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Matt Lieb and Daniel Maté of the Bad Hasbara podcast join us to catch up on the week’s news, starting with the flawless groupchat opsec displayed by senior white house officials as they plan their various war crimes. We then turn our attention to the continued renditions and deportations of legal foreign residents in this country, and the increasingly desperate and dangerous attacks on basic civil liberties in the name of Zionism. Finally, we look at the same in “Hollyweird,” with the response to the assault on Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal and the smear campaign on Snow White star Rachel Zegler.

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Doug K

Habara

Caitlin-Kangaroo

The cross over that needed to happen. Was waiting to see. 🤣

Kompy

Habara

That’s Crazy

Chris rushing to give us our slop called the boys Habara

Budget Hireling

Listen up Mac, we got bad havutebuhbuh…. ‘Scuse me, I meant battle fella Hasselback! *inaudible* and if you don’t vote for them jacks you’re an anti-Semite! And I’ll bomb you! Just ask…. Ah I shouldn’tve said that. Anyway…..

Travis

Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and 11 seconds?

lynn minmei

John From Cincinnati — such an incredible show.

ZazaSal

Not one but two typos in the title, cmon Chris

John

Bro said Habara

Mr Boof

Habara habara

Joel.

Finally some moral guests

jdewd

Havana

Agent Grange

I love how one of their first responses was "Don't worry guys. We got Elon Musk investigating how I added an Atlantic editor in chief and former IDF volunteer to the groupchat. Elon is like. Smart and knows computers so. He'll get to the bottom of this." Also as much as this is a hilarious fuck up, I have to entertain the possibility that Goldberg-- who by the way was a former IDF volunteer concentration camp guard-- may have somehow been leaked this information or given leaked access by someone on the inside. Like maybe they thought this would make them look GOOD by making sure the strikes on the Houthis would be framed as "bailing out Europe again." Instead of the actual reason which is this being a consequence of Israel's genocide, not about European trade. I can see a world where someone tried to leak that idea, but just completely underestimated how much this would backfire on them. If not that, then it's that they're so used to adding in pro-zionist press to coordinate in establishing the propaganda narrative around anything Israel is involved they just added him on muscle memory.

Chris Wade

Ok I’m properly roasted for Habara, what’s the second?

ZazaSal

I was just joshing, ik you meant flag, you do good work Chris

Tristan Clark

I will say a prayer for Vance's cancer. 🙏🙏

NYCM&AHole

Oh shit when were these guys at Santa Cruz?

Kirra Robyn

Felix I really do love your work but the word is “reMunerated”. I know it should be renumerated but it just isn’t man

Moises Asbez

'True love's kiss, my ass!' deserved much more love. 😂

Dee Rubes

Hell yeah, two of my favorite podcasts. Welcome, Matt Leisb.

Stim Scrounger

Describing Ethan Klein as having to live in israel “to marry the first girl that ever touched him” is so accurate lmao I feel like no one ever really says it but we all subconsciously agree this is the exact dynamic those two put out

Stim Scrounger

it’s my second favorite after someone said they didn’t know she was israeli after hearing her speak they just thought she was a little slow

christoph.s

Great Episode, love Matt and Daniel!

MerkurialMike

Stealing this from a texter to a Boston public radio show; WhiskeyLeaks

delle_chiaie

I appreciate the hot girl exception to the mental illness-tattoo law of proportionality but it may actually apply doubly in such cases

Dee Rubes

Grammar correction is just classism. Working class heroes say renumerated! - Ricky LaFleur

Son of El Topo

Bad Empanada would hate that you say he plays video games

Reed

Ethan Klein will have a well thought out schizo instagram story when he hears about this.

Quadabyte

Ethan made Jontron look like a socialist in the long run.

Brent

Completely depends on the tattoo — High quality, full color sleeve featuring a moth and a snake = beautiful A poke and stick cobweb up the side of her neck = feets don’t fail me now!

Alex Hall

Love the Roseville comparison, truly awful place.

Erik Amundsen

I used to make a living, man, picking a banana

Tim O'

Felix saying "fig leaves" when he means "olive branches" is such a good malapropism

Bellario Avogadro

Hegseth tattoo while still incoherent are like bog standard troop tattoos. Torii gate in particular is in like 95% of 101st guys, something to do with Japanese occupation. There’s a regiment nicknamed “Rakkasans” which is Japanese for umbrella.

Ligma

They look like each other's caregiver

Reed

Based empanada on my Chapo? I love a good crossover episode

Sam

Have heard from several people that John From Cincinnati is great but the title kills me. If you gave me all the time in the world to think of a less evocative title for a show I couldn’t do it.

Mountain Dew Or Crab Juice

Weird white dude with Oakley sunglasses punisher avatars in 2020: "Disney are pedophiles grooming our children!" Those same guys in 2024: "Where did the Disney magic go?"

HuffingGasInTheShed

Chris cutting in at the end left me feeling so grateful to him and the dry boys in these tough times

GnarlyRaeJetson

Big Felix guy but I unfortunately was raised in army bases and know why Hegseth has that Japanese tattoo and seeing my boy confidently not know why he does is killing me. (It’s some companies logo for some fucking reason idk I didn’t pay attention to any military shit when I live on base)

tursi

nothing makes me friday commute better then seeing a new chapo post

thicchatlogan

the video of Ethan on Hasan's stream where he gets so mad that he starts sobbing like a toddler and sputtering about the chat being too mean to him for doing genocide apologetics is such a banger

Collieflower

My birthday is Oct. 7, too. Everyone needs to leave us alone on our special day.

Matthew

The boys have finally gone too far with their SCURRILOUS likening of the chad Jim Lahey to the virgin Pete Hegseth 😤

Fat Cobra

What's wrong with this asshole, I'd love to see neo-cons in gitmo

CS

Should’ve went with the Bad Hasbara Theme Song for the intro and outro. Huge miss by Chris here.

Tyler Berglund

I think Kyle is right, the group chat story seems planted. I don’t think anything exposed make the admin look bad to Trumps base, this exactly what they wanna see. Also Goldberg doesn’t disagree with any of the substance, and reveals himself immediately rather than staying in the chat and building a bigger, better story. Seems planted

Jacob

Love the hasbara lads on the pod

Jon Beans

I sent him a DM on Twitter with the phonetic spelling and my account was immediately locked. Had to do some weird verification where you move a guy to the Shoe 1 seat in a theater. 10/10

No

Great ep 👑 kings

No

BadEmpanada rules, one of the best haters to ever do it, hes Yung Finkelstein

Peanut Horse

Ethan Klein lets his dogs poop directly into his baby’s mouth

Maxwell Harkness

it definitely seems like Goldberg warning them rather than any "journalism".

Tea for the Tillerman

Hegseth has a tattoo of a dog pooping on a lawn with a no pooping sign

Michael jones

My two Patreon subscriptions have become 1!

Instantdumbass

Ethan Klein fed adderall to his dog, and makes his children eat actual poop. I’ve called CPS multiple times to get some justice.

Hugo

shtisel is a great show tbh

Eric Brown

To really get at what the settlements in the West Bank are like you have to go beyond the shittiness of suburban Sacramento to the blasted landscape of suburban Las Vegas.

Nikolai Yakovich

love the Gun Owners of America shoutout, as I can confirm the insanity of that org from personal experience having worked there as a teenager

Jacob Jenson

We can’t have any Albert Einsteins with our love for Israel. That’s for any field.

Purple Lemons

This is anti "dude wine mom" discrimination

The Master

I remember thinking that when I was watching h3 back in like 2014

The Master

Peeling on my banana down in habana

Damen Irving

The vape nation was Israel all along

Michael

I think it says a lot about Israel that people like Bari Weiss don’t even spend time there, let alone live there.

shinyfailure

Those people are not your friends

Michael

Also a perfect example of a group that wants to turn the U.S. into Israel, albeit they want a Christian theocracy.

Dustin Nelson

I heard that as "If you come for the king you best not miss but if you do miss you should at least hit his queen" and was like 'WHAT?'

Evan Pitkin

Liberal Zionism should be in the DSM.

Ryan Bunnell

Remunerated, not renumerated, or just say ‘paid’

Michael Branes

I just had a dark vision of a future where kids play prisoner/security guard instead of cops and robbers... *shudder*

Scotty Kassel

lol if yall could convince BadEmpenada to come on the show semi frequently that’d be one hell of a roster add

K H

Real story is what a pos loser Jeffery Goldberg is. It's fucking Millhouses all the way down.

K H

Pedophile in Arabic is peak.

K H

Exactly what he brings to mind. Totally uncompromising and autistic. Glad he is finally getting recognition.

K H

You're underestimating how stupid they are. Their response is also making them look really stupid and embarrassing as they flail, particularly Heg and Tusli. If it was planted they would look better. JD also points out the weird and frivolous use of US resources to protect """Europe.""""

K H

I guess Cheesecake Factory menu would look stupid.

K H

The fucking peace plants

K H

In my xp they're right. Would hit again once the stitches are removed.

K H

I assume both. I didn't know she was Israeli though.

Joseph

A Henry the 8th aphorism.

Peter Gorman

renoomerated (x2) — drink!

MATT TRIANO

Not everything is orchestrated

MATT TRIANO

Ethan has always been an immoral moron and this isn't new, it's just in the open now

MATT TRIANO

It really is not. Renumeration, renumerated are words. ReMUNeration isn't a word. I know it sounds like 'money' in the middle and that's why it seems more real but it isn't.

Whistle Dog

Promised myself I’d never do this but I can’t take it anymore: Felix, it’s well-remunerated, not well-renumerated ❤️

I am become reply guy

Someday, probably in California, there will be a scandal involving water called watergate, and having come full circle this stupid, stupid portmanteau can finally be retired.

zzman11

Sacramento continuing to take strays but we’re just happy to be mentioned

Son of El Topo

Hey so you should probably just hire a transcription service it’s not that expensive and you will get better results. My partner does transcription professionally and AI does NOT work. It inserts random sentences and it’s as much work to fix it as it would be to just do things properly in the first place.

Son of El Topo

I don’t really get the point of what doing it intentionally would be, it really just makes them look incompetent, especially their follow up of saying there was no confidential info being immediately proven wrong.

Son of El Topo

Not only that she has a story about going into the West Bank and raiding people’s homes. She’s proud of it obviously

Axel H.

NorCal deep cut 😁

Kevin C

Fantastic episode, really enjoyed the talk of Israel being and America wanting to be a fortress/prison nation and shitting on pootietang

James Phipps

Chris, I don’t have my copy of Matt’s book. How should I follow up with you?

MKatieUltra

Bad Hasbara is great you should all subscribe!

Zach H.

Prisoner and Security Guard sounds like bedroom role play about pegging.

Sheep

The difference between Israeli and North Korean propaganda is North Korea is bragging about actually cool shit- like the newest trollybus factory in Pyongyang

Crew Bittner

Probably important to note that Ethan and Hasan had a show together called Leftovers that basically ended right around October 7

thicchatlogan

bad empanada go on pod save america

Mark Schneider

He manned up by becoming an Israeli prison guard and beating up children. Awesome.

Michael

The episode Felix was on was a good one.

Michael

Hearing about Pete Hegseth’s tattoos reminds me of the scene from Forgetting Sarah Marshall where Kristen Bell’s character tells Russell Brand how his tattoos are contradictory and that he’s full of shit.

K H

You've been saying it wrong

K H

Imagine having Norm Finklestein in rotation and what that would do to the vibe.

K H

This is why the left is hated Zachary.

K H

Dude we are both in the wrong timeline.

K H

Do you think other countries have divisions nicknamed shit like The Whopper or Chevy?

K H

Hevuvbedebuh

J P 3

Great episode. Grim subject matter, and grim times, but this was Chapo and guests at their best, walking that fine line between hope and despair, with some good laughs thrown in. You guys have been doing a great job recently as well with guests.

parker

I believe they have an email that would be a better method to get a hold of chris

Paul F. Holzfäller

I think all of Matt’s fig leaves have been completely renumerated.

Bad Hasbara

Fun pod. Thanks for having us!

Kinetics Video

So happy to hear the Bad Empanada love ❤️

Locura

He's an absolute star, he's honed his autism to a sharp point and is choosing excellent targets

Kinetics Video

P sure his goal would be to get them to kill themselves. Think he'd get one

Locura

"I make the best researched video essays on this platform, I only troll on my second channel"

Mac daddy

I watch BE a lot and while I love him, he IS a bit of a psycho I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks chapo is complicit w the genocide purely bc they're boys with Hasan lol

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I assume this chat is more about the actual episodes/chat about hosts. Still I love the other deranged ass one, crazy ass ppl just disappear

Doug Cartel

Vic Berger if you're reading this can you do a video on that H3 Productions guy and every time he twitches one eye you put a BOINK sound effect

Zach Fontenot

There’s a good That Mitchell and Webb bit about Watergategate

CS

Y’all come back now, ya hear?

Tyler Berglund

Yall are making good points, but im not totally convinced… I could go either way. I suppose I’d like to know what Goldbergs name is in his contact list and who he mistook him for.

Ham Stroker’s Jackula

Why he sucks shit and is obviously just some weirdo YouTuber not like our vaunted podcast kings

Tvvvv

I agree that Hegseth’s tattoos are stupid. He has every tattoo that a guy who served between 2010-2020 has. The reason for the Japanese tattoo is that it’s a common symbol for guys who served in the 101st Airborne. It’s to symbolize some victory in WW2. Those gates are all over ft belvoir.

Tvvvv

Also all of the tattoos are also common bumper stickers for these guys.

K H

Great name.

K H

Wait...was it?

tippy

I only know Ethan Klein because of trisha paytas 😩

A Loon

I wonder if another factor was an attempt by some of the parties in the chat, like JD, to get another of the parties fired, like Hegseth by revealing him as incompetent, using Goldberg as a cutout. Then Hegseth called Trump for backup, and everyone scrambled to cover things up. And JD got sent to Greenland... But that could just be seeing people moving in the yellow wallpaper.

MKatieUltra

My former workplace would do the same thing as Israel with getting all these bullshit "best workplace" awards, meanwhile their Glassdoor score was like 2.7/5 and full of negative reviews

ab

Felix having to explain h3h3 productions to Will was definitely not on my 2025 bingo card.

Jared Bauer

Felix’s praxis: getting a job

Dick Must Bust

Lmao wasn’t expecting to hear Bad Empanada mentioned

Jimmy Steffen

I’m not sure if this is the right place to reach out but I still have not received my copy of Matt’s book, could someone let me know how to email chris or is this where I get in touch?

Neal

Israelis living in their own iron biodome

Tim

Please clip that Ethan Klein segment for YouTube.

Riley Stratton

cant wait for ethan to come for the greywolves

aKg

He may have a point about the British dialect (or Russel brand). I have a friend that refuses to watch any Adam Curtis documentary bc he narrates in a British accent.

Josh Woods

Pete Hegseth's tramp stamp is that painting of George Costanza but the face is swapped to the prophet Muhammad for some reason.

Aaron C

He's going to mad they claim he plays games. Or maybe he does idk

protob1

Who is Hassan Pijker? Some turk on the internet? Can you stop wasting time on pod caster drama and Amerikan internet culture and do some fucking political analysis for once?

glaourgbn

1:17:50 fuck off. (calling a BA bad)

Kody Dennis

Really want another James Adomian episode soon.

Kirra Robyn

Did you figure out you were wrong yet? I know that renumeration is also a word but not in this context :)

justdave

Patreon is owned by zionists (I assume)

justdave

E-mail Virgil

Christopher Baker

I think it’s pretty obvious what’s coming. Deporting Pro-Palestine protesters will open the door for mass Jewish deportations after a few choice domestic terror events conducted by Israelis against Americans. Why else would Israel continue to expand when they have millions fewer Israelis willing to fight. They’re expecting a huge influx of Jewish immigrants from the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, America. It’s the same thing they did all over the Middle East to get settlers why not here, too.

Dissident48

I am surprised by the comment at 36:30 - as if the left in Israel is "petrified" to express their views? There is simply no left in Israel. There's pro-bibi and anti-bibi, but don't confuse the anti-bibis to be peaceniks or humanitarians. They are the ones serving in elite, intelligence, and high ranking roles within the Israeli military, and are largely responsible for the genocide in Gaza, which they morally support. Over 95% of Israeli jews think Israel used just enough or not enough force in Gaza.

thicchatlogan

going to chapo trap house for cutting-edge political analysis says a lot more about your intelligence than it does theirs lmao, go read a book or something man

Justin

I'm willing to bet a substantial amount of money that is not what is going to happen.

thicchatlogan

if the revolution started tomorrow and people were out organizing guerilla units you and everyone who talks like you online wouldn't do shit because your social anxiety wouldn't permit you to talk to someone over a radio, go drink a glass of water and read a book man, really don't get what you were expecting from fucking chapo lmao

Irrelevant Elephant

Tbh no one i know that didnt like Kamala has ever mentioned Palestine. It was all about her seeming dense and the sense that the economy wouldn't change

Nash-to-mouth

I wish I had the courage to use the words you do. You’re a G-D 1st amendment hero!

JASON

My 6yo daughter watched a bootleg of Snow White and the dwarves scared the shit out of her

Chapo Bath House

I am thrilled that she is (accidentally) on the right side of history for once