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Our roundtable of experts debate the possibility of intervention in the Russia/Ukraine tensions and come to the conclusion a global nuclear exchange would probably suck, at least for the Podcast Industry. We then take a look at a trio of pieces examining the national crisis in hiring and firing. Does Nobody Want to Work Anymore or is it just that Work Sucks, I Know? We get to the bottom of how you’ll probably end up a serf (but without the benefits) regardless.

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alex

eat my ass white america

Tony J Arbaugh Jr.

Being in the army as a young 20 year old waiting to get out this sucks ass

Jack

Ukraine? that's none of my business

Jethro Mojave

Nuking the world over the third shittiest post-Soviet country

tanmantincan

Will the uncle magic t shirts get restocked?

Austin Dunham

Eighth comment wassup!! 🙌🏼

Adam Leuer

I have lethal aids ☹️

Shaun King Arthur Chu

God damn it Chris, did Nick slip the bad mic cable into your bag at the cabin?

Brian

Praying my impoverished son William can afford a new $3.50 XLR cable PS try remotely.fm

AKorgar

If the US and Russia get into a full nuclear exchange it'll be such bullshit. Like god-damn, we lost the Soviet Union, and then the Americans and Russians blow each otherd up anyway?

Liz

"You stupid son of a bitch"

Ari

“Xenu deal” is the new green new deal

etienne

what planet are you getting 3.50$ XLR cables from

Blake Patraw

love felix's the house of sand and fog drop that one was out of nowhere lmao

Brian

Thomann

Blake Patraw

you're a quitter. you're letting everyone down!

Ozzie

200,000 pounds of lethal aid is just code for a shipment of a million Arby’s sandwiches

etienne

a 4 euro XLR patch cable. right.

Brian

It's a great site

NYCM&AHole

Actually if people had to live in a fallout shelter it wouldn’t be too different than the pandemic lockdown

etienne

im gonna take gear advice from a guy who thinks cables cost 3 dollars

Brian

Do you need advice?

Greg

NYT article on quitting making me pine for that sweet nuclear exchange

Tom Joad

It wouldn't be too different if they weren't exactly opposite. Also, we're all gay.

William

Fuck, my foot really fucking hurts and I don't know why, all I did was pull the trigger on this gun

Major Powers

Absolutely loved your Prequel takes. I've listened to those episodes like 4 times now. Super entertaining/funny.

William

Where do they have fucking Hamilton sing to the workers? Guantanamo?

Major bit me

Bring back the Circumcellions

J

There is no need for Ukraine anymore. All have already moved to the glorious New Ukraina (western Canada). Long may it prosper

etienne

long live God Emperor, supreme monarch of Canada, Chrystia Free Land

Besand

Getting my resume together now for the Chapo career fair LETS GOOO

Jessica Rios

That’s the FIRST thing Biden has said that has made me physically laugh with mirth. Trump made me laugh like that a million times. Why can’t Biden be legitimately funny more often instead of “that’s sad” funny like he usually is. I can’t even laugh at him. He’s too pathetic. Poor guy.

Sean Riccio

What is the song at the end of the show? I googled the lyrics and got zilch.

Nobody

One day I hope all soldiers realize how dumb war is and start refusing to take orders from the old bastards who don't risk their lives when war happens

NYCM&AHole

NYT will have it too good. Just vaporized by the first 5 megatons. Let’s hope they still have a neutron bomb for special occasions

Jeff Martin

If it's like the other wars the Russians will just over run the Ukrainians and capture the arms supplied.

plainwrap

An episode where the guys talk about theoretically giving their employees shitty perks meanwhile the audio keeps glitching. Good joke, Chris.

Nobody

Matt referencing pro wrestling twice makes me believe president Rock will happen

Jessica S

I just hope that I die in the first round of nuclear volleys. I’ve seen enough post-apocalyptic shows to know that I am not cut out to be a survivor. Particularly if zombies are involved. Lol.

Cardboard

After working in-person in the pandemic: quitting can be contagious because you're often forced to do their job for the same pay. I have never worked at a place where someone quitting or leaving as lead to my wages going up for me. Why stick around when you could find an easier job for sometimes more pay.

Derwood

Amazon literally already is paying influencers to make videos being like "Look how fun this warehouse is! It's rad, I can see a forklift! Pissing in a bottle is cool!" Terry Crews did one.

Jessica S

We could also get rid of NATO. That would make too much sense though.

B2B Commuter

Ohio state is also a Ukraine because they both get so sensitive if you say the.

Angron_On_Xanax

If neo-feudalism is the path this timeline is taking I definitely wanna be a chapo serf

Clean Shirt Piggie

Would like you to delve into the notion of the “quitagion” infecting the US military. Is it happening? Could it be what topples the ruling class?

Jeff Martin

If it helps at all, I just tried to teach my dog to appreciate Tchiakovsky. He was interested in the high notes to a degree but mostly scratched himself

J P 3

Warren Zevon "The Factory".

SoldierBlue

Banning quitting work is very plausible.

Raaid Chaudry

We need to build Madison Cawthorne a Metal-Gear style arsenal wheelchair, complete with NORAD interfacing.

Lulu

Will's mic hurts my ears

Raaid Chaudry

My reasoning is that he's a bit like Daredevil, where the loss of his legs leads to his senses enhancing. He can sense enemy missiles in the air and shoot them out of the sky more reliably than the Ataris we currently have running our missiles.

etienne

honestly what goes through my mind everytime people bring up inflation

Valerie

Now I a want post-nuke Chapo AU episode, god that would be funny

Steve D

You can’t say that Dear Evan Hanson is a 1:1 ripoff of World’s Greatest Dad, but it’s pretty goddamn close.

orc

We will still need podcasts after the apocalypse, they'll just be transmitted max mad style by a megaphone strapped to car

etienne

[levels of binds but does not protects previously unheard of]

Greg Forsyth

The Chapo travel audio kit is in serious need of an upgrade.

lumb

Large son employee #42 here! Working for my lords is really great and rewarding! I get loads of benefits and lots of time off! This year I'm taking my vacation and going to Starbucks for lunch! I love the challenging work like cleaning the hairs out of lord Felix's keyboard. My only complaint? We need more work! Other surfs(#34, #82, #41, #61 to name a few) are consistently idle and should be punished... Other benefits include: food. Just to name a few! Anyways I'm reaching my screen time limit. I'll make sure to answer all replies when my screen time refill next year.

KatrinaJadeHelm

Do not grow used to the monthly ration of dregs from Felix’s nespresso machine, because you will resent its absence

Frank Taylor

The best is seeing tech job posting requiring 5 years experience with a specific program invented less than 5 years ago.

Aaron La Londe

Good show, but we’re already half way there with serfdom in America, with the Taft Harley law.

DP

5% of us survive a nuclear exchange. 6 months later, Chapo Traphouse is one of only 3 stations on our Pip-Boys. What a fucking nightmare.

Damen Irving

That whole mess with the Wisconsin healthcare workers is so fucked up. Luckily the court overturned the employer’s order but just the fact that the employer thought that could work is really disturbing and probably the shape of things to come.

Sam Zeng

They are sharing the same cable.

Paypig

Pledging loyalty to the TrueAnon duchy until Brace gives it over to the Call Her Daddy kingdom

Tom

this show makes $100k a month and they're still recording this through a Juul

Mark Schneider

Ohio, shithole of the midwest!! It wasn't so great back when Devo broke out against it, but now it's like the fuckin Mississippi suburbs

Mark Schneider

When the US starts a losing war over Ukraine, the big winner will be Ghina!! (As Hair Trump used to pronounce it) . . . As much fun as the Glib-Dems had blaming $Hillary's loss on Putin, if the ReThugs had any imagination or brains they'd start blaming shambling Zombie Joe for being Xi's "puppet" and turning the world over to Ghina!! Gonna happen folks, the CHUDs will watch the white man empires come down (most of them Slavs are pretty white from what I've seen), but such is the Nightmare of History for the decadent and stupid denizens of online Meta.

Mark Schneider

Plus he's got such a hard-on for the Fuhrer that he would be super-loved by the Ukranian Neo-Nazis. He was jizzing all over himself publicly when he visited Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" command center!!

Nolan

I have no sympathy for a country that twice squandered the opportunity to put Santorum in the oval.

Greasy_Jones

Will is experimenting with a Daisuke Tanabe style sound

Doug Cartel

managers being like "Wait hold on, labor is a commodity? and...and the price goes UP when the demand goes up???? that's not fair!!!!!"

Michael Kennedy

Felix is right, there are too many restaurants in America.

Greasy_Jones

stealing the occasional vape pod to hire a witcher since duke felix is too busy making sopranos jokes to do anything about the gobble ghoul infestation

Michael

Both sides go to launch their nukes and its like Sideshow Bob in the in the blimp at the air show.

Bob Jameson

I love you guys, great episode.

Kate Baldwin

Sorry boys but the Belden program has been recruiting longer. Hope y'all work out who I have to fight for

Zachary Sloan

here's my next "lethal aid" euphemism proposal: "life suppression tools"

K102.1FM Mornings w/ Jonny Corndogs

Just wait until the DC policy apparatus starts referring to arms movements as "wellness aid" to our allies in Ukraine. Mark my words, someone writing for WaPo or The Atlantic will try to pull this shit off. Just you wait!

Bobi Jon-son Kenobi

I overheard a guy at school say he loves Prtizker because he’s a rich guy that decided to be fat as shit and respect to him

Gengeros

Russiagaters are creaming their pants right now

Scot Forsythe

The Burghers are leveraged up to their eyeballs from years of thinking having credit cards and a business loan makes them god

etienne

right yes of course the part of my Biden is Carter analogy that I forgot last week is the interest rate whip crack and forced recession

Adam Amil

Dude I applied in Jan 2020, didn’t hear back until July 2020, had 6 interviews, and the total process took 9 weeks

Em Carrot

You all ever read any Paolo Virno or anything else out of the operaismo "workerism" movement?

Dyyyyylan

I left a job in October, and basically my whole team immediately followed (~7 of 9 people). Companies are unwilling to give raises to match the market. My new gig pays more and sucks way less.

Poppy Chulo

I really like all three of these guys but Felix seems like he would be the most approachable and willing to hang out with a fan. Great guys.

Pat Pedersen

Lol @ 59:53 Will says ‘..eat your office…’

Jon Bon

A killer Zevon track at the outro is always a nice cherry on top.

James Mikulec

What does Felix keep mentioning summoning? Vulker? Like warhammer?

etienne

Paul Volcker the fed chair who cranked interest rates to 10-20% starting 1979

Moots

He’s a really nice guy from the few conversations I’ve had with him over Twitter. And he donated to my crowd fund.

Moots

Does anyone know the name of the song at the end? I didn’t recognize this one but I liked it.

Julie Baxter

Very sad and stupid if Liberal Dick Waving ends in our extinction.

Julie Baxter

Very sad and stupid if Liberal Dick Waving ends in our extinction.

Don Workman

What was the name of the Chapo World of Warcraft movie review episode? Can’t find it anywhere and I feel like I’m going crazy. o

Fairest Booler

Episode 415:Consider the Orc I think?

etienne

one of the worst eps in the catalogue

Don Workman

Bro them Richard I was searching orks like a goon lol

Dan

Just recovering from COVID right now, and dealing with subsequent panic disorder mental fallout of being quarantined alone for nearly two weeks. Glad that the US and their proxies choose this time for Brinksmanship with Russia.

Dan

The American worker is quitting in droves because they are afflicted with Drapetomania.

magnano

you gotta do what you gotta do

Bababooey

Whatever it is that those people have in their brains who were involved in espousing all that bs in the first article and all these other examples of flabbergasted demons who can't compute what's happening with jobs and wages, it is not something that can ever be remedied. Those are the types of sociopaths you lock up or destroy in order to keep your society functional and healthy. Those are the types of minds who act as a Great Filter, they're the reason we haven't encountered aliens yet cause they all end up turning their civilizations into nightmarish hellscapes to the point of everyone just choosing to die.

Daffy

Hmm... Make it "conflict suppression tools" and I sell it to the bosses. 'Cause what is life without conflict? Peace. ___Pax Magisterium___

Daffy

Volcker Shock. Or the "V man" Don't say his name too many times.

Bryan aka Pera

I have experienced just about all of the things talked and joked about in that episode. No one came and sang for us but I've definitely worked in places that sunk a lot of money into stupid perks like snacks and shit like Beer-30 that did nothing to stem the rise of alcoholism in the office. One of the most egregious examples was a place that gave us all our vacation time up front but had some weird means of accrual where if you quit or were fired before you'd officially accrued the vacation time, time taken had to be repaid to the company. So literally everyone waited until the end of the year. I've luckily never felt underpaid for the jobs I take but I've still had 6 professional-class jobs in the last 6 years and if I wasn't laid off or the company ceased-to-be, I was fired because I just couldn't muster the drive to give a shit. The problem for me comes in working under extraordinary pressure to deliver on time and on budget when I just don't care. Everyone else acts like we're curing cancer or doing something revolutionary when really all we're going is providing a company selling managed IT services with a slightly less shitty website than the one they made themselves. The urgency doesn't match the service, as far as I'm concerned, and honestly, best job I've had in the last 6 years was working for Lowes as a dude running around the store, filling internet orders. That job unironically kicked ass.

Keenan Nilsen

Hope you guys do something on the r/antiwork happening with Fox News

Pvt. Jenkins

Being expected to care deeply about your shitty job is pretty much the ruling class's way of dumping salt in your wounds.

Null_null

Head of Content, Keenan Nelson

etienne

wish they did something about this whole antiwoke stuff on fox news amirite!

ClownBabee24

I actually dont think theyre gonna do the Volcker Shock thing. Like half of the American economy is built on companies that actively lose money every year, and would be suddenly drowning in debt without access to free money they can borrow against their insanely overinflated stock value. Far more likely to me is what Matt implied: basically signing the right to our labor away to our bosses for years like the sports industry, but for everyone.

J.P. McD.

Love Matt’s deadpan agreements of whatever bonkers things Felix mentions (like killing restaurant owners and the adult Six Flags)

etienne

It feels like between the pressures of that insane business environment you're describing where the only thing that actually has ROI is real estate and bit coin versus pressures from conservative-leaning public who think that because they have to pay 4$ a gallon it's Literally Venezuela, we might live to see the day where fed rates come back within a normal ball park of reasonability of like 1-2%

Dan

The Arby’s Beef and Cheddar sandwich is biological warfare.

Jose Mendoza

Anyone know where I can find the article about the hospital employees almost being forced into serfdom?

Jose Mendoza

Nvm, found it. Google is my friend

Neba Jorgacevic

HEJ Feliks, You don't mess with cyrilics, bat da cyrIlics, well guess what they gonna mess wit YO AZZ !! LEMME HEAR u SPELL THIS, BITCH: D-J-O-K-O-V-I-C !!!

Jacob Johnson

We made sure to keep Russia no more powerful than California then made all the countries around it part of NATO?? That makes the Midwest our NATO border in this country to keep these liberals in check. Oorah