Chapo Trap House - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Weekly, discussion-based podcast focusing on current events. The three co-hosts--Will Menaker, Felix Biederman and Matt Christman--typically mock a variety of stories from mainstream media outlets or twitter. Occasionally episodes feature a guest interview. The quality of the discussion varies greatly week-to-week, but, at its best, CTH offers the finest, most insightful and funniest analyses of American politics anywhere.

I’m not your demographic (50 yr old mom) but a fan of CTH. I haven’t listened in a while but I’ve never enjoyed anything more than the recent Movie Mindset series with Will and Hesse. I don’t even like horror movies but these episodes were so good. Please have these two do more. I would listen to them recap anything!

There are times when Chapo is absolutely vital; they give voice to leftist anger/resentment in the face of cloying liberalism, and there are moments when their insights are absolutely brilliant. However, their often-hypermasculine hipsterdom and lack of vulnerability comes at a cost, often in the form of a lack of nuance and absence of serious engagement with the grassroots. Despite this, I still tune in sometimes, particularly when the Democratic Party leadership is at its most disappointing.

Pretty funny, pretty depressing. Like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, except unlike Nero these guys can’t do much of anything to put out the fire. Sit back and crack open a cold one to watch the death throes of late-stage capitalism and the American empire. Gotta love it!

I found the podcast to be juvenile and nihilistic. The hosts are insufferable and every time I listened to an episode I would come out feeling terrible. It comes across as bleak gallows humor that mocks the world being terrible while not offering a way forward.

I’ve found leftist podcasts out there that can poke fun at our broken system while still encouraging listeners to fight on every front. This is not one of them.

Heard of the black pill? Here it is in human form. This roundtable of spoiled, over-educated Brooklyn brocialists takes aim at everything not connected to Bernie, and tears it apart in the snarkiest, most juvenile way possible. Yeah, sure, they make me laugh sometimes, but overall they degrade America's political discourse. Don't take them seriously.