Essential Listening for Year Zero

Chase Carnot chase.carnot at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 20:50:45 CST 2017


Glad this came up. I just recently started listening to Chapo Trap House
though, so I wasn't quite ready to recommend it. I enjoy the further left
perspective (Bernie!) but Twitter seems to be required reading for some
episodes. I think that and the number of in-jokes have kept me from finding
a foothold. But I'll catch up.

C

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Matthew Taylor <matthew.taylor923 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Chapo Trap House is a comedy podcast from a much further left perspective
> than the ones mentioned before. In fact, they rip on what they would
> characterize as the centrist, lanyard-swinging, data-obsessed Democrats and
> pundits almost as much as they do the Far Right (Vox and Ezra Klein
> specifically being one of their favorite targets.)
>
> If you were someone hand-wringing over the mythical 'Bernie Bro,' you'll
> probably hate Chapo Trap House. If you like Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, Keith
> Ellison, etc. and like some good satire, you'll probably get a kick out of
> it.
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Chase Carnot <chase.carnot at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Just a few podcasts I would recommend as the Trump presidency nears...
>>
>> FiveThirtyEight Elections
>> TrumpCast
>> Point of Inquiry
>> Amicus (Slate)
>> The Weeds (Vox)
>>
>> And a dash of comedy...
>>
>> Superego, an improvised podcast using personality disorders as a jumping
>> off point (narcissism is quite timely). It's currently on hiatus but the
>> back catalog is worth exploring.
>>
>> Any other recommendations? Political or not.
>>
>> C
>>
>
>
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