capitalistic western countries worse than social democratic ones

they gave the world cup to a giuliani? maybe in 2026 they can embarrass FIFA enough that the organization completely implodes

Felix let me on the show it’s time to talk about No More Heroes

Felix needs to do kingdom hearts. I would actually explode.

Always love the random Coleman Francis references from Felix. Someone clearly saw Red Zone Cuba on VHS several times

can we get through one episode without talking about cum? my kids listen

YouTube should have never allowed political news shows or monetization. Should have just been The Pricemaster and 9/11 truther videos forever. Sitting in your room giving uninformed opinions on things should have never been lucrative.

I geniunely dont think taylor lorenz is that bad guys lol

Jesus, in the context of the crazy smears Taylor Lorenz is getting right now you sound like complete assholes. Misrepresenting her views as well makes it truly gross. Why should I listen to this show if you're going to tell lies about people? Maybe I haven't been here long enough to know how low your standards are.

Adam is going to get a very different reaction from the comments next time he comes on. Yall called him annoying for 7 years and now have to get on your knees and suck for forgiveness

Ragusa had to pull out no Cuomo of a NYC city council race for using forged signatures to get on the ballot

Some are calling the Guiliani accident the most normal car accident in American history

Once you hear the Gypsy Kings version of Hotel you can’t go back.

I can’t wait for the inevitable series on Yakuza where they analyze the Yakuza 3 supermarket for 45 minutes

Taylor always pulls the “people made these same warnings about TV” line as if the research is in on TV in fact being good for society

Th Republican Party office in my city has a JD Vance cardboard cutout standing in the window. No MAGA or Trump stuff. Red state.

My conservative baby boomer coworker who watches video at full volume during lunch recently told me "the sun is hotter than it used to be" and she wasn't talking about climate change (which she actually does believe in) she meant that the sun feels like it's burning your skin faster and lowkey I agree

MGS Rising needs a Felix ep solely for it's affects on meme culture never mind that it was a pretty good game

Pennyfarthing Cavalry = stomp clap album of the decade

You should include Rising by virtue of Platinum being better developers than Kojipro.

People really do hear "kids shouldn't have phones in school" and immediately interpret it as "kids shouldn't have phones" which is not what most people are saying

You Look Nice Today - A Journal Of Emotional Hygiene

Thank you for the drop from Low

To disabuse phone use among the young, you need to regulate the phone use of adults

The shortest episode is 3 hours? That's what they make Chico listen to at Camp Omega

Pretty sure the person who runs the american girl doll meme account is a guy

PLEASE DO HALO 😭😭😭

Yesterday I saw a youtube short with the tagline "you might think this worker is mining but he is actually digging a tunnel"

What is the episode where Will and Adam were trashing Taylor Lorenz?

For his new show Felix should do a one-off episode about Rockstar's side project like Bully, The Warriors videogame, LA Noire etc.

politics amirite

I found Taylor Lorenz arguing deep in the replies of an obscure left wing meme account on instagram about how not masking is fascism. Her hypochondria has done a number on her

Alex should be permanent

The phone is useful in school to take a picture of the board for one, yeah I mean I get it the kids who write slow can go fuck themselves or whatever like they had to when I was a lad. Also having chats on your phone pertaining to any particular class really helps. Not making kids buy a stupid fucking $150 calculator that has the processing power of a toaster and displays on an etch o sketch or wtf

Told this story before but I’ve been a teacher since 2019. My first year teaching high school, I let students turn in essay through google. I was locked out of one of my students essay. I said, “hey, I need permission to read this” He said “okay, you have my permission.” The kids are not alright

Don't even need to check the topic. If Alex is on I know it'll be good. As underrated as Brace in terms of how funny they are

Knew that was going to be the outro song.

Alex ep 🙏🏽

Felix please consider doing a season on Ace Combat. I think the evolution of the series and what each entry has to say all maps on very well to the show, whether it's the transhumanism of Electrosphere, the WW2 / Gulf War triumphalism of Zero, or the culture of paranoia in Skies Unknown were Osea is the wider liberal order you play as but theres this pervasive sense the entire time that its institutions have degraded and someone just off screen is fucking you over. There's a ridiculous amount that I would love to hear you talk about.

Felix Kingdom Hearts is weird but some of the combat in those games is amazing and def the kind of thing you’d be into if you like souls games

MAX PAYNE!! YIPPEE!!!

as a zoomer, im experiencing the exact thing you guys were saying about kids getting sick of the internet lol. after years of being on it and watching it go to shit, im not even interested in dicking around on youtube or reddit anymore

Felix’s fleeting Ice T impression will be one of the handful things I remember at age 86 instead of my children’s names or my address

Alex with the dry Spongebob into Katamari, killing it

what am i looking at with this thumbnail

8k a month isn't that much? To do nothing? Come on boys, get real.

in my mid 20's, recently deleted all social media because the Internet is, as Alex stated, "so bad" now. miss the old Internet

9 candles y'all forgot the shamash

Oh come on, Adam didn't have 4,000 years of antisemitic propaganda shoved into his brain, Cumtown only ran for like 6 years.

Something rotten? Hell nah give me that players club

I now think Taylor Lorenz is hot, thanks Chapo Trap House.

Who tells people to kill themselves more: Felix or any of the WFYM melonie mac guys

Alex for third mic plz

Classic Will sports current event joke (Jerry Jones contract) followed by complete dead air from Felix + guests lmao

I was TikTok mutuals with one of the chorus creators, Olivia Juliana. I got blocked by her because I stitched her video she did with a member of congress that was like “yay or nay” on certain policy positions, and told her to ask him about Palestinians and railway workers next time. It was clearly lighthearted but I soon realized I got blocked

I love when Alex talks about Stern. Hit the nail on the head with the Vito/Artie comparison

Felix confirmed Coleman Francis appreciator

Alex should be a monthly regular if not a new mic

Goin down th' road tryin ta light'n my load, got Coleman Francis on my mind

Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and 22 seconds this episode. And we love our Alex!

Thank you not Chris Wade for slop not delayed

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Putting aside all of the after effects (is President JD Vance better or worse for earth and humanity than President Trump etc) I have been thinking ever since the Butler, PA affair that there is probably no possible way for Trump to croak (especially during his term) without a sizable number of people certain of some foul play. Obviously MAGA people would be going bonkers but I bet there would be libs/leftists saying that like Peter Thiel did it or something

Our Alex ❤️

we love our boy alex dont we folks?

More Alex

sixth and gay

Alex episode lets fucking gooo

Olivia Giuliani

Fourth, questioning

Fifth and curious

More gay

Yeah baby, yeah!!

Yay

Second and straight

first and gay