The Caleb Saga, Part 1 | Chapo Trap House | Episode 49

The introduction of one of Chapo Trap House's favorite characters, Caleb.
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[@jesmith262]

Not sure if you guys followed up in the Jeff Jacoby/Caleb Jacoby saga, but on June 6, 2017, Caleb Jacoby wrote another letter to his son, this time about his dismay that his son won't return his phone calls and that he likes Jeremy Corbyn.

[@jesmith262]

Oops, other way around. Jeff Jacoby wrote the column to his son.

[@Natakupl]

Please link me this column for the love of Caleb

[@highlonesomed]

Oh my god, I wonder what their home life was like. Jeff was probably constantly hovering around, hoping Caleb would do something that he could put in the next weird letter. He probably thinks it'll make a compelling book some day and he'll get to be on Oprah. I hope Caleb is still free.

[@legrandfromage9682]

Caleb go on Chapo

[@cosmiclsd833]

C O M R A D E C A L E B ? ? ?

[@liban1685]

r/raisedbynarcissists Hall of fame entry

[@meltedcd]

"Sometimes you're a great kid, other times, your eyes turn black and you say the true name of God to me." I almost dropped my plate listening to this in the kitchen.

[@adeer87]

meltedcd I think about that line a lot for some reason.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

Let’s not forget about our disastrous trip to the baboon sanctuary…

[@gillesdeleuze1900]

Boston’s #1 boy! We love our beautiful, special son

[@nicklheureux9602]

Oi tudo oi

[@bobjohnson7148]

Giving Johnathan Holmes a run for his money

[@elizabethbennet4791]

this poor kid omg

[@fede2]

I had no idea how much I needed this saga in my life. I'm in tears.

[@GREGORYABUTLER]

If I was Caleb.....I'd run away to Times Square too

[@Fuzzycuffsqt]

"He looks like white Arthur..." *punchline inaudible over laughter*

[@INSOMNIACification]

Arthur Chu was my guess

[@videogamenostalgia]

I'd like to imagine they mean the aardvark

[@shinjinobrave]

They mean arthur Fleck, AKA the motherfucking joker

[@adude5136]

@@INSOMNIACification definitely arthur chu

[@Xxx_EvilSmurf_xxX]

At least my parents only savagely beat me.

[@colinsweeney2628]

Felix’s Seymour Hersh kills me

[@bomberharris8439]

Love that boy

[@bosnbruce5837]

luckily his criminal mind got an early check from his ever vigilant, perfect father

[@plutoniumnash5815]

An all time classic

[@gavin7772]

Caleb is such a WinSon

[@csabatibor]

Jacoby is basically every Hungarian right-wing columnist in the government media, but with less blatant racism.

[@connorl9546]

There's a wkuk skit where a bunch of dads talk about punishing their children and the last guy says he's trying not to hit his son so instead he throttles his rabbit to punish him by proxy reminds me of this

[@Brutalette]

This feels like child abuse.

[@crackajack913]

That's because it is

[@calebharris292]

Am named Caleb, dad's name is also Jeff. Sounds like I'm listening to my alternate timeline where my parents stayed together... Spoopy.

[@alistairpage-mcgill2723]

sorry to hear that

[@eggbaron3968]

i'm sorry judge ellen tao ripped your family apart

[@pipefx64]

holy shit this is one of the funniest chapo bits i've come across lmao

[@jackoflava]

I think this might be my favorite episode. The Caleb Saga is peak Chapo. Chef's kiss.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

“Let’s not forget our disastrous trip to the baboon sanctuary” JFC. I’m laughing so hard it hurts. Oh Caleb…

[@kaiserschnitzel89]

Jesus Christ it's discount Holden Caulfield displaying why he's discounted

[@eartianwerewolf]

Damn , I hope Caleb is a super awesome guy now. Damn that shit is embarrassing.

[@HarryS77]

7:50 Well, obviously Matt wasn't a calculating shitty child because the correct answer is to take the open letter. A spanking is private and never likely to redound poorly on the spanker; but an open letter written to showcase how awful (and typical) your child is can only reveal what a petty, whiny parent the writer is.

[@Maxiom5]

Also is a lot more work for the parent.

[@wyattthewallaby7018]

Id take the spanking cause yeah the oped letter would reflect poorly on your parent but also just imagine all the embarrassing shit they can put in like you vomiting on some chick you were asking out on a date, then again thats why I tell no one about my life, so no one can ever write an oped about me

[@h3rschy]

We need to talk about Caleb.

[@elijahthorne303]

im having a stroke that fucking first open letter sounds word for word like what my noxious transphobic mom would say abt me, right down to the weird awful humor

[@Teh_Hats]

An absolute classic.

[@bobuiux]

Caleb is the dreaded Laramie

[@BillyPalmerMusic]

BART SIMPSON

[@donkeyshow8543]

Really puts the J in Homer J Simpson.

[@shumpwumbus2813]

Absolutely love this shit so much, some of their finest work

[@ChannelMath]

omg, this is horrifying. I'm going to write to the Boston Globe and ask them to apologize. maybe

[@DapperDill]

Nothing says growing closer to your son like alienating his faults in an annual article to a national publication.

[@tewodrosii2875]

I was raised like caleb, except replace "hardline trad Judaism" with "Betty Friedan-esqe striverism & male guilt" I tried doing the manosphere ish, but my friends staged an intervention where I basically did what caleb did by the end of these letters, and now I basically live like a cross between Stav, Brace and Matt

[@TheRedKnaveLP]

So very very fat?

[@tewodrosii2875]

@@TheRedKnaveLP I meant personality wise. stav - lazy and horny Brace -Paranoid and occasionally makes love to YPJ vets with PTSD Matt - nihilistic intellectual outlook on the world

[@ChewyThomson]

The Caleb Saga is such a fucking classic.

[@mattsoffe1716]

Fuck me, this made me laugh so much. Thanks guys.

[@TheIkaraCult]

This might be the funniest thing I've ever heard. God bless Jeff Jacobi for bringing this into our lives.

[@erikbarrett85]

Parents love to Lord over their kids

[@bearVshark100]

I want to buy Caleb an Xbox

[@noeelaphoros7430]

i love the caleb saga

[@caman225]

Oh no

[@hooknshoot45]

I feel really really bad for this kid

[@olliegray7068]

I wish Jeff had continued listing possible numbers of hours for the rest of the article and not followed up

[@Micho55]

Caleb turns into the male Amy Dunne

[@jeffersonclippership2588]

Sounds like he internalized Jewish Mother mentality

[@cambriaofthevastoceans6721]

Question we need answered: is West Elm Caleb, Caleb Jacoby?

[@joelpadilla3562]

Got the Fortnite pre-roll ad

[@havanaradio]

harsh indictment from adsense

[@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw]

An all timer.

[@ChiefNakedButt]

Just having listened to this, I feel dirty )-;

[@TrevorKinsie]

Brook line?

[@bobsaget121]

Isn’t this the plot to that timothee chalamet movie w Steve Corel? Beautiful boy I think?? If that movie is ‘based on a true story’ then I think Caleb got a film deal

[@jmacdon4]

Fernando Partridge saga

[@colinsweeney2628]

What does Matt say Caleb is at 16:49

[@timestamp_livewebservices6503]

this is actually just sad. . . . . . . . . . .

[@gavin7772]

Anyone else hear spanking..... and on the hole