omg me :)

Nah I listen to pretty much every Chapo episode. It’s not my favorite podcast (that’s Worst of All Possible Worlds) but it’s pretty high on the list. I also just listen to a ton of podcasts though, it’s just one among many.

I used to listen to it quite a bit, but it’s a much smaller cast these days and doesn’t have the same vibe, frankly. Still tune in occasionally

I found the sub because people from there would always come back me up against shitlibs on Reddit. I was a bit of a shitlib at the time myself but by God I was woke.

I’ve listened to Christmn and his side projects more than I have the parent podcast.

I listen every now and again, but I am honestly sick to my backteeth of U.S. politics at the mo’ so I’ve been sticking to strictly comedy stuff

Never really listened to it, but an acquaintance was really into it. I’ve seen some clips and such. I’m not much of a pod person though.

I don’t know if this counts, but I only started listening to the podcast after finding the original CTH subreddit (which quickly became the only tolerable place on reddit from my perspective). Tangentially, the only reason I created a twitter account was to understand the myriad twitter references in both the subreddit and the show. I quit reddit after the purge, quit twitter after Musk bought it, but I do still keep up with the podcast for the most part. Very grateful that this place exists to continue the spirit of the original subreddit, which had long-since outgrown the podcast by the time it got banned.

That was me at first.

I have never listened to the podcast. I might check it out at some point but I doubt its for me.

Is the trap house what Chapo uses to catch hexbears?

Love me some chapo

I know of CTH but I have never listened to one second of it. Closest I’ve come is Bad Faith when I was still a

Yeah, I only found out about the podcast like a month after making an account here! Listened to a few episodes and it didn’t really get it because it’s a bit too America centric 🤷 Like whenever they talk about US Senators or politicians, I have no idea who those people are.

That recent Jewish Tunnel episode was absolutely amazing tho! I even tried to get my husband to listen to it, cause his Jewish mom gets up to exactly the same kinds of hijinks and schemes.

Yeah, I listened to the podcast for awhile. Until the pandemic, Americans made it their mission to inflict their shitty electoral politics on you no matter how unrelated the space. You know how many times I got accused of voting one way or another when all I wanted to do was talk about books and TV shows?

Perversely, being tortured by it made me interested in what was going on. The podcast was sort of my way of working out what the fuck their problem was. It was easily the least insufferable American politics show I came across, and had the added benefit of making the same people screaming at me very mad.

It fell off by the second election. They started seeming less counter-cultural and more genuinely invested in the election. Fortunately, after the election Americans finally stopped screaming at me about their politics and I eventually dropped it.

I’ve been listening to Chapo semi-consistently for several years. It’s best if you approach it as a comedy podcast first, leftist podcast second.

Currently it’s not doing great because the best Chapo ( ) is in recovery. But overall it has been an important part of the pipeline.

I think that Bernie and (to a lesser extent) Chapo helped normalize socialism to a lot of young working class people in USA. Chapo showed that it can be cool to do politics, it’s not just for old white people. Also, they showed that regular ass people can be socialists, it’s not just for 70 year old Marxist college professors.