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Chapo Trap House

Episode 230 - A Colossal Wreck (7/22/18)

Chapo Trap House

Chapo Trap House

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

​Look on my Fest, ye Mighty, and despair....Will and Matt report on Fear and Loathing at Ozyfest. To get your free e-book copy of "Chapo Trap House Presents TALES FROM THE DARK LOOKING GLASS" email a copy of your receipt for "The Chapo Guide to Revolution" to [email protected] Also check out @jamie_elizabeth on The Majority Report https://majorityreportradio.com/ and @the_antifada podcast

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I met a traveler from an antique land who said, to vast and trunkless legs of stone stand

0:10.4

in the desert.

0:12.0

Near them, on the sand, half sunk a shattered shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled

0:17.8

lip and sneer of cold command, tell that its sculptor, well those passions read, which

0:24.2

yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them and the heart that

0:30.0

fed, and on the pedestal these words appear.

0:34.2

My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings.

0:37.6

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

0:40.4

Nothing beside remains, round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless in bear, the

0:45.7

lone and level sands stretch far away.

0:49.4

That's what drives us, Anazzy, the idea that more is possible, and we're not afraid

0:53.8

to challenge assumptions about the way the world is, in order to see the way the world

0:57.5

it could be.

0:58.8

That conviction is right in our name.

1:00.6

Yup, it's from the Percyfish Shelley poem Ozymandius, and yup, most folks read that poem

1:05.8

as a caution against big egos and the impermanence of power.

1:09.5

We read it differently.

1:10.9

To us, the poem says, think big, but be humble, lest you end up, too vast and trunkless legs

1:17.0

in the desert.

1:18.3

We know that's an unconventional interpretation, and that's who we are, because in a world

1:23.3

we're littered with conformity, we like to see things differently.

1:26.4

We hope, through Ozy, you will, too.

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