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Episode 684 - Chapo Victims Unit (11/28/22)
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We start off with some Law & Order: SVU talk that flows into a discussion of crime paranoia that cost the Democrats the house in suburban Long Island. Then, America’s epidemic of loneliness and corrupt hustlers trying to scam people into unnecessary for-profit hospice care. Grim! So we lighten up the back half of the ep with some more listener questions.
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[@BoneMachine1443]

The only complaints about crime that municipalities and legislators care about come from business and property owners; people whose 2 hobbies are raising rents on their investment properties, and then loudly wondering where all these dang *homeless people* keep coming from.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Homeowners association are cancer and going after homeless folks over 'property prices'

[@skogshemwijk6953]

My

[@PR0MAN01]

I absolutely love how Stabler leaves SVU too. His last episode ends with him shooting a child in the precinct in front of everyone and he just bows his head in shame. His bosses then give him an ultimatum of get therapy or quit and he calls their bluff and quits offscreen. Shits hilarious

[@ericlongworth3098]

I think in real life Christopher meloni got to big for his britches and thought he'd be a new Liam Neeson. Several duds later and Stabler returns

[@ChewyThomson]

Sounds pretry UNstabler to me! Thank you, thank you. *falls down eight flights of stairs*

[@AdrianMendoza23]

One SVU episode I remember is the episode where they are looking for some gay guy who I think is spreading HIV on purpose & Ice-T is speaking to a dude and the dude corrects Ice and tells him that he is not gay, he is a straight man who has sex with men. Ice T replies back: I got news for you - that means you're gay!

[@MartyMcNasty]

I think that was his son too 😂

[@ringo8410]

Salt and vinegar chips rock. Sorry, Chapo boys, but on this point you have no taste.

[@Oddity00]

how the fuck can anyone dislike salt & vinegar chips? smh

[@Lightningkuriboh]

they're good, but you can't have more than 5 otherwise you want to kys

[@dirrdevil]

I was eating salt and vinegar chips as they said that. Lost all faith.

[@GaigeGrosskreutzGunClub]

"Why I Left the Left"

[@marlock6573]

So depressing that I've seen every single episode that they referenced at least three times.

[@DanielBurtonDidYourWife]

IKR. I'm in that box too.

[@ItsOgre]

I seem to remember 90’s television was like 90% crime. I remember being like 10 years old and being terrified of crime after watching Unsolved Mysteries. I honestly thought someone was going to break into our house and slit my entire families throats for no reason. It’s fucking crazy to be reminded every now and then that really hasn’t gone away, it’s just that people live in different media bubbles and some of those are still in world similar to the 90’s TV world I lived in once if not worse, because you could honestly immerse yourself in this shit 100% of the time, at least when I was a kid there was a new Simpsons episode or whatever.

[@RIP_Greedo]

Damn that’s more fun than Civ V with the Brave New World expansion pack.

[@navajoguy8102]

I was always skeptical of the crime hysteria and then when I took some class about criminology that was taught by a old jaded police officer it only made my position more solidified. American Suburbanites are freaked out that they'll be trafficked or killed by MS13, when its about 10 times more likely that they'll be abused and killed by their own relatives. They agonize over home invasions when a whole family being killed in a murder suicide or domestic violence incident is statistically more likely to happen. When I was working EMS I can say the scariest calls before Covid were the ones related to domestic violence. A dude in a wifebeater with a gun or attack dog is pretty damn scary. Not to say gang violence doesn't happen, of course it does. But in the US specifically, it doesn't effect these people who live in White Affluent neighborhoods. Honduras and Mexico are very dangerous countries with a lot of narco violence, but its not happening here despite how many MAGA Boomers will be posting grisly cadaver images all over their Facebook.

[@fkrkf]

Exactly, 90% of all violent crimes happen in neighborhoods where the medium annual income is below the poverty line. After I learned that stat I realized that everything I ever was told about crime was 99% obfuscation and propaganda

[@ChewyThomson]

Search the old Chapo bit about the Villages. Some journo went down to this horrible gated community in Florida called the Village to talk to some of the suburban hogs. They interviewed some old dude and his equally ancient wife who always left their gated community strapped since they were convinced that everywhere outside of their little hog pen was basically anarchy because Obama let a bunch of Mexicans just flood over the border. Upper middle class piggies are just pathetic.

[@T_Dot94]

The deprogram podcast mentioned you guys. Now this might be my new favorite pod.

[@BarackLesnar]

One of them went on quorators, that's how I heard about them

[@99baking]

Woah, I've never heard of someone finding Chapo through another leftist podcast. It's almost always been the other way around. I started on Chapo in 2016 and now The Deprogram and True Anon are my favorites

[@weejockpoopongmcplop]

Love how Felix pronounces "cosine" to rhyme with "bosun".

[@reallyidrathernot.134]

so massively true about social interaction being fundamental to who we are. ALSO that actual "community values" is revolutionary. true true true

[@navajoguy8102]

Living on a Border State I see some neat Mexican snacks and stuff, even their sodas are better because they use actual sugar instead of corn syrup. Also my military relatives vouch for snacks from Japan and Korea. America is only the Snack Country of the world because of how we sell our shit by the pallet.

[@ChewyThomson]

Korean street snacks are the best.

[@jfrsnjhnsn]

It is the only thing you guys have ever let me down on, I am so disappointed that you are SVU people and not criminal intent people.

[@tewodrosii2875]

CI was only good with Jeff Goldblum. Private Pyle was annoying

[@jfrsnjhnsn]

@@tewodrosii2875 Sir, you can go straight to hell

[@aderynalbarelli5899]

Wish I realized how goofy that show was, when I saw it as a kid XD

[@PR0MAN01]

You don't have the critical thinking skills yet to question why seemingly everyone in NYC is involved in some kind of sex crime.

[@aderynalbarelli5899]

@@PR0MAN01 they're all related to Cuomo In case you're being serious, you don't know why people use past tense.

[@nicolev2028]

I get too Latino when I drink I get it

[@capsuleboi]

Stellar quality, gentlemen. Compliments to the mimes.

[@nicolev2028]

So happy Felix gets to be resident professor on SVU on here. He could teach a course at NYU if he was interested in doing that even though it’s not cool

[@danvocals123]

I love that in these shows the law enforcement will try to use social media to solve crimes, and of all things they use their own profiles to raise awareness and the public trusts them. It's like yeah if cops could solve crimes I'd bet they'd be celebrities lol.

[@markbrinton7132]

a focus on law and order are a distraction from socio economic issues and the fact those are supposed to address

[@RoyalFusilier]

I wish I had a decent way to express my thoughts about the loneliness thing, because Matt's horror at the machine is obviously justified. But I also feel like if I told him that I socialized with friends online and even my significant other, he would scream at me that I was a Matrix pod person and not a real human being.

[@PR0MAN01]

Fr, I use discord to talk with friends almost on the daily. These are people whose weddings I've been to, shared intimate moments with, people who I've grown to love like family and I met all of them online like 8 years ago. The internet is a fascinating thing, capable of both good and bad for human communication.

[@technologic21]

Love the thumbnail. Chris Meloni is a criminally underrated actor 😂 "Did you say dick cream?" "NO...I said stick team."

[@TheKeyser94]

Meloni is a good actor, but he had the same treatment than Carrie husband from Sex and the City, from being an unhinge cop to be a tolerant cops that show up where black kids were playing with a militarised police and say that he had good intentions, and that was in the first episode of his new show.

[@52flyingbicycles]

This entire episode felt like a callout post directed at me 🫤

[@adamp3223]

Wow... those call-ins were almost entirely painless. Good job everybody

[@MrLFJ7]

Kettle style jalapeño flavor chips are the GOAT

[@ChewyThomson]

There are these tomato flavoured Lays that come in a tube you can buy in China and I swear to Jesus they are the best chips I've ever had. They make a cucumber variety that is also really good. Similarly, South Korea for a while had these vegetable Pringles (in a few varieties) and everyone I knew hated the tomato ones but I couldn't get enough of them. Sadly, I think they may have been discontinued. Do yourself a massive favour and if you can, try both.

[@raven_g6667]

Sounds a lot like ketchup flavored chips. Ppl think it sounds gross but it ends up tasting like fries, they're awesome.

[@CzolgoszWorkinMan]

hell yeah dude love my chips n dips

[@jingbot1071]

I'm up in here Sprawled out in the chapo victims unit at my local hospital

[@gringote1783]

the sales lady for hospice sounds a lot like direct contracting/medicare advantage vampires as well

[@jeremygoode7048]

Chapo need to do Chicago PD, Blue Bloods, and Criminal Minds next.

[@lepjagman]

They'd have a FIELD DAY with Chicago PD.

[@eckoschreiber]

Recommend Skip Intro's Copaganda series.

[@dirrdevil]

​@@eckoschreiberAgreed. The episode of Blue Bloods where a black man throws himself out the window to frame an innocent cop is peak copaganda. I saw that live as my grandparents watched it and was glad to see Skip Intro cover it.

[@januaryloyd8932]

Love the audio in this one guys Edit: they fixed it but for 30 minutes after publishing it was silent

[@acetate909]

It's a conceptual episode about the silencing of sexual abuse victims.

[@ince55ant]

Silent Victims Unit

[@TennesseeJed]

Lengthy video uploads seem to lack audio for the first few minutes after they appear on KZbin.

[@stevenhedley292]

Dear Osaka Dude, I also live in Osaka close to that aikido dojo. Hit me up and let’s go!

[@173IrishMatty]

Listening with my fiancé (who just got her masters in film, tv, and media studies) and laughing so fucking hard

[@donkeyhorse1695]

9:34 "What"!? Did I miss Matts intro or was that the first time he spoke?

[@cpinckard3702]

Subways are phenomenal, it’s our divested from, degraded and degenerated public that’s the problematic component

[@ericlongworth3098]

I don't know if the chapo guys read these comments but I'd absolutely love if Matt and Felix (Midwest guys) do a complete deep dive into dick wolfs other "masterpiece" Chicago pd. I swear that show is so dark in comparison. I think when dick wolf created that show he had his car broken into and the police just shrugged their shoulders and said "call your insurance company"

[@jfrsnjhnsn]

Whaddayous, my dad over here, what with the Chicago PD show?

[@TheKeyser94]

It seems that Stabler now have been sanitise, because in the past he was totally unhinge, and it seems like Criminal Minds, they realise that no one liked Stabler wife so they kill her in the first episode of his anti-mafia Law and Order TV Show, they did the same with LaMontagne in Criminal Minds, he had his own fan base, but that was minimal, so they decided to break his marriage in the last minute only do to do what they should had done like fifteen season ago.

[@marlock6573]

The actress who played Stabler's wife used to do guest appeances on The Majority Report.

[@weejockpoopongmcplop]

@@marlock6573 Isabel Gillies. Wonder what happened to her. Feels like she got purged about the same time as Cliff Schecter

[@marlock6573]

@@weejockpoopongmcplop Yeah, Schecter lost his mind after Bernie's 2016 run and started aggressively attacking progressives. I don't know if Sam fell out with Gillies like that though.

[@reallyidrathernot.134]

so cute around 20:00 where matt is encouraging felix.

[@1tsrhodes]

Rap Snacks honey cheese puffs (called something else) are a rare gas station treat

[@tcf5361]

Audio go on Chapo!

[@IMelkor42]

Matt finds a way to complain about phones, again...

[@feydrautha012]

Don't ever try to get Matt to use an Amazon web instance, because we'll literally have an "Old man yells at cloud" incident.

[@nowaht]

I'd like another hour of snack conversation

[@reallyidrathernot.134]

am I mishearing, did felix say he thinks it's unreasonable to say that homeless people shouldn't have spikes under them? maybe I just wasn't keeping up.

[@tonycampbell1424]

The point they were making is that the correct moral stance is neither "let the unhoused sleep on the sidewalk" nor "put spikes everywhere to keep the unhoused out of sight." The correct move is "find the unhoused somewhere to live." Of course, that means the most visible threat of poverty goes away. Can't have that. Always gotta' keep the threat in the frame.

[@XxCorvette1xX]

*where* *is* *Matthew Christmas*

[@condor237]

Being gay

[@jingbot1071]

Making a podcast nobody is going to follow where he rants on coke for an hour about the Prussian war or something

[@c.andrew3944]

Currently whipping the elves into shape for the big day.

[@Mourningwood95]

Finally a shoutout for Lays All Dressed. True speakers for the masses haha

[@POHHS]

59:30 cmon man some of us are tryna fight the good fight with yall :(

[@reallyidrathernot.134]

so fucking true about social interaction being fundamental to who we are. ALSO that actual "community values" is revolutionary. true true true

[@markbrinton7132]

Kettle is the best...but cape cod has fallen off in quality

[@hyperionman420]

9:49 Matthew Stealthman strikes again

[@willelliot4001]

MUNCH!

[@twistedoperator4422]

Matt with the winning chip select 👍

[@nicolev2028]

Seeing Felix’s recent tweets this is where Felix the svu expert comes in (rubs hands devilishly)

[@NickFreres-bp7rj]

I missed last week, what did Will say at the end of last episode?

[@Laudon1780]

I think it refered to two episodes ago (episodes 682)when the q club shooting in colorado happened and will adressed it, at the beginning of the show.

[@NickFreres-bp7rj]

@@Laudon1780 oh ok. Thanks!

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

Many a lovely woman's cried over the death of a coal miner

[@zhiguli8]

Old Dutch Dill Pickle. Probably why I have diabetes now and can't eat things like that anymore.

[@Virtuoso191]

Ruffles Queso ridges potato chips. Utz Dill Pickle chips, also ridges. But my all time favorite were the now unjustly discontinued Ruffles KC Masterpiece BBQ chips

[@TheGruntonfire8]

My favorite chip is also discontinued. The humble baked Doritos.

[@coreygolpheneee]

Utz Dill Pickle?! What kind of Midwestern fairy tale do you live in?

[@reallyidrathernot.134]

the hospice care thing takes work to understand how bad that is. to agree to give up on life already. Just a paid murderer for real. Because the mechanisms of society have no morals there. no norms. these people are outside the norms. heck

[@christophergreen6595]

I've been in low-level chronic pain, from a dead femur joint shedding all its cartilage and grinding. I would be looking for suicide options if it were REAL pain. Some conditions really do make life not worth living.

[@mrplinkett4429]

Gentlemen, it's time we faced the truth. Pee is in fact, stored in the balls.

[@Sagragoth]

11:18 has anyone figured out his username yet

[@mavillejones5908]

20 seconds before this was the exact time i realized matt was in this episode, i checked the comments to see who else noticed this, and at 11:13 i found this comment. first comment i found too, at the top.

[@bortgunn9079]

Remember when a few LF people were permabanned for joking about killing Obama? The chapo crew is literally them lmao

[@martine5941]

Turn the audio down please, its too loud

[@Fuwuzworsh]

But if being around everyone was so great why are people turning away from it?

[@amber7591]

It's like having to eat your veggies

[@joshuamarx8209]

Idk I think this trend is more pronounced in wealthier parts of the country, and is also an inevitable consequence of easy, convenient life.. Capitalism has run it's course beyond any rational doubt.

[@NosyFella]

Technology has changed the nature of work, production, entertainment and human relationships. People aren't consciously turning away from socialising but are being subconsciously conditioned into a more anti-social mindset.

[@Fuwuzworsh]

@@NosyFella I have a different take than Matt. I think the more socialization we engage in the more we are primed to buy goods and services and hence engage in capitalism in order to keep up with the tribe we are in. We are turning away bc we can no longer keep up. In my experience it’s the wealthiest not the poorest that are still socially active

[@NosyFella]

@@Fuwuzworsh depends what you mean by socially active. Not all socialising involves spending big money.

[@nickadt]

Chapo finally greenlit my guys.

[@David_Axelord]

That female persuasion caller had me howling like the wolf in "Red Hot Riding Hood."

[@bossplayerunit4563]

chris the audio!

[@theamazingmarlbito6293]

Are they finally gonna talk about Virgil? I just started the episode. No one spoil it for me!

[@mollymcginnis5348]

I wish they would. I love the podcast but as a woman something about their unwillingness to be transparent about virgil just makes me feel so uncomfortable

[@ItsOgre]

I don’t think they ever will. I will say Virgil at least had the good grace to fuck off permanently and disappear. Not make a public “apology” where they use it mainly as a vehicle to attack his accusers and say they’re acting in bad faith or part of a conspiracy to get them canceled and then stick around and get boosted by other big channels with this stuff publicly available and known and make videos where you call out and roast fellow sex pests *cough* Vaush *cough*

[@tewodrosii2875]

@@mollymcginnis5348 ok...WHAT would that solve other than make you feel better? like, what Tangible benefit? and don't say "accountability" or dome other stuff noone really cares about. is a crime solved? is someone vindicated? is someone owed money? no? then what are you freaking out about?

[@tonycampbell1424]

Honestly, what statement could they ever have made that would be louder and more authoritative than the absolutely deafening silence? It's Jazz, and frankly brilliant. It's about the notes you don't play.

[@theamazingmarlbito6293]

Imagine thinking saying nothing about pedo behavior is better than condemning it 🤦‍♂️

[@supermarx]

Get armed.

[@ericlarsen9830]

these guys have never seen Twin Peaks? That should be on TV all the time instead.

[@dartwada]

what does everyone mean by the comments about no audio? It seems fine to me so far

[@spartan117q13]

The alpha waves are back.

[@brendanmcgillen7266]

0

[@Silvashoots]

WHAT IS CHAPO DOING TO STOP TRUMP?

[@alecjames9045]

lmao hopefully nothing unless you want desantis, who is a legit psychopath freak that oversaw torture at guantanamo

[@marcusnelson7026]

@@alecjames9045 don't forget the elderly he sacrificed to the economy.

[@fkrkf]

@@alecjames9045 I'm so glad I'm not the only one to realize that our big wet boy would be infinitely better for humanity then the demon desantis

[@theperfectmoderate6995]

POST

[@joefrancis759]

49 years old is millennial??? I think not, I must have misheard that

[@jfrsnjhnsn]

They’re just Messing with us Gen X-ers

[@joefrancis759]

@@jfrsnjhnsn the other reason I thought I mis-heard, is he really that old?

[@Finrirthegray16]

must be one of those generation limbos, like Zillennials.

[@15clank]

Millennials are getting older

[@weejockpoopongmcplop]

@@joefrancis759 He's actually 71 years young

[@makimasbrat5508]

Great episode but this is just bigger version of short cumtown clip

[@dameongeppetto]

14:10 is when they stop talking about a stupid TV show. You're welcome.

[@stfuomgdude]

you're acting like you did anyone a favor

[@fruitylerlups530]

nonchapo check

[@hannibalb8276]

You're missing out, weirdo

[@narcopsy]

Thanks

[@naqdensjam]

steven seagal is actually very good aikidojka ! he abd people like him create a bad reputation for the art

[@FirstnameLastname-bn4gv]

52:00 All women are 10's? The fuck?

[@52flyingbicycles]

Have you ever seen a woman before 😍

[@GregorySnipe]

Snore... I love how these guys are absolute movie and TV snobs, and then they spend 20 minutes gushing on Law and Order like it's important culture. It's a formulaic repetitive police procedural. It's the media equivalent of gas station hot dogs.

[@stfuomgdude]

"It's the media equivalent of gas station hot dogs." welcome to pop culture

[@michaelslowmin]

@@stfuomgdude poop culture

[@tonycampbell1424]

Gas station hot dogs, a thing everyone has had. Everyone knows it. An utterly ubiquitous part of American life. I lived on gas station hot dogs for like a year, Hoss. Two for a dollar where I got 'em, and you could absolutely drown them in onions and jalapeños and nacho cheese. Somehow I still lost like twenty-five pounds that year.

[@michaelslowmin]

@@tonycampbell1424 Damn where can you get 2 for a buck hot dogs now? That's prolly like 5 bucks today.

[@tonycampbell1424]

@@michaelslowmin In fairness, I was getting them at work so they were half price.

[@iwantsomecookies08]

as soon as i heard "i'm at least a 6", i knew she needed to lose 20lbs

[@tewodrosii2875]

lets see your picture, sir

[@narcopsy]

Why don't you eat more cookies then?

[@tonycampbell1424]

Show ur hog

[@Meladjusted]

Ok, Incel Ian.

[@Louie_The_Dago]

god, felix is so unfunny

[@hesani_ceman]

wrong

[@fruitylerlups530]

you comment this on every video it comes off as cope

[@hannibalb8276]

All the Chapo boys are funny. I dare say, you might not be a funny one yourself. Sorry to inform you.

[@adhdansley2794]

Bro what did Felix do to you 🤣

[@RobHel]

Sir! Sir! Sir! How dare you, Sir? Have you no decency, Sir?

[@jrobert5540]

Really not a fan of that Zelenskyy joke... he's doing a great job leading his country in the first major European war in years against literal fascists and Chapo is going to make fun of him?

[@Fuwuzworsh]

Except that his is using his people as cannon fodder instead of negotiating an end to a conflict he cant win. Are you a State Dept bot? I think you were trying to find CNN online.

[@omnibus5359]

Are you being serious or is this satire?

[@tommahkun]

Against literal fascists? Try alongside. Or do you just close your eyes the second you see a death's-head or black sun insignia?

[@darthlegit]

we have two genders: weirdos like this here, and weirdos on the soundcloud saying felix is "to the right of the guys who killed soleimani", for saying russia is losing/ the other people replying to this post. love it.

[@LarryPokeTrainer]

“against literal fascists” i mean it doesnt get much more fascist than banning all (leftist) opposition parties and having the public face of your defense force being literal, actual Neo Nazis. this is ukraine im talking about, not Russia.

[@thomasgiles2876]

[knock knock knock-knock-knock] Hello!! My name is Elder Thanatos! Do you have a few minutes to talk about The Good Word? The abyss waits for you, why be uncomfortable in this life? Here's a pamphlet, but I'm here to tell you about Home Hospice Services.

[@No.0.o.0]

Midwesterner in Australia here, they have PLAIN DORITOS

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

That is the most horrific thing I've ever heard in my life. Fritos are industrial waste sold as a processed snack "food" Frito lay who owns Doritos should have to pay off obese gamers who need legs amputated

[@tonycampbell1424]

Isn't that just a corn chip? 🤔

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

@@tonycampbell1424 fuu7uuu

[@AbsolutelyTrashed]

RIP Lowtax

[@ClibanariusJJ]

He sucked but he's dead now at least, so RIP to a dead one

[@hannibalb8276]

Rest. In. Piss.

[@hannibalb8276]

11:30 Lowtax reference! RIP (Rest in piss)

[@Filbator]

Oh no, they're talking about loneliness again... thanks for the reminder, guess I'm going to be miserable today lol.

[@geodav5700]

#friendlyjordies in Austriala. Check it out. As a relative fan of all you freaks ot would be good to see a shout out and a catch up from Aus

[@jack_rabbit]

absolutely disgusting how he has been targeted for exposing corruption over there. the police act like the mafia in new south wales.

[@geodav5700]

@@jack_rabbit yes. Sweet cans.