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I think the real problem is that the Virus is sucking all the oxygen out of the room and every news cycle that isn't about Joe Biden's rape is about Covid, and I don't think the boys want to be reduced to being a podcast that just does weekly Covid updates so they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for something, anything else to talk about
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thotsky posted:Chapo should self-crit about going all in on Bernie in the way that they did. I don't think they demonized the left, but they sure helped demoralize it in the long run. Maybe it would have felt different if he had won, but with the disappointing way he lost it becomes hard not to see the campaging, criticism-free coverage and hype as somehow betraying the original concept of the show. I think today's good episode is an indication that you're thinking way too hard about all of this.
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May 5, 2020 12:46
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Gripweed posted:What are you talking about, they have always been that. Their first really big episode was the post-2016 election one, where the whole thing was they were expressing the anger that a lot of people felt. I dunno, I guess it does not seem all that honest to me anymore. Where's the anger? Half the hosts went AWOL after the loss. It felt like all they could offer up was an endless series of lukewarm postmortems. It did not feel to me like their hearts were in any calls to keep the fight going on a local level, which is understandable, and I'm not sure I would have been receptive to that anyway. I guess the stuff you're talking about led me to believe they would have more of a response to the loss than being sad boys about it. It does not feel like they're on the attack to me, but even if they were that's not really the full appeal of Chapo in my opinion. During the run up to the primaries, and during, they coupled their criticism with a feeling of momentum; it felt like they/we were making a difference, so being funny was not that important, but the show has existed for a lot longer than that period, and during that time the appeal was always combining said anger with actual wit. These people are funny twitter personalities, not pundits, and losing sight of that hurts the show imo. Joementum posted:I think today's good episode is an indication that you're thinking way too hard about all of this. I mean, probably, but I'm working from home so 
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May 5, 2020 12:51
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Lmao what the gently caress is with this new “showing his rear end” phrase that goons have been dropping all over the forums lately, and why should Will be in anyway embarrassed by using his popular media platform to help promote his personal political agenda of socialized health care and election reform, and why should they be especially embarrassed about how effective and powerful their influence became? Like none of that makes any sense at all. People are allowed to mourn, and Bernard’s loss would’ve been hard on us no matter what, but not even the sickest and most hate-hardened of us could have foreseen the DNC literally sacrificing voters on a Corona virus altar to stop Bernie, and Bernie’s entire campaign and political career are currently being validated by unprecedented loss of American lives and mismanagement of our critical resources. I would lose a very human connection to this show if they didn’t mourn appropriately.
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May 5, 2020 12:59
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The podcast has always been about making fun of movies, tv shows, and bad opinion columns with a little punditry from the left. It was something different for a couple months this year while they were doing live shows but that was never sustainable because if it worked the show would have ended (Will explicitly said this) and now that it didn't work they're reverting to the old format. Today's show could have been transported back to 2016 just replacing "Biden" with "Hillary" and it wouldn't feel out of place at all. Which is great. The last thing I want to listen to right now is another couple hours of whining about how the Bernie movement went wrong.
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May 5, 2020 13:02
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thotsky posted:I don't disagree, it was the move that made sense politically / morally, but it still hosed the show. No they didn't. You're just incredibly stupid. Stop posting.
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May 5, 2020 13:16
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I have nothing but admiration for the Chapos for very earnestly going to the hilt for Bernie, anything else would have been cowardice
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May 5, 2020 13:20
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AnEdgelord posted:I think the real problem is that the Virus is sucking all the oxygen out of the room and every news cycle that isn't about Joe Biden's rape is about Covid, and I don't think the boys want to be reduced to being a podcast that just does weekly Covid updates so they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for something, anything else to talk about It's just this. Today's episode is hilarious because they've got Venezuela to talk about.
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May 5, 2020 13:22
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Joementum posted:The podcast has always been about making fun of movies, tv shows, and bad opinion columns with a little punditry from the left. It was something different for a couple months this year while they were doing live shows but that was never sustainable because if it worked the show would have ended (Will explicitly said this) and now that it didn't work they're reverting to the old format. It's funny people always seem to forget this whole podcast started with them making fun of the Michael Bay Benghazi movie
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May 5, 2020 13:39
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Amber A'lee Frost: "I'm not a boat slut."
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multijoe posted:I have nothing but admiration for the Chapos for very earnestly going to the hilt for Bernie, anything else would have been cowardice This is my feeling on it. I love it when they get super earnest and excited, those have been some of my favorite sections of the whole podcast. The other is Matt singing 
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May 5, 2020 13:58
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I swear it only took like 48 hours to go from mocking a crazy Twitter person claiming that Chapo had started going downhill to talking in earnest about how Chapo was going downhill. The show has been running for nearly half a decade now, if you're not enjoying it any more that's totally understandable and there's no shame in tapping out and saying you had a good run. Even if you and the show remained exactly the same all this time that's more than enough time to have had your fill, there's never been more quality shows covering this niche for you to choose from as a replacement.
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May 5, 2020 14:01
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If I could change one thing about the show it would be banning Matt from doing his Trump voice.
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May 5, 2020 14:09
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:If I could change one thing about the show it would be banning Matt from doing his Trump voice. I love the Trump voice. (We love it folks!)
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May 5, 2020 14:12
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:If I could change one thing about the show it would be banning Matt from doing his Trump voice. He should do his British accent instead.
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May 5, 2020 14:14
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:If I could change one thing about the show it would be banning Matt from doing his Trump voice. It’s literally the worst Trump impression anyone has ever done. His jokes or lines would be 100% funnier and read better in his normal speaking voice. It’s anti-comedy. I don’t know how anyone could hit the same microphones as Felix and still want to try doing impressions that poorly.
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May 5, 2020 14:15
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Joementum posted:I love the Trump voice. (We love it folks!)
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He doesn’t though. If you didn’t know in advance it’s meant to be Trump, it’d just be a weird voice.
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BBJoey posted:He doesn’t though. If you didn’t know in advance it’s meant to be Trump, it’d just be a weird voice. Remember when Norm McDonald would be Bob Dole, and put almost zero effort into it? It's like that.
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May 5, 2020 14:20
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:If I could change one thing about the show it would be banning Matt from doing his Trump voice. I miss Amber being on as much because she's the only one willing to interrupt Matt's unhinged five minute long Alex Jones rants about drowning in boiling seawater and pizzagate being real and doing Donal Trump free association and tell him to shut the gently caress up and quit making every episode be about his brain problems.
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May 5, 2020 14:23
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:If I could change one thing about the show it would be banning Matt from doing his Trump voice. I actually love that voice.
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May 5, 2020 14:27
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Matt's Trump impersonation is more a brain impersonation than a vocal one, and that's why it's great
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May 5, 2020 14:29
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Matt's Trump impression is great because it's not trying to sound like Trump. It's going for a fundamental truth about the man instead of just sounding like him
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Gripweed posted:Matt's Trump impression is great because it's not trying to sound like Trump. It's going for a fundamental truth about the man instead of just sounding like him Yes, it's all about gleeful delight in the stupidest poo poo.
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May 5, 2020 14:30
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never trying..... the essence of good leftism
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Sleeveless posted:I miss Amber being on as much because she's the only one willing to interrupt Matt's unhinged five minute long Alex Jones rants about drowning in boiling seawater and pizzagate being real and doing Donal Trump free association and tell him to shut the gently caress up and quit making every episode be about his brain problems. Amber has been on every episode for the last several weeks
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Joementum posted:Yes, it's all about gleeful delight in the stupidest poo poo. Yeah, when I first heard that style of impression my brain went to 'demonic gremlin gameshow host' which I think captures the essence of the era more than an accurate impression
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Jackie D posted:Amber has been on every episode for the last several weeks I feel like this thread is also just slow burn dealing with bernie losing and poo poo cause some of these critiques just don't seem cogent to me. its a big deal that he lost, especially for the left. and then you have covid just loving everyone's poo poo up. yall need to calm down, even if they had not gone all in for bernie they show would be weird after he lost and with covid.
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May 5, 2020 14:57
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The voice takes on a life of its own. Decades from now people will swear that's what Trump really sounded like.
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thotsky posted:Chapo should self-crit about going all in on Bernie in the way that they did. I don't think they demonized the left, but they sure helped demoralize it in the long run. Maybe it would have felt different if he had won, but with the disappointing way he lost it becomes hard not to see the campaging, criticism-free coverage and hype as somehow betraying the original concept of the show. Where's Virgil?? (like the The Simpsons episode about Poochy)
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May 5, 2020 15:24
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Sleeveless posted:I miss Amber being on as much because she's the only one willing to interrupt Matt's unhinged five minute long Alex Jones rants about drowning in boiling seawater and pizzagate being real and doing Donal Trump free association and tell him to shut the gently caress up and quit making every episode be about his brain problems. Matt's brain problems are entertaining and thought-provoking, though
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For real though I hope that whatever Virgil's up to that he's ok and I just hope he's not, like, in a crazy house or going through rehab or getting surgery to become a bimbofied kitty cat
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May 5, 2020 15:27
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Vape rehab is a long, arduous process, and Virgil needs to take the time to do it properly.
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:For real though I hope that whatever Virgil's up to that he's ok and I just hope he's not, like, in a crazy house or going through rehab or getting surgery to become a bimbofied kitty cat Hmmm, one of these is not like the others
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If indeed he is just taking a sabbatical I hope they play the recorded bit he sent them at some point. Virgil is delicate and must be protected
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Joementum posted:I love the Trump voice. (We love it folks!)
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:For real though I hope that whatever Virgil's up to that he's ok and I just hope he's not, like, in a crazy house or going through rehab or getting surgery to become a bimbofied kitty cat What's wrong with that last one?
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