Chapo Trap House

On midterms eve, Will, Felix, and Katherine give us an emergency update on the developing November Surprise in Michigan, where one truly strange-looking man has thrown a pivotal senate race—and the Democratic Party’s plans to hold the Zionist center—into complete chaos. We analyse the Stevens-Turkish affair, the weird church where she and Mike Rogers put a certain country over party, and also some extra bits on Ethan Klein and Anakin Skywalker.

Pitch Katherine pieces for The Intercept at katherine.krueger@theintercept.com

Tickets still available for these Chunks screenings across the country:

NEW: 11/23 Portland, OR, Q&A with Amber & Nate
https://cstpdx.com/event/chapo-trap-house-presents-chunks/

11/9 - San Francisco CA, Q&A with Amber Frost and Nate Fisher
https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/live-q-a-chunks

11/12 - Denver CO, Q&A with Amber, Chris & Nate
https://drafthouse.com/denver/event/live-q-a-chunks

Ryan Grim of Drop Site News joins us for an international tune-up in the ol’ beltway garage. We analyze not just the forthcoming US midterm elections but the upcoming election in Israel and surprising results in Brazil. We also determine once and for all if mocking the Cheesecake Factory is elitism, and check in on a libertarian state senate candidate who might be in a standoff with the cops.

Subscribe to Drop Site here: https://www.dropsitenews.com/

We have Chunks screenings @ Alamo Drafthouses across the country:

11/9 - San Francisco CA, Q&A with Amber Frost and Nate Fisher
https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/live-q-a-chunks

11/11 - Austin TX, Q&A with Chris Wade hosted by Jake Rhodes
https://drafthouse.com/austin/event/live-q-a-chunks

11/12 - Denver CO, Q&A with Amber, Chris & Nate
https://drafthouse.com/denver/event/live-q-a-chunks

11/15 - Los Angeles CA, Q&A with Amber, Chris, Nate & More??
https://drafthouse.com/los-angeles/event/live-q-a-chunks

11/19 - Chicago IL, Q&A with Felix & E1
https://drafthouse.com/chicago/event/live-q-a-chunks

In what critics are calling the most on-topic episode in Chapo history, Jake and Thomas of Pendejo Time join us to explain what a “line wife” and a “bucket bunny” is, and how these subcultures have found their way into TikTok virality. We also talk about the Air Force tech that died by falling at a football game, Call of Duty, The Blind Side, and the right wing’s attempt to rebrand themselves as “sensitive young men.”

We have Chunks screenings @ Alamo Drafthouses across the country:

11/9 - San Francisco CA, Q&A with Amber Frost and Nate Fisher
https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/live-q-a-chunks

11/11 - Austin TX, Q&A with Chris Wade hosted by Jake Rhodes
https://drafthouse.com/austin/event/live-q-a-chunks

11/12 - Denver CO, Q&A with Amber, Chris & Nate
https://drafthouse.com/denver/event/live-q-a-chunks

11/15 - Los Angeles CA, Q&A with Amber, Chris, Nate & More??
https://drafthouse.com/los-angeles/event/live-q-a-chunks

11/19 - Chicago IL, Q&A with Felix & E1
https://drafthouse.com/chicago/event/live-q-a-chunks

Subscribe to Pendejo Time: www.patreon.com/pendejotime
Jake will be doing a midwest weekend run in November (20th-22nd) in Omaha, Emmettsburg, and Lincoln.
See Thomas in Brooklyn with Caleb Pitts: https://restlessnites.com/events/calomas30oct2026
And Pendejo Time live in NOLA and Philly.

Amber Frost interviews Yael Bridge and Antonio Rosario, the director and a subject of the new Teamsters documentary Who Moves America. We talk about previous Teamsters struggles, the state and future of union organizing, and how Yael captured their fight on the precipice of a historic strike.

Check out the film’s website and its trailer: whomovesamerica.com
And the fund recommended by Antonio: https://coworkerfund.org/get-funded/amazon-workers-fund-application/

Greetings Minders, Will here, and to kick off this season, I wanted to do another one-movie episode with Felix like we did last year with CASINO, and I knew I wanted it to be another movie that has cast a long shadow over both my personal mind palace and the chapo extended universe. I wanted it to be another movie that I could easily count as both “my favorite movie of all time” as well as argue that it is “the best movie of all time” *and* I wanted it to be a movie Felix had never seen. And there is only one film that fits that bill, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece BARRY LYNDON.

Travel back to the 18th century, take ten paces, cock your pistols, aim, fire and witness the rise and fall of an Irish asshole. Good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, we will all be equal soon.

As with all our miniseries, this first episode of the season is free on all platforms. All subsequent eps will be available exclusively at patreon.com/chapotraphouse

Katherine is back to talk about animals with Will and Felix again, including the bizarre story of a Chicago billionaire paying for a rat infestation. We then return to the ongoing fractures in Mamdani’s base, as a recent ICE shooting makes his decision to keep Jessica Tisch even harder to defend. Lastly, we discuss the recent raid on Ilhan Omar’s house, plus the absolute dumbest dirty trick in right-wing history.

Pitch Katherine pieces for The Intercept at katherine.krueger@theintercept.com

Join us on Fri, Oct 16 at the ErF Gallery for a live screening of Chunks followed by a live talkback featuring Will, Hesse & Podcast About List, tickets here: https://www.erf.nyc/events/chapo-trap-house-screening

Chapo All-Star Alex Nichols is back for a quick news roundup. We eulogize Dennis Hastert, speculate on another Epstein associate’s suicide, and explore Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend’s recent house-destroying rampage. We then take a deep dive into a new conservative moral panic: parents being cut off by their adult children. What’s behind the widespread media coverage of this, from The Free Press to the Wall Street Journal? And who is “Doormat Mom,” one of the movement’s viral stars? All shall be revealed.
Follow Alex on Twitter: x.com/@Lowenaffchen
Check out his show Fortune Kit: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit
And watch ChapoFYM: https://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse

Join us on Fri, Oct 16 at the ErF Gallery for a live screening of Chunks followed by a live talkback featuring Will, Hesse & Podcast About List, tickets here: https://www.erf.nyc/events/chapo-trap-house-screening

This week on Chapo, we review The Daily Wire’s Run Hide Fight: Infidels with screenwriter Josh Olson. We did into this failing company’s newest attempt at recreating the racist 80s action movie, this time with about five minutes of Jonathan Majors thrown in. We dig into this movie’s worldview, pitch ideas for new Run Hide Fight movies, debate what even happened in this one, and wrap up with like a solid twenty minutes of talking about how awesome Reacher is.

Check out Josh’s The Movies That Made Me podcast with Joe Dante wherever you get pods.

Join us on Fri, Oct 16 at the ErF Gallery for a live screening of Chunks followed by a live talkback featuring Will, Hesse & Podcast About List, tickets here: https://www.erf.nyc/events/chapo-trap-house-screening

1073 - Unsafe, Illegal, and Common feat. Kylie Cheung (9/21/26) by Chapo Trap House

Chapo vet Jacob Bacharach is back to talk about the apocalyptic rhetoric coming from AI companies. Are the threats of an imminent disaster real, or is it just desperate panhandling? We then turn to the big New York Magazine piece on Trump’s ballroom project and analyze his strangest bit for immortality yet.

Check out Jacob’s work at The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/authors/jacob-bacharach

And join us on Fri, Oct 16 at the ErF Gallery for a live screening of Chunks followed by a live talkback featuring Will, Hesse & Podcast About List, tickets here: https://www.erf.nyc/events/chapo-trap-house-screening

This week on Chapo, Will and Felix go long on two reading series. First, we have a piece in the Jerusalem Post with a plan to finally win the war in Iran by drafting American debt slaves. Second, we have another John Fetterman exposé in the Wall Street Journal showing just how lazy, oafish, and entitled the man is, including him ghosting children's hospitals and complaining about police funerals.

Mark Perlmutter and Thaer Ahmad from the documentary American Doctor join us this week to discuss their time working as doctors in Gaza. They discuss what they witnessed in Gaza during the genocide, their attempts to persuade politicians on Capitol Hill, the medical industry’s willfull blindness to Palestinian suffering, and what needs to happen to cure the cancerous ideology of Zionism.

Find all things about the film including where to see it here: https://americandoctorfilm.com/

Chapo All-Star David Roth returns for a survey of the right-wing influencers running the government: DataRepublican, MomOfDataRepublican, InfantryDort, all of the stars are here! We also check in on another round of liberal struggle sessions about Hasan, and the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos by the cowardess Laura Loomer.

Find David’s work at Defector here: https://defector.com/author/david-roth

If you’re in Canada, check out the CHUNKS live screening on Sept 1. with Amber Frost, Nate Fisher, and Michael and Us: https://paradiseonbloor.com/movies/chunks-toronto-premiere

And in Charlottetown, PEI on Sept 4th and 5th: https://tivolicinema.com/production/chunks/

CHUNKS now available for streaming purchase at www.patreon.com/chunkstv

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.

Find Trillbillies wherever you get podcasts and subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

If you’re in Canada, check out the CHUNKS live screening on Sept 1. with Amber Frost, Nate Fisher, and Michael and Us: https://paradiseonbloor.com/movies/chunks-toronto-premiere
And in Charlottetown, PEI on Sept 4th and 5th: https://tivolicinema.com/production/chunks/
CHUNKS now available for streaming purchase at www.patreon.com/chunkstv

AS ALWAYS: The first episode of this season of Players Club is free and available on all podcast platforms. All subsequent episodes will be available exclusively for subscribers at patreon.com/chapotraphouse.

The year is 2009. Baquack Odoula is giving birth to Obunglercare and telling Americans that if they like their doctors, they can keep their ashes in urns above their fireplaces after they are rounded up and incinerated (Google “doctor’s plot”). Jay Cutler is filling Chicago Bears fans with hopes of a better tomorrow. Taylor Lautner is at the height of his powers. It may not be morning in America, but we all woke up at 2 PM, so same difference.

Across the world, a coder employed by From Software eager to prove his mettle is told by his employers that they just so happen to have a game that is so poorly made, behind schedule, and over budget that if he really wants to, the former Oracle employee can take over its development and try to make something playable. Now free from the clutches of the Ellisons and their blood sacrifices, the man and his team work day and night to turn a quagmire that was previously called something like The Terrific Reclaim of Dark! [1+3=0 Edirion] YOU ARE INFINITE into something playable. That 30 something boy that nobody liked grew up to be Hideteka Miyazaki. And the game? Our inaugural entry for Season 2 of Player’s Club, Demon’s Souls.

Frequent collaborator and long-suffering podcast dungeon master Patches was kind enough to join me on this first step through From’s contemporary catalog. This game may be the least of From’s efforts from the catalog of games it kicked off, but it’s not for a lack of ability or vision. Even just making something functional out of such a mess would have been an achievement by Miyazaki and co, but they did more than that. Demon’s Souls may lack some of the more brilliant level design and deceptively deep combat of later entries, but it cannot be overstated how little they had to work with and just how deeply this entry deviated from the standard fare put out by Japanese publishers the size of Bandai Namco in 2009. While everyone else was making once-challenging and open-ended titles more linear and centering every level around scripted set pieces, Demon’s Souls broke the mold by harkening back to a time before endless handholding, and delivered a game that respected its players enough to allow them to tackle individual levels and bosses how and when they saw fit.

For this entry, I did my playthrough on a PS3 emulator, meaning I went without the quality of life adjustments in the 2020 Blue Point remake. That said, I found myself enjoying my experience more than my first go around on the PS5 version years prior. To say this is the least challenging or exciting of the remaining 6 (or 7, if you count Shadow of the Erdtree as a separate entry) games on our docket is not a knock on this game, but a compliment to the massive leaps in quality From achieved in each consecutive release. The fact that such a catalog grew out of a game that was almost abandoned before Miyazaki became the stepfather that stepped up.

Praise aside, I don’t care for Stockpile Thomas. He always has to be such a downer. I didn’t ask for your life story!

The wonderful Patches can be found on Twitter (@Senator_Gun) and as the dungeon master of my personal all time favorite DnD episodes we’ve ever done. He does not necessarily share my opinion that Stockpile Thomas is responsible for his family’s awful deaths.

The titular Guys are back! We continue our coverage of the deteriorating conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln before checking in on two women in politics: Nancy Mace and Natalie Harp. We then do a deep dive into the world of mafia-turncoat-influencers, former made men in the Five Families who now run YouTube channels to talk about food, gay people in the mafia, and how you should spend your money.

If you’re in Canada, check out the CHUNKS live screening on Sept 1. with Amber Frost, Nate Fisher, and the Important Cinema Club: https://paradiseonbloor.com/movies/chunks-toronto-premiere
And in Charlottetown, PEI on Sept 4th and 5th: https://tivolicinema.com/production/chunks/

Chapo & Friends Live at New York’s Society for Ethical Culture on Friday November 6th is SOLD OUT! TOO BAD!

CHUNKS now available for streaming purchase at www.patreon.com/chunkstv

Journalist and YouTuber Jordan Shanks-Markovina aka friendlyjordies joins us for an Australian news ep, comparing the MAGA movement of the United States with the right-wing nativism of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. We talk about Australia’s world of mobsters and bikers, one deputy PM’s war on Koalas, and how Jordies’ videos lead to several criminal prosecutions and his house being firebombed.

Check out Jordies’ videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2-i3KuYoODXsM99Z3-Gm0A

His Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/friendlyjordies

And his podcast The Official Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@theofficialytchannel

If you’re in Canada, check out the CHUNKS live screening on Sept 1. with Amber Frost, Nate Fisher, and the Important Cinema Club: https://paradiseonbloor.com/movies/chunks-toronto-premiere

And in Charlottetown, PEI on Sept 4th and 5th: https://tivolicinema.com/production/chunks/

Chapo & Friends Live at New York’s Society for Ethical Culture on Friday November 6th.

Tickets are going fast, get yours now! https://link.dice.fm/zaf99528079e

CHUNKS now available for streaming purchase at www.patreon.com/chunkstv

We get to some news that we didn’t get to on Thursday, such as Iran_Ceasefire_FINAL_FINAL.pdf, right-wing influencers pivoting to OnlyFans, and the cold case of Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping. We also respond to some listener suggestions about how to deal with a vulture problem before a lightning round of dystopian stories about AI and dating.

Pitch Katherine pieces for The Intercept at katherine.krueger@theintercept.com

CHUNKS now available for streaming purchase at www.patreon.com/chunkstv
Chapo & Friends Live at New York’s Society for Ethical Culture on Friday November 6th.
Tickets are going fast, get yours now! https://link.dice.fm/zaf99528079e

NOW UNLOCKED! Devin Thomas O’Shea returns to discuss his book on St. Louis’ notorious Veiled Prophet society. We look at St. Louis history as a microcosm of America, the interwoven history of labor & racial suppression, Parade Politics, the public mystification of white supremacy, and how modern secret societies forget to have a little fun with it.

Find Devin’s book The Veiled Prophet here and wherever you buy books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-the-veiled-prophet

Jake & Thomas join us to explore some recent Rogan Lore, look at the eschatological facets of Ted Lasso, and contemplate the interiority of some of our acquaintences. Then, our various failures in Iran, our Troops on T, and our bumbling military in general.

Jake’s promo for flood & food relief in Kerr County, Texas: https://rebuildkerr.org/

CHUNKS now available for streaming purchase at www.patreon.com/chunkstv
Chapo & Friends Live at New York’s Society for Ethical Culture on Friday November 6th.
Tickets are going fast, get yours now! https://link.dice.fm/zaf99528079e

And see Jake on Aug 14 in Orlando: https://www.alexsundergroundcomedy.com/event-details/jake-rhodes?fbclid=PARlRTSATDOIBwZG9mAmV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp1h2teRUwDGGngWIxx75wF9nO-kjVrAJzXqahezosR-kvYdnifBFFeSP5T6O_aem__1_cFrY01k64f6UoZ58Cvg