757 - There Is No Self To Kale (8/10/23)
It’s Will’s 40th birthday! Everybody say “happy birthday, Will.” We’re all here in Matt’s living room celebrating with a selection of delectable stories including a resounding victory for pro-choice supporters in Ohio, the Musk v Zuck fight, and the Utah guy who got the FBI to kill him through Facebook posts. But, the real star of this episode is a magisterial New Yorker profile of NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who demonstrates how he transcends politics, space, time and even the concept of self to become a living and eternal God.
CANADA: we will be there NEXT WEEK. Last chance to get tickets to Toronto on 8/17 and Montreal on 8/19 https://www.chapotraphouse.com/live
Comments (268)
if only the liberal media could’ve treated the pro life and anti climate change movements as unpopular as they always were, instead of as 50/50 issues, perhaps we’d be living in somewhat of a better world today
Jake Plummer was such a pull by Felix
Utah Sniper lathe of history moment?
Happy birthday Will
Top tier episode
Re listening to this wistfully as Eric Adams faces 40 years in prison and the Ukraine war continues. Matt, hope to hear your voice again but regardless thank you and hope your recovery continues steadily.
I don't expect to make it to 40.
Too bad actually being a healthy vegan requires doing meal prep all day on Sunday with tons of chopping and kitchen work, and not doing mock meat microwaving or restaurants like the unhinged narcissist you're talking about.
Who are you mad at specifically?
elden ring bit absolutely goated
Disappointed bout shitting on wim hoff, wonderful guy who sells nothing, changed my life mental health wise. All good tho I forgive you rascals
He abolishes reality because he's a cop. He's probably filled out his share of sensational reports.
Isabella Rossellini in death becomes her is so hot. This ep does rule.
She really was but the wall is undefeated.
Goated episode
Eric Adams is clearly Chat-GPT made flesh
This one is an all-timer. Already re-listened multiple times.
in my opinion, its because they're in the same room together. somethings definitely lost when theyre all on a zoom call
Happy birthday Will god bless America
Incredible episode, love the energy of everyone in the same room together.
After living in NYC for over 40 years, I chose the right mayor to leave during (Bloomberg). Downhill from there.
hbd will
‘Michael Jordan et al’ has to be the whitest thing Matt has ever said
The boys are NERDS for this one
hmu for deep cuts when you're ready for the chapo funk hour
any update on their assistant, Justin?
The baba yaga is here made me shart laughing
Why is patreon so broken lately? The last several episodes won't play
Whenever felix start talking about video game plots i just hear the HWOM HWOM HWOMHWOMHWOM of the adults in Peanuts
Happy birthday king
Happy Birthday, Will! Enjoy your stay in Commiefornia, home of Gruesome Gavin we love having you here
This is a great episode, tons of energy
Happy Birthday Will
As a huge boxinghead, I can tell you that Eric Adams has tuned Into boxinghead vote: every hardcore boxing fan has capped at one point about how they either were a pro (usually a very low level guy with very few pro fights), an amateur that coulda been a star or a gym monster that could take out 5 dudes at once and coulda been a star, but didn't because of some kind of magnanimousness or extreme personal life complications (these delusions are genuinely sincere). This is another political masterclass by Mayor Adams, simultaneously a dogwhistle to the boxing fan political constitutuency, and a genuine conviction of Supreme potential
Who knows what he could do with the political mandate of all twelve boxing fans in the US behind him
Has anybody here seen my old friend Virgil? Can you tell me where he's gone? He zoomed with a lot of people. But it seems the horny retire young...
I think last year or thereabouts Alice from Trashfuture snapped a picture of him eating by himself in a restaurant in Glasgow which was a complete mind trip
happy birthday, Will.
Starting a new game, Who Said It? Eric Adams or Big Body Bes
Chris, more Curtis Mayfield transition cues please
Stop please. It's too much. I'm drowning in slop.
Edit: the linebacker that Roger Huerta knocked out (Rashad Bobino) was 5’11”
HBD Will
it's so wild that these guys get $175k/mo just from patreon
Most of that goes to treats though
Happy birthday, Will!
What a great episode, really felt like you guys were high energy and enjoying being in the same room.
Gunther is the pro NATO/pro Ukraine poster but instead of being incredibly depressing and doing the soy face and pointing but in text online and saying “APOLOGIZE” and “bad take” whenever the signal goes off that someone has mentioned Ukraine/Russia and believes in their heart of hearts that posting is politics and that it’s the most important thing of all to hold people to account, he’s out enjoying life as he does the same call for article 5 and nuclear war.
New York don gone elected Lord Vivec as mayor.
"HMS Covfefe!!" Had me fucking rolling
Holy shit, I didn't know GoT jokes could still be so funny.
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday Will!
Happy birthday Will
42 minute mark about theme song for Adams is incorrect. Mayor James J. Walker, ‘Beau James’ of NYC wrote the lyrics to the 1910s famous “Will you love me in December as you do in May” and it’s fame followed him into his career. When he was running for mayor they would play it in Italian, Yiddish, German, Polish and do a Jazz variant for Harlem and he’d get up and sing/dance. Cartoonishly corrupt like the good son of Tammany Hall he was but was directly responsible for the massive expansion of the Subway system while refusing to increase fares alongside several other civil projects. Hated Robert Moses and got driven out of office bc FDR thought he made him look bad. Irish-American Excellence
It might have been Will's b-day but we all got a present this week - this one was straight fire. Many happy returns of the day Will!
super excited for Montreal!! thanks for making the trip up here!! and happy birthday Will! you magnificient bastard!
Eric Adams can go toe to toe with ManCow on who has spun more lies
Classic chapo banger, reminiscent of the golden age
Fucking banger. Particularly the Elden Ring shit.
Happy Birthday Will
Happy Birthday Will. What a great show!
Happy birthday Will
Hey Chris, Felix has such dulcet tones when you guys are together and he has a good mic. Can you spend some of our patreon money to improve his second-rate-ass setup he's got in his hovel in Chicago or wherever he plays CS:GO at?
Cmon Chris, get him a Telefunken U47, some good plugin harmonizers and pitchshifters for his channel
Happy birthday, Will! Great episode, looking forward to the Felix Elden Ring lore mini series
My pwussy hwurts
God damn is this show better when you're in the same room.
Nice episode, perverts
absolutely hilarious ep one of my favorites in months
Happy birthday Will! My best friend’s little brother was Bill Duke’s assistant for a span of time in LA. He said that he is quite the piece of shit.. never pays his people, etc. Predator knew what’s up. Shame
Happy birthday Will!
Barnburner of an ep, boys, Happy bday will
Banger
The FBI aerating a 70 something gravy seal will never not be funny. He was probably laying in bed with his ghillie suit on just waiting for his blaze of glory moment to arrive.
Aw shit, my 40th was on Tue! So me and Will were born exactly 2 days apart in '83.
Felixs birthday gift to Will was infodumping about his special interest, soulsborne games.
Happy Birthday Will :)
Eric is the perfect mayor for a country in decline
utah guy segment was almost too funny
Chris cracking up in the background is making this episode so much better and more endearing
Getting a producer laugh always adds a little to an already good pod. Same with YC on TrueAnon
Bah relief? Bas relief? What
bah relief
My daughter shares the same birthday as you Will - August 10th is a special fuckin day. Also, great episode - nothin beats the boys all in the same room, the juice on this one is overflowing
bappy wirthday hill
Banger ep, thank you Mr chapo
Low turnout in Ohio?? 3 million showed up. 4 million showed up in 2020!
Eric is high on his own supply!! His vibe reminds me of Rob Ford, the Canada crack smoking mayor!! Will, glad you're not following the vibe, Rob F only made it to 46, we want you around longer than that.
The little mini mention of Armenia is appreciated. Really upsetting to watch these pro-Ukraine psychos in the media and gov whine about the US not giving Zelensky neutron bombs and F35s or whatever while hundreds of thousands of Armenians are being trapped and starved to death, and literally nobody knows or cares, I'm not even certain that there's been a single mainstream news piece about what's happening... I know saying something like this is the most cringe thing ever, but if someone involved with the show were to see this please consider having someone on to talk about the blockade that's happening now ...
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about Eric Adams. The guy is a perennial lolcow.
It’s bizarre to hear chapo pretend like six months ago they were convinced things were going badly for Ukraine and specifically Felix to allude to the idea that he thought they should sue for peace and make concessions. It’s great that they pulled their heads out of their assholes and christman finally took the lead on explaining the reality of munitions and man power, but for 18 months this show has said more less two totally insane things: A) Russia is doing to Ukraine what the US did to Iraq B) Russia is losing and things are going very badly for them. I’m sure this comment will attract some of the gay chapo Reddit responses but I don’t care. It’s fuckin weird that this show with smart dudes who offer so much poignant analysis on domestic politics has to wait for the NYT and WAPO to tell them it’s ok to come to the conclusion that anyone with a brain came to when this thing started. Will, Idgaf about your birthday. But I hope it was great.
This is the gayest most reddit chapo post I have ever read. I distinctly remember Matt saying things were gonna grind to a halt in the spring offensive, but who could have predicted that Zeilinski would blow it so hard that even WAPO has to tell people it ain't looking good. Ukraine got addicted to smart high tech weapons and now you gotta do the hard part: shelling cities, trench warfare, men beating men to death in mud, a killing field that does nothing but suck money and life into nothing. Certainly doesn't look good on TV. Turns out you can't just salvo fire on entrenched Russians, storm in with your Swedish IVFs, and do maneuver warfare without the massive loss of life associated with it.
Happy Birthday!
Great energy on this one lads
Happy birthday, Will! Great ep, one of the years best
Trump is off-putting, Adams is off pudding
And de santis is in pudding
Mustang convertible inbound. Happy birthday Will !!!
Happy birthday will
Something big the Chapo boys are misunderstanding about Adams is that he is quite literally a pro wrestler. Cutting promos, having entrance music, burying small towns? He may as well be Mr. Perfect.
Happy Birthday, Will 🥳
Man, this reminds me of Classic Chapo; damn near 90 minutes of everyone engaged and going in on contemporary, end of empire content.
Happy bday king
Happy Birthday Mr. Chapo!
Chris please pass my belated happy birthday wishes onto Will, I’ll be chooming for him later as he himself is now too old for such things. Also this was a fantastic pod
This is one of the best ever Chapo eps, especially the last half hour
The jokes were really cracking on this one
Happy Birthday will! Thank you for all the laughs and movie moments over these many golden years!!
Great to hear my friends having fun together again 😃
Felix been watching Smoughtown
S+ riff with "Radagon Adams", moved to tears!
I don’t know how (if?) the Eric Adams saga will end, but I could see him going out like Chapo favorite Aubrey McClendon. (Great episode, & happy birthday, Will!)
Happy birthday will
Later this year I become as old as Will was when I first started listening in 2016 (the post-election ep), so I guess now I should start a podcast.
Happy birthday!
Biden is Saul, Adams is david
Throw fucking marcus aurelius out - this is the real philosophy for our time
well, we all saw Ip Man 3 so we know how small dudes beat huge dudes (that was the one where he beat the aussie boxer right? I forget) oh also yeah happy birthday,
the pod is so much better when you're all in the same room, best episode in a long time. Happy B day will!
Came here to say the same thing
Happy birthday! Its a national holiday!
Happy Birthday Will 🎂🎊
'dont call him a fat pig, call him White Lizzo'
Happy birthday Will!
Gold. Absolute gold.
Damn. Free this one up. People will like this.
Happy Birthday, Will 🎂
Happy birthday, Will!!!
Happy Will, May grace befall you
As a 450-pound man with the belt proudly under my gut, I can confirm this aspect of our community relations.
10000/10 episode
Eric Adams is a bad mayor who makes stuff up but none of the woo stuff he does is funny
Happy birthday Will, and shout out to all the other Will heads in the chat
Happy Birthday Will!
Brilliant.
I love it when Felix references the Iron Bank of Braavos.
happy birthday will
Is Healthy At Last supposed to be a play on Free at Last? Like a self help cookbook thats supposed to evoke the civil rights movement?
🪦
Happy Birthday Grey Wolf Alpha
this was appointment listening. hbd will!
Happy Birthday Will
Happy Birthday!!
Eric Adams will be god emperor of the Washington-to-Boston unified economic zone in post-deluge America
Not if Tom Brady runs.
Hbd will! Damn!
Happy birthday big dawg
Our beautiful boy and I were blessed to be born only one year and 362 days apart. God I feels great to be a Leo.
I too think reincarnation is more logical than the Christian afterlife. All of written history is just people making the same mistakes over and over again. Like, I guess the same people just keep getting recycled every 100 years or so.
They need to cycle in some elephant or blue jay souls into the human line or something, we have no idea what we're doing
The boys are back on top! Playing to win!
Happy birthday Will!
I refuse to believe Eric Adams is not a performance art collaboration between the pod and Tim Heidecker. Come on, man. GTFO. Also... the whole keep on lying thing reminds me of my cousin vinny. "I didn't say I was a vegan, I said was a hegan!"
Happy cake day Will I’m gay btw
Happy b day will! 🫡
Happy 15th anniversary of your 25th birthday Will!
Happy bday king
Lordy, lordy, look who's forty!
The energy of the in-person podcast is so palpable here. Happy bday Will!
HBD Big Will!
Happy spirit journey formation anniversary
hbd boomer
Happy Birthday Will
The show is so much better when these dudes are in the same room together. It’s like night and day.
Happy birthday, Will!
Happy birthday will thanks for years of laughs ❤️
an all-timer/ instaclassic by 00:15
Return to office - but for podcasts
Happy birthday Will!
Happy birthday, Will
Matt did a quick 180 from last week’s “liberals/people on the left” won’t vote. Way2Go O-hi-0!
It’s in a different context here since he’s talking specifically about state abortion laws which people actually care about, not national elections
40 is the new 30.
Happy birthday Will. See you in Toronto!
Christie should have given him Fury of V merch
Happy Birthday Will
Come on boys... you did a musical cue after the Gavin Newsom discussion and it wasn't California Uber Alles?
Happy b day Will!!!!
ive listened to the noise at 35:35 about 10 times
Here's to many more trips around the sun
The Bon Jovi discourse is gold. LMAO
Zuckerberg wins through the mental game alone. Elon doesn't have the steel. You can tell Zuck is holding something in there
Happy bday big guy
Happy birthday will they say middle age starts in your 20s but you don’t get old till you’re in your late 60s so don’t worry too much
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILL! YOU OLD MOTHERFUCKER!
Happy Birthday Will!!
That’s actually the first picture I’ve ever seen of Eric Adams and this whole time I’d just been picturing Kramer’s lawyer. Deeply disappointed.
Hell yes happy bday Will
HAPPY BERFDEE MOTHERFUCKER
Enjoy the memento mori, Wide-dick Willy! So long and thanks for all the slop!
Welcome to the over the hill club, WIll. As your Senpai, I'll tell you it doesn't seem to mean as much as it used to. (I don't feel much different or square and I've been here a few years)
happy birthday king
Nice to hear the lads all in the same room again. Congrats to Will for turning 40 and still barely looking like he’s hit the legal drinking age.
Happy Birthday, Will!
Happy Birthday Will. Really appreciate you
Happy birthday Will
Cheers Will. To forty more.
Happy birthday Will! 🥂Heres to many more!
Happy 40th. Welcome to being old!
Happy birthday!!
*Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 btw
Gotta say I always thought Will was only like 36 or 37 [Slightly older than me]
Happy Birthday Will
Happy bday :)
Happy Birthday Will! You son of a bitch! *Inserts Predator Dillon and Dutch bicep GIF*
happy birthday Will we love you
Happy Birthday!!!!
Happy birthday Will!
Is that your real name tho
Happy birthday, brother. Welcome to the big 4 0 I started my midlife crisis in February.
happy birthday you old bastard
middle aged bastard
happy birthday will
Happy Birthday, Will!
Happy Birthday, Will! Welcome to the best decade.
Happy birthday Will!
Happy birthday sloppy sloppy Willy
Two Chapos and a War Nerd in my podcast feed. Today is a truly blessed day 🙏
We're eating good today.
joyeaux anniversaire Will!!
Happy thirty-tenth birthday!
happy birthday, Will!
happy birthday Will 🎉🥳🎉
Ayyy Happy Bday Will.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, Will! It’s time for slop!
Happy birthday Will
Activating Menaker Mindset
Happy Birthday
GFY Will
Hippocampus barfly, Will!
Happy 40th! Welcome to the cusp of “middle age” old man…
Eyo happy birfday Willie uze don’t looks a days over 39
Happy Birthday will kiss kiss
Happy birthday Will. I'm gay
40????
Happy Birthday Will
Happy Birthday Will!!!!
Happy birthday, Will!
Happy birthday! You’re great at what you do, and I hope you have an amazing mid-life crisis to look forward to!
Happy birthday Will, I hope Thomas Freidman writes something inspiring just for you
Lordy Lordy look who’s turnin 40!
Hey Will! Happy birthday!
Feliz cumpleaños Guillermo!
Happy Birthday, Will!
Happy birthday bromie
Finally someone older than me that I listen to. Was really feeling dumb. Happy Birthday!
Old fuck
Happy birthday, Will!
Happy birthdate, will! Menaker for all!!!
🎂
Hap birf.
Old
Happy birthday, Will!
Gay for Will today and every day but especially today because he's daddy now
Happy birthday Will! Hope your son Cody is doing well.
Happy Birthday Will hope its nice
christ he’s old
I just learned Felix is 42. I thought they were like mid 30s
hbd will
Happy birthday will :)
Happy birthday Will! Much love from Australia.
Happy birthday will!
Hbd
Happy birthday bitch, youve taught me so much
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILL!
Happy birthday day Will, from: your pigs ….and hogs