TOTAL VINDICATION OF MATT CHRISTMAN THOUGHT! We begin this week discussing the avalanche of Epstein emails, who they implicate, and if this might actually, finally be the scandal Trump can’t shake. We also talk about the shutdown capitulation and the real reasons why the Democrats folded. Then, in the second half, Molly Lambert joins us to talk about her new series JennaWorld
2025-11-14 00:30:25 +0000 UTC
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As we inch closer to war with Venezuela, historian Greg Grandin returns to Chapo for a history lesson about the War on Drugs as well as Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. We also talk about the US’s long-running economic interests and petty feuds in Latin America, particularly regarding the region’s oil supplies. We then briefly speculate about just how bad and chaotic a regime change ope...
2025-11-11 01:50:38 +0000 UTC
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Hello mindsetters! Today Will and Hesse bid goodbye to Spooktober with the sickest and most depraved movies we’ve yet to cover, courtesy of the beautiful island nation of Japan!
Audition, a very patient and meditative kitchen sink romance about a single father trying to have it all, and Pulse, a very prescient film about how the internet is evil and is ruining everyone’s lives.&...
2025-11-07 17:33:08 +0000 UTC
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Zohran Mamdani is the next mayor of New York. Join us for a quick roundup of Tuesday’s elections, Jim Treacher’s feud with Greg Gutfeld, Kash Patel’s country superstar girlfriend, and (hopefully) our definitive statement on Graham Platner. Then we interview Daniel Kolitz about his harrowing article about the Gooniverse – a world of edging, porn music videos, wankbattles and what that sa...
2025-11-07 00:52:41 +0000 UTC
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Jasper Nathaniel is back with another report from the occupied West Bank. He tells us about a band of West Bank settlers attacking him and locals in the olive fields of Turmus’ayya, including an old woman who was beaten unconscious on camera. He then talks about the Israeli military and intelligence’s response to the crime, the footage actually breaking through to the mainstream Anglophone ...
2025-11-04 02:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapo Victims Unit officers Lt. Copen “Dutch” Hagen, Dr. “Venom” Cap Jackson, and Lt. Columbot continue their investigation into a series of child murders in Neo-Islamabad. Dr. Cap Jackson takes the case to trial as Lts. Hagen and Columbot race against time to rustle up the evidence against the nefarious real estate consortium trying to buy up lower Manhattan. All while a terrifying new...
2025-10-31 02:02:01 +0000 UTC
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Candidate for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joins us to catch up on the final few days of the campaign. Will and Zohran discuss Andrew Cuomo’s embarrassing campaign against him, how he plans to protect New Yorkers from Trump’s threatened federal incursions into the city, NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch, and how he intends to implement his agenda in the first 100 days as mayor. Plus, ho...
2025-10-30 21:40:33 +0000 UTC
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It’s a call-in show! We respond to nineteen calls ranging from serious predictions about the Trump era and beyond, the future of the Middle East, Warren Zevon stories, books for kids and high schoolers, and trying to wean a friend off H3H3. Also: gossip about John Fetterman and Jair Bolsonaro.
YEAR ZERO: A Chapo Trap House Comic Anthology is back on sale! Buy it at 2025-10-28 01:48:28 +0000 UTC
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In this edition of Ghoulvie Screamset Horrortober, Will and Hesse are joined by the writer, director and star of STRESS POSITIONS, Theda Hammel, to discuss two horror films about serial killers.
First is Michael Powell’s PEEPING TOM (1960) which stands along with Hitchcock’s PYSCHO as one of the first movies to connect having a parent to something called “psychology” which is what...
2025-10-25 18:27:35 +0000 UTC
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Chapo Victims Unit officers Lt. Copen “Dutch” Hagen, Dr. “Venom” Cap Jackson, and Lt. Columbot investigate a series of sordid murders that have rocked Neo-Islamabad in the wake of the Sultanization of the city. Can this ragtag team of renegade cops overcome lyin' dirtbag skells, Coptic street gangs, and their own rules-addled precinct to solve the case…even if they have to break every...
2025-10-24 02:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The Grand Finale of the Players Club Season 1. Nothing to add to last week’s copy so here are some alternate titles we had for this episode:
Thank you all so much for listening to this...
2025-10-23 23:11:52 +0000 UTC
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Greetings Movie Sickos,
Here is an appealing offer to kick off your Halloween week, indeed you’ll be “appealing” the skin off your body if you miss Hesse and Will th...
2025-10-21 12:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Secret Base’s sports-data auteur Jon Bois is back to preview a new series: a history and analysis of mound charges in baseball, coming this November. We talk a little bit about recent sports news including Dana White’s new boxing league, Shohei Ohtani’s generational run, and the Seattle Mariners (RIP). We then do a deep dive on former Reform Party member Curtis Sliwa, his stateme...
2025-10-21 04:26:14 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s edition of Ghoulvie Screamset Horrortober we have two films for you that are connected by a secret phantom theme that might surprise you, but not if you ever listened to this show or seen either of these movies.
First up from 1935 is James Whale’s classic sequel Bride of Frankenstein. In this edition in the classic Universal horror canon, Boris Karloff...
2025-10-17 05:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Journalist and Chapo Trumpology correspondent David J. Roth joins for a look at Trump’s current state of mind. Why is he fixated on death and the afterlife? Does he miss Joe Brandon, and is the feeling even stronger than that? Then we turn to the recently-leaked Young Republican group chat, their sick riffs, and what it says about the state of the right-wing youth in this country. Finally, we...
2025-10-17 01:28:43 +0000 UTC
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[The original recording for The Phantom Pain was 12 hours of tape recorded over three sessions, so we split this into two parts. Pour one out for Brendan for editing this behemoth, too.]
Anyone can give up this fight by uninstalling and playing Battlefield 6. But the feeling of arguing about this fucking game? That, we'll never forget. Like our missing foreskins, the sensation lingers. We...
2025-10-16 14:54:02 +0000 UTC
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We have another call-in episode on the horizon, so you know what to do: send an UNDER 30 SECOND voice memo or recording to calls@chapotraphouse.com. The production team will select the best ones and we will answer your questions later this month!
2025-10-14 18:52:19 +0000 UTC
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Drop Site’s Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill return to talk more about the ceasefire deal in Gaza. We discuss what finally led to this moment, whether this ceasefire will be any different than the previous ones, and the future of Gaza, Israel, and the Gulf States. We then turn to the media’s coverage of Gaza: Jeremy’s new story on The Free Press’ “debunking” of the pho...
2025-10-14 01:00:07 +0000 UTC
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[I uploaded a .WAV file for this by mistake and it was over a gig; tried to fix it and the whole thing got corrupted. Reupping here.]
On this week’s episode of Ghoulive Screamset Horrortober, Hesse and Will are joined by Tom Sharpling of The Best Show, to break down two horror sequels, one of which could fairly be described as the best movie ever made and the other considerably less her...
2025-10-10 02:48:15 +0000 UTC
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Tulsa King Season 3 has premiered, and we’ve got Bryan Quinby to check back in on our boy Dwight Manfredi, his plot, smuggle fifty-year-old bourbon, as well as his newest nemesis in the Dixie Mafia. We also speculate on the future of the Sheridan cinematic universe and compare the worldviews of the two Stallone brothers.
Check out Bryan’s podcast Guys here (or wherever you ge...
2025-10-10 01:07:57 +0000 UTC
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The 1970s have shaped up to be an incredible decade for Big Boss. He’s doubled, perhaps even tripled or quintupled his bodycount (sexual). He’s marginally added to his other bodycount (people he has killed). He has come up with a completely baffling reason to decide The Boss actually sucked that will allow him to pretend like he isn’t completely haunted by what happened in Tselinoyarsk. A...
2025-10-09 03:36:02 +0000 UTC
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We have NEW MERCH for you all this fall! Go to https://chapotraphouse.store/ and check out our two new hats, two new shirts, plus restocks of some old favorites!
We ALSO have an exciting announcement: a LIVE WATCH PARTY of Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985) with Will and Hesse on October 28! Go to 2025-10-07 01:15:01 +0000 UTC
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Séamus joins us to talk about Trump’s proposed “Gaza peace plan” and what horrific policies it would actually entail in practice, as well as the Democratic Party’s desperate attempts to triangulate on the issue. We also wade into the increasing possibility of regime change in Venezuela as well as ICE’s pillaging of Chicago apartment buildings. On the lighter side, we talk about Bari ...
2025-10-07 01:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Now unlocked for all listeners!
Will interviews Los Angeles reporter Memo Torres, whose site L.A. TACO shifted from covering food and culture in the city to some of the most indispensable and horrific coverage of ICE raids available. Memo tells us about what happens to people when they get kidnapped, covering the horrors of fortress America, and practical advice for those who mig...
2025-10-04 01:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Andrew Hudson returns to continue our discussion of Pete Hegseth’s rallying of the generals. We talk about Pete’s new warrior policies for the armed forces, his stricter standards for fitness and (and looser standards for sexual harassment), his new makeup office, and Trump derailing the whole thing to riff about battleships he likes (sounds familiar…). We then turn to the Democratic side...
2025-10-03 01:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Greetings Horror Sickos,
Listener, please light a circle of candles and begin to scrawl out the ancient sigils in salt, and begin the accursed chant … “Let’s All Go to the Lobby, Let’s All Go to the Lobby, and Grab Ourselves a Snack”
That’s right! Spooky season is upon us and to inaugurate another edition of Ghoulvie Screamset Horrortober, Will Massacre and Hexa Deni are...
2025-10-02 23:18:43 +0000 UTC
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Boo! It's another scary season of Ghoulvie Screamset with Will and Hesse! We've got five exciting and terrifying double features this month (maybe with some special guests along the way!) The first episode will drop tomorrow night after the premium episode and then on Thursday nights thereafter. As always, there's a viewing guide below. There will also be a special screening this month in NYC -...
2025-10-01 23:30:40 +0000 UTC
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The year is 1974. A decade after Operation Snake Eater, Big Boss finds himself in business with new best friend Kazuhira Miller. Their hobo union/private military contractor hybrid, Militaires Sans Frontières (Medecins Sans Frontières had been founded just 3 years prior in 1971, but Big Boss probably tried telling people it was "parallel thinking"), seems content with living on random beaches...
2025-10-01 15:48:41 +0000 UTC
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Zue Jernstedt joins us live from the Global Sumud Flotilla to talk to us about delivering aid to those in Gaza and weathering attacks from Israel.
UPDATE: Now unlocked for everyone!
2025-09-30 21:09:43 +0000 UTC
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It’s Chapo—in person! Will, Felix, and Brendan James of Blowback (formerly Chapo Trap House) gather at Will’s apartment to talk about Eric Adams dropping out of the NYC mayoral race. They then read a profile of Adam Jentleson and his new PAC, Searchlight, and its novel plan to win elections by pulling Democrats to the right. Also this episode: Pete Hegseth’s mysterious...
2025-09-30 01:00:07 +0000 UTC
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