We check in with fact WARRIOR Matt Bruenig to discuss the recent Mercatus Center study on Medicare for All, how its findings were misrepresented in the media, and Matt's own noble victory in un-misrep...
2018-08-24 18:39:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Derek Davison is back and we're ready to get real and talk about how cool the world is, with a special focus on Turkey's economic troubles at the hands of FETO, the interest rate lobby, and fake frien...
2018-08-17 02:27:29 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by trifecta Chapo guest, the Daily Beast's Will Sommer for updates on the extremely online right, including the recent Patriot Prayer Proud Boy rally in Portland and a look at fractures i...
2018-08-10 07:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Amber are joined by Amber's friend Kal to discuss the 21st century's first great political horror series: The Purge. Later, Amber is joined by author Aaron J. Leonard to discuss his book "A T...
2018-08-02 03:35:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Cartoonist Michael Kupperman (@MKupperman) joins us to discuss his graphic memoir "All the Answers" abo...
Guest co-host Brendan joins Will to talk with Karina Moreno about the recent Mexican election and Mexico's new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Later, Amber and Matt join Will to discuss...
2018-07-19 16:23:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
Greetings and semper games. As you may have heard, we have a book coming out. While a lot of people have already sprung for a pre-order, we wanted to touch base with you, the s...
2018-07-18 17:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For today's episode we watched RANGE 15, a movie that's basically Super Troopers if every member of Broken Lizard was Elliot Rodger or Dylann Roof.
We review Dan Pfeiffer of Bod Bave Bamerica's "Yes We (Still) Can", a book so asinine it sends Matt into almost unheard of levels of rage and brings Felix to passionately defend inner-circle Clintonit...
2018-07-06 05:38:46 +0000 UTC View Post
A good news/bad news episode. Good News: democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning victory in the NY-14 primary. Bad News: the dismal nightmare that is the U.S. Supreme court. The...
2018-06-28 03:28:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix interviews reporter Tarpley Hitt about her definitive profile of soundcloud rapper XXXTentacion, who was recently murdered in Florida. They discuss X's life, death, the brutal charges of domesti...
2018-06-26 03:11:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by Slate staff writer Osita Nwanevu to call various people Nazis, talk about the one sided rules that govern "civility" in our discourse, and to gaze into the abyss of Trump's true base: ...
2018-06-21 18:33:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We finally learn the backstory behind Rand Paul's suburban NAP violation, then check in with some Italian-Americans whose hearts have been broken by one of their favorite guys. Then Alex Nichols jo...
2018-06-14 18:56:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Sickos on Patrol....
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Hello Muddah, Hello Fadda, here I am at Camp QAnonon...
After a round up of the Trump administration's latest bouts of oafishness and corruption, we exam...
2018-06-07 20:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Felix's birthday, and he's celebrating it by calling in while he waits for his shiny new gaming computer to arrive. We discuss Dinesh D'Souza posting his way to a presidential pardon, the r...
2018-06-01 16:58:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix talks with @intifadarling, a Palestinian-American activist based in Ramallah. They discuss the context of the May 14 massacre of Palestinian protesters in Gaza, the political situation betwe...
It's a movie ep. We review "12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers", a film about how in the weeks following 9/11, our Troops were assisted by their equine friends to definitely,...
2018-05-17 17:18:47 +0000 UTC View Post
In an interview we know you won't feel *nickel & dimed* by hahahaha we talk to the great Barbara Ehrenreich about gorilla mindfulness and her new book Natural Causes: An Epidemi...
2018-05-10 02:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Will is on teacher's strike. Felix, Matt, and Virgil are here to take on the legal mind of the century Michael Cohen, incels, and Twitch.
2018-05-04 03:23:02 +0000 UTC View Post
While maintaining highly advanced OpSec, we score an exclusive interview with online's secretest source of truths, the mysterious QANON*
We're then joined by Will Sommer to check in with a few of ou...
2018-04-27 16:15:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by John Dolan aka The War Nerd to learn why war is not about weapons or strategy, but people. We get a brief history of the Syrian conflict to date, discuss the use of chem...
2018-04-19 17:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Official Chapo "Washington DC" correspondent Libby Watson checks in to drain the swamp and talk about all the latest drama consuming our nation's capital including: Feds doing a sweep on Michael Cohen...
2018-04-12 15:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Brilliant pop culture pastiche and satire or cultural apocalypse? We discuss and debate the implications of the Steven Spielberg film "Ready Player One" and hear from International Movie Correspondent...
2018-04-06 18:37:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang takes a break in the middle of their West Coast tour to talk urban housing with Shanti Singh (@uhshanti), co-chair of the DSA SF Housing Committee and steering committee member. While Wil...
In the triumphant return of Frost/Christman after an eighteen month hiatus, Matt and Amber discuss two films related to both history and socialism: Raul Peck's "The Young Karl Marx" and Armando I...
2018-03-22 19:31:34 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Felix and I'm back with a Derek Davison Special Retrospective on legendary Rex Tillerson.
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- We bid farewell to our friend Professor Stephen Hawking, may he travel forever among the stars.
- We're joined by returning guest Noah Kulwin, on just the day the subject of his first appearance, ...
2018-03-15 19:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Topics include: Sam Nunberg's drunken Full Ginsburg, Utah's Rappin' Reps, Rod Dreher and his readers contemplate interspecies relationships, Yale's Whiffenpoofs contemplate the female gender, plus Fel...
2018-03-08 00:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Patton Oswalt returns to The Trap. We discuss the relative performance styles of the Black Israelites and Donald Trump, then move on to talk about Trump's public interactions with the Parkland survivo...
2018-02-28 21:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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- It's a hungry boy time as we argue the best American fast-casual hoagie & propose a 2nd act for America's disgraced horny congressmen.
- We then segue ...
2018-02-22 20:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post