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Episode 748 - Slave Stealers, LLC (7/11/23)
Our review of the feel-good sleeper indie hit of the summer, Astroid Cit- no, it's the new Jim Caviezel-starring anti-trafficking movie “The Sound of Freedom”
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[@AwesometownUSA]

we need more movies to highlight the dark side of child sex trafficking - I am sick to death of all this hyperfocusing on the light side

[@nickblinko5677]

To be fair, adding Benny Hill music to pedophiles chasing kids is a bold creative move.

[@deet]

one of the bad things about this movie is that it brings a bunch of people who never go to movie theaters to the theater that i work at and they're very rude and fussy hahaha

[@michaeltorris5675]

Imagine that. A bunch of insane, self righteous, religious fundamentalist conspiracy theorists are rude to people who would lose their job by talking back to them? Who would have guessed? Everyone. Ninety percent of the people featured in Karen videos is one of these people.

[@michaeltorris5675]

@@nickelback3360 Never change your username. It’s perfect for you.

[@finished6267]

They come in with their own tea bags asking for free hot water?

[@michaeltorris5675]

@@finished6267 Jesus. What a bunch of absolute ass clowns. They’re all people who inherited their parents’ businesses too, so they have plenty of money. They could splurge a little on the theater.

[@jamestownsassacre9211]

An entire theater full of the after-church dining patrons. At least you won't be disappointed when they don't tip 😂

[@maxonyoutube3854]

this movie is like Kony 2012 for boomers

[@akumakorgar]

Yeah good call, I was thinking about Kony 2012 in relation to this movie earlier

[@AwesometownUSA]

haha I saw a clip of a hasan stream where he learned about this movie in realtime from his chat, and in response he made this joke too

[@chadrageus]

Oh damn that's good! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@berdyderg900]

So was kony 2012, that shit was all fake wasnt it?

[@cattibingo]

Live in san diego, brb going to check if someone is jerking it outside

[@patteraj]

Saw the film this last Sunday and exclaimed how terrible the movie was upon exiting the theater. I was then severely beaten by 5 to 7 MAGA dads while they screamed “kiddie diddler” and duct taped a giant popcorn bucket to my head on which they’d written “pedo” all over in black sharpie. Not my worst after church outing, but it was darn close.

[@dandelionbodies]

Currently skungoging my Bob while reading this comment. Very cool.

[@fritzophrenia3146]

My wife works for an advocacy group and she went off about how the vast majority of trafficking is done by people the victim knows. The phenomenon of guys in white vans snatching people is fairly rare, most of the time it's as banal as "Hey I'm an undocumented migrant and my cousin owns a construction company, I'm gonna go work for him, live in a camper in his backyard with 6 other guys, he's going to pay us all $5/hr, and we have no legal rights or support structure in this area", or "I'm a minor and my mother is a drug addict, and she lets her boyfriends friends have sex with me in exchange for drugs/money. Since I am a minor and likely abused I have very little means to escape this situation" It's complicated and heartbreaking and it sucks shit for the victims involved, but the reality of most cases is kind of... boring. It's not sexy, there are no big hero cops or NGO's that bust in and save the day, it's largely hidden in plain site and most people that do it don't face justice

[@TylerShacklefordDurden]

Have her check out a Salt Lake Tribune article - Robert Gehrke: Tim Ballard’s story in the ‘Sound of Freedom’ seems too good to be true - because it isn’t true Ballard made up the whole kidnapped trafficked thing, spun off a typical grooming situation. She will feel validated, if not more crushed.

[@dontron6992]

So when the feds recover 20+ kids at a time and make a dozen plus arrests simultaneously, It's just them being dedicated to the bit? Literally make it make sense.

[@Abcdefg-tf7cu]

​​@@dontron6992 I have no clue what "dedicated to the bit" even means? It doesn't matter if the feds make one or two big stings per year, because the vast majority of human trafficking cases are not the fantastic 20 man arrests that you fantasize about happening all the time. No one needs to "make it make sense."

[@adams3627]

Caviezel is LEGENDARILY awful to work with. Over the course of Person of Interest he went from trying to do his own stunts to harassing a dog until it bit him to starting fights with stuntmen to no longer being allowed in rooms with certain cast and crew. Dude's completely lost the plot, if he ever had it.

[@ptsmknbatgirl]

playing jesus went to his head, clearly

[@finished6267]

Love it.

[@endoplasmicreticulum8777]

God, Felix is so funny.

[@cattibingo]

God is so Felix, funny

[@gaiusleviathan8110]

I was genuinely surprised to find out. He’s not a comedy writer

[@davidblank420]

"God's children aren't for sale, except when we did slave stuff."

[@taterthepenguin]

"God's (white) children aren't for sale"

[@frankibianchi6188]

*did* now we just have cages on border. its downright inefficient an I wrote to obama about it

[@davidblank420]

@@frankibianchi6188 Why would you write to Obama about it?

[@SAVarXX]

While looking into this movie I had to look up Tim Ballard and I realized that about 50% of his wikipedia page is tagged [citation needed]

[@thats4thebirds]

This movie was made for Chapo time

[@morenitomoreno1282]

As soon as I heard about it I immediately thought about the podcast

[@NoName-lq6vw]

@@morenitomoreno1282to my pleasure, I did NOT think of them first (what a fool I am), but I turned on their newest podcast last night before a workout and as soon as I heard the intro I knew it was gonna be a banger. I’m glad my slow brain kept it a happy little surprise for me

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

P I want you to kiss me like a man kiss me like a woman kiss me like a Man kiss me hard for the United States of kiss me for your brothers and sisters kiss me hard

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

@@NoName-lq6vw all right now if you have to advertise the fact that you're working out on the internet maybe you got bigger problems than your average

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

Apparently I have drnuk.,

[@juliettedemaso7588]

My mother in law thinks Jim Caveziel is Henry Cavill , (“he played Superman a bunch of times!”) even after actually seeing this. She also said it was free (are they passing out tickets at the gas stations in Grundy County?) 🤔 and then she says “people better watch their kids”. She regularly slut shames teenage girls.

[@SherlockHolmez]

I could be wrong, but her tickets were probably free because of their Pay It Forward campaign

[@R1ck_Ryder]

I like her she somehow sounds less insufferable than you do

[@TheWilsones]

Yooooo, shout out to Grundy County! (Wait, there are four Grundy County's in this country?)

[@juliettedemaso7588]

So does your mom@@R1ck_Ryder

[@quadabyte8933]

This film could also be named "My Son Hunter" Also the line "there are more people enslaved today than ever in human history" is insane because it's technically true, it's called a capitalist economic system.

[@patteraj]

"The name's Ballard and I'm on the hunt for sons."

[@finished6267]

Yeah. Sure buds. Chattel slavery 2.0. Go tell it from the mountain. Are you gonna bless us with some of those yakubian spirituals while you toil on the corporate plantation?

[@LC-sc3en]

It might actually be true. But the world population is exponentially larger than it was during the height of legal slavery during the 1800s. There might be 50M enslaved people now vs the 3.9M in the southern region of the US in the 1860s. But that's obscuring the fact that the entire free population of the South was only 8.2M total. That's means 45% of the population of the South was slaves. Legal slaves. In some states it was 57% of the population. There are more enslaved people than ever before but slavery is no longer so bad that every other person in your state is a slave.

[@quadabyte8933]

@LC-sc3en I see what you mean. But also how many slaves existed on earth in the 1800s?

[@tdc898]

If you want to hear more about Cavizel being insane, Qanon Anonymous did an episode called "The Cavortices" where they went over stuff they heard from people who worked with him on Person of Interest. He is possibly one of the most bizarrely evil person I've ever heard of. Apparently he lost his driving privileges on set during the first season because he kept almost running over pedestrians because he drove like a psychopath because "it's what my character would do" among other things

[@timcosgrove707]

Asooooooo

[@Badtown1988]

I wish he was that method when he was filming Passion of the Christ and got crucified for realz.

[@tdc898]

@@Badtown1988 According to him he was actually struck by lightning TWICE on set of Passion, iirc while he was carrying the cross

[@calebharris292]

@@tdc898 you'd think they would take the hint

[@gerardodelgado1590]

Real American sniper energy

[@function0077]

Classic line, "Tim Ballard is Chris Kyle, but he is too big of a pussy to kill anyone!"

[@anselmweber6749]

I need that Harriet Tubman pre-workout

[@raskov75]

Child Flippers.

[@cattibingo]

Kid foreclosure auction

[@calebharris292]

This is the only time I've heard them acknowledge Felix fucking around with a hot mic

[@bighomiegayass1917]

*Will, Matt, and Felix are watching Cars 2 in a theater* Matt: “Yo, this Jewish guy’s makin’ potions!”

[@joshuamarx8209]

​@@bighomiegayass1917he's our most authentic Wisconsinite Kraut fuck...

[@ozymandias___868]

Well well well Mr.Chapo, my lawyers seem to set you straight. You posted over an hour long episode. Beware Mr.Chapo if you slip again my lawyers are watching.

[@RoyalFusilier]

This man is your FRIEND, he fights for FREEDOM.

[@function0077]

Did Sebastian Gorka write this comment?

[@hamishbegley1127]

The stench of freedom

[@Hamun002]

I realize now that the first girlfriend I had that was a really good relationship is the Jewish version of these Mormons. She was a Chinese baby that was “abandoned” and these 40 olds from Upstate paid to adopt her. I don’t think they were terrible people. But I can 1000% see this as a child trafficking op, especially since this happened in the 90s.

[@navajoguy8102]

This paying for kids scheme reminds me of the US's dollars for terrorists scheme in Afghanistan. In order to catch Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan the US military offered bounties on any captured terrorist. What ended up happening though was corrupt Afghan officials and tribal warlords started to just kidnap their rivals or random men off the street and hand them over to the Americans for the bounty money. The US would imprison those men and payout the bounty, no questions asked. As you can imagine this had a great effect on endearing the US and US-backed government to the locals.

[@0ptimuscrime]

And then they complain “these Afghan leaders are so corrupt! How did this happen?”

[@MrDanielSolano007]

Reminds me of Guantanamo Bay… remember the humiliating human pyramid the guards made prisoners do.

[@kennybachman35]

@@MrDanielSolano007that was Abu Ghraib prison, they still do that at Gitmo. There are still innocent people detained there indefinitely, with no charges.

[@LC-sc3en]

​@@kennybachman35I swear Americans finally paying attention to our governments military and intelligence actions abroad is the "are we the baddies" skit followed by amnesia over and over again.

[@kennybachman35]

@@LC-sc3en too many Christian schools.

[@0ptimuscrime]

Car salesman: **slaps child** this bad boy can fit so many Hollywood sickos in it

[@finished6267]

Load after piping hot load, I tell ya!

[@bighomiegayass1917]

Incredible episode. Also nice to know that Felix basically does the real life equivalent of crafting at lit bonfires like in Dark Souls, but for drinking tea

[@augustgurtisen]

It's called mixing a wonderous physick

[@elaikehler6030]

Working at a movie theater i just had a feeling in my bones that this would be a chapo movie from the audience to the clips i’ve seen to how fucking awful the movie was when i finally watched it

[@GaziRahman-gh3ek]

American Burger is an actual restaurant in Tel Aviv

[@GaziRahman-gh3ek]

OK so when I posted the original comment, I was referencing a joke Felix once made about restaurants in Israel having silly names like Pizza Fiesta, but I just Googled it, and there actually IS a restaurant in Tel Aviv named American Burger

[@robert9016]

@@GaziRahman-gh3ekPizza Fiesta will not leave my brain

[@SAVarXX]

I like how the main savior is a border patrol guy It’s literally a white savior movie about pedophiles

[@TheYouglup]

Yeah, I saw it and the whole time I thought “ya know, fir someone who keeps screaming from the rooftops that this movie totally isn’t about you it’s about the children we really don’t see much of them and focus an awful lot on how badass and altruistically you are about everything.”

[@ChannelMath]

Chapo just wants to discredit this movie because they want to continue using a child slave to host the show

[@berdyderg900]

Didn't Virgil leave a while ago?

[@cattibingo]

If you listen closely you can hear the child running on a hamster wheel they use to power the recording equipment

[@subularreno]

You have the wrong show. You're thinking of The Adam Friedland Show.

[@bighomiegayass1917]

Will has been trafficked. Patriots, let’s free Will from the demon place that is Gay York City

[@raven_g6667]

I actually got one of the pay it forward tickets for this movie and then I just went into a different theater.

[@mv-xr7lt]

The point about the latino audience of this kind of movie is so true. My family invites me to watch this type of movie all the time

[@Matt-ru5rw]

The point is to get Latinos to vote Republican.

[@utkarsh2746]

​@@Matt-ru5rwFirst and second generation immigrants leaning conservative has long been a fascinating topic for me. Andrew Yang suggesting that Asian immigrants wear more red, white and blue to stop violence against Asians was the most reductive view I have ever heard on this issue but it is a prevalent line of thought in many immigrants that they can assert their identity/citizenship by being the State's loudest supporters.

[@Matt-ru5rw]

@@utkarsh2746 Most cultures are male dominant and conservative. If the Republicans could not be so openly racist they would win all the elections because appealing to conservative, religious, male dominant cultures is a winning formula.

[@utkarsh2746]

@@Matt-ru5rw That is also a slightly myopic way of looking at things. India and Bangladesh might be considered "male dominated" in the traditional lib sense but both have had female heads of State while America had senators questioning what Hillary Clinton would do if America had a war while she was o her periods. Putting aside the fact that she is too old for it, that line of questioning would be considered abhorrent in India or Bangladesh. Even questioning a woman's ability to be an administrator seems more acceptable in America than India, which is traditionally a more "conservative, male dominated" culture.

[@Matt-ru5rw]

@@utkarsh2746 I didn't say they were correct. I just said what it is.

[@theletterw3875]

Makes so much more sense when you realize this is the product of Alexander Greenmountain.

[@WanderingIdiot81]

Anybody know who they were talking about at the end? Was it Virgil? 😁

[@MrKYT-gb8gs]

Just when I thought I was out, you pull me back in! Another all time banger by Mr chapo.

[@idicula1979]

Is that you Gorka.

[@bighomiegayass1917]

@@idicula1979”Mr. Chapo I agree with you negative view on the perfidious Slav, as it in well known the Magyar and the Slav ls are mortal enemies, constantly vying over Pannonia, very much like when Napoleon was in EGYPT.”

[@richarcher499]

I knew the comments on this episode were gonna be fried and the chuds did not disappoint

[@TylerShacklefordDurden]

You guys are great I really needed to hear people laugh about this after weeks of raging watching so many people fall for the grift. I followed ballard and OUR for years, and fell for it too. That kidnapped and trafficked brother and sister story with the necklace- he started the entire charity on that a decade ago... And he made it all up! Robert Gehrke: Tim Ballard’s story in the ‘Sound of Freedom’ seems too good to be true - because it isn’t true

[@emmy8526]

Reviewing this kind of thing as if it could be a functioning film is a category error. At best it’s fodder for insight into how the outraged conservative mind works, in this case projection of all inner and ingroup sins on hated others. I see a future cottage industry of canceled/unhinged actors being brought in to shine up various grifters or their causes. Lawrence Fox as Hunter Biden was already a hilarious turn. Would make a good casting game. Randy Quaid as Alex Jones is a match made in heaven. James Woods as Jordan Peterson? Shia LaBoeuf as Tim Pool? Johnny Depp as Joe Rogan? Each with their fictionalized tale of that shining moment when they were the goodest boy that everyone respects and thinks is great actually.

[@0ptimuscrime]

Dean Norris as Rogan, come on

[@emmy8526]

@@0ptimuscrime Problematic, inept actors only

[@0ptimuscrime]

@@emmy8526 ah

[@calebharris292]

I don't know if shia laboeuf would go for one of these movies

[@popnlocknes]

Hoople heads lmao love how many deadwood lines Matt uses

[@TylerShacklefordDurden]

The movie seems super choppy because a journalist named lynn packer reached out to angel studios asking for comment about the fact ballard made up the entire necklace story. They panicked and quickly and heavily edited a ton of time off the film.

[@neilmick7746]

It's all a plot hatched by Big Air Conditioner.

[@speculawyer]

They need to revisit this in view of the downfall of the sex pest.

[@BartekDeGod100]

Slavs catching strays as always.

[@tofubutcher7456]

So O.U.R is literally Smut Busters from The Righteous Gemstones. Wow we really are fucking doomed aren't we

[@speed0spank]

A ton of people who went to a sold out showing were basically all alone in the theater so I think it was really hit or miss whether those tickets were used or not.

[@3dartxsi]

Imma be honest. I thought "slave stealers" was the fake name the Chapo guys came up with tonmake fun of this movie. The fact that Tim Ballard came up with the name himself says so much about what kinda guy he is.

[@morgansterling2930]

Kony 2012 2.0

[@52flyingbicycles]

I’ve always kinda wondered what happens if the cops catfish an actual kid into soliciting sexual pictures online. Like, we hear all the time about people getting caught soliciting pictures from undercover cops they thought were kids. But if the other guy is also pretending to be a kid, how do the cops know it’s a guy and not a kid?

[@David-gr1do]

they're allowed to do whatever they want

[@ihavenojawandimustscream4681]

This already happened but about supporting ISIS instead of soliciting nudes online. The FBI straight up groom an autistic kid to support ISIS

[@jabrokneetoeknee6448]

Because many of these creeps are soliciting minors on main. They don’t always bother with disguising their age and many share real photos of themselves. A lot of them are totally unabashed. It’s very strange

[@SAVarXX]

Also cops are some of the most common perpetrators anyway

[@jkim-ph1ds]

@@jabrokneetoeknee6448like Virgil Texas

[@plantain.1739]

37:22 I work at a cinema, and when sound of freedom was big this is how every boomer guy was dressed on their way fo that movie.

[@techissus7449]

Now I know where the deprogram was inspired by for their podcast idle animation

[@raven_g6667]

Felix is the cat.

[@joshuamarx8209]

​​@@raven_g6667*Ernest r.i.p.

[@0ptimuscrime]

Sleazy salesman: "What do I have to do to get you into a trafficked child today?"

[@bighomiegayass1917]

Pedophile buyer: “Not much!”

[@TheWilsones]

You really want that true coat, tho.

[@lauratomczak6797]

This movie was so cringe. I saw the first hour and then i realized it was that freaky cult movie that was in the theater. It all made sense cuz there was a lot of weird scenes that made no sense

[@teddownum7428]

"I don't think that Harriet Tubman would DO that!" No. No, she would not.

[@craniifer]

Yeah, I gotta wonder how many of these Karens wind up chewing out cashiers who are masochists on the DL.

[@joem5615]

Oh shit a movie episode! I just broke even stealing from wall place too! Today could be a good day

[@waltershink6878]

The new Indiana Jones movie is a plot to make us think Joe Biden is too old to be prez! HolyRuso propaganda!! Keep on truckin fats. Peace Love and solidarity

[@michaeltorris5675]

“I did Nazi this movie in the theater..” - Chapo Trap House

[@paulgallagher5889]

So they just buy the kids and dont bust the traffickers?!? So LITERALLY just creating a demand for kidnapped kids and not cutting off the head of the snake!!! That's fuckin stupid as hell why are we celebrating them??

[@steelersguy74]

This might not be the best analogy but here goes: a while ago I saw a Frontline special on the dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan and how the few they don’t kill are spared for the international aquarium trade. This is especially true for false killer whales specifically which are overall uncommon in in such places here but those that are here are guaranteed to come from Japan. A rep for an American aquarium made the excuse of saving them but then the interviewer pointed out that buying them is what’s driving these hunts to begin with. It’s the same infinite loop of phony self-congratulatory bullshit and justifications.

[@Luminousreign]

..how would they bust the 'traffickers' in foreign countries? Dont give these morons ideas lol, they will be shooting people they entrapped

[@SAVarXX]

There’s a reason OUR has been called out by other actually anti trafficking groups since their inception

[@harperna3938]

That's exactly the problem. They go to these developing nations and offer larger and larger sums for younger and younger children. If someone's paying you 30k a head, you're going to go out and nab some kids. OUR has done more to create child traffickers than they have to stop them, and that's without even getting into the fact that their actual accomplishments are vastly distorted by lies and misinformation.

[@falloutghoul1]

@@RancorousSea BINGO!

[@technologic21]

Stavros and Cumtown would rip that movie to shreds.

[@jj_abrams_aint_up_my_butt_yet]

Hell yeah dude

[@gooberplex]

My mans out here deadnaming the Adam friedland show

[@Luminousreign]

We didnt listen to the same podcast. Cumtown was a firmly anti child, pro asian adult, human trafficking podcast

[@HazMatt88]

It's pronounced biopic, not biopic

[@StopItGarrison]

Thanks

[@AB-wg7qe]

Exactly

[@Mousy_Nano]

Plot twist: they used this movie to launder human trafficking money...

[@bigolwhiteguy]

The thumbnail makes Tim Ballard look like Paul Walker. Know why? Cause they're the same person. Ftw.

[@finished6267]

Can't unsee. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, the fruit of the loom guy, and now Jim Walker. Let's not forget the comedian who became Alex Jones.

[@KarmaPaym3ntPlan]

20:20 the upward inflection on *lobby* contains an entire person

[@picketytwin]

22:30 gold Q must be proud

[@joeyrufo]

LMAO! Nice Prussian Blue ref! 🤣😭

[@ImpendingRiot83]

Most normal mormon:

[@function0077]

Don't paint all Mormons with the same brush. I am an exmormon, but I know a lot of Mormons far less crazy than Tim Ballard.

[@massgeneral9873]

alan sparhawk

[@OGAshton]

@@function0077right but saying the average Mormon is a bit crazy is a safe bet

[@function0077]

@@OGAshton It isn't. The majority of religious people (e.g. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Mormons, etc.) aren't crazy. They're simply mildly to moderately confused social creatures who were victims of childhood religious indoctrination.

[@ImpendingRiot83]

@@function0077I’m a grandson of exmormons who still have familial ties to the church in Utah and my father lives in Idaho where they are currently running amok in local politics driving the bulk of deeper and deeper MAGAfication, I spit on the name of anyone who does not personally disassociate from the vile organization of their church or affiliated front groups. Believe what you wanna believe but there is absolutely nothing bile and bitterness in my immediate family for that organization and we have plenty of reasons that go back a long way.

[@smoothbrain8355]

god I miss matt...

[@screenPhiles]

Twitter is an Indonesian gambling website? It would explain a lot.

[@thinkoutloud2144]

2:47

[@Nick-pr4pq]

GRAND FORKS MENTIONED ❗️❗️❗️

[@spencerableman2281]

broker tho

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

Oh man sometimes I think I'm alone in the worldI didn't hear the sexy boys from El Chapo trap house and I realized you know what that freedom is a real it is real it is

[@cattibingo]

Are you having a stroke or am I?

[@lucasottens8506]

@@cattibingo Yes

[@lmackenzie9198]

Let’s go Brandon baby

[@abyssGazerTV]

This is like that one time MBMBAM talked about War With Grandpa for the entire episode except this is completely warranted.

[@ptsmknbatgirl]

boy THOSE guys fucking took a massive nosedive in quality

[@taterthepenguin]

@@ptsmknbatgirl Despite being all Millenial-to-GenX, all three of them have transformed into Boomers.

[@glorious4897]

Dj smokey, is that you?

[@stevescamlikelylantz8921]

I think pronounced stillers

[@stothAjs]

think it had some of the worst transitions ive seen in a long time. i watched the blackberry movie right after and felt like blackberry guys should win an oscar! fact that critical drinker thought this was a good movie shows how much of a hack he is.

[@jeffandersen7397]

Why did it take me this long to get to this channel. (I'll admit that i've seen it suggested before and skipped over it to watch Russia girls doing yoga in the mud) Anyway, here now and many, many laughs..... almost as entertaining as Shoe0nhead in her prime

[@hideokojima2015]

Bad comment.

[@elbowjuice2627]

@@hideokojima2015LMAO

[@elbowjuice2627]

Welcome

[@joshuamarx8209]

Goddamn you're from 2018 aren't you?

[@Theeosees]

You're creepy but not hopeless

[@Louie_The_Dago]

Oy, Felix iz azoy umgelumpert

[@frankibianchi6188]

​@@RancorousSeahe did that thing with the nordstrom pipeline but it was just by accident

[@corwinchapman4565]

I love Matt, but he is so unbelievably pretentious. His confusing Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings is some Adam Friedland-level transparent performative posturing, purely to make him look (what he thinks is) cooler and less "normie". Matt is so funny and smart so often but whenever he makes some weird, disjointed anti-social social point like when he refers to a marvel movie with the wrong name on purpose, it makes me want to cringe my face inside-out. It makes it hard to recommend the podcast at all, because the other 95% of their content being funny and incisive doesn't make that remaining 5% not deeply, powerfully embarrassing.

[@joshuamarx8209]

Dear Abby...

[@ChickenSkin_Champion]

Jesus Christ

[@billytitus1519]

Shut up Adam.

[@bedosar]

Autistic much?

[@lukeg1940]

I saw this comment and thought what you were mentioning might be some diatribe about fantasy but it's literally a one off comment that lasts like two seconds lol

[@BennySalto]

A good point about latino viewers & other minorities: those groups are more likely to hold conservative views with regards to family values, sex & tradition and things considered 'Christian'. This is indeed exactly a subject that speaks to some of those groups. This is why democrats will eventually lose large groups of voters (like 2020) to the republicans if they keep pressing gender & lhbti issues to what are in essence conservative families who happen to vote democrat. At some point, those conservative values will kick in and trump all other things. Biden only won because ironically, white men stepped it up. That's not even in dispute, check the stats.

[@Freiheit1232]

I agree. Really wish the left would stop pushing the LGBT stuff so much... They're not focused on things that actually impact the majority of families

[@paulgallagher5889]

You're not wrong about the Conservatism, but you should absolutely shut up about people needing to stop pressing for saving LGBTQ (or whatever weirdness you typed) lives and rights. That's literally fascist talk wrapped in "duurrrr it's just da facts." Clearly 2020 proved we dont need conservative votes and good people DO need to stand up. Go lick Trumps boots and get out of here if you can't stand with human rights because you think its icky.

[@deeeeznuts]

your brain on no material analysis

[@blackdog9698919]

As far as Americans go, all Americans are irredeemable and should be killed for the sake of a better future for the rest of humanity. Setting that aside, though, it's a dumbass argument. Most LGBTQ+ people _have_ to be part of the Democratic coalition because the Republicans only want a few mascot gays and plan to exterminate the rest. So the Democrats are always going to be motivated to fight for that part of their constituency (to the extent that the Democrats do anything positive). From a purely cold-blooded political standpoint, why would they shit on a key part of their coalition just for the sake of some hypothetical hyper-conservative anti-abortion evangelical swine who _might_ vote Democrat because, I donno, they're brown? Maybe? Pretty sure that the much-ballyhooed conservative Latinos are really just the white Hispanic vermin who were booted out of Cuba and South America in leftist revolutions for the most part, though. Basically the people who murdered JFK. I say fuck 'em, they should all be driven into the sea to drown, like rats.

[@BennySalto]

@@deeeeznuts You don't know what you are talking about, white middle class leftist views are leaking.

[@AHMEDZAC]

I haven't seen this movie but when I see film reviewers like Jeremy Jahns and others who have zero political opinions, but have reviewed thousands of movies on KZbin, say that it's actually good, I wonder if your opinions are only guided by your disliking of the politics of the people who made the movie.

[@tontovia]

Lol

[@AHMEDZAC]

@@tontovia really? Lol?

[@elaikehler6030]

Jeremy Jahns has been praising the marvel and dc movies for the past decade and a half and you think he’s really more serious about movies than William movie magic Menaker?

[@AHMEDZAC]

​@@elaikehler6030 Jeremy Jahns knows movies, if you disagree with that statement you don't know movies. You might disagree with him of have a different taste but to say that his opinion doesn't matter is nonsense

[@banjo304]

​@@AHMEDZACno one's opinion matters sillyman

[@brendangannon9286]

Is this podcast the edgy version of CNN? They're always in lockstep

[@bighomiegayass1917]

Let’s go BrandonGannon9286

[@herecomesaregular8418]

"Lockstep with CNN" lmao. I take it you haven't spent much time with either Chapo or CNN?

[@joshuamarx8209]

Cool to be a dumb guy, uncool to let people know.

[@billyscenic5610]

Why are you in lockstep with those people who keep posting "Nazis were socialists!" in every comment section?

[@taterthepenguin]

The only CNN I'm in lockstep with is Creed N' Nickelback

[@joanne-gracealden9926]

Maybe it depends on where u see the movie and who u go with. I'm not an avid movie goer so I have no experience in how to evaluate the value of a film. But I am educated about the trafficking of children, the size of the "business" it represents, and California's place in the illness. So I suggest you find a few women (and men)who as children were trafficked. Then u won't be so obvious about displaying your ignorance.

[@comicconcarne]

Child trafficking victims say this film isn't helpful, and is actually harmful because this isn't what happens in reality

[@TylerShacklefordDurden]

Tim made up the entire story of the kidnapped and trafficked brother and sister he founded his grift charity upon.

[@topleybird2443]

Um ackshually I’ve been child trafficked forty-seven times, have a secret Medal of Honor for best trafficker in the biz (2017), and was the prime supplier of adrenochrome to the Feinsteins, and the Chapo lads were right on the money about my business.

[@dirrdevil]

I'm being trafficked as I write this. All because I saw The Sound of Freedom, and Joe Biden wants his revenge.

[@TheWilsones]

Holy shit, I can't believe a Joanne found this page

[@cyberspace667]

These guys try so hard to be funny 😖

[@lucasottens8506]

Sounds like the story of your life. Trying so hard.

[@cyberspace667]

@@lucasottens8506 you must have me confused with somebody else, I’m the posterboy for effortlessness

[@lmackenzie9198]

Chapo haters would be a lot easier to take seriously if they didn’t all have minimum 55 comments on the channel. Rent-free indeed.

[@cyberspace667]

@@lmackenzie9198 who’s a hater? I like this show for the political analysis, sometimes the humor hits most times it doesn’t, not really a big deal

[@joshuamarx8209]

The forced laughing on obvious duds is a wart on the face to be sure.

[@zachlovescats95]

This guy massacred innocent people (including children) when he was working in the anti-terrorism task force.

[@sandequation2653]

Source?

[@zachlovescats95]

"In a secret supplement to his report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Yarborough encouraged the creation and deployment of a US-backed force to commit "paramilitary, sabotage and/or terrorist activities against known communist proponents" "The United Nations has estimated that 12% of all civilian deaths in the Colombian conflict were caused by FARC and National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas, with 80% caused by right-wing paramilitaries, and the remaining 8% caused by Colombian security forces." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia@@sandequation2653

[@dinkaboutit4228]

@@zachlovescats95 *crickets* 🤣

[@TheDizzieC]

So, before I heard this Episode, I was familiar with O.U.R I used to buy weed from a dispensary where for every $1 you showed you donated to O.U.R you would get $2 off your order. Got a lot of Cheap weed thanks to O.U.R.

[@ImpendingRiot83]

Child traffickers funded by drugs, classic

[@speedweenie7394]

Jim Caviezel can't act anymore...? Must be the brainworms.

[@nickblinko5677]

Dude was hit by lightning filming that Jesus movie. You can't tell me it didn't mess him up.

[@notashton.]

Everything ive seen about this guy screams alphabet spook. Hes extremely sketchy. And from his interviews. He seems to have hone his story in. Its all to weird for me.

[@function0077]

He's probably not an alphabet spook. He is just a really self-absorbed Mormon.

[@user-zb1kw2et6k]

I think he's just a crank. I'd expect a spook to be a bit better at his job and a lot better at not drawing attention to how grotesquely bad at is he is.

[@strife9878]

I think we all agree on the same thing here ............1XBET