Reason Why The Show Is Late (Patreon)

Hello Grey Wolves,

This is definitely the most difficult thing we’ve ever had to put out through the show. Last Tuesday morning, Matt Christman suffered a sudden, severe medical emergency that will require a significant period of recovery. He is currently in the hospital in stable condition. We are trying very hard to be optimistic, but there’s no easy way to say that he will be out of commission for the indefinite future.

As many of you are aware, Matt and his wife Amber Rollo are also expecting their first child, a daughter, and her delivery is scheduled this Sunday as well. We are all so, so excited and happy to welcome a new little Christman into the world, and we were looking forward to announcing this under better circumstances. But this situation is obviously drastically complicated by Matt’s medical emergency.

We are a family, so we are currently shifting all our priorities and attention to caring for Matt & Amber. A silver lining is Matt is so loved he has a tremendous support network out here - they are surrounded by friends and family and we are all-hands-on-deck helping them through these both tragic and joyous life events.

So listeners, please bear with us as we take our first hiatus in the seven and a half years of doing this show. We need to organize all our efforts around helping Matt in this critical period, and helping Amber through the birth of their daughter. And frankly, we’re just not in any place to give you guys any kind of entertaining material right now. The show WILL go on, though: we will be back next Thursday or the following Monday with new material for you all. We already had a number of all-star guests lined up to cover Matt’s paternity leave, so we will do our best to keep Chapo Trap House here for all of you as soon as we’re able.

Sincerely, thank you all for your support. For all our shit talk, we do love you. Matt loves you. We will try to provide appropriate updates and new information as soon as we can. We ask that you do your best to respect Matt & Amber’s privacy right now. And please, please don’t be weird little freaks about any of this. This is an incredibly weird situation for all of us, don’t make it weirder.

All the best & talk to you soon,

Chapo Trap House