The hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House perform at the Bell House in Brooklyn in November, 2017. (Left to right: Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Amber A'Lee Frost, Virgil Texas, and Will Menaker).
The hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House perform at the Bell House in Brooklyn in November, 2017. (Left to right: Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Amber A'Lee Frost, Virgil Texas, and Will Menaker).
Described in a recent interview as a “leftist podcast whose hosts swear sometimes,” Chapo Trap House has seen an incredible groundswell of listenership since it began. Loosely analogous to a type of irreverent, absurdist political humor made popular by the likes of Jon Stewart, John Oliver and Stephen Colbert, the avowedly socialist Chapo Trap House are something else entirely.
Chapo began as a spontaneous Google Hangout between Twitter friends Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, and Will Menaker in March 2016, discussing the primaries while a Hillary Clinton presidency was all but certain. Their weekly podcast tapped into a young American frustration with the failures, hypocrisies, and complacencies of the neoliberal establishment that rallied around the populist surge of Bernie Sanders.
kAmr92A@ %C2A w@FD6 M $6A `b M %9F g A> M !@CE r:EJ |FD:4 w2==[ d_c r@?8C6DD $E[ !@CE=2?5 M Sad\b_ M k2 9C67lQ9EEAi^^HHH]A@CE4:EJ>FD:492==]4@>Q E2C86ElQ03=2?<QmHHH]A@CE4:EJ>FD:492==]4@>k^2mk^Am
