1013 - Your Podcast feat. Jonathan Shainin (2/23/26)
Chapo Trap House
Chapo Trap House
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right |
| 0:02.0 | All I'm going to be |
| 0:05.0 | All I'm going to be is a joke All I want to It's a joke. |
| 0:33.9 | It's Monday, February 23rd, and this is your chuffo. We're coming to you once again during another snow day. |
| 0:42.5 | Hope you're happy for making us work. But on today's episode, Felix and I are joined by our old pal Jonathan Chanin, the London-based journalist, who is, I believe, a year one, Chappo guest, right? |
| 0:54.3 | Is that possible? Was it year one? It seems like a long time. No, yeah. No. I remember, yeah. |
| 0:59.4 | For people that don't know, for newer listeners, you can thank or possibly blame Jonathan for the existence of this podcast. |
| 1:07.9 | Because 12 years ago when I was, would just like go on my phone at my job in St. Paul, |
| 1:16.0 | John was the first person who wasn't like an MMA shithead to follow me because he apparently, |
| 1:22.1 | I'll never forget this. |
| 1:24.3 | You thought I was like a writer in New York that you knew who was just like |
| 1:28.2 | using some other guys' pictures so he could like make fun of Rosie Gray without endangering his |
| 1:33.3 | job. But no, John is the entire reason I like went to New York and pursued an illustrious career |
| 1:41.3 | first making $15,000 a year and then inventing podcasts in 2016. |
| 1:46.7 | I do remember you telling me, I remember DMing you late one night and being like, hey, |
| 1:53.4 | like, what's your deal? I was maybe like, where do you live in Brooklyn? |
| 1:57.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:58.4 | You were like, no, I'm in college. And then I think you were like no i'm in college and then i think uh you were like i was thinking |
| 2:05.2 | of doing like a i mean maybe you were shitting me like doing like a waste management internship |
| 2:10.8 | no i was i was like the only real job i had lined up the only possibility no i think you |
| 2:16.7 | should move to New York. |
| 2:19.0 | Well, glad to have this on the record. |
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