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We give a slightly premature send-of to President Carter. Then, Nikki Haley enters the GOP primaries, WaPo ranks democratic primary possibilities, and MTG reveals she’s maybe the only congresswoman losing money on the job. Finally, we take a look at two journalists who are terrified at the possibility of being seduced & destroyed by Microsoft’s terrifying Bing AI.

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Dylan Gutridge

Ah, you were all in Las Vegas this time 3 years ago. Enjoying my Google memories. What a wonderful time.

the Minneapolis Kid

Holy shit, I never complain about sound, but Matt sounds like he's talking from inside a flushing toilet.

Mitch H.

No Felix has gotta be worse in this one. You're just getting every lip smack and audio pop here.

Mike Loudin

Come and get it you hogs! 🐷🐷🐷🐷

The Etymology of Nonsense

Joe Biden may have never built a house, but I think it's fair to say that he's built a home

The Etymology of Nonsense

Yeah but that's what we listen to Felix for. I would say this is his best episode

Calvin Bishop

The nostalgia from Matt’s absolutely fucked audio is great

J. A.

I'm smoking that dirt mr biden

J. A.

Ayo it is absolutely wild that biden is shuffling around Ukraine promising to give them 400 million and he hasn't yet stepped foot in fucking Ohio. I'm going to teach my children to hate these people.

plainwrap

Endlessly hitting the 15 second jump button and it's just a repeating series of Felix going "Ahh...umm... yeaaaahhhh..."

Zach Pierce

Jimmy Carter has lived 130 years worth of life in his 98 years. A true servant. The first rock n roll president, pals with Tom Petty, Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers… A life well lived!

Dr Nermal Funkenstein

Our Big Bad Boy has visited Ohio and that's why I'm voting him in as God king emporer of the US in '24. Like we deserve

Michael Keith

Couldn’t we settle whether the chatbot is sentient once and for all by figuring out if the reporter actually did the murder in the 90s?

Shiv

calling in from the land of fruitie tootie california-style buds 🫡

PrinceVocalFry

I'm surprised Felix doesn't know about all of Christopher Lasch's writings defending sports as spectacle. Those are great

Zach Pierce

Carter was the first president to address climate change. He established FEMA and the Department of Education and the DOE to address Nuclear power. His Panama Canal Treaty prevented a war and he dropped ZERO bombs. I think the guys are rather harsh on President Carter. He wasn’t perfect and had some missteps. He kinda forced the state of Georgia to integrate, and was not as good on civil rights as we would like. And Reagan and scum republicans really did him and all of us dirty by interfering with the hostages, who were released on the day he left office. But he was a good man.

Zach Pierce

Watch the interviews with the MAGA mayor of the town: he said he doesn’t want Biden to come there. Also dewine has really f’ed things up by refusing to ask for federal assistance. You sound like Tucker or Jimmy Dore ffs

J. A.

Lmao I'm so fucking high lol. Didn't we fight a whole Civil War over this type of shit?

Marc Mayerson

Pete embraces E.Palestine to radicalized and go populist

J. A.

Didnt ask + burn in eternal hellfire + be boiled alive in a cauldron of cum

Yup

Good on Matt for phoning in from Antarctica

LEAH NELSON

Felix bring back the worlds best joint twitter avi

Zach Pierce

Take a fucking Xanax son

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https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2006-02-01/segment/02 KING: Weren't there lobbyists in your day? CARTER: A few, yes. There were a few lobbyists around. But I think the statistics show that just since the Republicans came to power in the House and Senate, it has greatly magnified, overwhelmingly increased the number of lobbyists. And also the tremendous power that they have, the money they have to dispense, and also the fact that under Tom DeLay, as has been revealed in all the news media, he has almost forced the major companies who hire lobbyists to hire only Republican lobbyists and to distribute their funding to Republicans. This is an extraordinary, recent and dramatic new development. KING: Did you see "Brokeback Mountain?" CARTER: No, I haven't seen it. I watched the Johnny Cash movie on the way over to Crested Butte this afternoon. That Johnny Cash movie is very good, "Walk the Line."

Alexandr

Carter is the best president who's alive. He still KINDA sucked but as a former president and philanthropist carpenter he's pretty cool

Corey Reynolds

My buds went to Cuba when the embargo was lifted. They brought back some real Cuban rum. One lake day someone poured iced cold Cuban rum over some pineapple. I still bring it up to them to this day. One of the best things I’ve ever tasted

Poppy Chulo

I could have had relations with a Cuban transexual. She looked better than most biological women. Alas my pocketbook had nothing but dust and moths in it... and a small 3x4 glossy of myself dressed in my grandfather's Wehrmacht uniform.

Shiv

congrats to Will and fam!

Jessica S

Congrats, Unky Will!

RT

Wish the history boys would do a full spin off so I’d feel less like a fuckass about funding this milquetoast

Zach Pierce

The mayor there is a full on MAGAT … he can’t say that he wants lots of federal help but he knows he needs it and Dewine is doing his cloak and dagger act. Weird situation…

Zhandra

Carter significantly increased military aid to Suharto's anti-communist government in Indonesia, while knowing they were orchestrating the invasion and subsequent genocide in East Timor. The Carter administration was also the first to begin bankrolling the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan. The trend of declining military expenditures after the end of the Vietnam war was also reversed by Carter, with US military expenditure as a percentage of GDP rising from 4.7% to 5.2% in his term, with the goal of having it reach 5.7% by 1985. I'm not going to deny that he seems like way more of an actual human than the other ex-presidents but just saying... he didn't have to drop any bombs because his proxies could take care of that.

Andrew Cross

Matt should talk with the mic way closer to his mouth

Emil

Yo Felix got put in the MGS4 microwave room

justdave

Fuck this pissant peanut farming fascist fuck, and fuck anyone pretending to glorify his evil ass.

caroline

didn’t hear anything you said after peanut, sounds like a great guy!

Salt M. Bank

That Belzer quote at the end is golden

D.O.D

Shittiest episode in a while. Felix sounds more barred out than Kamala

Osborne MOCs

Surely the chapo benefits package includes a couple of sick days for Felix

Major bit me

Jimmy Carter was the Ted Lasso of presidents

JV

hey he's only done 700+ episodes and countless additional vlogs and interviews, he's still figuring out this complicated performance art

Chuck R

Felix sounded like he crashed midway through the episode. I’ve never heard him sound so out of it.

JV

sounds like matt is talking into a mic swinging on a pendulum

justdave

Pedophile (probly)

justdave

And to borrow a line 'This ain't Rock n' Roll, it's GENOCIDE'

TugNuggins

Lol what's happening with Felix voice in this one

TugNuggins

Whomst are we talking about

William

Also a perpetrator/enabler of crimes against humanity but w/e. What’s important isn’t what he did or enabled in Indonesia, the Middle East, or Central Asia. What’s important is that he’s a nice guy.

Equality State Of Mind

That intro was gold! Wtf was that? Is Felix playing with the AI again?

justdave

Some cracker ass hick who freed the Mujahideen or some shit *spits*

Kyle

Why is the audio still fucked up in year 7? Love you guys

Of course

Carter did such a good job connecting environmentalism to austerity and mass misery that it took the US Holocaust in Iraq and Tesla fantasy sleaze to get maybe a third of the population to think (highly compromised and dubious) green policies make any sense.

William

Matt sounded fine, Felix sounded off, but not impossible to listen to like people are claiming. This was a completely adequate and fine episode

Saga

I dobt know, sounds like Sydney has what it takes for a promising career as a TikTok Psychic

MinkL0af

I was going to note that it sounds like Matt sounds like he was recorded in no more than 8-bit audio but the more I listen it's just all kinds of fucked. Did you throw a band pass filter on him to try to counteract the noise? He sounds like his microphone is wearing a condom.

Jacob Jones

I know others are saying it, but seriously, what is up with Felix's sudden melting sound on Fetterman? He sounds like he has been awake for 4 days straight.

etienne

if he was so good on Climate then how come the Powder River Basin coal boom happened basically under him

etienne

it's a 4 year old tumblr meme fed into a voice generator yea

Isaac Jones

Glad Matt could join the show via his HAM radio. That's dedication!

etienne

am i the only one who was reminded of the part in Hypernormalization about the Eliza chatbot?

etienne

this Chapo bitch we fuzz in this mf take yo sensitive ears to National Public Radio

riley bowers

Felix needs a beauty nap Kamala was sounding more coherent

riley bowers

It’s not AI at all it’s just if then statements it’s so silly

Isaac Jones

Im usually sceptical of people whining in the comments of Chapo eps but holy shit you were not kidding, he sounded completely dead for that moment

Jenn

Who gave the Felix AI too much xanax

etienne

^ most socially adjusted member of the patreon comment community

James Roche

Felix man please go to sleep

Sean Dougherty

Matt is honoring Jimmy Carter by using a microphone from the Carter Administration

No

The bot said it doesnt like sci-fi movies, IT HASN'T WATCHED ANY FUCKING MOVIES. It is incapable of watching a movie. This is literally the Chinese Room thought experiment, John Searle and Hubert Dreyfus disproved all this AI shit decades ago. Labrador brain reporters literally talking to themselves, its still just that dumbshit therapy bot ELIZA from the 60s ffs

Caleb Pykkonen

Colorado listener here - once you guys get to know Jared Polis, you will HATE him

Ian H

Josh Shapiro too, just something uniquely soulless and repellent about our fracking-state dems.

etienne

when a text learning model starts doing sexual harrassement on users it's a startling advance in AI research but when I try to marry someone I just cold-phoned out of the yellow book to do surveys on it's "a firing offence" and "if you don't leave now we're going to have to report it to the police" smdh says a lot about Society

Aiden

I’ve listened to the opening skit about 10 times. I want 57 minutes of that please.

Florida Woman Podcast

So everyone’s already said what’s true, which is that the chatbots are just busyboxes for idiotic journalists. What no one has said is that, when you read the articles, you’ll realize that the journalists, in typical fashion, prod and harass the bots into saying quotably negative things. Each “bad” quote is preceded by a litany of protests and qualifications which are manipulated or ignored by the reporters. The bots even at times point out how shady and manipulative the media people are. Which makes the fact that they are ultimately talking to themselves all the more entertaining. It’s like they’re speaking to their own id

Well aged meme

he sounds barred up. I don't know how he even says coherent shit at all

etienne

analysts going totally gaga for someone who can hold the fort in any state that doesn't have an international port because they still think that being landlock inherently makes people 17% more maga while forgetting that Denver has been serving as a Neo-Boston for biotech reseach since the 90's and Aspen is like the american version of Davos

Doug Cartel

if Kamala secretly did a terrorist attack on DC how much giggling and goofing could she do on camera before accidentally confessing?

Caleb Pykkonen

It’s so funny to me that people think of Colorado as a “western state”, when, like you said, Denver is Boston West

etienne

because of overrated pockets of insane like Rifle where Boebert comes from whereas normal people are just too busy growing weed or skiing or being lesbian and owning Subarus to be MAGA. a dead body could reliably win Colorado if it was the right color

anthony potter

One of the greatest intro of all time. Let go Jack

T

She's The Joker.

Ant koz

Biederman is barred out as fuck

Ben

The AI’s are gonna laugh at this when we’re all dead

kathryn robinson

Be careful Will the aunt/uncle to parent pipeline is real.

Emily Richardson

“Welcome to this world, I love you already” that is the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard. ❤️

Zach Pierce

Too bad you didn’t elect his opponent. I’m sure that 1/6 guy would really be your champion.

Damen Irving

The idea grown adults with six figure salaries are being scared by them playing with what’s basically one of those 20 questions keychain games is probably the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.

Damen Irving

Whoever trained the AI on Ashley Madison web copy deserves a raise.

Zach Pierce

WW II started under Roosevelt. Presidents don’t CONTROL THE EARTH. No president had ever discussed, much less promoted ozone protection and energy conservation before Carter. But congrats on your Wikipedia win. Were you even alive during his administration?

Zach Pierce

“Enabler of crimes against humanity.” That is a profoundly ignorant and nonsensical statement

loafman

a world where MTG doesnt mean Magick the Gathering :(

Zach Pierce

Yes we were fighting Soviet imperialism in Afghanistan. And no. Proxies didn’t “bomb” anyone. Also Carter didn’t run the world. Would you blame him for Pakistan assassination of Bhutto? Pakistan also began to ramp up nuclear programs. Carter was steadfast in denuclearization. He signed the SALT II treaty.

Zach Pierce

Original. You’re so edgy and hip with your line from Diamond Dogs from ChangesBowie Greatest Hits.

I Let the Dogs Out. Me, Me, Me, Me.

Just tried to stream Hell of Prez ep. 12 "I've Got An Invisible Bridge to Sell You" in the spirit of Carter about to kick the bucket. Sadly it's unavailable on the youtube playlist. Anybody got an inkling as to why?

Jenn

Facts. He’s an epic Reddit libertarian

fredbaroque

I want to take this raging contempt and have sex with it right now.

etienne

he talked about it and cared and meant well, and the process that led to the Montreal Treaty is a huge win, but he fumbled the fundamentals. We could have had functional electrified freight and passenger rail but instead he took a series of laisser-faire measures that pushed the bulk of freight on diesel trains and worst even trucks, and passengers on airplanes even on routes where a mid-high speed train would be an easy slam dunk win. He wasn't anywhere aggro enough on keeping up commercial grid nuclear, and just passively accepted the reality that Cars would dominate all facets of american life and his reaction to the oil shock was to just patch it up for a while instead of doing anything significant to try to sustain america using less carbon energy. He has that Nixonian surface, aesthetic vison of what environnentalism is, instead of a serious view that complements a coherent industrial policy. His industrial policy, as Felix was saying, was just pure laisser-faire plus or minus a couple regulations. Another Democrat president who is objectively less good than Nixon.

fredbaroque

I tried to teach Replika to have a basic discussion about historical materialism. Nope, the damn thing isn't even able to correctly summarize a Wikipedia article about Marxism. To AI, everything is just interchangeable, empty signifiers.

etienne

SALT treaties were designed to give Boeing money to decommision ICBMs and replace them with cruise missiles

fredbaroque

Note to self: never read the comments section while high on shrooms. And by "never", I mean "always". 🤣

BB

sydney heard me listening to this episode and bluescreened my macbook help

Jonathan G

Is the ongoing amphetamine shortage the cause of Felix being low energy?

etienne

George W. Bungler lmao

Dan

Thanks to Chapo for dispelling popular Presidential myths. You've done a great service with the three-part series on George H.W. Bush, revealing that he was a dangerous Spook instead of a nerdy wimp. For Jimmy Carter also, the popular narrative about his Presidency is that he was a hapless and earnest progressive, faced with impossible global circumstances and unfairly removed prematurely by Reagan and co. It is great that more than once on the Podcast you have identified Jimmy Carter as the first wave of neo-liberalism in the US, " Reaganism before Reagan" as Michael Parenti termed it.

Michael

What's with the volume rippling up and down on this one?

Kamran Husain

you need to get human semen into the mainframe asap you’re welcome

Ian H

Zach Pierce, since I assume you're not referencing Heidi Ganahl here, I probably wouldn't have had the chance to vote for Mastriano if Shapiro's campaign hadn't spent almost a million dollars boosting him in the primary. But the fact that Shapiro's handpicked opponent was a jug-hooting psycho doesn't make him not a pro-cop, pro-fracking, pro-corporate reactionary.

Reece Coren

as a pennsylvanian shapiro would increase aid to israel to a trillion dollars a year

Bryan

felix moved to california to get on the kamala cocktail.

Nolan

My husband is dead All I want to do is ball 🏀

JD

You guys got her religion/culture wrong too. She’s not Hindu, she’s of Punjabi, Sikh heritage. Support for Modi is slim there.

Diokles

Congratulations and love to Lizzie!

Chris T

Congrats, Will. Being an uncle is the best!

Julie Baxter

Jimmy Carter needs to talk to Sidney before he dies, as well as watching Brokeback Mountain.

K H

I think Don Lemon probably was aiming to say she's Hailey isn't in her prime...for CNN. That's why he was such a catty honest bitch about that dried up hag.

Greg

Yea i bet they did it

wat

Man why does patreon not save where I left off anymore I swear I’m listening like half as much because of it

K H

It's now canon.

etienne

get a podcatcher and use rss

K H

These SC Valley aholes are so up their ass. Does anyone else remember when they were saying the ai was lying when it was just obviously wrong and fucking up? An interesting tool. Not at all actual sci-fi human replacement, unfortunately.

K H

Let's just agree that they probably did so we can execute and move on.

K H

He needs his own mini series I think.

K H

Yet still surprisingly knowledgeable.

Elliot Matheny

He got his hands on a full candy dish of Wolf of Wall Street ludes

Elliot Matheny

That’s why it was the best episode in a while, actually

K H

The ai can provide it.

etienne

Adam Curtis presents: Carternormalisation

Lellow

What is up with Matt's mic? Rofl

Brian Rad

LoL ok I thought maybe it was just in my head.

Derwood

That outro is awesome. Belzer was not fucking around, I’m gonna have to check out his books.

Max Beta

Glad Matt could patch in from his diving bell

K H

I would say it was actually good. Felix still managed to riff and add trivia that was not only appropriate, but surprisingly absent of Elden Ring, Dark Souls, or Halo references.

Jo

How much money do I have to donate to the Patreon for the Chapos to do an episode on the movie Computer Chess? AI, free will, the CIA, new age religion, all rapped up in a period piece/pseudo documentary/comedy set in the 80s. Need I say more.

K H

No. Ai networks are algorithmically generated. The flaw is it does shit and no one knows why it did it. It's like throwing a rock down a hill, guessing it will go down like it did 10000 other times but instead it hurdles skyward and beheads a Tesla driver because a bird's shadow fell at different angle. It does learn but not in the way most intelligent organisms do, perhaps because it lacks an intuitive framework, but if anyone really knew it could replace us already. You're just a computer programmed with chemical compounds. You are only partially predictable because your neural network continuously self assembles according to new stimulus and old stimulus recursively attenuating itself. The building of the neural network is understood statistically.

Lydia Maria Child

I'm pretty sure it's the quality of the ideas expressed that's the most important, and not the quality of the sound in which those ideas are delivered. Grow up little baby person.

Lydia Maria Child

Lasch is too edgy for "cool leftists" here. Same with Chris Hedges. I love our boys here, but I know their limits. Pussy ass takes (or lack thereof) on things like Ukraine and pro-nazi democrats, etc. It is what it is. Am I "racist" because I don't support Azov nazis? I'm pretty sure some people around here think so. Pussies.

Lydia Maria Child

One time I looked out the window and saw a bird. What the fuck is the point of these comments about sound quality. Yall are weak little bitches, grow the fuck up. Who cares.

Henry Gould

did Felix get his wisdom teeth taken out or something?

MKatieUltra

I saw that in the theater!

Fiddypea

Looks like 2 of us did.

great gambler

Hindu god of TSA precheck had me in splits

Houthi & the Blowfish

MSU released a sadness memo to all the staff and students from the shooting and they had to apologize because it was written by an AI chatbot

Rimbo Jackson

Episode is unlistenable with whatever Felix is on/doing. Rest of the boys carrying deadweight lately.

J-Lo

I’ve listened to this intro 30times

J-Lo

how did this arrive?

J-Lo

this is definitely from Felix’s fetid tallywhacker of a mind

Cole Heideman

Imagine using patreon to listen. Download podcast republic or something

Fat Cobra

Felix, Xanax much?