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The boys discuss outgoing press secretary Jen Psaki and her history with Amazon’s anti-union consulting company, some former Obama guys and their good opinions, and Jenifer Rubin’s advice for helping Dems in the midterms. Then, we take a look at a piece taking Morbius to task for failing to live up to Vampires’ potential as maligned outsiders.

Find Felix’s conversation about the opiate crisis on our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64735826

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Kilo

Oh hey. 616 is the Marvel number

CT

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vermouth

You guys really dont need to talk about every movie

Brent in TX

perfect fucking timing. I just loaded the pax. edit: the Nick Berg deep cut is one that, as someone who spent too much time online in the early 00s, hits hard man. you don't forget that lol.

O

Morbius is no mere movie, it’s already sold over a trillion tickets. It’s the future.

Hunter

I would absolutely love a Morbius full movie review ep. Please boys please 🙏

Matt LS

Give us the Movie Mindset: Morbius episode we deserve

Matt LS

Give us the Movie Mindset: Morbius episode we deserve

Jessica Rios

I’m in the medical field and while Insulin is a PITA for people to pay for, we don’t let people die because they can’t pay. At least not what I have seen in the 8 years I have been in the field. It’s not a “law” but we don’t let them die.

Matthew Black

Lol poor Noah. I’ll just say I don’t think the guy is a pedophile, he’s just a hardcore contrarian who will never ever admit he’s wrong or take an L and he’s painted himself into a corner he can’t get out of.

Nobody

The only solution to solve these issues is to kill the people in power and no one will say it. If elections aren't solving anything what other choice do we have?

William

Y'all may not realize it but we have seen the birth of an era-defining parable the likes of which haven't been seen since the days of ancient Greece. Lady and gentlemen, I give you, the allegory of the (septic) tank

Elliot Matheny

A few people in America die every year while rationing insulin. It’s not a huge number, but there are documented cases of it happening for years.

Elliot Matheny

Dog is such good right wing propaganda. The emotional manipulation of the audience through the traumatized dog is amazing to watch. And the chapter where Channing Troopum is trying to get laid in downtown Portland is transcendent comedy.

Antipaganda

Full Chapo Morbius commentary track

Vincent Utah

My vehicle’s warranty has been expiring for 6 years now.

J P 3

The Dems hopes in 2022 rest almost entirely with a mass mobilization of the silent generation. I am laughing just thinking about this.

J.P. McD.

That won’t do anything, capital will just fill the seats again. Organize your workplace. (This is a prerequisite to doing the other thing anyway.)

Lulu

Just a personal anecdote about the medical system- I have a rare disease that began in childhood and I have probably seen hundreds of doctors, nurses, etc. I had nothing but negative experiences at every private medical facility I went to, ESPECIALLY hospitals. They couldn't give less of a shit, to a level that was traumatizing. Then, I went to UCSF- a public, teaching hospital hospital- and I had nothing but positive experiences 99.9% of the time. At every level, private hospitals and medical facilities were awful and the university hospitals and facilities were amazing. I'm not sure if that has to do with the private vs. public funding, but that's just my experience with such different levels of treatment.

Des Mosome

The dumb dumb boys of the Chapo. Hell or High water. It’s huge.

B2B Commuter

Congrats!! Way to make the NCAA Boy Scouts enraged!

B2B Commuter

The real reason Mitt Romney is so obsessed with Synema is that he received testimony to begin living the principle the first time they met. He wants to add her to his celestial senate so they can be problem solvers for all of eternity.

Ian

Canadians get a dozen scam calls every day too, love too share

David Heslin

Australia too, thinking this might be a global problem that only the UN security council can truly address

Scott Miller

In another life, Felix would have been a great Youtuber.

stan says I'm done with sergio

Felix was wrong about the wire. It never said schools were the only problem. It was a broad survey of five different things. Season one was the government housing, season two the docks, season three local government, season four schools and season five was print news and local media. I am lowering his swag factor for this egregious mistake. @chapotraphouse One of the last scenes is a few street kids who want to go after Marlo just after he got away because the police fucked up. Marlo is about to fight and then doesn't. This is showing the cycle will perpetuate and Michael is becoming the new Omar. Big tail for Felix.

NYCM&AHole

Free rascal scooters for all

Mitch H.

But at what cost?

Tim U.

What's the Ft. Bragg black magic thing about?

Amer Naik

Nice Morpheus Avi on this episode

Solarwind

The 90’s Spider-Man cartoon rocked

Tanner Yocom

I’m a medical biller and we actually don’t make any money

Neal Kitterlin

I knew him from comics criticism so it was never any surprise to me that his takes on anything else are the dumbest possible shit ever. I actually read the article myself because I thought maybe the boys made it sound worse than it really is, but no, if anything, their asides lent it an air of respectability it doesn't deserve.

jim obrien

Oh my God stop talking about the us during a major land war in europe

Dan

In Canada, I get a scam phone call about once a week, often in Mandarin.

K U

Canada gets a TON of those fake phone calls and emails too. It's constant here for everyone.

Dan

The title “hospital CEO” is nightmarishly dystopian to me.

Aaron Christmas

I loved how cops are all melodramatic losers in the show. Every time they bury a cop or one retires it's like the Core 'ngrato scene from the sopranos.

chetan kadodwala

A Vampire who helps the marginalized? Joss Whedon did that 20 years ago with the show Angel. He drinks pigs blood because he was cursed with a soul so can't feast on human blood.

theunderwolf

Lmao will said "scam phone calls" and I instantly got one

Gary Alexander

The best interpretation of Dracula I read, and it's nerd academic shit so I won't go into too much detail here - wrong audience, isn't that vampires are marginalized. Wrong. They're racial ubermenschen purified in battle by frontier wars returning to England to take "our" women. Google "Dracula Louis Warren PDF" if that sounds metal to you.

AbeLinkin

Did the Wire talk about the Bush crime family and its ties to Saudi oil despots, the Federal Reserve’s role in snuffing out labor movements every step of the way, and the CIA’s and FBI’s mongrel hands in assassinating local, state, and national political figures? If not then it too missed some of the points.

CS

Pretty obvious that Felix not only stopped at season four of the Wire (and thought it was the final one, i guess), but also that he wasn't paying any attention during the previous three seasons.

CS

@peter The second season dealt extensively with labor issues and the effects of deindustrialization; the entire third season was a veiled critique of the iraq war. Sorry the show was a drama focusing on the local struggles of Black people in Baltimore and not a documentary of US foreign and domestic policy.

stan says I'm done with sergio

Agreed Cameron. The five seasons examined it through different lenses in the local community. But it's wrong as Felix claimed the wire said schools alone were the issue that's my main claim.

J P 3

Dozens of people have died at the base over the past few years many for unexplained reasons. Rolling Stone has published a few good stories on the subject. e.g. at a time when there were a grand total of 3 overseas combat deaths, there were dozens of deaths at the base. Some related to suicide or drugs. About a third with no clear explanation.

Zarathushtra

Regarding the segment on doctors, it's not necessary at all to depopulate India to provide The US with doctors. The problem is that the federal government are the ones who provide funding for residencies, and that is always less than the amount of needed doctors. Another issue is the 500 thousand dollar loan needed to go through medical school AFTER paying for graduate school. Basically the federal government can solve the problem right now if they wanted.

Ted Lavender

I don’t know where else to leave this and my cat doesn’t care, but I’m listening to Cush Vlogs on Audio only right now and the second episode is killing me. I love rant mode so I can’t turn it off but listening to Matt absolutely breathlessly chomp, munch and burp through my headphones and directly into my soul in between words is giving me cancer.

Dean

Blade drinks blood, Matt.

J.P. McD.

The “second” episode??? I’ve never gone back that far. I listen to all the new ones audio only.

Trew Dhiel

My wife and I were just “fired” from our primary care provider because we missed 1 bill for 100 dollars. It got sent to collections and I paid it right away. We moved during the pandemic and missed the letters they sent to our old address. I yelled at the “office manager” on the phone who told me she called several times to which I said do you answer your phone when a number you don’t recognize calls. She said “well no”. So anyways now my wife can’t see her doctor who she’s been seeing since she was born. Gotta go through the hassle of finding a new doctor and piece of shit office now.

etienne

started happening pretty recently for me! very strange.

etienne

yeah the scam phone call thing too has the interesting side effect that it's making political polling just completely incorrect. People are not picking up the phone. your sampling is fucked right off the bat.

Colin Helpio

Then you better get on that? 🤷

Dirk

I’m just here to pin the #fatboyslim #1990s

icarus

Happy to hear the discussion about dialysis. Most commercial dialysis centers are owned by one of a few extremely shady companies. The Nixon administration didn’t even remove the profit motive, they just barely protected patients from some of the direct costs of dialysis. Increasing access to kidney transplants/ home/peritoneal dialysis and preventing the progression chronic kidney disease with novel therapies are urgent priorities for the nephrology community, and only government-led efforts can address them.

Cameron Young

Ah Democrats some motherfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill

Bobi Jon-son Kenobi

Maybe we can fix the healthcare system by having Morbius turn it around

Kate Baldwin

Yeah being a living bat might beat having lupus. Idk.

Nobody

That isn't happening. We don't have time. Let me know when you organize every industry against billion dollar corporations while these anti LGBT and abortion laws are passed, on top of Republicans being in power again by 2025. You're going to have a massive union by then?

Ted Lavender

Yeah, it’s from April 16, 2020. I dare you to listen.

JV

omg what's that portuguese revolutionary song 56 mins in i heard it years ago completely forgot about it til now

Harry

That clip of Biden around 32:30 was left channel only and I had my right ear bud in. I thought they stopped the pod to listen to a clip on Felix's phone or something.

DJT

matt was fired up for this episode lol he wouldnt let anyone talk

Jö

I blocked Noah because he’s so dull I hated myself even for hate reading him

Gonçalo

“Grândola, Vila Morena”

Joseph Mabrey

I'm glad Matt brought up the ICPP report because all of this really is meaningless. We are fucked at the end of the day. Might as well be gay and have sex with our dads.

Candido Gonzalez

VA Erasure here by Matt. It has safer patient outcomes than private hospitals

Soy Jim

That sounds pretty cool

DopeTipped's Raid:Shadow Lessons

love the Yojimbo theme making a drop here. After Feel Pain wrapping up the Opiate ep, I'm still in a full genuflective position to whoever it is that music supervises for y'all. Always on point. total respect

Tor

Come on, Matt. Blade is a dhampir and substitutes synthetic blood for real blood to survive without feeding on people.

ceifeiro

Psaki’s already got one eye on the bag.

Woke Batou

Kinda disagree: making medical school a public asset with a recruitment program based in public universities would allow working class families to send talented kids to free medical school, diversifying the profession and watering down the pull of the upper middle class. I will admit, you'd probably need a 5-10 waiver in visas to make up the gap in the interim. Likely not going to happen either way through.

Sean S

In defense of the VA. My VA is damn near 5 star quality. Granted it’s the Palo Alto VA.

ALR

In Shadowrun lore there are dragons with names like Alamais, Hestaby, Lofwyr, Mujaji, but also dragons named like Schwartzkopf, Dunkelzahn, Drake, Ghostwalker

chris dray

A dragon named Drake would be the equivalent of a person named Guy

Shake zula

Yeah drake makes sense Final Fantasy taught me at an early age......but Schwartzkopf?