So many liberals act like you’ve grown a second head when you bring this up. It’s amazing how much they memory holed this.

There was a certain type of Ben Shapiro republican that was all in on him. Tried to make him happen so hard.

This one declaring the heat death of the universe to end the game is very amusing.

Kratsios is a Thiel guy, maybe he accidentally revealed too much here.

100% he basically just gave himself half a year to dick around at the office and then just stroll in once September rolls around and say vaccines.

The “AI” era really bringing back the Mechanical Turk.

Noticing a pattern here.

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where nothing happens.”

I love my dad. He’s one of the best human being I know, very selfless in the way his Catholic faith (tried and failed to pass that on to me) taught him to be. He’s certainly not without his flaws, but we all deal with misguided decisions and personality quirks. I had a rebellious teenage phase for sure and didn’t appreciate him, but all it took was a few years living outside the house to put my head on straighter. He informs a lot about what it means to be masculine for me: strong, helpful, quiet, supportive. focused on family but at the same time not embarrassed by perhaps less manly things he did like love his farm cats, be a huge Trekkie (didn’t pass that on to me either) and loves to watch romantic comedies with my mom. When his doctor told him he had to lose weight for his health, he lost the weight through denying himself a lot of his vices (most notably sugary soda).

I hope my son sees me half as well I see him.

I’m still kind of in denial that these tariffs are going in effect tomorrow. Like, I don’t have any stocks outside of a retirement thing through my job, so I don’t have like wallstreetbets mindset. I’m just so used to Trump talking about something all campaign and even announcing it once he wins and then nothing happens, that it’s weird he’s gonna actually do it.

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I definitely share your concerns about Matt. As long as his doctor and him think his brief appearances on the pod on occasion are good for him, then I’m not gonna make a big deal of out it. But I do notice what you’re talking about where he definitely has a heater in him and it sort of fizzles when it hits his tongue and it just makes me feel bad. Maybe that’s my own mortality staring at me as well and it’s a me thing more than anything else. As someone that has felt the struggle of raising a child myself, doing it while my brain was recovering just sounds impossibly difficult.

Like you, I felt like Matt expanded my horizons a bit. I’ve been a socialist for most of my adult life, but Matt’s historical knowledge really widened my views on that. I’ve read basically every history book he’s mentioned. So, I feel indebted to him in a similar way.

I guess I am a little more positive on the current state of the show than most folks here. I’ve been listening since the fourth episode and was one of the first patreon backers and have been giving continuously. For me, they still give me $50 a year worth of content, so I’m happy to pay them for their labor, little as it may be. I guess in the interest of full disclosure, I almost know them. I’ve gone to parties they’ve been to and I used to play Overwatch with Virgil.

I think the pod was in a much worse place post Bernie crash out. The year or so after Biden locked up the nomination was the closest I got bailing, felt way worse than what they’re doing now to me. I also think Felix’s contributions have gotten substantially better since he left LA.

That said, I agree with everyone that has pointed out how much of a hole the absence of Matt has been. He was, like most people, my favorite member of the show. As someone else that also grew up in Wisconsin, I just felt a big time kinship with a lot of what he put down culturally as well as politically. I also agree that their film studio ambitions feel a little… off? Not enjoyable anyway. And also having a Democrat on to defend the Delaware Court of Chancery on the most recent episode felt really weird.

But, the back half of that episode where they just dunked on an incredibly stupid neoliberal project felt like the old days in a lot of ways. So, that episode felt like both a high and low point as far as recent episodes.

I agree it would be nice for them to add some more regular hosts and try to get some sort of a recipe going for shows a bit more. I know they’ve been burned by Virgil turning out to be an alleged creep and Amber just sort of disappearing for long stretches, but adding someone like David Roth, if he’d be up for it, would be really healthy for the show.

I recently cleaned out a lot of my podcasts out of my life. Decided my time would be better served listening to audiobooks. But Chapo still makes the cut even after I got myself down to basically only three podcasts still subscribed. I’m not quite as negative on them as a lot of other folks, but I don’t blame anyone for checking out.

Gah!

Really looking forward to two and a half terms of President JD Vance.

I remember when we were all considered ableist for pointing this obvious fact out.

I like watching it because my kid likes watching it. If I didn’t have a grade schooler in the house, I probably wouldn’t have bothered. I think it largely succeeds at what it aims to do, which is be a kid’s my first live action Star Wars media, but I don’t have much praise for it beyond that.

Has Adams escorted any other murder suspects as mayor? Seems wild he’s there.

David Graeber going to rise from the dead over this.