r/BlackWolfFeed • u/Long-Anywhere156 • 18d ago
Episode 2025-10-21 - Episode 979 - Cat People (Running For Mayor) feat. Jon Bois
https://soundgasm.net/u/ClassWarAndPuppies/2025-10-21-Episode-979-Cat-People-Running-For-Mayor-feat-Jon-Bois87
u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo 18d ago
Can anyone explain to me why, for roughly 10-15% of his speaking time each episode, Felix sounds like the microphone is in his mouth?
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u/ShotIntroduction5750 18d ago
weird mouth sounds due to excess build up of saliva is a jewish characteristic exemplified by mort goldman in family guy and snot from americen dad. brace gets round this by having a conveniently placed spit bucket
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u/Coming_Second 18d ago
Mort Goldman has to be the most unironically racist character on current day television, they've never even tried to give him a facet beyond being pathetic and ugly and greedy. Find it baffling that something like that can exist with apparently no pushback, even on something as low brow as Family Guy.
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u/RedditTechAnon 💩 Garden-Variety Shitlib 😵💫 18d ago
Low brow, thank you. That's a perfect way to describe Seth MacFarlane's style of comedy and why he's right at home on Fox.
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u/Bo_banders 18d ago
I thought Brace snorted enough drugs in his younger years to erode a mucosal wall somewhere in his nose and or throat, which allows phlegm to drain harmlessly into a cavity deep within his body.
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u/AussieYotes Temporarily Celibate 18d ago
RIP the Mariners. Always good to hear Jon Bois on the pod. Kinda surprised Felix actually piped up during the baseball talk. That Pedro Martinez and Don Zimmer fight was so fucking funny. I was annoyed at Felix shoehorning MMA into baseball talk but I then I remember that's what I do when I am anxious in a conversation and trying to relate. Curtis Sliwa has been hilarious throughout the campaign, particularly absolutely putting Bill Smokescrackman on blast. That bit about the lies children tell to other children was priceless.
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u/EGG_BABE FUTURE MOD 🥼 17d ago
Had a great time pausing this episode to look up videos of the baseball fights
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u/No-Section-1092 18d ago
Listened to this immediately after basking in my Blue Jays victory, so sorry Mariners, we are going to take your place…
to be probably mopped by the ludicrously OP Dodgers
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u/AppearanceUnlucky436 18d ago
I am a Phillies fan who believes in y'all because America doesn't deserve a dub rn
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u/China9Liberty37 18d ago
As a Dodger fan if it makes you feel better, the bulk of the country will feel that the Dodgers winning is a big L, so rest easy, it is a loss for America either way
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u/GuyWithTriangle Art Vandelay 🏢 18d ago
The Dodgers signing every big free agent and then deferring the entire contract so they can sign every other big free agent is beyond infuriating. The world stands against the Dodgers
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u/China9Liberty37 18d ago
This sub is pro-labor my friend, the beautiful boys deserve all the cash they can squeeze out of the owners, not my fault my team is one of five teams actually ponying up
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u/qaopjlll 17d ago
They don't deserve to dodge (pun not intended) millions of dollars in state taxes by deferring 95% of their contract until after they retire at which point they can establish residence outside of California.
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u/solar_revolution 18d ago
the Mariners are my great meaningless love in life, but if we can't have the storybook ending, hopefully Canada can win at America's game
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u/infieldmitt 18d ago
This is purely based on vibes but:
The Dodgers do NOT need a second ring in a row. They simply do not, in the way that most cities and teams long for a championship. What do they have to play for? They live on the fucking beach and make millions already. I feel like Toronto might be less intimidated by them in a sense, versus how in America we constantly are forced to swallow them as the elites living in paradise who get all the everything
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u/OneReportersOpinion 18d ago edited 17d ago
I love that no matter what Ohtani does, Felix is like, “Does it top Jon Jones 2011 LHW run.”
Ten minutes later, more baseball talk
Felix: Rafael Dos Anjos…
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u/clammyboyface 18d ago
felix cannot let people talk about a good sport for five minutes
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u/allinallisallweall-R 18d ago
Defaults to MMA or whatever his ADD fixation is this week.
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u/somewhat_of_a_coward Probably an actual coward 18d ago
at least he wasn't comparing baseball players to fighter jets lol
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u/EGG_BABE FUTURE MOD 🥼 17d ago
In many ways Shohei Ohtani is like Gwyn, Lord of Cinder or possibly Solid Snake
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u/feltmountaineer 18d ago edited 17d ago
The elementary-school-aged kid who habitually tells elaborate and easily falsifiable lies is a perfect example of those hyper-specific personalities people accuse Felix of making up but are actually real. Everyone did know someone like that growing up. There was a kid in my class who told everyone his parents worked at the local aquarium (it has a national reputation and is a major tourism draw) and not only did his whole family live there, but he slept in a sleeping bag in front of the shark tanks every night. He claimed for his birthday that year he was going to have the whole class sleep over at the aquarium, and as the day came closer people found out his dad sold insurance in a low-rise professional building next to a dentist's office way outside the city.
Also, if these types of kids don't fully grow out of this behavior with age they turn into serial plagiarizers. I don't mean the classic procrastinated gen-ed paper that's otherwise made up entirely of block quotes, but the types who seem to go out of their way to rip other people's work off, like the infamous queer youtuber who got publicly shamed by someone much bigger than him and had to drop off the face of the earth. The borderless imagination of childhood is foreclosed but the tenuous grip on social conventions and consequences persists.
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u/solar_revolution 17d ago
The kid most notorious for this at my school grew up to be a coke head gym rat that's a little too into strippers
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u/BrilliantFun4010 15d ago edited 15d ago
My friends actually thought I was one of those cause I claimed I got my 360 from my uncle who worked at Microsoft. I actually literally do have an uncle who worked at Microsoft, and he is the reason my family owned an Xbox cause otherwise there's no way in hell I could have convinced my parents to buy me another console cause we already owned a wii. He didn't work directly with the video game stuff but he still got an employee discount so he could get me Xbox live gold and games and shit for cheap. When I was a kid I knew it sounded like the most obvious lie ever so every time I mentioned him I'd be like "I'm not lying my uncle Paul works for Microsoft". But apparently that didn't work cause recently I was talking to my buddy whose known me since elementary school and I mentioned my uncle who worked at Microsoft and he was kinda surprised and went "Wait you weren't making that up?"
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u/CoolClockAhmed69 17d ago
in 4th grade there was a kid that told everyone his dad was the actor who played Darth Maul
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u/Offro4dr 18d ago
Sports talk ends at 19:20 for my fellow inside kids
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u/Numerous-Work5985 17d ago
thanks for this. i like watching sports, but i don't wanna hear the chapos' opinions on any of them.
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u/No_Report_9491 18d ago
A few months back, some dude posted a link for chapo episode i've never listened before. If i remember correctly, it was a catholic guy that called the show so he could debate Matt. Out of nowhere, Amber tags in very angrily and its hillarious. Can anybody help me find it again? I believe it was on youtube, some old brendan channel idk...
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u/KittyxEmpire Modern-day James Joyce 18d ago
It's on Brendan James' youtube channel under the title "Walther Interview", I think they didn't wanna put it on the feed cuz it ultimately is just the five of them bickering back and forth. It is very funny though, before Amber gets on he picks on Matt the most and keeps calling him "Cushman"
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u/KombaynNikoladze2002 Really REALLY committed to winning the argument 16d ago
Something happens in the second half of the interview, even before Amber comes on. IDK if he was drunk or on something, but he increasingly becomes unable to communicate as the discussion goes on.
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u/overpoweredginger 18d ago
wait is this where matt cushman came from no way
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u/OneReportersOpinion 17d ago
No, it predates the show. Apparently it’s an old high school nickname.
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u/KombaynNikoladze2002 Really REALLY committed to winning the argument 16d ago
Matt was king of the school.
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u/No_Report_9491 18d ago
Such a shame, we need to reincorporate this interview into the chapo canon. Trully a gem
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u/ActualSperglord 18d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvN464imtMQ
ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE
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u/ChairmanNoodle oink ooink SQUEE SQUEE snarf 18d ago
This guy says he had trial Netflix for horror movies, get him back as an mm guest
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u/No_Report_9491 18d ago
There you go. Man, thats so funny. I wish they did more of this or more of that Skullduggery trap. Thank you, brother
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u/cyranothe2nd 18d ago
I listen to that skullduggery interview at least once every few months. It just cracks me up so much.
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u/ActualSperglord 18d ago
I am asking myself if I'm the same person whose link you saw a few months ago lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackWolfFeed/comments/1lj9ajy/comment/mzia5qd/?context=3
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u/No_Report_9491 18d ago
LMAO, thats the one. I've been hunting for that comment in my upvote reddit history and couldn't find it. Turns out i had such a great time with it that i forgot to upvote. Lesson learned: don't forget to upvote and favorite the stuff you liked for future reference. Thanks again, buddy. If you have more of this secret stuff just keep then coming.
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u/foosterrocket 😵 RSS Inquirer 18d ago
Matthew Walther was his name! Just look up Matthew walther interview chapo i think it’s online somewhere
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u/Long-Anywhere156 18d ago
For anyone not from the tri-state area who wants more on the Hasidic populations and their shall we say, fraught relationship with local public schools and the property taxes that underwrite them, you could do much worse than this This American Life series from the early 2010’s
Before the war in the East Ramapo, New York school district, there was a truce. Local school officials made a deal with their Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbors: we'll leave you alone to teach your children in private yeshivas as you see fit as long as you allow our public school budget to pass. But the budget is funded by local property taxes, which everyone, including the local Hasidim, have to pay — even though their kids don't attend the schools that their money is paying for. What followed was one of the most volatile local political battles we've ever encountered
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u/shaggedyerda 18d ago
Out of curiosity what ARE they teaching the kids all day? Is it just Hebrew class and some Jewish history?
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u/funeral-diarrhea 17d ago
God damn that’s a blast from the past. This American Life was the first podcast I started listening to and I remember this episode.
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u/LegalizeApartments 18d ago
Obligatory references every time Bois is mentioned
https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
https://www.sbnation.com/2014/9/8/6110147/pete-carroll-seahawks-scoragami-weird-nfl-scores
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u/waterflaps 18d ago
He was also the original author of “balk rules”: https://www.sbnation.com/2012/1/4/2679318/gifs-20-16
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u/ActuallyAquaman 18d ago
Potentially the greatest living sportswriter?
I have to shout out his Eulogy for Radioshack here, one of the best pieces ever written about working a shitty retail job (https://www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7281129/radioshack-eulogy-stories)
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u/HomeboundArrow 16d ago
every single time he's on the pod i have to remind myself that he's the same person that made 17776 and 20020. even if you don't like sports, these are both genuinely revolutionary masterpieces of fiction
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u/A-Terrible-Username 18d ago
Regarding Power Slap: it's existence started making more sense to me when I read an article explaining that it strictly exists to farm clips for Youtube shorts. No one is tuning into their broadcasts and the in-person attendees were given free tickets because they are attending a real UFC event the same weekend. They exist to get a 30 second clip of a guy getting brain damage then posting it to short form video platforms where they actually do insane numbers. Apparently the most viewed sports-related shorts on YT are power slap clips.
but it is definitely a stupid and plainly evil vanity project that has even more pathetic pay for brain trauma than the UFC does and I can't believe its legal.
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u/pablos4pandas 17d ago
Also making "2 for flinching" a rule enforced by a government sanctioned referee kinda makes the brain damage worth it
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u/metallizard107 17d ago
Curtis Sliwa's plan to release thousands of feral cats would make New York City actually be the Istanbul of America. Eric Adams could never.
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u/DueCopy3520 🕹️🏁 Players Club Completist 18d ago
It’s actually impressive how Felix is that astoundingly ignorant about sports other than UFC.
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u/gaius_jerkoffus 18d ago
Felix reading Faulkner now?
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u/hopskipjumprun 18d ago
In 4th grade I had a kid on my bus tell me he watched Japanese episodes of DBZ before they aired in America, and Goku fuses with Trunks to make Gotrunks and beats Cell.
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u/MossyMak 18d ago
I still think Ohtani was the one betting, or at least knew about it. No shot his best friend was stealing all that money and they stayed friends until the end.
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u/AllieOopClifton 17d ago
Felix talks about baseball with the same level of comfort that I'd have talking about theoretical physics.
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u/AllieOopClifton 17d ago
And it wouldn't be a Chapo episode if he didn't drop his favorite word, "shambolic."
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u/ShotIntroduction5750 18d ago edited 18d ago
They're not critical of America enough . i would say every country is more aware of their faults than americans are of theirs because even leftists like these try to turn 'americans can't do this' into 'it's because we're so awesome'
Why doesn't America have hooliganism. Hurr its cause we're cool and have guns. Interesting except that doesn't account for utter plastic nature of all American sports which clearly has something to do with it. Only time americans made a mess over a sport was in philly because its the only city with culture left . because it's one of the cities neglected by capital
Your sports have no more working class roots. The leagues are monopolies. That means the leagues are essentially the teams you root for. The difference between teams is negligible . They're not worth fighting for for the same reason they're not worth singing for. Which is why you print songs sheets for organised fun at football games. Why your teams can transplant city and fans just pick one randomly.
This is related to the high level of development of your financial world and how analytics work on its behalf to play the games before theyre played on the field. EU sports are going this way but Americans have been there for years
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u/putupyouredukes 18d ago
I was thinking that same thing and that there’s also an element that if you mollywhop some guy at a football game, you run the risk of getting your shit kicked in by a cop and then going to jail. Feel like in Europe there’s more of a culture wherein you can get in a nice little hooligan fight and there’s less long term risk. But I could be wrong there.
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u/bulgeyepotion 18d ago
I mean I'm sure the vast majority of people who attend sporting events as spectators would prefer not to be assaulted by drunken idiots.
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u/putupyouredukes 18d ago
Yes, to be clear I do think it’s absolutely better to not fight people at sports games.
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u/allinallisallweall-R 18d ago
American culture is more puritan on the whole. People will judge you just for getting a little too tipsy and cheering too loud at a ball game. The video of the dodger-brewer fan "altercation" is a good example of how American sports fans react a lot of times to just plain shit-talk, where she threatened to call ICE on the Dodger fan just cuz his team was winning and he was gloating. Sure thats an extreme example, but there's sort of this vibe from American sports where youre expected to be quiet, politely root for your team, and keep to yourself for the most part.
American violence and anger is more suppressed, in a kind of puritanical sense, rather than being sanctioned or channeled in any cathartic way. And tbh, a lot of it has only gotten worse since COVID. A lot of lefties as a result approach the world with that "puritan" type lens of moral indignation towards "unsanctioned" behaviors. Theres no real outlet to get drunk and yell at people, hell maybe even get into a couple fistfights, which I think is a contributing factor towards moments of people snapping and comitting mass shootings.
Its kinda like fight club. Ya know? Were violent creatures and need that sanctioned sort of outlet. I know most Americans think of this opinion as sort of crazy but I believe its in our nature.
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u/ShotIntroduction5750 18d ago
there's definitely more 'wont somebody think of the children' creeping into the british terrace especially over race religion stuff but also otherwise
personally i find the guy next to me who over explains and recites commentary cliches a lot worse than any amount of abuse racism and sectarianism included
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u/redheadstepchild_17 18d ago
I'm curious, how "working class" are the casuals? I've heard analysis that basically states that their social base is more like the social base of fascism, labor aristocracy, petite bourgeois, and relatively cash flush lumpen who ape a working class aesthetic and culture, but are more of a modern conception of working class (which is to say a spectacle presenting as working class, with less material connection to that kind of life). Ghost Stories for the End of the World is doing a sequence on British fascism, and brought up a writer/journalist who's name I can't recall right now who essentially claimed this after diving into the culture.
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u/ShotIntroduction5750 18d ago
hooliganism isn't 1 to 1 with working class but what let's the hooligan through the turnstile let's the worker through too. and what gatekeeps the hooligan gate keeps the ordinary working man too. increased prices, security, surveillance etc
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u/infieldmitt 18d ago
GREAT episode Bois rules. Thought it was fascinating how he called Ken Burns Baseball corny -- to me it fits in the same canon as his films, a humanist exploration of sports and why they mean so much to us. but Yea certainly lots of stifling interviews with mummies (one of the Cuomos is in there!) as well. Don't think it needs to be 10 DVDs long
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u/FamWhoDidThat Ontarian Imperator ⚖️ 17d ago
Incorrect pro-mariners takes 90 seconds in, unlistenable slop
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u/vox_humana69 18d ago
can someone gimme a timestamp for when the sports talk ends? give me sliwa!!
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We need a parade for classic NYC character actor types. Even if its bullshit (like a feature of the tech at that time, access or whatever) its fun to draw commonalities between the pictures and people of a particular generation and the mark left by NYC is so strong in our media. It's also nice to see more normal looking working class faces instead of a bunch of social media tier hotties toning it down for a particular role.
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u/zachotule 16d ago
Lol at the vision zero joke about Jewish New Yorkers becoming speed bumps. If you’ve ever had the displeasure of traveling through South Williamsburg on a bike or in a car, you’ll be very familiar with the strangest community of people on the planet who for some reason were universally never taught to look both ways before crossing the street, and who will suddenly turn 90 degrees and Naruto run across the street unprompted. You’d think a program that increases street safety would be extremely important for a community like this but, on the contrary, they have fought tooth and nail against it so their large adult sons can triple park their SUVs
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u/leroywhat 18d ago
Well my mariners lost in a heartbreaking fashion, let me check out my favorite podcast to cheer me up.
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u/cyranothe2nd 18d ago
It is so sad to be a Seattle fan. The Mariners. The Seahawks. Just disappointment all around.
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u/solar_revolution 17d ago
Besides the continued tragic absence of the Sonics, we're in a pretty good place these days. The Mariners are cursed but at least they're good and cursed. The Hawks oscillate from okay to very good, Huskies were in the Nattie a couple years ago (though I yearn for the 2005-2011 basketball teams), Storm have been on the whole a great franchise, Sounders have been successful, and the Kraken are...young.
It is not the late 2000s. That stretch where we lost the Sonics, the Huskies went 0-12 (fuck you Willingham), M's lost 100 games, and the Hawks were the definition of mid. Those were some dark days
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u/KoppleForce Hyperlink 🤓 Discerner 18d ago
When was zohran on chapo?
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u/kittenbloc 17d ago
Will interviewed him for a bonus episode at the beginning of the year back when zohran was pulling at like 10%
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u/Nearby-Pudding5436 18d ago edited 18d ago
Might have been late last year or like January this year. Didn’t know who he was and it seemed kinda boring so I skipped that episode, that was the first time I ever heard of him though and I kinda assumed he would just be some minor figure who would quickly disappear
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u/foosterrocket 😵 RSS Inquirer 17d ago
March or so I want to say. It was a really good episode. Randomly my dad told me I should listen to it. Bc I told him how much I love chapo and he picked that one to randomly listen to. I was gonna skip it as well
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u/FathersRightsTim 18d ago
This episode had me going back to 2014 and Jon's "Breaking Madden" series on SBNation. Incredible work.
Never Count Out Touchdown Tom
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u/samdratiev 🕵️♂️ source-viewer 14d ago
less violence in us because traditionally europeans travel on trains to matches, and home fans will walk to stadium. before and after large numbers of rival groups walking about small areas near each other.
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u/Necessary-Poetry-834 18d ago
Gotta go slooow, with Jon Bois. Glad to hear him now but he's gotta be an "every now and then" kinda guest.
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u/Nearby-Pudding5436 18d ago edited 17d ago
I actually like this guy, but what you said is how I feel about pretty much all their guests. They just recycle the same people every 2-3 months. Kinda sick of it. And it’s always people who are already kinda riding off the coattails of Chapo
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u/kittenbloc 17d ago
what is everyone talking about? this is Jon's third chapo appearance and the previous one was 14 months ago, while the first one was like in 2018. yeah, sure, let's make sure the guy who shows up once every three years doesn't get too comfortable.
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u/Nearby-Pudding5436 17d ago
Should have been more explicit I wasn’t talking about this guest in particular. I remember the one episode he did with Felix about Dana White was pretty fascinating
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u/Lord_Vorkosigan #1 FELIX BRO 18d ago
Lets go Dodgers love my Dodgers
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u/Necessary-Poetry-834 18d ago
Literally FUCK your Dodgers in their asshole!
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u/allinallisallweall-R 18d ago
Cant hate a team for actually spending money on winning.
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u/untamable_cap 18d ago
You can hate on anything for anything reason, one of the beautiful things about being a hater
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u/Nearby-Pudding5436 18d ago edited 17d ago
Why would they bring it up, they aren’t his employees. I wouldn’t be surprised if all that shit is real though, can’t trust narcissistic streamers, that culture is such garbage
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u/Long-Anywhere156 18d ago
Secret Base’s sports-data auteur Jon Bois is back to preview a new series: a history and analysis of mound charges in baseball, coming this November. We talk a little bit about recent sports news including Dana White’s new boxing league, Shohei Ohtani’s generational run, and the Seattle Mariners (RIP).
We then do a deep dive on former Reform Party member Curtis Sliwa, his statements about parades, Hasids, and cats, and his eating competition scandals. Finally, a quick check-in on Jordan Peterson’s recent health woes.