meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Chapo Trap House

Episode 272 - The Butterfly Effect (12/17/18)

Chapo Trap House

Chapo Trap House

News

4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We examine Matt’s SNL martyrdom, continue to dance on the grave of the Weekly Standard, then ask: will anyone think of the butterflies?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

All right, hello everybody.

0:29.8

I'm Chris Me, a little miniker. It's your chopper for the week.

0:33.8

Sitting in today, we got Matt and Amber. Hi.

0:36.3

Hi. How's it going?

0:38.3

It's going well.

0:39.3

So, um, it's sort of, I guess, a slow news weekend, unless you're, you know,

0:43.8

interested in a Donald Trump going to prison.

0:46.8

Yeah.

0:47.8

And all the people, you know, lying, lying and failing.

0:53.8

But it certainly was, it's been, it made for some great SNL.

0:57.8

I'll say that for sure. Man, every time something happens, one of these losers gets indicted

1:04.1

or pleads guilty. I'm just thinking, oh man, they're going to go to town.

1:08.6

Well, you've mentioned this before, Matt, but you watch every single episode of SNL.

1:12.8

I think some sort of, this is like a, this is like a Maria Abramovich, like performance

1:17.1

art thing for you.

1:18.1

Uh, this is like the artist is present. You're doing this bizarre feat of, and dirt of public

1:23.7

in, not even some, it's not private.

1:25.7

He's there exactly.

1:27.2

Self-loathing completist.

1:29.2

No, that's a flagellation. It's never, it's never been about public anything.

1:35.3

I will tell people when they're all like, who watched the Saturday Live?

1:37.9

I will, O'Pine, I do every episode, but I did that long before anyone cared.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Chapo Trap House, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Chapo Trap House and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.