973 - Cross on the Moon feat. Brendan James (9/29/25)

Chapo Trap House

News

4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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It’s Chapo—in person! Will, Felix, and Brendan James of Blowback (formerly Chapo Trap House) gather at Will’s apartment to talk about Eric Adams dropping out of the NYC mayoral race. They then read a profile of Adam Jentleson and his new PAC, Searchlight, and its novel plan to win elections by pulling Democrats to the right. Also this episode: Pete Hegseth’s mysterious all-hands meeting, Trump finally releasing the files, and Peter Thiel’s obsession with the antichrist. And be sure to vote for American Prestige at the Signal Awards: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting?utm_campaign=signal4_finalists_finalistnotification_092325&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio#/2025/shows/genre/news-politics And check out the new Blowback season! https://blowback.show/

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0:00.0	All I'm gonna be is a joke
0:03.0	All I'm gonna be is a jump
0:18.0	All I'm gonna be is a joke Hello, everybody. It's Monday, September 29th. And we've got some shopper for you we've got some special
0:38.3	shop up for you because we've got three of the OGs in the same room that's right it's in my
0:44.8	apartment and here we are back at it again me Robbie Sov Matthew Walter Matthew Walter is back
0:54.0	what a time it's Brendan James in the house, everybody. Hey, and I'm also kind of producing because we're using my Zoom and I'm looking at the levels to make sure I don't fuck it up. So it's all back. Guest, producer. Guest, producer. We got some cats. Maybe one of them can take a huge shit on the floor. Vomit on one of us. We can stop recording because it smells so bad. Yeah. But this is original chopo stylings here today. Yep. Well, gentlemen, it's great to have you back in my house, back on the mic. And you two gentlemen have collaborated it recently as well. So congratulations on that. You've been
1:29.2	killing it with the Players Club. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. It's been, I mean, it really dovetel nicely.
1:35.4	It's been now exactly 12 years since the game Heavy Rain came out. We've produced six 12-hour-long
1:43.0	episodes about heavy rain.
1:45.0	It is strange to be in a room with Felix now not being expected to talk for about
1:49.4	nine hours about about Metal Gear.
1:51.2	I feel like, uh, homie the clown when all Homer can see is everyone's a clown and
1:56.9	there's clown music playing.
1:57.9	You guys will be talking to me about Pete McSF and I'll just be going on about jeans.
2:02.4	I've noticed that in recent episodes,
2:04.4	the percentage of Metal Gear solid references
2:07.2	has jumped a thousand percent
2:08.7	over the last couple episodes.
2:10.3	Well, we just finally recorded
2:12.7	like the last bit of anything
2:14.6	we needed to record.
2:15.9	Yeah.
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