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finding most of the chapo eps either really boring/depressing (i cba to listen to some dude promote his book about "refounding the American Republic", fuck off) or just not that funny these days. need something to listen to that will make me laugh about the awful shit going on. any recs? is trueanon good?

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[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 5 points 14 hours ago
[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 19 points 21 hours ago

trueanon is usually good. Their more focused episodes r a treat and well researched. lately they’ve been shooting from the hip. i would say to hear them at their best you gotta listened to the series like 9/11, The Game, keep the dream alive, etc.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 33 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

TrueAnon's pretty good but it hinges on whether you like Brace's humor (I do). despite being ML they do not really bring up class often or do much class analysis along with the humor the way CTH did when it was firing on all cylinders. it is nice to have a podcast that hates the bourgeois and Musk and Thiel and Trump with a burning fire though

[–] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I find him incredibly funny, but I stopped listening because their deep irony poisoning leads to a lot of punches at random subcultures and it started to feel a bit cruel. God forbid someone earnestly enjoys something, likes to nerd out, or lives some kind of more niche lifestyle.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 7 points 20 hours ago

He's recently been making jokes about people who self harm which feels needlessly cruel and egregiously punching down, which is really unfortunate.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 9 points 21 hours ago

I listened to TrueAnon once and they were saying ableist slurs within the first ten minutes, so I dropped it

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Brace is funny but also kinda annoying when he's on CTH. I really like Liv Agar tho.

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Liv Agar is with QAA not TrueAnon

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 10 points 21 hours ago

smh so i guess i've been conflating those two podcasts for years without realising it lol

[–] miz@hexbear.net 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

yeah he works best when he can bounce off Liz's much drier style and the production includes audio clips or music drops to punctuate the humor

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

i have just now realised that Liz is from TrueAnon and Liv is from QAnonAnonymous, which are two different podcasts. fml lol

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 9 points 20 hours ago

Liv Franczak of TrueAnon Anonymous

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Cumtown -

Yes, I know, some clips are understandably of too poor taste for some people, but stuff like Liberal Elmo, or Montgomery Gentry (about new Country Music and anti woke people hating on Starbucks for some reason) really cut to the heart of our incredibly stupid and infantile political climate. You can find plenty of clips on YouTube.

Also, hearing them dumbly rip the piss out of Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden, Ben Shapiro and so on, mercilessly and without taking them seriously at all - e.g doing an impression of Trump talking about Robert Deniro being gay while 9/11 is being reported - I know it's 'bad', but it's so absurd and irreverent that it feels very fitting for the times.

[–] varmint@hexbear.net 24 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Trash Future is pretty fun if you're okay with them focusing mainly on the UK

[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago

They are the closest for me to the vibe of early trapo. Also can’t recall which guy, but one of the Brit’s in that show does hilarious impressions. The cast the net wide enough that I don’t find the otherwise British focus to be a downside.

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 19 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

thanks, that's a good rec, i live in the UK and used to enjoy it. However they're all so incredibly posh and i got into an argument with november on twitter a while ago and i can't stomach listening to it since then unfortunately. also that ep of Britainology where they reviewed the Top Gear US episode and the American was whining so much about their light ribbing of the US south was super annoying.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's remarkable how wrong November is consistently but she's funny enough that nobody cares, apparently. Tuned her out after she was supporting HTS taking over Syria and calling Rania Khalek a doomer.

QAnon Anonymous (QAA) is my vote for funny podcast about the present day insanity

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

supporting HTS taking over Syria

jesus christ

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've never heard a good take from her TBH.

she sucks and talks over everyone the whole time. the best episodes are the ones without her

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 5 points 21 hours ago

all so incredibly posh

Yeah, the constant referencing of classical history is amusing in that "look at this in-group signalling they can't help themselves but make" kinda way, but then it gets kinda... sad when they start talking quite confidently about the working class experiences of life in the UK and they clearly have no relation to it whatsoever. That's mostly on the Britainnology side.

The train guy they have on is good - his podcast Railnatter is pretty interesting, and quite focused on Train Stuff.

[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 21 points 23 hours ago (6 children)
[–] upmysleeves@hexbear.net 4 points 15 hours ago

idk they've gotten so miserable these past fews years (i don't blame them)

[–] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 10 points 22 hours ago

They're funnier than the Chapo boys now anyway, but also quite a bit more doomer.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago

The deprogram is sorta close.

[–] Dyno@hexbear.net 12 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

the worst of all possible worlds - there's an undercurrent of criticism about american evangelicalism (particularly the adventures in odyssey episodes) if you're into that, but they also cover a range of media including films, tv, video games etc.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 22 hours ago

A+ intermission skits too, my favorite is the Silent Hill/Alan Wake/Max Payne crossover where they all commiserate about being guys in big jackets looking for their wives

[–] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 3 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Their Odyssey episodes are great, appreciated the episodes on the hilariously zionist TLoU games as well

Do they have an RSS feed for patreon eps btw? I couldn't find it and had to listen to them in-app

[–] Meh@hexbear.net 1 points 14 hours ago

jumble.top seems to have one, but patreon burned a bunch of rss feeds recently so I don't know if it's still active or not

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not all the way through it, but I thought the last episode was pretty good. He's literally doing democratic socialism, saying that democracy needs to be extended to the workplace and the economy generally.

Obviously, I'm not a demsoc, but I think it's good for them to have more of a voice when they aren't attacking more radical leftists (which he didn't as far as I saw).

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 4 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I was listening to this ep while running errands and found it interesting if not humorous. Useful little bits to use against liberals who think their vote might be defending democracy.

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

it just looks like repackaged bernieism to me and we all know how that went. The promotional materials seem to praise the founding fathers as well.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You're talking about promotional material when I am telling you that I listened to the actual interview and you are wrong with your vibe check. He said that he finds it credible that the first American Revolution was the Civil War and that even with the subsequent progress made by various suffrage movements, even by Athenian standards, American "democracy" is aristocratic and performative (and it's his core argument that America is not a democracy!)

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

ok fair enough. i still have some misgivings abt his credentials and cba with a book promo episode but that sounds better than i assumed it would be.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, I think a basic mistrust of someone who writes for the Guardian (etc.) is a reasonable place to start at, I just don't think Chapo would have on a DNC ghoul to pitch their audience on "107 Days" and instead thought that this guy's takes on how America is not a real democracy and we should make it a real democracy were worth sharing, even if he's more libbed up than we are in many ways (though the way that he spoke about workplace democracy and such makes me think he's at least a solid demsoc). I also agree with you that some of the pandering wordings were gross, but to put it in context it might be worth revisit Frederick Douglass's "The Meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro," where he starts off with pages of jerking off the Founders but then excoriates them and everyone else in a way completely unheard of in modern America's mainstream political discourse. It's at least true that the demonic Founders were somewhat progressive in their revolution for their opposition to monarchy and opposition to explicit, codified theocracy, and I think it's fair enough to recognize things like that so long as you maintain the context of slavery, opposition to "unfettered" democracy, patriarchy, etc.

[–] ColombianLenin@hexbear.net 6 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Thoughts on the Deprogram?

not funny and aimed at baby leftists

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 12 points 19 hours ago

For me they vary in quality/entertainment value. They’re a bit too terminally online “talking in memes” for my taste sometimes. But they also get into good discussions. I feel like they’re somewhat in my rear view mirror in terms of the pipeline but I’m sure it’s good at radicalising like 17 year olds. Maybe.

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 5 points 18 hours ago

tried to enjoy it but not really that funny

[–] pierre_delecto@hexbear.net 5 points 19 hours ago

I had to stop listening, one of them just kept shouting in the mic. Too hard to listen to

[–] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

cba to listen to some dude promote his book about "refounding the American Republic", fuck off

100-com

lmao was that David Sirota? he's also a liberal zionist

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 9 points 22 hours ago

OP is representing the issue misleadingly, whether intentional or not. The guest was arguing for democratic socialism, as far as I could tell.

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (8 children)

nah it's the most recent ep with Osita Nwanevu, who is a contributing editor at The New Republic and a columnist at The Guardian according to his website. book's tagline is "Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding" which sounds like some dull constitution-worshipping shit. having Sirota on was completely awful too. i listened to Chapo for slop not for book promotional interviews.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Every now and then Chapo kinda seems to forget that it's not a 'journalism and newspaper' podcast.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 15 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

will-fancy

back in the golden age when Matt's sword of verbal fire was unbroken, you could tell the episodes with bad guests because Matt would either not show up or only say one or two sentences the whole episode

[–] Ecoleo@hexbear.net 2 points 16 hours ago

That ep was putting me to sleep today. Regardless of the politics, I had to turn it off eventually.

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 3 points 19 hours ago

I’ve been finding QAnon Anonymous the most consistently funny these days.

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