It's good
Edit: if you want to watch cushvlogs live, go to Twitch and subscribe to the channel to get notifications when he goes live: https://m.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
If you just want the audio, it's here: https://m.soundcloud.com/grill-stream
I think Matt is the Chapo with the closest view to something like dialectical materialism. Years ago, hearing Matt analyze historical and current events blew my fucking mind and I think Cushvlog can do that for people so for that I think it's good. I do think it has it's limits though, which is that I think the psychoanalytic Freudo-Marxist stuff can veer into the realm of idealism at times, and Matt is terminally cynical about the possibility of revolution so much of what he says isn't aimed at helping people build revolution.
So like, training for building industrial ethernet networks ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/ipeeuj/the_antifada_ep_112_the_belden_program_w_brace/
player dot fm and mp3 links in the comments too
I really enjoyed this interview and found it incredibly informative, thanks for sharing
Matt's insightful as fuck; plus I just can't retain even 1% as much history as this guy
He's sort of doing a good job of quickly jumping past the obvious take and getting to the important stuff; the left needs numbers above all else, stop crafting ideological ships in bottles that will never connect to movements, online discourse is mostly an illusion that traps us, etc
they're fucking great. if you still pollute yourself with reddit subscribe to r/AcidMarxism
someone posted a mega link for all the transcripts up through 9/24 and it's really useful for finding things you remember him saying but can't remember which stream
You got the Mega link? Seems like their "transcripts" wiki hasn't been updated in months.Edit: Oh you posted it in another comment and it seems better/cleaned up than Google's caption/auto-translation subs on the videos. Someone should flag Chris to merge these since Google no longer allows community captions to be uploaded.
link added. OP said they were created by yoinking YouTube's captions, might be the same
For the most part, yes. Though I think they cleaned up a few areas and added in the curse words ("fuckers, motherfuckers") that Youtube's auto captions make "[__]"'s.
I've always found myself agreeing with Matt the most out of all the chapos. Since the pandemic his cushvlogs have helped me stay sane, and I think he's tapping into something pretty important in his effort to meld leftism and spiritualism
I should try mushrooms or acid. Problem is I'm living with my parents for a while.
i'd do it for my kids (late teens). maybe on a camping 'trip'?
personally, I'd wait until their brains finish developing, but I think humans have used psilocybin at ages much younger than 25 for a long time, so idk
They're not meant to be taken inside anyways...escape all right angles, go camping if you're able
Praise the Sun, the person in the image is Solaire from Dark Souls. / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaire_of_Astora (spoilers for the game if you ever plan to play it)
I kinda want a searchable transcript library so we can look up topics by episode.
Going from chapotraphouse to cushvlogs kinda feels like going from doing cocaine every once in a while at a party to mainlining it.
There is a wiki with some transcripts: https://cushbomb.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Transcripts
I love Matt. And I love his posts, but: I really wish the transcripts were clearer. It's less a Matt problem and more a Google (and Chris/saywhatagain) problem. Matt's Wisconsin accent and cursing has these weird spots where it's hard to follow his ranting.
He also repeats himself a lot "the the the... the democratic party..." which makes clipping things out/pointing at specific times a little hard to catch. Not his fault, that's just a rambling mind problem.
True. Plus I think that we would all sound bad in a transcript like that. Matt uses a lot less filler (like "uh", "you know", "yeah...", repeating a word until you can think of the next word) than other podcasters because he's so quick, but some of that stuff is impossible to avoid unless you're reading off a script or taking big pauses to think.
There is also the fact that he doesn't repeat the questions that he sees on twitch. So following along (I'm catching up slowly...) it can be a little hard to understand what he's talking about/answering after the fact because there's no twitch-chat-replay like archives on Twitch has.
I wish Chris and him would take the time (though given the Virus that might not be "safe" right now) to sit down and "produce" the show in a slightly better way. That's not to say that Matt's "off-the-cuff" streaming is a problem. It's just the production/after-the-fact, show is really weak IMO.
I'll have to post a certain section later today (gotta go now) with what I mean on following the transcript as I just hit within like the last five minutes of the "Game Theory" episode on the Mega transcript archive what I'm talking about where he sort of goes on a segment and then "clips"/loses that train of thought to go onto another question.
Ah, yeah:
00:10:46,620 --> 00:10:50,800 well I mean this is a good time for less
223 00:10:49,150 --> 00:10:54,250
- just like nationalize the entire
224 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:56,710 energy sector I mean this this is really
225 00:10:54,250 --> 00:10:58,780 kind of frustrating man like we're in a
226 00:10:56,710 --> 00:11:00,220 situation where this [ __ ] could all be
227 00:10:58,780 --> 00:11:03,520 had for pennies on the dollar or we
228 00:11:00,220 --> 00:11:04,930 could just nationalize it but there's
229 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,970 nobody in the room and making these
230 00:11:04,930 --> 00:11:11,740 decisions who's a human being they're
231 00:11:06,970 --> 00:11:14,920 all lizards they're lizards okay folks
232 00:11:11,740 --> 00:11:17,710 they're [ __ ] lizard people you only
233 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,880 be one of those rooms are goblins well
234 00:11:17,710 --> 00:11:22,810 all they care about is maintaining
235 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:27,610 profit a big butt a goblin Bobbitt
236 00:11:22,810 --> 00:11:29,470 touching goblins kissing goblins the bed
237 00:11:27,610 --> 00:11:32,130 will got one that's it that's the only
238 00:11:29,470 --> 00:11:32,130 people in the room
239 00:11:37,860 --> 00:11:41,390 in Bear Valhalla
240 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:52,519 I don't know I'm still them yeah I love
241 00:11:49,790 --> 00:11:54,019 those guys protesting because like if
242 00:11:52,519 --> 00:11:56,600 people don't want to go out you can't
243 00:11:54,019 --> 00:11:58,369 make them you know that's just like
244 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,429 there's always so much you could do
245 00:11:58,369 --> 00:12:04,970 against hegemonic media like as much as
246 00:12:01,429 --> 00:12:07,189 people don't trust the media they still
247 00:12:04,970 --> 00:12:09,019 believe in general what they get told
248 00:12:07,189 --> 00:12:12,220 and they think there's a virus out there
249 00:12:09,019 --> 00:12:12,220 they're not gonna go out and hang out
He's talking about oil companies here and then jumps to the protests/police brutality protests right after. While this one is easy to follow, you see what I mean by the "cuts" with no question repeating? I really wish Chris and him would take a look at the "replay" on Youtube and go "damn, that's a little hard to follow."
I’ve been thinking for years about how spiritually and faith fit into a broader left project and I really appreciate Matt trying to grapple with that problem as much as he can. It’s been extremely cathartic and helpful for all of us in these dark times
My only complaint is the video format, my internet connection is shit. I actually stopped following the vlog for a bit until I saw someone made a podcast of the vlogs, so I'm back in now.
When and what platform does Matt stream? I’ve only watched the YouTube videos that they post on chapos channel
If you click "Subscribe" on Twitch, you'll get a notification on your phone whenever chapofym is streaming. Matt's streams usually start between 5pm and 7pm, so you'll know it's him if you get a notification around then.
Also, he posts a link on Twitter whenever he's starting to stream.
it's also on spotify and the apple podcast app. I havn't checked but there is probably an rss feed since mat actively encouraged the first dude to start blackwolf'ing it.
If you follow Matt on Twitter, he generally posts when he streams with the Twitch/Chapo channel link.
He streams 5PM EST pretty regularly. So you can basically set your watch, though now and then he'll be an hour early or late.
It's on Twitch, 2-4 times per week, usually starting between 5pm and 7pm. It's on the channel called "chapotraphouse". If you go to the chapotraphouse channel on twitch and subscribe, you can get notifications whenever a stream starts.
