Just saw Hasan and Felix (from Chapo) talk about how there's been a revamp?
I listened to it a long time ago and didn't really like it.
BTW, is this the (old, but ig also new) trinity of left podcasts - Chapo, True Anon, Cumtown?
Any others?
Edit - From the Wikipedia article on the Dirtbag Left, it seems the Starter Pack would also include Street Fight Radio and Red Scare.
It's primarily a comedy podcast, where the comedy essentially consists of getting as close to saying racial slurs as possible without actually saying them. The hosts are vaguely left adjacent because they're friends with the Chapo peeps in some capacity, but mostly they don't really take any political stances/seem to have much in way of political interests/values.
I won’t stand for these lies, sometimes they actually do say the slurs
Thought you were gonna point out that Nick was the head of his DSA chapter
Hmm, so of the five, I guess the three worth listening to are Chapo, True Anon, and Street Fight Radio?
I used to listen to a lot of The Antifada, you could check them out too. I fell out of podcats a while ago so I dunno if they've changed very much since then but they were always pretty good. One of their hosts, Sean KB, did the History is a Weapon series with :matt-jokerfied:
It was a fairly popular collab between the two pods that kind of established Matt as the "dirtbag left" expert on history. Here's the first ep and a bunch of the other ones are on The Antifada's Youtube and probably elsewhere.
I guess that depends on what you're trying to get out of the podcast. I enjoy those pods personally, and believe that they are personally invested in the project of socialism.
I listened to Cumtown prior to Stav leaving - but like, because I enjoy their humor, not because there was necessarily anything of substance to be taken away from the pod. I don't know what it's like sans Stav, I have to imagine that it sucks, but I might be wrong. Red Scare has never had any value in any capacity to me, subjectively I don't understand who could possibly enjoy that pod.
Just listen to Rev. Left and their associated podcasts bro
It's just a comedy podcast, they make fun of everybody. The hosts happen to be friends with a lot of online leftist media people, but I wouldn't call it a "leftist" podcast, even if they often make jokes from a left POV. Their main focus is just humor.
Sincerely fuck the red scare girls. They’re aligning with terfs and Nazis now
Don't forget trillbilly worker's podcast, they're pretty damn left
Fair enough, as a farm boy I got a special niche in my heart for hearing leftist shit with a country drawl
hearing Marxist concepts explained with that honey-sweet drawl makes me simultaneously :party-sicko: and :blushing-engels:
Right? Plus I just love the word "y'all." A beautiful gender neutral term and I for one refuse to give ground to the shitkickers and pretend cowboys. Y'all ain't gonna take y'all away from us.
What if we go further and take back being pretend cowboys?
:brace-dark-cowboy: :kitty-cri-texas:
Most of the time Nick has an honest take it's a good one. He did a gay Andrew Cuomo impression, and talked about how fucked it was that the media was talking about his sexual harassment and not all the old people he kinda murdered with his COVID policy
The joke is the absurdity of Cuomo holding a press conference to announce that the vaccine would be going into his ass and balls, and that all elderly people will be required to bodily enter his rectum to receive the vaccine
Very highbrow and sophisticated
Red scare is bad.
Blowback is a good replace but it's a limited series
When we all have our "Chapo is just a podcast past its prime that few of us listen to anymore" threads and then the next day everyone is talking about some obscure show Felix brought up as if it's just naturally become relevant. Similar vibes.
As they should be
(when I last listened to any of these pods is irrelevant to this comment ofc)
It's nice to have friends who do all the talking for me in my ears while I do laundry
I for one am glad my real life friends Nick Mullen, Adam Friedland, and Stavros Halkias are there with me in the laundry room doing their highbrow and sophisticated bits like "Andrew Cuomo, but he's gay"
As both Cumtown and Chapos generally most ardent defender, I resent that.
I am on the $1 tier on patreon but I haven't listened to it in a long time. Any recent episode you think is a particularly good jumping in point?
The most recent episode on economism was pretty interesting. I also really like all the ones that deal with philosophy, but that's my shit so ymmv. Also the recent one about mental health was pretty funny and validating.
I guess this is technically a Guerrilla History episode but still probably a good one to listen to: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/guerrilla-history-the-fragility-of-us-power-w-noam-chomsky-vijay-prashad
Also this is over a year old now so not sure if really "recent", but I thought it was one of the more interesting episodes I've listened to: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/malm
It’s just 2 very dumb contrarian rich girls rambling to each other over various cultural grievances
Ah, so it has nothing to do with the left? Wonder why they're included under Dirtbag Left, then.
Dasha dated Adam who does a podcast with Nick who was roommates with Amber
It’s really that simple and nepotistic, it’s the Chapo parasocial cinematic universe
Dasha also went viral for clowning on infowars that one time, which makes her turning into a weirdo neoreactionary tradcath who hangs out with Alex Jones all the funnier. There was some piece about the bizarre reactionary art film scene she's a part of that got posted here a month or two ago that was just pure psychic damage. Like it's just a bunch of bizarre rich kid reactionaries making low budget avante garde films where the dialogue is mostly slurs.
Perfume nationalist was outed as having nazi roots. The red scarers apparently went on that. And I saw that the not-Dasha one was cozying up to terfs.
...Jesus lmao.
That's...awesome in how terrible that is.
To be fair to Chapo, the others are kind of hangers-on that just got attention in their wake. I don’t think Chapo did anything to promote redscare, there was just a lot of overlap in lonely millennial internet leftists who want friends I guess and these different flavors of people filled that gap
Dasha went viral for a second in the post-2016 election period as 'Sailor Socialism' and both of them adopted the dirtbag left thing while it was trendy in Brooklyn but have since moved on to the tradcath thing
Hmm, that makes sense. Leaving them out of my list, then.
The hosts are part of a weird TradCath clique and Dasha is now pretty firmly in bed with Hollywood (maybe even literally)
Hanging out with the serial abuser who didn’t apologize for the lulz
I hate that I know who these people are and I've never listened to the podcast.
It is. The hosts are full on terfs at this point and I think at least one of them is tradcath now. They contrarianed themselves to conservatism.
Cumtown has always been a guilty pleasure ever since I first heard the "woke Italian mobsters" bit, but Adam Friedland Show is Nick and Adam (mostly Nick) using Stav's departure as an excuse to try new shit. I think Nick was tired of being stuck in a rut and churning out lazy garbage for easy money, hating himself for it, and now they're putting effort into it now. The video clips have a serious Eric Andre kinda vibe, and the ongoing meta-story about them "trying to make this show work" while Nick continues to be a fully self-aware self-destructing manchild the entire time is honestly a rich vein for them to mine for humor.
TLDR Cumtown was always good :sus-lovecraft:
It used to be that various newbies to the subreddit (and also regulars, one of which you really remind me of lol) would spark a struggle session, and a lot of us got to have our moment to watch and :side-eye-1: :side-eye-2: without getting involved. Since you're on your own as a newcomer (cause we have no feeder pipeline) you're stuck taking it all directly.
Better question: how successful will my tinder profile be if I replace my bio with as many Cumtown bits as I can fit?
Stav was the only actual lefty on Cumtown, and without him I don't find the show as funny. Nick actually cares now, though, so the quality is a bit higher since he isn't constantly eating directly into the mic.
Never really listened to Street Fight but they're where the Chapo boys all first interacted so they're the OG podcast. My trinity of podcasts are Chapo, True Anon, and Trashfuture
These days Street Fight is good depending on the guest. It was a duo and now it's just murderxbryan talking about random stuff, which I would probably not find compelling if I hadn't already been listening for a few years.
The deprogram is good. It's been one of my favorites since it started. It's a good mix of information and humor, and a more international perspective than usual.
oh damn i didn't know that about street fight. haven't listened in a while. doesn't surprise me though.
it was always good, but the Adam Friedland Show has a commitment to quality unlike its predecessor
Just saw that Cumtown ended and was succeeded by The Adam Friedland Show, whose subreddit says it's a center-left podcast and is pro-Israel.
Unless that's a joke, I guess it's not good.
Ah, gotcha. There was no indication at all so I had no idea. Guess I'll check it out.
Not trying to make fun cause I know you've taken a bunch of shit on here the past couple weeks, but I think it's very funny that you're so determined to "naturalize" into the culture we've developed over the past 6 years or so. Hope to see you embrace full Juche-Posadism like the rest of us in the next few months :kim-salute:
Thanks, lol.
fwiw, i do critically-support dprk and wish the space aliens would come and save/erase us already.
what the fuck am I reading how the fuck are you an actual person
I don’t know what you’re confused about. I like communism and appreciate people who want to achieve it, even if I think their approach is flawed. Doesn’t matter if it’s Anarchists, DemSocs, MLs, Maoists etc.
