Grey Wolf Feed

We do the work of having conversations and connecting to people by reviewing last week’s Pod Save America episode featuring Kamala Harris’ top campaign staff. Through their telling, it was an amazing feat of data, precision and triangulation that somehow came up just slightly short, but we look at some different “stories to tell” from what they’re able to reveal about the campaign’s strategy. Plus, a Thanksgiving poem from Matt.Felix’s new series “Searching for a Fren at the End of the World”, an examination of the last 50 years of Conservative media, premieres next Wednesday, December 11, right here on your Chapo feed.

We’re joined by Adam Johnson of the Citations Needed podcast and his co-author Othman Ali to discuss their series of articles for The Nation investigating the various ways the media has covered for the Biden administration in regards to the war in Gaza. Adam & Othman dismantle the various tropes and obfuscations deployed over the last year, including sowing distrust of information coming from Gaza, Biden’s supposed “anger” at Netanyahu, administration officials “tirelessly working for a ceasefire,” and many other canards, false equivalencies & outright lies we’ve sadly grown accustomed to hearing. Find Adam & Othman’s work at the Nation here: https://www.thenation.com/authors/adam-h-johnson/Listen to Citations Needed wherever you get pods: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/New merch and 15% off the whole Chapo Merch store starting this Friday, 11/29 at chapotraphouse.store

Journalist Moe Tkacik joins us to look at a number of issues she’s reported on recently. Starting with the alarming prevalence of sexual assault allegations among Trump’s new cabinet picks, we follow the trail of backlash to accountability among the ultra-rich to College campuses and of course, Israel. We then turn to Moe’s reporting on the growing tumor of private equity in the American healthcare industry, and how these financial barons are gutting our already threadbare hospital system.Find Moe on Twitter: https://x.com/moetkacikAnd here writing at the American Prospect: https://prospect.org/topics/maureen-tkacik/

Master of Guys Bryan Quinby joins us to break down the conclusion of Tulsa King Season 2. We examine the frictionless and always-triumphant world of Dwight "The General" Manfredi, his rainbow coalition of criminal miscreants, easily vanquished villains, and discuss why Tulsa King is indeed the perfect show for the Second Trump era.Find Guys, a Podcast about Guys, wherever you get pods & subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/GuysPodcast

We review the various freaks, toadies, goons, and TV personalities that Trump has tapped to build his second cabinet, and speculate how much damage Vivek & Elon can actually do with their kids-table DOGE advisory board. We also discuss the coalescing view among the pundit class that the Democrats need to abandon their various activist groups, as espoused in today’s reading series by Adam Jentleson. Finally, a new (hopefully semi-regular) feature from Matt.

We’re joined by Bryan Quinby to review Jerry Seinfeld’s new Netflix film Unfrosted, about the invention of Pop Tarts. We dive into this bizarre & joyless cultural artifact which is a parade of humiliation for the numerous comedians featured in it, and a window into the seemingly bottomless well of misanthropy underneath Seinfeld’s banal observational humor. A romp!Find Bryan’s podcast GUYS, a podcast about guys, wherever you get podcasts, and subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/MurderXBryan/posts

Will & Hesse are joined by Aaron & Carlee of the Hit Factory Podcast to discuss two neo-noirs, 1991’s One False Move directed by Carl Franklin, and 1994’s The Last Seduction directed by John Dahl. Both explore the classic noir themes of evil, greed, lust & betrayal, with One False Move exploring the dark brutality of the genre, and The Last Seduction having sexy fun with it. Enjoy the 90’s Bills quadruple feature of Paxton, Pullman, Bob Thornton & Buffalo. Also, Linda Fiorentino 🔥🔥🔥🥵.Find Hit Factory wherever you get podcasts, and subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod

Alex is on today as we catch up with the weekend’s drama over the 2024 Eurovision song contest and ask which is more real, twitter or Eurovision (those are the only two options). Then, some disastrous new polls for the Biden campaign, Trump searches for a VP and praises Hannibal Lecter, and Bret Stephens & Gail Collins search for the true value of a commencement speech and decide it’s about telling kids to get off their damn phones.Check out WFYM radio: https://chapofym.podbean.com/

We’re joined by a former university administrator (who prefers to remain anonymous, though we have reviewed and verified their credentials) for an insider’s perspective of the current state of college administration, and a discussion of just why colleges and universities around the country are reacting with such extreme opposition and often violence to the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests. Topics include increasingly corporate university structure, internal bias against certain perspectives and student organizing, and the foreign influence over university operations.