Ladies and gentlemen to the stage,

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage,

the original kings of podcasting, Will Menager and Felix Bitterman.

Thank you. All right, could you just bear with me for a second?

I always wanted to do this.

Hey, da, hey da, hey da, hey da, hey da.

I mean, I am doing cultural appropriation, but I think it's for a good cause.

Los Angeles, palace theater.

Decade of Chapo.

You know, before I ever ran a podcast or got myself blown up,

Will Meneker was a hell of a bad book editor. I can tell you that. I was so bad

that whenever I made an offer on a manuscript, I could change the odds for every publishing

house in Manhattan, most especially the one I was working for. I'm serious. I had it down so bad

that I was given hell on earth. I was given one of the biggest podcasts to run, chopo trap house.

By the only kind of guys that can actually get you paid running a leftist podcast, the CIA.

I don't know all the details. Matter of fact, nobody knew all the details, but it should

have been perfect. I mean, I had Felix Biederman and Matt Christman, two guys I met on the

internet watching my ass. And I had Catherine, the woman I loved, on my arm. But in the end,

we fucked it all up. It should have been so sweet, too, but it turned out to be the

last time the private school kids like us were ever given a Patreon account that fucking

valuable ever again. Los Angeles, Palis Theater, thank you so much for being here tonight

to celebrate a decade of Chapo Trap House.

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