1031 - Holding Out for a Hero feat. Hasan Piker (4/27/26)
Streamer and international man of controversy Hasan Piker joins us to recap and analyze Saturday’s assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. We talk about the radical-centrist shooter, the diverse cast of assassins we’ve met since that fateful day in Butler, and the cast of Chapo all-stars at the dinner itself. Plus: more talk about the media blitz against Hasan, and reading series from the Wall Street Journal and Dylan Byers.
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Please bring TS Madison on the pod ... I really want to see Maddie and Hasan have a convo
everyone on this chat has been added to a watchlist and then immediately removed when it became painfully obvious you are capable of little other than paying for & hoovering up slop
Does felix think "raising cane" was a person?
It’s a reference to a Trump soundbite where he says he met a general named “Raisin Cain” and it’s clear that Trump doesn’t understand that it’s a Bible reference/ saying that existed before he met the guy. I think this was during his first term.
Hasan got cooked by Shoe on head
The socdem pod John’s are back together again
lol no plug for Hasan at the end, we all know where to find his ass
Threads (the twitter knock off) is just really soy
I have a way to start building bridges - Get Jamelle Bouie on Movie Mindset
Oil going to $150 right before summer when everyone already hates you
I get Hasan is decently famous and known as a public figure, but is it really not libelous for literal elected representatives of the United States to go on TV and tell everyone that he’s a Jew hater Nazi? Feel like he could probably win off of this shit.
RFK Jr is going to do the 2026 edition of the "Dying *of* COVID or Dying *with* COVID?" debate..."Dying *of* Gunshot Wound of Dying *with* Gunshot Wound of a Novel Raw Milk Enterovirus".
A Canticle for Charlie Kirk ❤️🔥
Not whole-heartedly endorsing shop-lifting is Chapo's most L take. Disappointed.
Thank you for talking about the Bruins! Go B’s!!!!
To Hasan's point about liberals, my grandma is a 75 year old Catholic lifelong democrat. She whispers when she cusses as if she's gonna get in trouble for it. She has said to me multiple times she wants to see him die lol. She hates the man!
Sometimes it’s like what is Felix talking about
Trump: "We're doing it! We're gonna make the movie Threads real." Dems: "do it. TACO TACO haha!" The left: "what the actual fuck is wrong with you people. we can't exterminate the entire northern Hemisphere!" Dems: "see, they love Stalin and are the real racists. Fire when ready Mr. President we'll kill them for you, after we pass the Condemn Hasan Piker act."
Insects 🤮
It's about time the writers respected Felix. My goat is bound for the hof
The hilarious indemnity for Charlie is that his was without a doubt his greatest career move. He was in the same tier as Ben shapiro: Complete afterthought who only existed to scam donor chuds out of money. The groypers at the gate are just waiting to pillage the scraps of the “judeo Christian” brand of Republican. Charlie lucked out though. He now gets to be mythologized as having a sort of importance, when his only accomplishment in life was being less off putting than Benny Johnson.
can someone please link the radio war nerd ep about political violence felix mentioned?
Yall ever gonna do a vol 2 of the comics?
Felix. You just have to keep grinding. Ms Rachel and Hasan don’t put the work in that you do.
Kirk’s labyrinth!
Great ending song choice lol
It is hilarious that the average Democratic voter is now all for gunning down politicians and believes these are all psyops and revolutionary communists are the moderating voice of reason. But I guess it does make sense, most of us have been this cynical, felt that the entire system is irredeemably evil, and that Donald Trump is the inevitable outcome of it for years whereas libs’ entire worldview has come crashing down over their heads in under a year and a half. I’m trying not to raise my expectations too much but I am very pleasantly surprised by the #resistance actually resisting in Minneapolis and hope they keep that energy.
For me, the likeliest AND funniest version of the Butler assassination is that it was a setup, but they didn't tell Trump, because they knew he wasn't signing off on anything that might actually grease him – or, even funnier, they DID tell Trump and just lied about the danger
1:02:36 If Dana wasn't there, and someone got shot, he would totally have used the Marky Mark 9/11 line
yeah let's turn libs into marxists so they can focus their energy into something meaningful and perenial: posting
“ you’re in the desert, you look down and see a health executive has been shot. He needs help. You’re not calling for help.” VoightCp2026
Ballroom blitz
Oh man can somebody out there please write Riddley Walker II: Kult of Chardie Kork
I like Hasan but he could do better than being a sheepdog for Democrats. Leftists will never be able to "change from the inside" a party whose prime directive is neutralizing the left.
You have no choice they collude with republicans to prevent third party growth
inspired music choices today Chris
I dunno.. it was kind of fucked up how Trump was threatening to nuke Iran a week or two ago. Im not advocating anything other than peace.
Anthony Weiner is gonna be the shoo*er
The bromance is so cute tbh 😭 these guys have such a crush on Piker
Threads is what people say Bluesky is.
i love threads, its pure joy scrolling through the insanity
I also open threads once a month, and my algorithm on there is the most paranoid conspiratorial libs and it's hilarious
Mr. "I'm too scared to go grocery shopping" Biederman judging the cooking of a beautiful Southern woman providing Thanksgiving dinner for her man and his family ....#Jealousy is a #disease get well #soon....
I went to school with Dylan Byers’ wife and sadly met him many times - he is an absolute piece of shit - insufferable. Dylan Byers hate forever 😍
Wow Piker has a good flow with you all
Felix sending coded messages to let us know Stancil has a heart attack gun, 25:30
I don’t know who this Hasan guy is but I like what he’s got to say.
No mention of the incredibly fit Trump busting his ass while trying to escape?
He was just doing some pushups
As a Pennsylvania, there’s nothing I love more than when Felix shits on fetterman and shapiro
There's a lot to be said about the Ukraine-Russia War, but my neighbors threw out all their Russian made stuff a few years ago to support Ukraine and I got a great set of beer steins and drinkware. So in the end, is it really that bad?
Black bread is now "California Black Bread"
you can tell Will and Felix love their Turkish brother it’s very endearing. Dylan Byers club is hilarious
i never realized olivia reingold looks like a real life big mouth character until that video
This is a profound observation
dying imagining fetterman trying to jump in front of a bullet but it just gets caught in his sweatshirt and the shell casing just falls out the bottom. then adam gentileson or whoever’s still working for him has to give him a bluey coloring book and a six pack of crayons to calm him down as his wife and children bang on his locked office door, desperately trying to ask him what happened. you know he would eat at least four of those crayons
why did they even waste time evacuating rfk jr? a bullet would probably the healthiest thing that’s entered his body in the last fifty years at least
They shoulda closed the ep with "Hinckley Had a Vision" by Crucifucks
love how they had to install bovine bari in at cbs to control the corporate media narrative and within three months he’s getting called a pedophile rapist by his interviewer and telling her “you shouldn’t be reading that on 60 minutes. You’re a disgrace.” who could’ve predicted this after such a smooth first interview with tony gokupill from that factory! bari does it again 🔥
First as tragedy, then as farce, then again as an op for the white house ballroom
48:44 YES WILL 👏👏👏👏
1:27:16 📣📣📣📣
Hasan’s so right. It really has been the boomers on the front line against Trump. It may not be the most material effect but the sentiment is there.
Aaron Rupar as Poppy during the JFK assassination made me laugh so hard
Love Felix quoting Sopranos like 10 times in the past two weeks
Listening. Learning
my friend who lives in dc called me in the middle of the flyers game to yell "i cant fucking believe he missed" and i there was a solid 15 seconds of conversation where i thought we were talking about the game
Flyers in six 🙏
Hasan didn’t laugh at a single movie reference
The point about people on the left not realizing how cooked Liberals are is a real accurate point. For my money there's no better microcosm of bog standard liberal thought than like...Bluesky or the Reddit politics board...and those places are just inundated with BlueAnon shit. Even my fucking 78 year old Grandmother believes Butler PA was a false flag and will probably believe this one is as well. She's believed some dumbass shit in her time like "Moon Water" and such but straight up false flag conspiracy shit is an insane leap for her.
RFK Jrs autopsy will be like when the arctic permafrost thaws and all of the million year old viruses go into the atmosphere and start a pandemic
It’ll be like when The Mummy goes agape and the scarab swarm spews out but roided rats spreading super bubonic instead
Raffi is unironically the most wokest and most radical Threads poster, he’s always on one inbetween posting his Wordle score and children’s music. Raffi is my Threads goat
have hasan on more please
the fbi agent who gets to write all these shooter manifestos is probably the only person currently enjoying their job
The Threads posts instagram shows me are always like “Why do people who eat vanilla ice cream not care that it is turning them invisible? 🤔”
I love that Chris's music taste is exactly the same as mine ❤️ I swear I've heard him use the contortions as a musical interlude before
Mark andriessen makes me think phrenology might be on to something
RFK JR dying after having his neck kneeled on by a cop but he actually did overdose on fentanyl
por que tentar um assassinato se as chances de sucesso são inexistentes?
Patrick Bet David Alan Cole
Cole Tomas Anderson
Trump standing tall? He was sitting in his chair completely befuddled as the people around him ducked under the table. Then when he was rushed out by the secret service he fell over like the sack of crap he is.
About blew a gasket when they pulled away from the playoffs
Kash’s girlfriend holding another man’s hand in a time of crisis is literally the plot of the Curb episode where Cheryl leaves Larry
All I see on threads is the most deranged Hasabra on the planet. Way worse than anything on I see anywhere else.
i was at a pub saturday night showing the wolves/nuggets game and when it was interrupted by the press conference about the shooting they changed the channel lmao
Democrats need to develop the ThomasHawk missle
Small point but it's Reichstag as in "Reichs tag" not "Reich stag".
1:27:37 Felix, you need to check out the "The Quiz" comedy sketches from That Mitchell and Webb Look. They depict a TV gameshow in a post apocalyptic world, very similar to what your friend described.
I'm the 60th comment and I never sucked any ding dongs.
my prof said he knew the guy who wouldn’t lay down and said he would need help to get back up so if they did get raided he was fucked either way
legalize it (an expensive drunk driving license test would get so much more money for the government than even weed)
Reminded me of the Land of the Dead scene where the zombies get into the skyscraper but they were all just imaginary zombies.
Okay, but, did *any* of these shooters impress Jodie Foster?
The poor woman must hold her breath every time some shit like this happens
I feel like everybody forgetting that we've got sailors starving on warships in the middle of a war against Persia while the news is obsessing about the fancy reporters' dinner being ruined is some real warning sirens of imminent Weeks Where Decades Happen.
Do you think the shooter followed Goth Music Latin America on Bluesky?
Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and 10 seconds
Bluesky assassin, call that a skeet shooter.
I can't wait to see who the Guild of Calamitous Intent sends to arch Trump next, now that they keep upping the Equally Matched Aggression Level.
Felix dropping the drake reference like we're gonna forget that he was a huge fan before the Kendrick beef... FRAUD (Still made me laugh tho I forgive him)
Does Hasan talk about anything other than himself
Yes, he talks about politics
Based outro
Critical support for brother Hasan. His stream has been the biggest Left broadcast in North America. He has done more to politically educate his Gen Z audience than all the legacy news channels put together.
That Dylan Byers quote about "hundreds of America's leading journalists" got me. Is journalism what the WHCA Dinner celebrates? Didn't an IDF public relations guy win the big journalism award just two years ago? The story about the bar and the response of the patrons on a Saturday night is kind of reassuring. Time with friends is precious. Byers seems dismayed that people decided not to spend their time on a Saturday night watching breathless speculation about a non-event at a local douchebag convention. The actual "news" can be summarized in a few paragraph at this point that takes less than 5 minutes to read; you don't have to sit through an endless stream of ads for MedicareAdvantage plans either.
56:37 if lincoln had a ballroom trump would have put his name on it or bulldozed it (maybe both?)
We haven't quite reached the level of functional crashouts Japan has, but we're learning.
My theory on the ballroom is that it's a Field of Dreams thing. He thinks that if he builds it, the Phantom of the Opera will appear.
Bruh is real estate mogul maxxing - his idea of immortality is build a big building they won’t demolish
FAH!!!
Hank Pecker
Fuck it William McKinley highlights
Let’s goooooooo
The mayosturd mustaronnaise liberator has gone to the dark side
Was Butler the one where Wolf Blitzer had to come in on his day off, even though he had just posted his nice Wolf Spritzer?
No haha that was the day Biden dropped out
This episode Is one for the ages 🥀
Featuring hasan?? Best slop to hit my trough in awhile!!
The real horseshoe theory is 1900's Anarchists and 2020's Centrists embracing propaganda of the deed.
Diaper on , tuned in
Legit when he goes it's going to be the MEK.
What if instead of a ballroom we just made all of Rhode Island a wall to wall ball pit?
Hasan Piker? I hardly knew her
Aaron Rupar is just obviously lying about how much access he has.
I was bartending in Nashville when the news broke into the NBA/NHL playoffs. The news was on for about 10 minutes before I switched it to another sports channel. No one cared that I changed it and one table even thank us for changing it. People are bored of the show out here.
Insane Plot Armor!
Shout out choo choo the hurkey jerky dancer
Jamelle Bouie, he’s not like the other libs… (advocating for finishing reconstruction and defunding the white house bc impeachment is too weak a mechanism. Never seen him left bash either)
Agreed, Jamelle Bouie rules
“some guy in the crowd” Will, put some respect on the name of the blessed shahid Corey Comperatore
Hasan is by far my favorite antisemitite (coined by John Fetty Wap from PA)
It’s my two favorite podcasts together again. I started listening to Chapo because I enjoyed Felix on Hasan’s podcast.
He would've been right up Obama's arses whole if he were old enough
We are definitely celebrating Luigi lol
so much for muting “Hasan” “Piker” or “Joe Rogan of the left”
Olivia Reingold rocking up to the pedophile convention dressed in the outfit Natalie Portman wears for the Cardinal assassination in V for Vendetta
My thoughts exactly 😆
Felix: I don’t watch any ball sports Felix: here’s a solid Eric Dickerson pull
the Scottie Pippin Chicago bulls take too Fake ball hater smh
cant forget the shotgun wieidng golf course illustrator who apparently intended to torch the mar a lago course
The adin Ross cybertruck is still real and around in Las Vegas
please dont dox my car. i only have 94 more months left on my ethereum car loan
“Why does everyone keep trying to kill him.” Because he’s the perfect symbol of America and also American decay and people hate the latter.
Faith Bottom arguing that Trump is the same as the grandmother from "A good man is hard to find."
Tesla explosion guy straight up reenacted Godspeed lyrics lmao
Elaborate please
“Inter-Lachlan” lmao
Inter-Lachlan Murdoch
Best episode in years boys ! Nice !
My man
The other reason it's so boring to hear of these failed assassination attempts is that he would be SO EASY TO KILL!!! Laura Loomer, who acts like someone about to get kicked out of a Walmart or minor-league baseball stadium, manages to get near him all the time, as do whatever Mar-a-Lago melted-face weirdos stroll onto whatever golf course that day. Yet Mr. Caltech can't stop writing his EA minifesto to figure out how to inveigle himself with these grifter morons and slip some ricin into his diet soda, or shoot his bedraggled obese body? The bullet that Teddy Roosevelt got hit with as he went on with his speech -- would definitely kill Trump! Easy mode, fellas! Hoping when an actual socialist gets bored and decides to off him, we can show 'em how it's done!
Someone needs to run the plan from Naked Gun and activate an athlete assassin at one of the handsome hamburger parties
The shooter guy supposedly said “my legitimate targets include any trump admin official besides the director of the FBI”. Made almost feel bad for Kash
Everybody wants to party with him
I heard Hasan call Prof. Michael Hudson his political GOAT (the economist, not the journalist with the same name) ... among a couple others... and, I have to agree... Yes! And... Read Michael Hudson's books: J is for Junk Economics, Super Imperialism, The Bubble and Beyond, and Killing the Host... I also have many other GOAT economists to recommend: William Mitchell (billmitchell . org) - the most productive economic blogger of all time... who is coming from an MMT-informed Marxist perspective Fadhel Kaboub: understands MMT and the political economy of the Middle East on a deeper level than anyone Pavlina Tcherneva: president of the Levy Economics Institute and expert on a federal jobs guarantee Steven Hail: founded the Modern Money Lab and is running probably the most unique and reality-based economics grad program in the world which includes a pluralists perspective on economics including Ecological Economics... Steve Keen: author of Debunking Economics... Stephanie Kelton: co-founder of MMT and featured in the documentary: Finding the Money...
Thanks for useful-posting.
I pronounce it "blue ski"
Keep Hank Pecker Thought
Why the Turk?
Will is hitting here but seriously this guy isn't even gonna see that much time, and that's the point. read his "manifesto", it's carefully written such that he cannot be accused of targeting anyone but trump and he was pre-emptively apologetic about the possibility of harming anyone else in the cross-fire, even explains why he decided to use less lethal shotgun ammo. trying to secure himself a minimum sentence ahead of time was apart of the deal.
That's so stupid that you think that man. It legitimately makes no sense
Not sure why you guys implicitly believe these "letters from jail" as if the PD isn't who hands them off
Hasan is a white guy, you can’t have both the POC card and be that light skinned while incredibly hot
Is this his first time on as a solo guest?
He was on at least once before because I distinctly remember him roasting JD Vance for saying he couldn’t buy diet Mountain Dew because of woke
does anyone actually like hearing this guys twitch twitter drama?
Yes. But in all seriousness, some of the worst people in some of the highest places in media have been yapping nonstop about him so it's not like any of this is his doing lately.
Cockney accent: ‘Asan Poikah
that fuckn turkish geeza what's 'e on about
I thought hasan was an unfunny asshole before it was mainstream.
Heard your dad is an ok hang
The NRA is loving these failed assassination attempts because it proves guns are less violent than commercial air travel.
Similar to Pluto being added to the Holst symphony, the Sondheim estate needs to add the 3 Trump assassins -- incel, Ukraine bro, and utilitarian manifesto -- to the musical. Strangely representative, they'd go so well with the ideological goulash purée of decades of American wannabe murderer kooks.
perfect time i was about to vacuum the house
Centrist Joe Rogan is so much hotter and has so much more aura than actual Joe Rogan
doctor jihad!
The Neoliberal Driller
I think that was a character in Pynchons bleeding edge
Hasan, have Jacques on stream. Or are you also the anti-Cajun of the year?
we’re hearing it more and more
Don't try to stop me this time, Smee!
Dr Jihad in the building
Most overblown event considering nothing fucking happened
I would hardly call Stephen Miller getting boob in front of the entire nation “nothing happening”
got that fresh pack
And thays a big I'm gay frkm me laads
for real kiss men
They want me dead more than any other president. You’ve never seen a president wished dead as much as me. Okay? People are saying.
People are saying it.
Very funny how pathetic each aspiring assassin has been
Genuinely heartbroken this episode isn’t seven hours long. Could not be more excited to listen to this at work tomorrow 🤩
May I ask what sort of work you do? I often see similar comments but there's no way I could listen to a podcast and still do my job
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Hasan Parker?
PAul BeT DaViDsOn?!
Hasan Piker? The Arab Doctor of Jihad?
Just take hasan off twitch and leave him here on the 3rd seat so I can get all 3 of my big wet boys at once
This episode was so good. *Listened on 300x
I can already feel the shitstorm...
I'm gooning to this one
i’m just in the comments to watch the smooth brains stroke out over a fictional shock collar
I'm just in the comments to watch smooth brained 17 year olds babble about how smart and cool Hasan is.
STANCIL-PILLED
That wizard (shooter) came from (Briana Wu’s proposed) the moon (base). God what a fucking tortured joke. I’m not deleting it. Fuck me and fuck you.
Keep it
Bro you guys are having antisemite of the year on?? Unsubscribed
I'm upping my subscription to a higher level for it
Uphold Stancilite thought
I read this as Upton Sinclair at first glance
Fuck it I’m saying it
We getting a global recession anyways Ernie, fuck it
Hasan!!
Who?
Wide angle podium
Dr. Jihad!
Gooyyy
Perfect thumbnail
Sloppy second.
