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It’s Will’s 40th birthday! Everybody say “happy birthday, Will.” We’re all here in Matt’s living room celebrating with a selection of delectable stories including a resounding victory for pro-choice supporters in Ohio, the Musk v Zuck fight, and the Utah guy who got the FBI to kill him through Facebook posts. But, the real star of this episode is a magisterial New Yorker profile of NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who demonstrates how he transcends politics, space, time and even the concept of self to become a living and eternal God.

CANADA: we will be there NEXT WEEK. Last chance to get tickets to Toronto on 8/17 and Montreal on 8/19 https://www.chapotraphouse.com/live

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SPAZzate!

Happy birthday day Will, from: your pigs ….and hogs

Jake V

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILL!

Jameson .

Happy birthday bitch, youve taught me so much

jer

Hbd

Joel Marks

Happy birthday Will! Much love from Australia.

Zorak

Happy birthday will :)

Wumbledorf

Happy Birthday Will hope its nice

The Playing Field

Happy birthday Will! Hope your son Cody is doing well.

Michelle

Happy birthday, Will!

jjmm

Hap birf.

George Spafford

Happy birthdate, will! Menaker for all!!!

Neon Taste Records

Finally someone older than me that I listen to. Was really feeling dumb. Happy Birthday!

Kyle B

Happy Birthday, Will!

Pablo

Feliz cumpleaños Guillermo!

Casey S

Hey Will! Happy birthday!

Dr Nermal Funkenstein

Happy birthday Will, I hope Thomas Freidman writes something inspiring just for you

Alexander Hosey

Happy birthday! You’re great at what you do, and I hope you have an amazing mid-life crisis to look forward to!

Gabipentin

Happy birthday, Will!

Connor Green

Happy Birthday will kiss kiss

Alexander O'Connor

Eyo happy birfday Willie uze don’t looks a days over 39

Bloggystyle

Happy 40th! Welcome to the cusp of “middle age” old man…

Michael

GFY Will

T

Happy Birthday

Coyotes

Activating Menaker Mindset

David

Happy birthday Will

JD Nonce

Happy birthday, Will! It’s time for slop!

Alec

Happy birthday!

Drew

Ayyy Happy Bday Will.

Jack Connors

happy birthday Will 🎉🥳🎉

David Cook

happy birthday, Will!

October

Happy thirty-tenth birthday!

Quinn

joyeaux anniversaire Will!!

Mr Tu Damn Quoque

Two Chapos and a War Nerd in my podcast feed. Today is a truly blessed day 🙏

Toddy Todd

Happy birthday sloppy sloppy Willy

Denise Fillion

Happy Birthday, Will! Welcome to the best decade.

Eli Navvy

middle aged bastard

Andrew M

happy birthday you old bastard

Yairo Martis

Happy birthday, brother. Welcome to the big 4 0 I started my midlife crisis in February.

Jacob Jones

Happy Birthday Will! You son of a bitch! *Inserts Predator Dillon and Dutch bicep GIF*

Dustin Nelson

Gotta say I always thought Will was only like 36 or 37 [Slightly older than me]

Dustin Nelson

*Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 btw

Chris Car

Happy birthday!!

NYCM&AHole

Happy 40th. Welcome to being old!

Morgan

Happy birthday Will! 🥂Heres to many more!

Jon W

Cheers Will. To forty more.

Mr Tu Damn Quoque

I'm not even mad I already listened to the Movie Mindset ep on the patreon app last night because it wasn't syncing through the RSS. I'm just happy to see it in the feed today. Thank you, Mr Menaker sir, have a blessed day yourself 🙏

Drew

Happy Birthday Will. Really appreciate you

Zach H.

Nice to hear the lads all in the same room again. Congrats to Will for turning 40 and still barely looking like he’s hit the legal drinking age.

Last Years Man

Welcome to the over the hill club, WIll. As your Senpai, I'll tell you it doesn't seem to mean as much as it used to. (I don't feel much different or square and I've been here a few years)

Franklin Shepard Inc.

Enjoy the memento mori, Wide-dick Willy! So long and thanks for all the slop!

Joey Fazzoli

That’s actually the first picture I’ve ever seen of Eric Adams and this whole time I’d just been picturing Kramer’s lawyer. Deeply disappointed.

Dongo

Happy birthday will they say middle age starts in your 20s but you don’t get old till you’re in your late 60s so don’t worry too much

Gordon Schmidt

Zuckerberg wins through the mental game alone. Elon doesn't have the steel. You can tell Zuck is holding something in there

Last Years Man

The Bon Jovi discourse is gold. LMAO

Coleman

Here's to many more trips around the sun

Golander

ive listened to the noise at 35:35 about 10 times

Last Years Man

Come on boys... you did a musical cue after the Gavin Newsom discussion and it wasn't California Uber Alles?

Bob Chappell

Christie should have given him Fury of V merch

Matt

Happy birthday Will. See you in Toronto!

Zach Pierce

Matt did a quick 180 from last week’s “liberals/people on the left” won’t vote. Way2Go O-hi-0!

Sean

Happy birthday Will!

Boggs

Return to office - but for podcasts

Jake V

I just learned Felix is 42. I thought they were like mid 30s

james

Happy birthday will thanks for years of laughs ❤️

Bustin Makes Me Feel Good

The show is so much better when these dudes are in the same room together. It’s like night and day.

Brock

Happy Birthday Will

Ozzie

Happy spirit journey formation anniversary

SLG

The energy of the in-person podcast is so palpable here. Happy bday Will!

Jessica

Lordy, lordy, look who's forty!

J P 3

Happy 15th anniversary of your 25th birthday Will!

jay alan

Happy b day will! 🫡

Bryan Beach

Happy cake day Will I’m gay btw

Last Years Man

I refuse to believe Eric Adams is not a performance art collaboration between the pod and Tim Heidecker. Come on, man. GTFO. Also... the whole keep on lying thing reminds me of my cousin vinny. "I didn't say I was a vegan, I said was a hegan!"

Mitch H.

Happy birthday Will!

Sam Schick

The boys are back on top! Playing to win!

Okie From Muskogee

I too think reincarnation is more logical than the Christian afterlife. All of written history is just people making the same mistakes over and over again. Like, I guess the same people just keep getting recycled every 100 years or so.

Joe

Our beautiful boy and I were blessed to be born only one year and 362 days apart. God I feels great to be a Leo.

EXN

Happy birthday big dawg

Robert Karnick

Eric Adams will be god emperor of the Washington-to-Boston unified economic zone in post-deluge America

Luke

Happy Birthday Will

Erik

It’s in a different context here since he’s talking specifically about state abortion laws which people actually care about, not national elections

Carter Kriss

this was appointment listening. hbd will!

ploob

🪦

Cody Pate

Is Healthy At Last supposed to be a play on Free at Last? Like a self help cookbook thats supposed to evoke the civil rights movement?

theSmokingGun

I love it when Felix references the Iron Bank of Braavos.

Tucci

Happy birthday Will, and shout out to all the other Will heads in the chat

MATT TRIANO

Eric Adams is a bad mayor who makes stuff up but none of the woo stuff he does is funny

BigBoto

As a 450-pound man with the belt proudly under my gut, I can confirm this aspect of our community relations.

Joshua Garcia

Happy Will, May grace befall you

Chris T

Happy Birthday, Will 🎂

Sean Row

Happy birthday Will!

Doug Cartel

'dont call him a fat pig, call him White Lizzo'

anonymoose

Happy Birthday Will 🎂🎊

The Fine Art Revolution

the pod is so much better when you're all in the same room, best episode in a long time. Happy B day will!

Chris T

Came here to say the same thing

The Fine Art Revolution

It felt like a completely different show, but good. hearing chris laugh in the background was great too.

Doug Cartel

well, we all saw Ip Man 3 so we know how small dudes beat huge dudes (that was the one where he beat the aussie boxer right? I forget) oh also yeah happy birthday,

William

Dude, don’t kill the vibe

William

Throw fucking marcus aurelius out - this is the real philosophy for our time

Dan

Is that your real name tho

William

Biden is Saul, Adams is david

Dan

@Andrew - those two grinning vampires will duke it out but I’m with you, Brady takes it. Adams is a cop sure but Boston cops L-O-V-E TB and are extra racist

Warbs

Happy birthday!

Dan

Some pot for every chicken hawk

Torpedo Jones

Later this year I become as old as Will was when I first started listening in 2016 (the post-election ep), so I guess now I should start a podcast.

Cesar C

Happy birthday will

mruskin

I don’t know how (if?) the Eric Adams saga will end, but I could see him going out like Chapo favorite Aubrey McClendon. (Great episode, & happy birthday, Will!)

Libeccio

S+ riff with "Radagon Adams", moved to tears!

J

Felix been watching Smoughtown

Isaac Jones

Great to hear my friends having fun together again 😃

tabbyswipe

Happy Birthday will! Thank you for all the laughs and movie moments over these many golden years!!

Louis

The jokes were really cracking on this one

Matthew Perpetua

This is one of the best ever Chapo eps, especially the last half hour

Pædiekeix

Chris please pass my belated happy birthday wishes onto Will, I’ll be chooming for him later as he himself is now too old for such things. Also this was a fantastic pod

C. Andrew

Happy Birthday Mr. Chapo!

SCB

Man, this reminds me of Classic Chapo; damn near 90 minutes of everyone engaged and going in on contemporary, end of empire content.

kwrob

Happy Birthday, Will 🥳

Eddie Sanchez

Something big the Chapo boys are misunderstanding about Adams is that he is quite literally a pro wrestler. Cutting promos, having entrance music, burying small towns? He may as well be Mr. Perfect.

Degrassi Knoll

Never trust someone over 30...no.....50!

Degrassi Knoll

Mustang convertible inbound. Happy birthday Will !!!

Ozzie

Trump is off-putting, Adams is off pudding

SPENCER PIBBLES

Happy birthday, Will! Great ep, one of the years best

ddog

Happy Birthday!

Sam

It’s bizarre to hear chapo pretend like six months ago they were convinced things were going badly for Ukraine and specifically Felix to allude to the idea that he thought they should sue for peace and make concessions. It’s great that they pulled their heads out of their assholes and christman finally took the lead on explaining the reality of munitions and man power, but for 18 months this show has said more less two totally insane things: A) Russia is doing to Ukraine what the US did to Iraq B) Russia is losing and things are going very badly for them. I’m sure this comment will attract some of the gay chapo Reddit responses but I don’t care. It’s fuckin weird that this show with smart dudes who offer so much poignant analysis on domestic politics has to wait for the NYT and WAPO to tell them it’s ok to come to the conclusion that anyone with a brain came to when this thing started. Will, Idgaf about your birthday. But I hope it was great.

Saga

I'm surprised more people aren't talking about Eric Adams. The guy is a perennial lolcow.

S Agsar

The little mini mention of Armenia is appreciated. Really upsetting to watch these pro-Ukraine psychos in the media and gov whine about the US not giving Zelensky neutron bombs and F35s or whatever while hundreds of thousands of Armenians are being trapped and starved to death, and literally nobody knows or cares, I'm not even certain that there's been a single mainstream news piece about what's happening... I know saying something like this is the most cringe thing ever, but if someone involved with the show were to see this please consider having someone on to talk about the blockade that's happening now ...

Mark Schneider

Eric is high on his own supply!! His vibe reminds me of Rob Ford, the Canada crack smoking mayor!! Will, glad you're not following the vibe, Rob F only made it to 46, we want you around longer than that.

Eric Devey

Low turnout in Ohio?? 3 million showed up. 4 million showed up in 2020!

TugNuggins

Banger ep, thank you Mr chapo

People's Housing Project

My daughter shares the same birthday as you Will - August 10th is a special fuckin day. Also, great episode - nothin beats the boys all in the same room, the juice on this one is overflowing

Dez Martin

Bah relief? Bas relief? What

Jake V

I love that too, it really adds something

Quincy Markowitz

Chris cracking up in the background is making this episode so much better and more endearing

Jaime Christley

Getting a producer laugh always adds a little to an already good pod. Same with YC on TrueAnon

Bryan Jennings

Can't remember the last time Chris was just guffawing in the background the entire episode. It's great

C. Andrew

This is the gayest most reddit chapo post I have ever read. I distinctly remember Matt saying things were gonna grind to a halt in the spring offensive, but who could have predicted that Zeilinski would blow it so hard that even WAPO has to tell people it ain't looking good. Ukraine got addicted to smart high tech weapons and now you gotta do the hard part: shelling cities, trench warfare, men beating men to death in mud, a killing field that does nothing but suck money and life into nothing. Certainly doesn't look good on TV. Turns out you can't just salvo fire on entrenched Russians, storm in with your Swedish IVFs, and do maneuver warfare without the massive loss of life associated with it.

jfk truther

utah guy segment was almost too funny

Maouriceltic

Eric is the perfect mayor for a country in decline

BTULTRA

Happy Birthday Will :)

Agent Grange

Felixs birthday gift to Will was infodumping about his special interest, soulsborne games.

Zach Pierce

Well it’s regarding the salience of the overturning of Roe. If we can get THAT bump from Ohio, running on it in PA and WI will help us keep that margin.

Kinetics Video

They're still doing the thing here where they are sort of half implying it's bad in the same way for the Russians. North Korea, in fact, not the only country making large amounts of artillery shells and preparing for this type of conflict. Sympathize with our boys on this one though bc the discourse is such that saying Russia is good at anything does open you to looking like a Putincel and that's not a situation of their making. Anyway, shitty it has to be fought at all, but also if you think of this as Big Israel vs Big North Korea there is some small comfort that if the same case would hold for small Israel and small North Korea the more democratic state would win.

Schwartz666

Aw shit, my 40th was on Tue! So me and Will were born exactly 2 days apart in '83.

Paul F. Holzfäller

The FBI aerating a 70 something gravy seal will never not be funny. He was probably laying in bed with his ghillie suit on just waiting for his blaze of glory moment to arrive.

Damen Irving

Barnburner of an ep, boys, Happy bday will

Kinetics Video

They need to cycle in some elephant or blue jay souls into the human line or something, we have no idea what we're doing

Greg

And de santis is in pudding

Greg

Happy birthday Will!

Cullen S

Happy birthday Will! My best friend’s little brother was Bill Duke’s assistant for a span of time in LA. He said that he is quite the piece of shit.. never pays his people, etc. Predator knew what’s up. Shame

DB

absolutely hilarious ep one of my favorites in months

MEAT CLOWN

Nice episode, perverts

Ty Baron

God damn is this show better when you're in the same room.

Sam

I appreciate you calling my post gay ❤️ But the conditions really haven’t changed significantly in the last year. And anyone who was paying close attention saw that a vast majority of the high tech weapons systems that were delivered were either unusable, destroyed, or made quickly irrelevant by Russian tech. There was a video put out by TASS and confirmed valid by the pentagon of a barrage of Russian missiles taking out a patriot system in the field in Kiev six months ago. That’s a fairly significant moment given that the entire framework of US logistical defense capacity for NATO countries is based on the thesis that the patriot system was indestructible. This show has repeated the insane lie that Putin fucked up because nato is stronger now than it was before, but that’s a bullshit WAPO talking point. The futility of the weapons systems demonstrated to nato members that their trillions of dollars investments into US tech is made futile by basic Russian engineering, that NATO proxy soldiers are a bunch of pussies who have never seen real combat and can’t compete against an actually fortified military, and that the US doesn’t have the tactical, logistical, or strategic capacity to do anything meaningful other than shred the economies of member states and provide them with expensive shit that doesn’t work. It always seemed like Matt was holding back on what he thought about everything but will and Felix have been categorically full of shit the entire time. As someone who took a good amount of shit on these threads for pointing that out it’s wild to Hear them be like “oh yeah Ukraine is fucked like we said this six months ago” All in all - I’m just an alienated pussy with a tech job who has some time to burn while I listen to training videos. I know these dudes don’t have any real power or influence but I’m bored and here we are.

Sam

Idk what you’re saying with the big israel big North Korea thing but I agree with the rest. Russia has entire cities that are dedicated to manufacturing artillery and their stores certainly aren’t in danger of running out.

Chris

My pwussy hwurts

Keith Huston

Happy birthday, Will! Great episode, looking forward to the Felix Elden Ring lore mini series

Major Powers

Hey Chris, Felix has such dulcet tones when you guys are together and he has a good mic. Can you spend some of our patreon money to improve his second-rate-ass setup he's got in his hovel in Chicago or wherever he plays CS:GO at?

Wario Argento

Cmon Chris, get him a Telefunken U47, some good plugin harmonizers and pitchshifters for his channel

Conner

Happy birthday Will

Michael Martin

Happy Birthday Will. What a great show!

Ben

Happy Birthday Will

Evan Pitkin

Fucking banger. Particularly the Elden Ring shit.

SCB

Classic chapo banger, reminiscent of the golden age

Instantdumbass

Eric Adams can go toe to toe with ManCow on who has spun more lies

Erik Bourre

super excited for Montreal!! thanks for making the trip up here!! and happy birthday Will! you magnificient bastard!

Matthew Krueger

It might have been Will's b-day but we all got a present this week - this one was straight fire. Many happy returns of the day Will!

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42 minute mark about theme song for Adams is incorrect. Mayor James J. Walker, ‘Beau James’ of NYC wrote the lyrics to the 1910s famous “Will you love me in December as you do in May” and it’s fame followed him into his career. When he was running for mayor they would play it in Italian, Yiddish, German, Polish and do a Jazz variant for Harlem and he’d get up and sing/dance. Cartoonishly corrupt like the good son of Tammany Hall he was but was directly responsible for the massive expansion of the Subway system while refusing to increase fares alongside several other civil projects. Hated Robert Moses and got driven out of office bc FDR thought he made him look bad. Irish-American Excellence

NoPrefect

Happy birthday Will

Dan

Happy Birthday

Jeffrey Miller

Holy shit, I didn't know GoT jokes could still be so funny.

Pelican Grief

"HMS Covfefe!!" Had me fucking rolling

SLG

Remember back when Chapo dismissed warnings about a potential invasion as over-hyped bullshit? I assume the overt wrongness of their initial take probably makes them a bit more cautious on weighing in on this situation. But I don’t think there’s any doubt that Putin miscalculated that this would be a quick, decisive win. Them drawing a comparison to the US invasion of Iraq to me makes sense in the context of a largely U.S. audience that could inherently understand the comparison to another unjust, deadly invasion that was sold as a quick and justified intervention. And I may be misremembering, but I don’t recall them actually saying that Russia was “losing,” but more that Putin dug himself into a quagmire he clearly didn’t anticipate going on a year and a half with no end in sight. The futility of weapons systems aside, or whether NATO soldiers are “pussies” or not, this is not going as planned for Putin.

Martynas Klimas

New York don gone elected Lord Vivec as mayor.

Hilary is Pant-suited Syphilis

Gunther is the pro NATO/pro Ukraine poster but instead of being incredibly depressing and doing the soy face and pointing but in text online and saying “APOLOGIZE” and “bad take” whenever the signal goes off that someone has mentioned Ukraine/Russia and believes in their heart of hearts that posting is politics and that it’s the most important thing of all to hold people to account, he’s out enjoying life as he does the same call for article 5 and nuclear war.

Kasper Arnklit Frandsen

What a great episode, really felt like you guys were high energy and enjoying being in the same room.

Fish Priest

it's so wild that these guys get $175k/mo just from patreon

james

Edit: the linebacker that Roger Huerta knocked out (Rashad Bobino) was 5’11”

K H

Stop please. It's too much. I'm drowning in slop.

Da

Chris, more Curtis Mayfield transition cues please

poiuytrefvbj55

Starting a new game, Who Said It? Eric Adams or Big Body Bes

K H

The US slop industry is a multi billion dollar economy. Do you have any idea how much the average American hog consumes?

dog stone

happy birthday, Will.

Poppy Chulo

Has anybody here seen my old friend Virgil? Can you tell me where he's gone? He zoomed with a lot of people. But it seems the horny retire young...

etienne

I think last year or thereabouts Alice from Trashfuture snapped a picture of him eating by himself in a restaurant in Glasgow which was a complete mind trip

jkjkjkj

As a huge boxinghead, I can tell you that Eric Adams has tuned Into boxinghead vote: every hardcore boxing fan has capped at one point about how they either were a pro (usually a very low level guy with very few pro fights), an amateur that coulda been a star or a gym monster that could take out 5 dudes at once and coulda been a star, but didn't because of some kind of magnanimousness or extreme personal life complications (these delusions are genuinely sincere). This is another political masterclass by Mayor Adams, simultaneously a dogwhistle to the boxing fan political constitutuency, and a genuine conviction of Supreme potential

Doodles

Happy Birthday Will

Adam

This is a great episode, tons of energy

Shiv

Happy Birthday, Will! Enjoy your stay in Commiefornia, home of Gruesome Gavin we love having you here

Ben

Happy birthday king

Flesh Colored Subaru

Whenever felix start talking about video game plots i just hear the HWOM HWOM HWOMHWOMHWOM of the adults in Peanuts

Dustin Nelson

Why is patreon so broken lately? The last several episodes won't play

Ben

The baba yaga is here made me shart laughing

Jonathan G

any update on their assistant, Justin?

amphetamisty

hmu for deep cuts when you're ready for the chapo funk hour

lake

The boys are NERDS for this one

I am become reply guy

‘Michael Jordan et al’ has to be the whitest thing Matt has ever said

CHET_BIGTRUCK

Who knows what he could do with the political mandate of all twelve boxing fans in the US behind him

thomas

hbd will

Jed Levin

After living in NYC for over 40 years, I chose the right mayor to leave during (Bloomberg). Downhill from there.

Penny

Incredible episode, love the energy of everyone in the same room together.

William

Happy birthday Will god bless America

Amir Touray

This one is an all-timer. Already re-listened multiple times.

Jack

in my opinion, its because they're in the same room together. somethings definitely lost when theyre all on a zoom call

Shauna Seroquel

I don't think any real group dynamics can happen through Zoom -- eye contact, orgone accumulation, so much shit is lost.

Kerri

I hear the technology to create an orgone pyramid large enough to absorb transcontinental emf radiation is almost here! Fingers crossed

etienne

yeah felix has developed this vocal buzzer button where he goes "AY AY AY AY" when he has a riff to lay down and it doesn't happen when they're IRL

Mangomoosh

Isabella Rossellini in death becomes her is so hot. This ep does rule.

Naked Shitter

He abolishes reality because he's a cop. He's probably filled out his share of sensational reports.

Poppy Chulo

She really was but the wall is undefeated.

Evan Hayward

Disappointed bout shitting on wim hoff, wonderful guy who sells nothing, changed my life mental health wise. All good tho I forgive you rascals

Dez Martin

elden ring bit absolutely goated

Starry Pr1nce

Too bad actually being a healthy vegan requires doing meal prep all day on Sunday with tons of chopping and kitchen work, and not doing mock meat microwaving or restaurants like the unhinged narcissist you're talking about.

J.P. McD.

Who are you mad at specifically?

Chris

Prolly mad at how hungry you get when you're veeg

Brendan Kneeland

Re listening to this wistfully as Eric Adams faces 40 years in prison and the Ukraine war continues. Matt, hope to hear your voice again but regardless thank you and hope your recovery continues steadily.

Moses

Happy birthday Will

Reece Coren

if only the liberal media could’ve treated the pro life and anti climate change movements as unpopular as they always were, instead of as 50/50 issues, perhaps we’d be living in somewhat of a better world today

Reece Coren

Jake Plummer was such a pull by Felix