1065 - Fear of a Blue Planet feat. The Trillbillies (8/24/26)
Tom, Tarance, and Aaron are back on the left’s premiere A Song of Ice and Fire podcast to talk about a recent army enlistment drive offering new recruits four days of Grand Theft Auto VI. We also talk about the populist revolt and liberal counterrevolution against data centers, plus Trump and RFK importing dubious meats and letting more foods get poisoned. Lastly, we read selections from Natalie Harp’s mash notes to Trump.
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Comments (220)
Felix likes to nationalise things that aren't American, like erm.. GTA 6, which is made by a developer based in Edinburgh
Love the content and interaction but this was a tough listen due to the loud cackling laughter/coughing. I listen at 0.5x so this is doubly annoying.
The league of legends ending bloodlines comment is too fucking real 😂
Natalie harps letters are insane. My armchair psychoanalysis is that she’s either manic or borderline personality. The ladder sort of makes more sense. Her own self analysis in the middle is literally telling him what to do for her; and it comes off is almost like she is conducting espionage. Under the guys of what she feels, she needs and immense about her old life that she wishes would be merged with her current one is to be present for every conversation. And it’s enveloped by self deprecating ego worship of Trump that should be a violation of federal obscenity laws. But what if they figured it out like what if she is Iranian agent trained as a manic pixie dream, girl, and programmed for Trump specifically in order to metaphorically and maybe physically milk him for state secrets?
Damn.... war of 1812 erasure at 40:13....
Did Will REALLY say Scott "BEZ-NET" !? c'mon man!
Next time, have Aaron wait outside while you record. I wonder what that would sound like.
I’m gay
Getting recruited by the NSA because you were able to watch Hot Coffee
I have friends that have played League professionally. I still don't know shit about it
This is 1812 erasure!
I actually saw some of those blue folks when I first moved to Colorado. We were at like Garden of The Gods or something, it was unbelievable!
A porcupine tree reference?? Dads everywhere are going crazy
If you've got nothing funny to say you don't need to hog the mic...
Mr president, a second MicroMachine has struck Natalie's foot
Love when Felix gets back in his bag
Aaron the fit God
I love when my favorite ASoiaF podcast takes a break to discuss American politics
it's not easy being blue
History fail on Will’s part. America’s last war with Canada was the War of 1812, not the French and Indian War. I expect a full investigation from Chapo’s accountability department.
he is still correct that the current legal form of the Confederation of Canada was not enacted yet
The idea of Raymond reddington having a respect meter for his heinous crimes and extreme abuse of the witness protection program is so fucki gfunny to me
Rare Matty Iglesias W? 🔥😩
If you fuck with the crispy tips, I think human kobe beef would be human Kobe beef
I need to hear more about Felix's idea about Pynchon being Ghetto Homer.
Tobacco was a new world plant but americans are hilariously bad at smoking
Great episode for fans of listening to people with nasal issues
so, like, the larper knows his "accent" is texan and not appalachian, right?
Texas is a state larger than every European country and Appalachia stretches basically the length of the eastern US so you’re telling me you’re an expert enough on both places to say someone’s accent is a) fake and b) from one and not the the other? We’ve got a fuckin dialect savant on our hands
Great ep
League player meats would be brined in n Mountain Dew or G Fuel
im begging for the blacklist episode on my hands and knees
When our junior enlisted soldiers reenlist, they get a 4-day weekend no matter what. They just throw on the weird GTA aspect of it. In addition, none of these guys reenlisted for GTA 6. Within their reenlistment comes a lot of stuff. Most of the time, it’s usually a shitty deal like, "to make SGT you need to reenlist." However, most usually go in with their PSG or SL, and if they’re worth anything, they get them what they want, whether that be a school (i.e.: Airborne), next duty station (worst one tbh), or a bonus, of which the value is dependent on MOS and needs of the Army at that given moment.
The tardy boys
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Might have said this before, but as someone with cerebral palsy I really appreciate that Will and Felix pronounce it the correct way. Thanks boys!
Stop counting the guest’s namsayin’s, namsayin? What are you, from the department of Namsayin? Are you taking a namcensus?
Would love the Chapo comments to be fucking normal about having a black guest on…
All the fucking crybabies come out every time
James Spader is one of my favorite actors but I couldn't make it through the Blacklist! They even painted a mural in my neighborhood to advertise it
GAME OF THRONES TV SPOILERS: The reason the ending didn't make sense for the show is because it is bar for bar the story of modern Zionism. Genuinely. The show-runners live and breath Israel, one of them got married there. They needed to make their own ending so they come up with the one story they are obsessed with: Seriously listen to it described: "A left-winger who means well-turned- Nazi leading a horde of Brown "savages" through a protective border wall to the sounds of a ringing bell that drives her irrationally insane." The main landmark of Jerusalem is a bell tower. Cersei Lannister is the Likud party which is why she gets a sympathetic ending. "She's done bad things but at the end of this she's just a girl who loves her children." This is why the ending made no rational sense to anyone. Because Zionism makes no rational sense.
Time for a screen break 🙂
GTA re-enlistment grants automatic entry to Valhalla
This is war of 1812 erasure
Can't believe they recorded a Trillbilles ep right before Dolly Parton died. Chapo has really bad luck when it comes to episode guests recording recording right before extremely relevant current events.
I’m 50 and married with kids so playing GTA for hours on end is a degenerate pursuit equivalent to gooning in the bathroom for 3 hours a day. So yes, I would consider a two week vacay of GTA and gooning while Doordashing Chinese spareribs, pad Thai, Vietnamese noodles, and hoagies.
best. episode. ever.
you know what i’m saying?
100 percent (insufferable laugh) I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THAT!
God please do an episode on the Blacklist, such an insane watch
Apparently wild mustangs are also being rounded up and sent to slaughter as well, the feds are dead ass using the black helicopters to do meat fraud
my most MAGA take is that actually wild horsies are a nuisance and should be dealt with using unbelievable violence
Chapo curse strikes again... 😥
Gamer Meat is a great idea. You don't need to force feed them like foie gras geese or crate them like veal calves. They'll overeat and not move 100% voluntarily, eliminating animal welfare concerns. Offer gamers a couple months of unlimited doordash and access to exclusive games, and we can all enjoy fatty liver and buttery-tender cuts of meat without worry. When your dinner guests say the meat tastes gamey, it'll be a compliment!
Been waiting for the boys to get back. Love these guys
Have Aaron back for a Star Trek episode please.
No
dropping datacenters all through suburbia are our last hope to stop sun belt sprawl. vote yes
Canadian Classics are better than any American cigarette sorry
Belmonts
Give me a series about Star Trek. Couldn't give a shit about Game of Thrones.
Trillbillies guest the week Dolly Parton dies. Sad cosmic coincidence.
Weren’t the Fugates a family Matt and chris talked about in “Hell on Earth”?
We're told we're getting a crossover with the Trillbillies, but we get a crossover with Soylent Green instead.
I legit met a kid in school who told me his dad wouldn't let him play San Andreas because the character is black
Step 1) interrupt to restate exactly what was just said. Step 2) Ask if listeners know what you are saying Step 3) “hyuck hyuck hyuck!” Step 4) repeat
Damn. Has nothing to do with race, btw, in case someone’s thinking that
Aaron’s takes are annoying and bad. Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek
One thing I *can* believe about her characterization of Trump in those letters is that he frequently doesn’t know what time it is. She’s also obviously gonna crawl inside him like a TaunTaun.
offended by this blerds affected hood accent
We have reached peak knowing what you're saying, 💯
Pot meet kettle on americans calling canadians docile. How's that free officer movement coming along?
Natalie Harp was DJT‘s ‘One Wish Willow’
Appreciate Terrence paying homage to 2017 era Matt by only chiming in to quip over a terrible phone line level connection once every 20 minutes.
All right, love the content guys, and I never leave comments. I'm just a guy who likes to listen. But I am so tired of hearing you guys compare things to game of thrones, I'm sick of it and I audibly screamed in my car when you brought it up again. Please for the love of whatever God you believe in keep it to a minimum. It's your podcast and you could do what you want but I'm asking as a friend. And as a fellow traveler and true believer, thanks.
Abundantly clear that Aaron must be the new permanent 3rd mic on your Chapo.
Absolutely not lol
Don’t mind the Trillbillies guys being on but that guys accent? NOT BUYING IT!
Dawg, what the fuck are you talking about
That fucking Ghetto Homer riff at the end killed me
Dwarf Fortesss player meat is the sweetest of all.
Some excellent spoofs and goofs this episode. "Vote blue no matter the hue," "poopjacking," etc
Trump sending all of his supporters over 60 to fight in Iran, “We love our strong, beautiful WINTER WOLVES!”
welcome to the Felix riffing hour
I work for an airport and we have a smoking room. It's like an indoors bus stop where you're waiting for nothing
"Economic D-day" is gonna be landing craft arriving on the beaches of Iran, but instead of soldiers they have pallets of cash on them
*Whispers*.. “Nahm’sayin?”
I always felt like Volantis was the Argentina of ASOIAF
Excellent episode thank you
Yes, I know what you're saying.
Also too know what I’m saying?
RFK is one of those skinchangers that stayed in the animal too long and now a wild hog inhabits half his mind
Felix has been emulating games so much that he doesn’t know the MSRP of most new games is $70 now, or that GTA6 is going to be $80 for the base game.
You get 4 days to play gta6 when it comes out. Day 1: you spend 8 hours waiting for a 70gb patch to download and install. Day 2: you bounce around the game world finding features you are locked out of because you didn’t buy the $100+ deluxe edition and the monthly subscription (independent of your ps online subscription). Day 3: you finally get a good chunk of playtime in the story but it has a million mundane tutorial missions that teach you to do things you’ll never do again, akin to the tow truck missions in gta5. Day 4: you want to enjoy the game but you can feel it slipping through your fingers. Tomorrow you’re back to war. Was this deal worth it? You wonder if you could have just played gta6 over a weekend in civilian life, maybe taken a sick day too. Did I make a mistake? No, ignore that. Play the game, you must have fun!
What fresh hell does the Chapo comment section have this time?
A lot of opinions about the way the black guest talks
Making Natalie Carp run after the golf carts like she is a fraternity pledge is maybe the funniest thing trump has done in a while
This Kentucky family is blue for an AMAZING reason
love them trillbilly boys
oh my god Natalie Harp is Trumps abuse goblin
No way those accents are real right
League of Legends players would not be Kobe beef. The concentrated autism and self-loathing someone must have to enjoy those type of games would spoil the meat.
When the big kahuna finally croaks will Natalie Harp off herself? I think maybe
She will be entombed with him, alive, to print his articles in the afterlife
In regard to the Data center convo and the water usage debates, all the EA guys get this talking point from Andy Masley. And tbh the guy is mostly right about how framing the water usage makes it sound worse compared to other industries, but he just doesn’t understand that people would rather have their water go towards farming, gasoline production, etc, and not to big tech, who like half the population see as the bane of modern existence, and the other half don’t even know what big tech is.
I became blue in my 20s but that was because I mastered the art of gooning
I'm here in wisconsin. Oh my god... Tom's tiffany and the republicans are literally running ads , saying that david crowley loves data centers. America is so stupid that the Republicans who want the data centers and say it out loud can put an ad out, saying the Democrats want the thing that they want....and it's bad?!?!?!?!?! Kill me now 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Eddington, Wisconsin?
How did this podcast, with a producer, somehow make Tarrence’s mic sound so much worse than his own self-produced show?
I listen to Trillbillies and I found myself thinking "Who is this guy?" multiple times. Weird.
This episode has the vibe of, "if we force laughter, it'll make it funnier." The one guy with the borderline cough for a laugh, ugh.
That’s just Aaron for you 24/7. Makes it strangely a tough listen at times
Brings me no pleasure but RFK JR is clearly a warg and has the diet of a wilding.
Yeah dude, we know what you’re saying
As someone who has 3.5k+ hours on HOI4, I appreciate Felix recognizing me as prime human meat
You go over “I forgot to eat” in Emotional Manipulation 101 but that class is like 95% freshman and she’s 35
Felix begins kissing my penis at 48 seconds
Worst Trillbill talk the most always
The biology labs at Fort Detrick must be working on a Quebecois French vocal chord parasite
Ahem, Will, it’s Enos Kanter Freedom. Legally
another "you know what I'm saying" episode
A lot of clickbait articles promoting GTA and the Army. I don't like this collaboration. Is Rockstar making drone simulators for the army now? Those soldiers also got 15k-40k dollars to reenlist.
They might have just planned to reenlist anyway and scooped four days of PTO
Shoutout to the Star Trek ep of Guys where Will and Aaron got to do the star trek chat on purpose lol
it occurs to me that RFK Jr is basically a character out of China Miéville’s Bas-Lag trilogy, named something like Rajk Glunderbin, and he’s the guy you go to see to embed a living animal in furniture but still keep it alive, tortured for eternity
We need the Trillbillies as guests more often
JESUS CHRIST. TERENCE IS A REAL ONE WITH THAT LEFTIST AUDIO
Dagmar Cleftjaw mentioned
A Taste of Armageddon
Would love a Will & Aaron startrek episode and i don’t even watch startrek
Alternate ending song: https://youtu.be/iJ_9ouzLe-E?is=rfHuPiZ8I8saRjA3
Matt begins speaking at 48 seconds
Nice of the boys to get the Trillbillies on after episode 1 of their podcast which just started.
Where I cum from
it's so funny watching Republicans act like Liz Warren supporters about data centres, like they're so good! you guys are too stupid to realise how many benefits they're bringing to your communities! no I can't identify what those are but I am smart so you should listen to me! also Will, there is absolutely a cohort of GTA fans who boycotted the best GTA because CJ was black lol
The Natalie pics are so Kitty and George Snr!
Nice Joni Mitchell drop
"The Meat Scheme" does sound like a 19th-century scandal.
Brent Spiner recorded a Frank Sinatra cover album titled "Old Yellow Eyes" and yes I have a copy on CD.
cough hack hiccup
Blue people, David Cross was a literal chapo guest & no Arrested Development references & jokes?
But boss, the planet Earth is blue
I have seen boomer teamsters go red with rage with the mere mention of trans women in sports.
such a devious little distraction
Felix gently queefs at 1:37
Are the guesses okay? They were constantly coughing.
Smokers
I do unironically think that at least part of the reason why Winds of Winter is so delayed is that the way the show goes is more or less how George had planned it and the response to the show was so negative he had to rewrite everything and is terrified of releasing it until after he's dead so he doesn't have to deal with the reaction. If he passes I almost expect both books will be released in rapid succession.
I’ve seen people say this, I just can’t imagine it with how much the show diverged with the books. Maybe a similar outline, but young griff didn’t even exist in the show. In my mind there’s just too many moving parts for it to be similar. Then again maybe it’s just cope from waiting two decades.
Aaron plleeeaasse let tom and Tarrence talk
They don’t want to talk
There is a photo of Natalie Harp running after Trump’s golf cart. It’s quite a picture.
I like how Natalie Harp writes her letters in the same way a person turning into a zombie in Resident Evil writes a diary entry.
She writes letters like the letter from Harry’s ex-something you find in your ledger in Disco Elysium
Love the trek talk 🖥️
The joni sting got me hahaha
Aaron has denounced Marxism Leninism. Matt’s brain must be spinning in its grave.
Natalie Harp is the knight of the laughing tree
Fuck yeah
Petition for Felix to give ASOIAF a Players Club-esque treatment
Finally, the Trills can give us their Westerosi takes
Felix defends drunk driving at 31:58. (By gum, it's been a while!)
Easy to do when you've never driven outside of a video game.
Come on guys, it's just a thought exercise.
🤓 umm actually, GRRM WOULD say that Daenery’s ideal society was Israel because the Targaryen family are very obviously Nazis. It’s in the fucking name! Targ-ARAYAN
Okay I agree but it kind of breaks down because the Targs are actually magic people with a destiny to actually save the world
Now how many of yall like sex?
I love how Felix confused Obama stooge Jay Carney with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Have you ever seen them in the same room together?
“100% 100% 100% 100% 100%” .
Felix not understanding league is so funny like bro you know the blood line of solid snake by heart, and you like from soft games. It’s just like those but some 23 year old is calling you the n word for not helping him with something that’s he’s probably completely wrong about
He could get so many manul videos from players in the CIS who call you slurs in Dota.
A Mystery reference, the boys are topical as always!
best opening credits in the game
Trill Billy eps are right up there with pendejo time eps, always a great time
I teach the high school still read aloud class and yes. Unfortunately yet predictably yes
If you agree with Felix’s take on reading interventions in high school, then you owe it to yourself and the children you teach to leave and find a different way to support yourself.
Canada has IQOS I used to want to make a trip to grab one so bad when I smoked.
Literally the only two podcasts I listen to in one room, hell yeah
Trillbilliams: Never disappoints.
Canada actually took territory from the US during the war of 1812
Anyone interested should read “The Civil War of 1812.” Legitimately one of the best times I’ve had reading a history book. It rules
Natalie Harp!?! The 60’s gets Marilyn Monrow, and we get Natalie fukin’ Harp?
It's been fifteen years. He's 77. You're not getting another book.
Felix, Please stop making fun of the students who need reading interventions in high school. Surely there is a better target for harvesting humor. It’s just needlessly mean to a group that is already stigmatized.
Free GTA to fight a war is the plot of a Max Barry novel
Yo. You know. Yo. Yo. Yo. You know what I'm saying.
Instead of a reenlistment bonus Dodge Challenger these guys should get an exclusive GTA6 Bravado Gauntlet DLC
Saw the “Feat. Trillbillies” and let out the deepest “oh yessss”
Internecine
We love our Matty, folks!
They’re finally back! Criminal length of time between a trillbilly/Chapo collab.
About fucking time they had them on again.
Oh my fucking god it is all a simulation, isn’t it
How many of y'all like sex?
Been meaning to try it. Heard great things.
All three Trillbillies? We’re eating good today
What tomatoes are we throwing today boys? Trillibillies are too neo-Appalachian-intersectional-Trotskyist to be taken seriously by your Leftist podcast of choice??
“Know what I’m sayin’??”
Can you have Brace’s baby on the show please
booked for Adam friedland unfortunately
I’m gonna jump off an air craft carrier
Cannon ball or something fancy?
I wish I knew when Felix begins speaking
Ask Chat GPT, it's this thing I heard about on the news.
My beautiful Kentucky boys two days in a row! (Aaron is an honorary Kentuckian). What a week.
Has anyone ever mentioned your name is very funny Dick Cochnar?
Felix begins speaking at 48 seconds
THANK YOU
Holy shit we’re so fucking back
Holy shit how did they book one of the top 500 podcasts in the world! Huge pull!
let’s fucking go
Fucking finally
Please make an A Song of Ice and Fire show
Yes make Felix finally read the books
What a strange upload time, just in time for listening to while playing Crusader Kings 3
The Elden Ring Players Club ep comes out the same day as the new DLC. God is good!
First, gay, etc
Fred Durst!
Gotta employ Cockney slang to fool the filters now