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972 - The Cass Jedi (9/25/25)

It’s a Felix and Will duo ep! We talk briefly about the newest meme-poisoned shooter before dedicating an entire episode to Cass Sunstein, both his recent, humiliating interview with Isaac Chotiner and selections from his book The World According to Star Wars. We also discuss Israel’s escalating attacks on the Sumud flotilla and Trump’s Brandonification regarding the Russia-Ukrai...

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008) - The Hero's Journey to R/Childfree

I know video essayists have been running a long term public brainwashing campaign with works such as "Metal Gear Solid 4 Is The Most Brilliant Middle Finger In The History Of Gaming," but we are impervious. As the series shows, people with pure hearts and strong minds can resist any and all psychic programming. Make no mistake: this is easily the worst mainline entry in the series. Depressingly...

971 - The Years of Whatever feat. Will Sommer (9/22/25)

Will Sommer of The Bulwark returns to Chapo to talk about the right’s reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk as well as his funeral proceedings in Arizona. We recap the Groyper War that preceded the assassination and the pressure it put on Kirk to move right, as well as the conspiracies surrounding his shooting. Was Israel involved? Why was there no exit wound? Did Charlie hav...

970 - The Glimmering feat. Hesse Deni (9/18/25)

To stand up to the latest onslaught against freedom of speech in this country, Will, Felix, and Hesse review The Glimmer Man (1996), Steven Seagal’s buddy-cop movie with Keenen Ivory Wayans and his first recorded attempt at changing his race. We recap Seagal’s hunt for a serial killer named “the Family Man,” his efforts to stop a Russian-Serbian-American chemical weapons deal, ...

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004) - Band of Brothers

This week, we arrive at perhaps the greatest game ever made. To this day, no one has even tried to say so much about motherhood, the actual meaning of one's purpose in life, and how it's actually pretty cool to come of age when you're 29 seeing as it's still fairly young (even in 1964!) and you'll still have tons of time to become a truly awful person later on. 

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969 - Pablo Torre Fucks Around and Finds Out feat. Pablo Torre (9/15/25)

In today’s two-parter, we start off with more coverage of the assassination of Charlie Kirk: what it means, possible motives, and the tidal wave of right-wing cancel culture it has wrought. Will then interviews journalist Pablo Torre of Pablo Torre Finds Out about recently unearthed collusion in the NFL, with a story that starts with Deshaun Watson and goes all the way up to the Carl...

968 - The Dabbing Will Continue (9/11/25)

Matt is back to talk about the continuing, increasingly grotesque saga of Epstein and Trump as well as some articles about people going insane using AI. That was the plan, at least, until yesterday happened.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001) - The Making of the President

Two years have passed since the crisis at Shadow Moses. Snake and Otacon think that they can become members of the professional managerial class if their fledgling anti-Metal Gear NGO, Philanthropy, takes off. But in their quest to get some pictures that will convince Alex Soros to give them $10 million, they run into a different type of PMC: the Gurlukovich Mercenaries and Revolver Ocelot.

967 - Whitehat feat. Derek Davison (9/8/25)

Chapo Senior Foreign Policy correspondent Derek Davison is back once again to talk about the escalating possibility of war in Venezuela. We discuss the recent strike on a Venezuelan boat by Trump and his newly-Christened Department of War, a botched raid into North Korea, our collapsing relationship with India, China’s SCO summit with Russia, and conflict on the Thai-Cambodia border. Plus: a ...

966 - The Three Stooges feat. Andrew Hudson (9/4/25)

Andrew Hudson of the E1 Podcast joins us for a look at RFK’s war on the remaining public health systems we have in this country. The CDC, vaccine requirements, Medicaid, inconvenient studies, and even germ theory are all on the chopping block as part of an initiative that’s half austerity, half health Calvinism. We then look more broadly at the vampiric, techno-eugenicist regime that sees L...

965 - A Chorus Line feat. Alex Nichols (9/2/25)

Alex is back for some speculation about the health of Donald Trump (after his disappearance) and Rudy Giuliani (after his “not targeted” car crash). Then we turn to the weird world of Democratic Party influencers and the dark-money group secretly funding their American Girl Doll memes. Finally, we chat a little about phones in schools and Adam Friedland’s interview with Richie Torres.

Announcing THE PLAYERS CLUB: Felix's New Series!

We are excited to announce Felix's new series, THE PLAYERS CLUB! Ever since the Early Access release of Stick and Hoop, man has pondered the meaning of games. To some, they’re simple diversions. Games such as Spec Ops: The Line have only one medium-specific achievement in mind: to drone out a player’s fears and anxieties with constant titillation and fun. Others have much loftier g...

Metal Gear Solid (1998) - Am I My Brother’s Streaker?

In 1998, the world was ruled by Rayman. You could not go anywhere without seeing Rayman street art. Thousands of children died attempting to cut their own limbs off and suspend them from midair. All that changed when Solid Snake was brought into the third dimension.

Brendan and Felix kick off their journey through the greatest story ever told by surfacing onto Shadow Moses. This is where ...

964 - The Canterbury Fails feat. Katherine Krueger (8/28/25)

Despite the presence of returning guest Katherine Krueger, we still managed to make one of the grossest episodes in a long time. After a brief discussion of whether or not Taylor Swift will cause a baby boom, we answer some Dear Prudies about several families with shit-related problems, a neighborhood witch, a cartoon dad, and the worst prank of all time. 

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