Seeking a Fren: Episode 2 - The Eighteenth Brumaire of James Dobson
Added 2024-12-18 12:00:10 +0000 UTCWith a narrowly stolen election by George Bush, the religious right finds themselves in a greater position of power and influence than ever, as does an ascendant media empire by the former political operative Roger Ailes. They’d both find out, however, that power doesn’t necessarily mean success.
This episode draws from Dan Gilgoff’s The Jesus Machine and Gabriel Sherman’s The Loudest Voice in the Room. For a full list of sources, check our works cited doc here:
www.chapotraphouse.com/seeking
Comments
Good God. Please put a content warning before playing that much potato-headed Hannity ranting.
Evan Pitkin
2025-11-05 21:46:04 +0000 UTCFelix dude you deserve an award for this work
Mattc83
2025-09-26 16:56:16 +0000 UTCJesus hearing Limbaugh took me back. This was worth joining the Patreon thank y’all for what you do.
HiTekLoLyfe
2025-01-15 22:17:05 +0000 UTCThis series is fire! Keep it up Felix.
Saviourself
2025-01-13 21:51:55 +0000 UTCI know that we are all hog people whose opinions don’t matter but I want to say that this is great. Thank you to all involved!
Alex Weber
2025-01-04 22:01:51 +0000 UTCSome very much so but even the stuff in the 2000s. I’ve never heard of some these dudes. Guess that’s the point of the series tho
GnarlyRaeJetson
2025-01-03 13:30:52 +0000 UTCToo young to remember all this?
Jason Coker
2025-01-03 01:49:07 +0000 UTCI’m rocking with this series but some of these people sound so made up dude
GnarlyRaeJetson
2025-01-02 23:15:49 +0000 UTC-
Nick
2025-01-02 14:55:17 +0000 UTCExcellent
Roger Peet
2024-12-30 20:24:15 +0000 UTCFelix‘s knowledge of early 2000s Indie rock to get you laid on display.
Zeebes
2024-12-30 17:39:19 +0000 UTCit's just 100mph jokes/facts. It's better suited as a book to be fair
Chuck Skooch
2024-12-29 21:14:28 +0000 UTCI am a good listener but this is really difficult to follow 😕
buttface
2024-12-28 13:40:53 +0000 UTCI choked when the smiths started playing
Marisa
2024-12-26 18:49:31 +0000 UTCThis is excellent work, Felix - great topic, well explained and entertaining. Kudos to you.
David Andrews
2024-12-26 01:16:09 +0000 UTCReally enjoying this great job Felix and team!
Carolyn
2024-12-25 18:43:41 +0000 UTCLoving this series so far, two great episodes
ScottB
2024-12-22 01:21:25 +0000 UTCDamnnn i completely forgot we used to call him shrub
Aaron Dinga
2024-12-21 18:37:57 +0000 UTCAccidentally clicked ahead when I first opened this just to hear "And here he was, in front of an audience, calling SpongeBob gay." Let's go
DJC583
2024-12-21 18:30:58 +0000 UTCLook into the new podcast Fourth Reich Archeology for more details - they are currently doing a deep dive on the members and assemblage of the Warren Commission.
Eric Gilbertson
2024-12-21 18:30:58 +0000 UTCI knew not his provenance, but hearing this I was like "well, of course"
Matthew Krueger
2024-12-21 03:42:25 +0000 UTCDays later and I'm still chuckling to myself about it
Matthew Krueger
2024-12-21 03:39:55 +0000 UTCI love these Felix eps and hope he does more Ppl are remembering the inebriated past with rose tinted glasses Matt is the goat but Felix still did a great job here
iceland
2024-12-20 17:43:57 +0000 UTCAfter listening to Roger Ailes' hatecrime in 1989, one can't help but despair that there WASN'T anyone throwing bombs into his little fucking executive suite
Ghordo
2024-12-20 08:01:31 +0000 UTCCan’t tell if I have brain rot or if Felix has brain rot, but it’s impossible for me to follow the plot in these
The Fine Art Revolution
2024-12-20 03:24:38 +0000 UTCI am but a loyal hog and a felix special series is my favorite slop
Kvvvy
2024-12-20 02:32:27 +0000 UTCSeeking A Fren OST > Guardians of the Galaxy OST
Craig
2024-12-19 23:28:58 +0000 UTCIs the top of every sentence cut off or is it just my phone
Jacob
2024-12-19 23:21:09 +0000 UTCYou will be named in my suicide note Hardcore Virgin
Jbabesauce
2024-12-19 22:54:30 +0000 UTCGreat ep, ngl first one was pretty dry and weirdly edited
concernedmom420
2024-12-19 22:52:15 +0000 UTCSome people say it like "pews" and others say it like "blues".
Nicholas Johnson
2024-12-19 22:44:49 +0000 UTCI’m not kidding when I say I’ve been thinking about this comment for a whole day. Like how? How did the context not help? Stuff like “Shrubs” re election in 2004 hinging on winning Ohio etc.
Hardcore Virgin
2024-12-19 22:44:19 +0000 UTCbtw I can't believe this never came up on the show but go read Up, Simba by David Foster Wallace to get more premium McCain 2000 vibes
etienne
2024-12-19 21:52:11 +0000 UTCAbsolutely excellent Felix. Thank you.
Ascetic Blur
2024-12-19 18:27:42 +0000 UTCDon't cry for me, we're already Fren.
Troy DeCarolis
2024-12-19 18:07:02 +0000 UTC1h03, amazing to hear conservatives having a purity politics arm wrestle among themselves
etienne
2024-12-19 17:46:47 +0000 UTCHe'll do some extremely protracted reference or analogy to Entourage or Kevin Sorbo and then talk about Aime Cesaire's imperial boomerang
Leonardo Restrepo
2024-12-19 17:35:49 +0000 UTCWe love elevated slop 🧐
Matthew
2024-12-19 16:01:50 +0000 UTC"Were you in the yard with your wife and children" Bitch it was like 9am on a school day.
Jason Coker
2024-12-19 15:21:53 +0000 UTCLove the Don Hertzfeld-esque vibe with the music
Colin S
2024-12-19 15:16:14 +0000 UTCYeah man poor helpless Hesse getting tricked into being "typecasted" by Felix. Shut the fuck up man, stop acting like she has no agency. If you listened to 1 episode of seeking derangements your head would explode.
FA
2024-12-19 14:35:31 +0000 UTCRe-upping just for this series Felix man Felix is the man
Zackary Kelley
2024-12-19 13:56:50 +0000 UTCFelix is alot looser in this episode.
Khemith
2024-12-19 09:11:25 +0000 UTC🙌
Instantdumbass
2024-12-19 06:28:24 +0000 UTCNo, just the opposite. I just feel that perhaps typecasting her as an AIDs victim being hatecrimed was perhaps a creative choice that I would have avoided for obvious reasons.
Agent Grange
2024-12-19 03:27:03 +0000 UTCWhy not? Am I out of the loop? Has she done or said some sus shit? I don't Lister to her podcast but I love her on Movie Mindset
Eamon Short
2024-12-19 03:24:58 +0000 UTCdesigning women lmao. will never forget the heated quayle v. murphy brown flap
boo
2024-12-19 02:59:21 +0000 UTCIt's funny, on Chapo I always think of Felix as "the funny one". Then he does stuff like this and fighting in the age of loneliness and I'm like "oh yeah, that's right he's really fucking smart"
Eamon Short
2024-12-19 02:43:56 +0000 UTCIf I don’t here Future’s “I serve the base” at some point in this series I’m going to set myself on fire in front of the Freebandz offices
Alex
2024-12-19 01:26:14 +0000 UTCMr. Chapo would you do a viewing series on Frankie Boyle's New World Order
gamerunknown
2024-12-19 00:27:16 +0000 UTCthe tunes went very hard great work all around tho
Kamran Husain
2024-12-19 00:10:33 +0000 UTC"Bush's unorthodox New York infrastructure plan" is an all time IMHO
Ben Thelen
2024-12-18 23:59:58 +0000 UTCBranson
Ben
2024-12-18 23:40:52 +0000 UTC“Roger Ells”
J Fitz
2024-12-18 23:40:43 +0000 UTCMakes so much more sense now lol
Jbabesauce
2024-12-18 23:15:44 +0000 UTCShrub as a synonym for a bush. It was kind of like a 2003 version of Drumpf.
T
2024-12-18 23:10:32 +0000 UTCNow me, Felix? I would not have made Hesse be the voice of the AIDS activist, personally.
Agent Grange
2024-12-18 22:33:30 +0000 UTCWe love The Band don't we folks
Ben Thelen
2024-12-18 22:29:54 +0000 UTCthis is actually a flow state for his inability to pronounce the long A
Woods Edge Builders Collective
2024-12-18 22:04:35 +0000 UTCW, Bush JR, little Bush. Bush era Drumpf thing.
Austin Williams
2024-12-18 21:43:55 +0000 UTCIt was the "cheeto" or "orange man" of it's era and we all thought it was clever as fuck lol
The True Horror
2024-12-18 21:41:10 +0000 UTCWhat does SHRUB stand for? He uses it so many times around 40-50 mins in but I missed the first mention
Jbabesauce
2024-12-18 21:11:35 +0000 UTCthe "float on" instrumental after the eliot spitzer joke sent me.
Margot Marisol
2024-12-18 21:02:04 +0000 UTCHR Alderman lol
demonsweat
2024-12-18 20:45:17 +0000 UTClol stop….
Noahjon marshall
2024-12-18 20:41:24 +0000 UTC*karaoke keyboard jangle* El-vi-raaa
cuttino mobley
2024-12-18 20:36:52 +0000 UTCOh hell yeah
The True Horror
2024-12-18 19:46:14 +0000 UTCHe's been calling Bush "Shrub", as a joke.
rafy hay
2024-12-18 19:39:50 +0000 UTCDid not know Kentucky had a senator on the Church Committee
Austin Williams
2024-12-18 19:16:56 +0000 UTCsolid series, writing flows nicely
SM21
2024-12-18 18:00:01 +0000 UTCNarrator was Charles from E1
Yung Dumpernickel
2024-12-18 17:36:22 +0000 UTChearing the word "news" so many times made me realize it's the plural of "new" and i hate it even more
krumping4
2024-12-18 17:16:14 +0000 UTCThe "Girlfriend in a Coma" drop absolutely took me out
Jack
2024-12-18 17:12:34 +0000 UTCDid you steal my middle school iPod nano? These needle drops, Jesus
Leonardo Restrepo
2024-12-18 16:38:56 +0000 UTCI'm too mentally ill for this, lmao
Man2quilla
2024-12-18 16:38:36 +0000 UTCSouth Ossetia is an ace combat ass conflict name
Josh O'Shields
2024-12-18 16:35:51 +0000 UTCfree my boi luigi so he can enjoy this yummy yummy informative slop with us
Franklin Shepard Inc.
2024-12-18 16:18:41 +0000 UTCFelix starts speaking at 0:41.
Podcast subscriber 78
2024-12-18 16:16:41 +0000 UTCthis is good but is it just me or are there some times when the names bush and trump are swapped? it happened a few times in the first ep too. in this ep he said trumps dad in 2000 or something like that…good info but clean tiny but important details up
Noahjon marshall
2024-12-18 15:31:53 +0000 UTCThat’s too 🔥 of a logo not to sell some tshirts..
Samuel McGuire
2024-12-18 14:48:12 +0000 UTCHesse ate down. She almost died reading that shit
J O T
2024-12-18 14:40:05 +0000 UTCI will never tire of Felix's ability to bring up Nude Barber, maybe the funniest running bit in chapo history
FA
2024-12-18 14:38:04 +0000 UTCZazlav????? This episode is chock a block with jump scares. Zazlav for fucksake.
Rohmer Simpson
2024-12-18 14:37:49 +0000 UTC"...the human equivalent of a rescue dog trained to bark at Black people." 😭
Patron
2024-12-18 14:34:09 +0000 UTC“…one of the defining moments of white on white racism of the early 21st century.” 🤣
David James
2024-12-18 14:30:28 +0000 UTCS2g Virgil did a couple of those voices 👀
Willm
2024-12-18 13:49:48 +0000 UTCWas that Chris as the narrator during the Roger Ailes story?! Between that voice and a surprise Hesse drop I was giggling a lot this morning lol
Cullen S
2024-12-18 13:35:54 +0000 UTCthe E1 boys!!!!
Synney
2024-12-18 13:31:32 +0000 UTCThese are a lot of fun to listen to, Mr. Biederman. Your writing is as humorous as it is informative. I’ve been on these demons for decades, but I flatly overlooked Koppel. I presume Mr. Wade chose Smetena's Má Vlast (Vltava) for the Ailes segment. This is both offensive to so-called “Czechia”, which is good, and reminded me that I need to watch Tree of Life again, which is better.
Waffle Poet
2024-12-18 13:27:39 +0000 UTCLol Felix hitting his Neo like flow state as soon as he starts talking about Bush era conservatism
Morgan
2024-12-18 13:23:54 +0000 UTCAhhh, this takes me back to my shitlib, Daily Show watching, 9/11 skeptic teenage years
Militant Agnostic
2024-12-18 12:18:01 +0000 UTCwe have no frens chapos. someone shoot another ceo in minecraft
Major Powers
2024-12-18 12:07:55 +0000 UTCThird
Brian
2024-12-18 12:07:46 +0000 UTCFirst!!!
Kentucky Shitlib
2024-12-18 12:05:48 +0000 UTCYuh
Xander Norris
2024-12-18 12:05:42 +0000 UTC
