I love the cynical truth of the pod and the community. When I am at work, when I'm watching TV, everyone is acting like 'this is fine' when there's so much unnecessary suffering, and so much more to come as climate change just keeps chugging along.
The humour of the pod and the community cuts through the sanguine, sappy propaganda of the culture we live in -Chapo is a cultural antidote. That's why Felix's 'This is Suss' fits the theme of the show somehow, even though on the surface it's got nothing to do with politics, and why the show has such an international audience when it's often just about US politicians I haven't even heard of.
Work makes me feel spiritually gross. On my way home, I listen to the podcast and look at dumb memes about leftism and foot fetishism and it makes me feel better somehow.
/r/chapotraphouse showed up on /r/all and it looked like a funnier version of /r/fullcommunism but everyone was into feet.