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.
Same. If I found this site now though, and checked out the podcast, I probably wouldn't listen to it for very long - it feels to me like something you had to "be there" for in the Trump admin era.
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.
Felix is a vindication of type A personalities. And he is the archtype person of a few people I knew: his demeanor, speech, and vocabulary gave me a negative example - what I should strive not to be - in terms of motivation.
Whole podcast was at its peak pre Biden and COVID, so if you aren't interested now, then don't bother with it.
Listened to a few episodes at work once, but quickly moved onto listening to actual thinkers. Nothing against Chapo, just find current event podcasts to generally be lacking
I do not listen to any podcasts. I have tried dozens and they all suck for me. Yeah, it's just a bad format for morons rambling about stuff they don't know about. The closest content to listenable has been just pure comedy podcasts, and then only clips from those are tolerable imo.
I never listened to a single second of Chapo or any other popular podcast or vlog that are usually mentioned here.
I heard one episode of TrueAnon when they had on Bevins and couldn't stand the cast and their jokes the entire time so I never listened again. I also don't like Sam Seder, he seems annoying and pretentious to me, so I don't like to watch any of his shows or clips that are posted here. His co-host seems cool but it seems like he doesn't let her speak much and has her there as an afterthought, looking cute.
But I listen to A People's History of Ideas Podcast, which I think is really great and I love it and I really recommend it! I've listened to a few episodes of Working Class History on the Italian Resistance and really enjoyed those too, plan on listening to other episodes at some point.
I'm cool with the more serious, history lecture-style podcasts but don't really like the dirtbag Leftist "everyone-is-a-comedian" ones or the News-styled ones.
I have no interest in banter podcasts or in forming parasocial relationships with media personalities, which are themselves long-running bits. Goddamn bits.
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.
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.
there's some bits that'll get sawn off the episodes and uploaded to youtube that i've thought were really good, like that rant about squibs, i'll admit they can be funny but i don't think they're very insightful about anything serious
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.
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?
I know all too well. It's dreary. And we're in for another year of it now.
I don't think anything could be as bad as that run from 2015 to 2020, and at least we don't have the primary drama to deal with unless one of them kicks the bucket.
Never listened to the podcast but I’ve heard the hosts as guests on other things and picked up enough from context clues here that I may as well have listened to it.
Never listened to an episode; I actually avoided the sub at first way back when it first showed up as a suggestion because I didn't listen to the podcast and thought the sub would suck.