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Kath joins us for our annual review of the Big Game spectacle. We give our appraisal of what this year’s ad slate says about the state of American culture, plus reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show, and how conservatives continue to be oppressed by the TV. Then the Washington Post’s Jeff Stein joins us to discuss his reporting on what exactly Elon Musk & the DOGE team are trying to do to the federal government.

Jeff’s piece on Elon & DOGE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/08/doge-musk-goals/

If you’re in LA, check out Jacques & Grace’s Game Show Pig variety show at the Loge Room this Wednesday, 2/12: https://www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/game-show-pig/

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Eric

First!

Eric

Damn it

ploob

Kath!!!

Ben H

SLOP IT UP

Kyle Cassidy

Hell yeah. Slop for the pigskin piggies.

mckinley faas

Fuck ya Kath episode just in time for my pizza to be done cookin

Cumtickles

Me and my wife’s boyfriend had stinky butt sex watching the big game. Don’t tell her shhhhh

Semine

I got hard seeing this post and ended up slamming my dick in the door

Jeffrey Epstein's Assassin

I thought it was a great halftime show. Who cares if it's not a political revelation?! It's the NFL; you literally couldn't be more political. Also, the artistry was incredible

kenton

should’ve been Drake and Kanye

buttface

WaPO can eat my entire ass and suck my dick from the back

Noctor

The DOGE phenomenon is really exemplary of how the system of checks and balances really relax any teeth with respect to balancing/checking the power of the executive. Founding fathers were so brilliant, and were so afraid of having another monarch that they forgot that all the cops work for the executive branch. Turns out you can be president and also the sovereign citizen

Goonba

Lube ready, Felix body pillow check, new chapo episode!? Double check. 😈😈

AbsenteeUncle

17:00 Felix revealed as not a Cushvlog enjoyer

Jacob Short

This sounds like the Liz Truss-ification of the US

M

Wild how little Chapo has to say about the extermination of Palestine now that it’s not a cudgel to trash Democrats anymore.

syd

I saw someone say Tool should have done the halftime show lmao

king_von_diesel

The netzarim corridor has been handed over to the people of Gaza, and north and south gaza have been handed over as well.

Joseph

“Ok, here’s how Kamala can still win”

Zach H.

For me at that point you can just skip the game

Liz

Yayyyyyy Kath is back!

delle_chiaie

disturbed to see wapo but pleased to hear malcolm

Dyyyyylan

They don’t have wire-fu in Poland yet

Kyle

Thanks for bringing on Jeff, he's been really good at covering some of the hell civil servants are being put through.

Doug Cartel

A good 3/4 of the celebs there looked like they were in the theres of withdrawal

Doug Cartel

The snoop dogg/tom Brady commercial was very 1995 era cringe, the only thing missing was a hip cartoon lady turning everyone purple to prove a point

Yarblockos

For real though, Captain Freakout would be amazing.

Adam Hoefler

What's the name of the song between the beginning and interview portions?

THEKILLERWHALE

Musk making a big show of sleeping in a cot is the lamest shit I have ever seen. Wow, look at how urgent this problem is that he must immediately address it at great personal sacrifice! I have a better idea. Create a working assembly line based on a century of refined principles in the first place and then skip the whole cot thing. And the fact that idiots keep giving him more money for this ludicrous bluster makes me ill. And the fact that he is this natalist and is stupid and horrible looking and abandons his "family" for weeks at a time is depraved.

aKg

Goddamn guys. We can’t even enjoy the Kendrick performance?

Yarblockos

Captain Freakout would be amazing.

nick

Re: all the AI commercials. I genuinely do not understand the appeal for so many of these AI products. A chatbot, sure. Kind of bleak but I at least understand how someone might find it useful. But McConaughey does these commercials for the salesforce AI that apparently can show you how to get to your airport terminal (Are you stupid or something? Can you not follow the clearly printed signs?) or order your preferred food for you at a restaurant (You can’t be bothered to read the menu?). Are these problems that anybody actually has? Altman and the AI evangelists genuinely don’t like humanity. For them, the quirks and serendipities that define human experience are just inefficiencies to be smoothed out (I guess so you can spend more time working and consuming product). The restaurant example is crazy - you want an AI to know in advance what you want and to order it for you? If you’re in that much of a rush and can’t even talk to the waiter, don’t go out to eat. Just drink Soylent at your desk. You don’t even want to look at the menu and maybe see something new you want to try? Nope, no new experiences for me please. I’m optimized with AI!

Damen Irving

This year’s ftx ad bc I don’t know what the product is or what it does

Alex Weber

Felix’s bit about Utah people experiencing Jews for the first time through Tom Brady’s commercial had me doubled over

Quadabyte

Technology is getting to a point where all the "inconvenient" stuff we do as functional adults is done by computers, now they need AI to decide all the decisions, like what to wear, watch and eat. They want a mom to baby them so they can have fun spending all their waking hours thinking only about what they like and have no responsibility or slight struggle.

Michael Ouderkirk

I think it's Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Don't know the song.

M

Pogroms are widening in the West Bank as settlers and the IDF go hog wild, Israel has seized Syrian land, the "ceasefire" (which Israel violated as soon as it was put on paper) is fully collapsing, and US policy is now full ethnic cleansing and a second Nakba. Yup, everything's going great.

owen

kanye would do great in the power electronics or EBM scene

Drew

I must admit I found the "officials are having to work like dogs to stop loonies from trying to eat the lava" really funny

Ozzie

Go birds

Michelle

My sincerest thanks to Kath for introducing me to the trainwreck that is American Woman in Pakistan.

Hilary is Pant-suited Syphilis

Super Bowl 60 half time will feature the return of the magical Mr Mistofolees and many shirtless Tom of Finland cut outs and it wouldn’t be gay enough for Benny Johnson.

Jim Veil

I was just thinking this morning about whether he'd go ahead and sample Death in June and get some neofolk in there.

Quinten Monson

Havent been able to stop thinking about how ontario canada bought a super bowl ad

Dan

Love chapo, but I will never listen or have anything to do with seeking derangements.

Drew

Was anyone else's mom talking about how excited she was to see Lauren Dangle perform some song as redemption for apparently the New Orleans mayor preventing her from singing at some previous event because she is Christian

Liquidated Damages

YES that fox news ad was crazy. Like they appreciate israel for giving them good ratings last year

The Steel Harvest

Lay off Seal. If you don't go out and sing kissed by a rose while spinning with your arms out every first rain of spring, you are the problem with America. lol

Studio Novaya by Fredrick Edward

Her formal name is The American Lady and word on the internet is she’s in Dubai now but was supposed to be on a plane home? She’s my favorite performance artist since hide your kids hide your wives.

king_von_diesel

All that happened under biden. No one with a functioning frontal lobe believes that the ceasefire would have happened if Kamala had won, fed

Alejandro Pepsi

Only good half time show, prince singing purple rain in the rain 🌧 💜

Scott Grabel

My fav reaction was NYT commenters who wanted local jazz musicians to have done the halftime, like who haven’t been on TV since HBO’s Treme

M

Found Ric Grenell’s alt. I would say your bullshit won’t age well but it’s already beyond rancid. Congrats on being the most deranged guy in the Chapo comments though, that’s a high bar to clear.

Travis

Felix begins speaking

Chris T

Haven’t heard this take before

Jes

GO BIRDS. I WILL DIE FOR MY COUNTRY, PHILADELPHIA.

Patrick Carroll

lol dude why do you even listen to the show if you are this mad about your life. It’s a podcast. Apparently you are mad at them for not liking Kamala enough. Get a life bro.

No1BASICCHANNELFAN

I’m finna Win Jeff Stein’s money no bap 🚫🧢

Nathan

Tool performing hooker with a penis at the Super Bowl would finally end the gender insanity and repudiate wokeness.

Chris T

The answers in the hair

Tea for the Tillerman

(Lou perltzman coded) if it’s the 20s again can we at least have Tiffany lamps and Tin Pan Alley?!?

Cole Sheridan

Did nobody else catch ‘This is America’ playing behind an ozempic commercial?

PitMommy

Lol the tongues ad was just CoffeMate trying to horn in on the Galaxy Gas game — teen boys whipping coffee creamer out of a spray can followed a brightly colored hallucinogenic sequence. Very cool

Kas

Yes yes we get it you’re left but not like those lame wokes over there. It’s so tiresome. That schtick is as dated as Kek stuff.

d.a.walker

Shout out Paul Butterfield! He's dead though

Bman1

9:20 uhhh dont go to the website kanye mentioned in his commercial

Morgan

latest rwn and chapo episodes both mention carlito’s way 🤯🤯

Return of The Mac 2nite

“Normalize Indian hate” -this post has been approved by Pakistan gang

Professor Jokes

1. Katherine very funny 2. Non IT people yapping about AI is regarded 3. Boosting wapo = sus

Jordan Eldridge

The whole Samuel L Jackson bit was lifted directly from the college dropout skits

Noah Mickens

Such a strange point of view, that of the Internet-addicted nerd celebrity playing hipster. Do we really believe that all the young Trump supporters are losers with no girlfriend? I'm pretty sure there are a lot of normal guys with jobs voting for Trump these days, and for that matter, lots of lonely dorks who live in their Mom's house voting for Dems.

Joseph Hooker

They vastly overstate what a w**ger Travis Kelce is

Natalie

didn't rly think about elon getting the brunt of the trump hate but I'll grab onto anything I can to make myself feel better

Natalie

can you tell me what it is so I won't

Natalie

elon when someone asks him why needs hundreds of billions in toy rocket money if he's cutting unnecessary spending from the federal budget: 😳😳😳😳

Ricardo Pleasure

holy shit googling "woman in pakistan" actually worked. shoutout to katherine

Paul F. Holzfäller

Right there with ya. Really wanted the granny in the rascal scooter to go full Gollum, but they have to keep that stuff family friendly.

Greasy_Jones

The people hated Jaques, because he told them the truth

Scotty Kassel

I will not tolerate any Creed Halftime Show slander. Strike 1.

Paul F. Holzfäller

I can’t get enough of JD Vance going to bat for the “normalize Indian hate” guy. What a fucking worm. I’m amazed his wife ever let him stick his dick in her.

Jon Rehm

1) Travis Kelce needs a low ACT former college basketball or volleyball player for a gf/wife: see George Kittle/Netflix “Receiver” 2) Will and Katherine totally hustle more athletic appearing couples in pickleball.

Nathan

I think felix is right that musk will be blamed for the unpopular things that happen in Trump’s second term but I think musk is completely insulated from any unpopularity. Even if he’s at 25% approval nationally, he’d still have dozens of yes men telling him he was immensely based for ending social security.

Special Adeline

wait what are they referring to when they talk about a washington post journalist getting in trouble for something they said on chapo? did Jeff Stein say something crazy when he was on or something? I don't remember podcasts well enough to have an idea of what it might have been

Morgan LaVigne

Really missing an opportunity here with Will's pronunciation of doge to use George Clinton's Atomic Dog

Anthony DAmico

My guess is something with Dave Weigl?

Anthony DAmico

It is grimly amusing that Kanye's current edgelord bullshit is basically the same thing that bands like Siouxsie & the Banshees abandoned as tired like 40 years ago.

Grayson Sussman Squires

Random but my dad was the lawyer portrayed by Jon Bernthal in Show Me a Hero. Never get to brag about that cuz it’s such a forgotten mini series that no one saw.

Will Stickney

Is Jeff Stein the guy that wrote the cum town article

Rxk Lenderman

The chapos are right that the Kendrick performance isn’t really that subversive or revolutionary- but I do think you gotta take a step back from being a contrarian and look at how wild it is the NFL went through with the Kendrick halftime. Clearly they (correctly) assumed they would make buckets of money from this as a cultural spectacle, but they basically KNEW that they would alienate and piss off a lot of of their core audience- but by season start next year all those people will be watching again anyway. I think last year or maybe before Will talked about how wild it is that liberals seem to be getting football in the National divorce- and I think that’s still true. Because no matter what the weirdo conservative pundits say or do, the average conservative voter will watch football no matter what. The major league sports I think are going to increasingly become the circus that panders to liberals while we slide more towards fascism. Also whatever you think of Kendrick, you gotta admit that him uniting America to call a single whiny annoying Canadian a pedophile is just good for the culture.

Gordon Schmidt

if he did money trees matt walsh would have liked it

etienne

imagine if Bernie had won. the Parliamentarian would have called a hit on him

Sheep

I really enjoyed kendrick's performance. I dont think it was revolutionary or anything, but it was fun! He played the hits, the dancers were cool, it was all i wanted it to be.

Dylan

For anyone who wants to read about automation in government, check out the geniuses in Australia and Robodebt.

MATT TRIANO

28:05 FOX BUTTERFIELD Seth Dickfield?

John

Kath Krueger one of the best guests every time but she sounds *exactly* like my friend from college

jfk truther

I was zoned out during the Israel flag Fox News commercial but that snapped me right back to attention lol

Flynn

We love Kath folks

Ryan Gullage

William Bennett’s new record: Ye

eduard karpoev

A: Mac DeMarco halftime, vaguley leftwing but mellow. B: piss off 90% of the country and have MBV or Slowdive do a show that I personally will vibe to while the rest of America is like "Why are the guitars so loud."

Jonathan G

he specifically didn't

FarmerNed

I wish Chapo staff wrote for WaPo. It might be worth reading.

etienne

name one hit he played besides they not like us

Sam

I’m sorry to report that Paul Butterfield died almost 40 years ago

Andrew Hager

I came here to ask the same thing

Wesley Campbell Caretto

59:30 "A dog can't play basketball" and Will pulls Lassie??? Not Air Bud???? We need a mutiny on this show

Jimmy McMillan

That depends on if Joe Biden is still alive. Israel made him look like the biggest loser ever

Jimmy McMillan

Did anyone else listen to Trash Future today? According to a reporter they interviewed, Big Balls could have easily crashed the world economy

Michael

When I hear all these “MAGA conservatives” tweets I just think, they not like us…

etienne

pushing to prod on the system that pays t-bills is low key nutty with it

etienne

okay let's be real here, the one halftime act that would genuinely heal our wounds is Deftones

Noctor

No it would have been the Sargent at Arms who then can deputize the Parliamentarian who then gets a mana boost and can cast Ultimate Censure which skips Bernie’s next term and leaves him with a poisoned status condition

Sheep

DNA? Humble? All the stars? Luther????

owen

Gerogerigegege’s follow up ‘Kanye West is My Dıck’

Matt

We need an episode about how its all jus about Bannon, Musk, Vogt, and Friends “getting inside the Dems OODA Loops”, etc. 🙃

owen

write an album as good as Tinderbox and you can do that I suppose

etienne

mhh i guess i was talking complete ass

MKatieUltra

The annoying Pakistan lady also has some preposterous eyebrows, I keep getting sent clips in a group chat

Travis Gabe

Yo Jeff Stein kinda funny

Sam

Agree don’t get what everyone is pissing themselves about. It was good. Nothing more, nothing less.

tapwaterskeptic

Loveeeee the Jacque ad read bc I know they were on the phone with Chris threatening to throw themselves into the Bayou

Josh Martin

The half time show was great y'all are trippin

Sheep

lol thats ok i do the same

THEKILLERWHALE

It is freakin' Michael Jackson back in 93.

Crosley Querin

"It's important by virtue that I am reporting on it" made me laugh.

Paige Glowacky

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we need more KATH

etienne

Metallica would have been a pretty solid choice too if they didn't spend the last 10 years touring with punch-holes-in-drywall acts like Pantera and Five Finger Death Punch

MonsoonMoon

MAGA Hotep collab on the way.

Austin V

I actually can't believe Felix hasn't heard of the American Pakistan woman. He's going to have a field day with that

Clammy_Damp

China just synthesized rocket fuel and motherfucking oxygen in orbit. They will be laughing at us from Mars while Grok flips us ass up and fucks us forever

Breakaway

I had not thought about Donut Twitter in years. I assume all those people have very performatively moved to blue sky

drizzly_november

Brady and Snoop should’ve looked directly into the camera and done the Do the Right Thing rants.

Matt Breen

The salesforce commercials were pretty dumb too, Defector had a good piece about it.

Shiv

Hard times make Big Balls

Drew

You guys forgot to ask Jeff if he's seen the new Adam Friedland show lately

Chapo Bath House

Elon needs to become South Africa's second astronaut

Chapo Bath House

Real talk, I know a Jewish family from SLC and the Mormons call them gentiles

Chapo Bath House

She is someone who could have absolutely crushed it as a flim-flam artist in the 1800s, but I am so grateful she is here for us now

Chapo Bath House

Lol A bounce medley would have been kinda cool tho

James Burkeen

I love Chris. “Big Balls In Cowtown” has been stuck in loop in my head since this story broke. Now here it is as the outro.

Gert

Droll. Very droll.

Gert

According to anyone with half a brain,could have and still might.

Gert

Who has the answer?

Chapo Bath House

i hope catturd survives his bowel injuries another year so that the groovy grapes can play next year

Chapo Bath House

New (nu) rainbow coalition is: trans women, autistic fat girls, Asian guys who wanted to rap but their moms wouldn't let them, alt latinos, white guys on pills, cookie monster pj ladies

Christopher Mesler

Travis kelce did lose horribly and put the outfit back on! There's a shot of him leaving the stadium dressed like that!

Sarah S

Will saying fit is so embarrassing

Sarah S

Their views on the halftime show are also so embarrassing. You can tell they’ve entered their boomer era.

bator

My American friends keep sending me onisha robinson insta reels/ tktok

Matteo Ryon

Well of course, this is a Washington Post funded episode and they don't allow any criticism of Isreal

Vivian Irby

Shoutouts to Kendrick having the dancers form a trans flag at one point. I only just learned he's made music about having trans relatives so it's cool to see the #1 rapper in the world is on our side

Christian Aspen

In my headcannon the Palestinian guy on the Grand National was part of the show

Elliott Goods

ngl i listened to the DOGE convo for about 10 minutes and as great as the reporting is, i cannot stomach another second of it

Anthony Harrison

I've become obsessed with Ralph Mooney's pedal steel solo on Big Balls in Cowtown