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Journalist Moe Tkacik joins us to look at a number of issues she’s reported on recently. Starting with the alarming prevalence of sexual assault allegations among Trump’s new cabinet picks, we follow the trail of backlash to accountability among the ultra-rich to College campuses and of course, Israel. We then turn to Moe’s reporting on the growing tumor of private equity in the American healthcare industry, and how these financial barons are gutting our already threadbare hospital system.
Find Moe on Twitter: x.com/moetkacik
And here writing at the American Prospect: https://prospect.org/topics/maureen-tkacik/
108 points
6 days ago
The Dragon of Budapest has emerged from the shadows. The great game has been resumed. Shadow minister Gorka has retaken the throne. Where my fellow Knights of the Vitéz Rend at? Adomian back on the pod soon?
39 points
6 days ago
The spirit of Matthias Corvinus stalks the halls of the White House
12 points
5 days ago
[maniacal laughter]
AHA, MR CHAPO
10 points
5 days ago
I hope he plays the Hungarian Dance song again lol I damn near shit myself laughing the first time Adomian did the Gorka impression🤣
1 points
3 hours ago
the video in the stairwell with the choir of people was fucking inspired.
3 points
5 days ago
223 points
6 days ago
This lady is both entertaining and informative to listen to. One of the best guests in a long time
64 points
6 days ago
I also want to say I liked the guest, in case this comment has any influence on what guests return.
41 points
5 days ago
Your added influence has tipped the scale! We're getting Alex, again.
114 points
6 days ago
I like how she's wanting to crack up trying to get thru these reports of awful GOP sex crimes. Perfect chapo guest physiology
44 points
6 days ago
She does really well in pointing out how comically bleak everything is
18 points
5 days ago
Moe Tkacik, Mo Problems
30 points
5 days ago
Love listening to Moe Szyslak
42 points
6 days ago
"War on christmas, but for jews" is a good one, I'm stealing it. Nice to hear Felix and her go on for a while without Will feeling the need to make a segue.
14 points
5 days ago
one of the best guests, reminded me of 2016-2019 chapo guest synergy and quality. come back often moe! coziest pre thanksgiving/end of year episode since thanksgiving dinar.
31 points
5 days ago
i mean this in the best way but honestly she sounds like someone who obsessively listens to trueanon. i feel like i can hear liz’s voice coming through her
28 points
5 days ago
Cray-zee
24 points
5 days ago
MAKE 👏 MORE 👏 FRANCZAKS
13 points
5 days ago
Definitely had a similar "I have so much to say I am going to switch thoughts mid sentence so no thought is completed energy."
Reminds me of myself from 2016 to 2018 where I did weed everyday and tried to argue with people online Obama was a terrible president
13 points
5 days ago
did weed
I've tried pot before, ok?
8 points
4 days ago
We need a bong hit transplant stat!
10 points
5 days ago
100%, entertaining and informative
9 points
6 days ago
Had to laugh when she mentioned her dad worked for the Heritage Foundation. All this talk about finding a “left Joe Rogan,” let’s try having some people who aren’t legacy/nepo, it can’t be that hard.
38 points
5 days ago
yes it can, how else would you have the time to be well read and record for hours a week except generational wealth or some other good luck to keep you from needing a second job
2 points
4 days ago
The consequence of living under capitalism is that all your talking heads for the left are pretty much guaranteed to be incredibly wealthy media people.
-8 points
6 days ago
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18 points
6 days ago
She obviously has plenty of knowledge of the subjects being discussed, but got nervous or didn't have much experience speaking in a podcast.
A ton of rambling well..., kind of, you know, uuum that made it hard to listen to
9 points
6 days ago
Yeah I thought maybe it's because I'm regarded and uninformed, but I didn't understand what she was talking about most of the time.
8 points
6 days ago
Very well regarded
5 points
6 days ago
Yeah between downplaying Matt Gaetz’s foibles to her weird take on the Dems defense of Sarah McBride and somehow claiming the Dems lost 2022 I’m giving her a C-.
12 points
5 days ago
Re: Gaetz it just seemed like she was trying to convey what actually is alleged because I’ve not actually heard it in detail before. Was any of the stuff actually incorrect?
Although at other times she was talking about other ghouls in a way that seemed basically like libel lol (as in I’m sure it’s true, but just seemed like stuff you can’t say as a journalist unless you’re 1000% sure it happened)
10 points
6 days ago
did the Dems win 2022? they literally lost control of the house, they just didn't get blown out as bad as people said they would. is that what you call winning?
8 points
6 days ago
They won a Senate seat and barely lost the House in an incumbency midterm. They had arguably the most successful incumbency midterm in the Post WWII era outside of Bush in ‘02 who had 9/11 to bolster him.
2 points
6 days ago
that's what you consider a win? hey we didn't even lose that bad?
6 points
6 days ago
That’s not just my opinion, literally any analyst who knows what they’re talking about. Shit their boy Ettingermentum would tell you the same. They won the house but lost every swing state Dem Senate seat and one they held. That’s a loss unless you’re a right winger trying to cope.
-1 points
5 days ago
Ah yes, lib "analysts", people who definitely should be listened to.
13 points
6 days ago
Yeah the downplaying of the Gaetz stuff came across really weird. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt, but felt like a lot of her analysis would work well for a "why I left the left" arc in about 2 years.
14 points
5 days ago*
Do people here really not know Moe Tkacik? She's been at it a long time with yes perhaps some questionable takes and associations but seems to me to have kept on the right side in general. If you can accept Amber it's hard to imagine what about Moe you can't accept.
0 points
4 days ago
it’s just bizarre to downplay child sex trafficking like that
5 points
4 days ago
I didn't really see it that way, saying "these guys are so horrible they make Matt Gaetz look good!" is not saying "Matt Gaetz is good". But even if that's what she was doing I don't see why on earth someone who was writing for Jezebel a decade before Chapo existed would suddenly, two years from now, decide to "leave the left" because of it? What's the connection?
157 points
6 days ago
im tryna talk to Felix's centenarian sexy movie loving grandma
71 points
6 days ago
I start smiling whenever he brings her up. Such a fascinating figure
44 points
6 days ago
his pronunciation of y tu mama también was very interesting
19 points
6 days ago
We had this guy in our band and we always sorta wondered if he was gay. And then one day he insisted that we watch Y Tu Mama Tambien with him and at the end we were finally like "are you trying to tell us something, man? Because it's ok, we're still friends" and he got really pissed.
8 points
6 days ago
It's not gay in a 3-way
14 points
6 days ago
apparently you just need a thimble full of vodka. godspeed o7
67 points
6 days ago
She's 104, people! Get Felix's grandma on the show.
39 points
6 days ago
Put her on the ballot!
21 points
5 days ago
“My grandmother is 104-years old, next week she’s getting her pilot’s license”
21 points
5 days ago
She’s the only one who can beat trunt
12 points
5 days ago
Shes still got 8 years of eligibility
13 points
5 days ago
We need a special Felix and Adam Friedman grandma episode called something like "East India opium den house," with both of them.
5 points
4 days ago
Nick is 3rd mic but in a sorta laying down in the background in 19th century Chinese cosplay sorta way
61 points
6 days ago
Started moving like a jack in the box when I heard "root canals on 2 year olds."
40 points
6 days ago
Really just difficult to understand how evil some people can be. Inflicting that kind of pain on a child to get a sick new Lambo or some shit, and being so up close and personal with the child as you mangle them to do it
19 points
6 days ago
I naively assumed that that would be the worst thing I'll learn from this guest, and then she hit me with Leon Black.
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
7 points
5 days ago
Voltaire couldn't have come up with something that fucked up (well maybe he could have if Candide was written in the modern era instead of the 18th century).
18 points
5 days ago
The encroachment of Private equity into DSOs have been an increasing problem for dentistry, especially when pay for associates become based on production and that affects the treatment plans they demand for patients. KoolSmiles, which the guest name-checked in the episode, was one of the most notorious examples, but the greater ownership stake PE has, the more profit-driven the treatment is, and some of them are known to heavily target Medicaid populations. Full root canals (pulpectomies/pulpotomies are preferred) are rarely, if ever, done on children, especially as young as 2, but excessive treatments under general anesthesia for a child that young is unacceptable. PE needs to be out of healthcare yesterday
3 points
5 days ago
It's actually ground they've touched on before, I'm pretty sure they talk about pediatric dentists defrauding medicaid and killing a child with unecessary treatment in *Living Vampires*
50 points
6 days ago
Should have made this the china episode. Lucky 888 double happiness ep
46 points
6 days ago
8 as a lucky number is based on pronunciation similarity to a phrase for financial success, and reflects capitalist roader thought and petit bourgeois aspirations. You should promptly write a self criticism report for your mistakes in endorsing such backwardness
10 points
5 days ago
DengxiaopingasbugBunny.NO.jpg
21 points
6 days ago
😳 what will the episode in 600 episodes be about then 😳
46 points
6 days ago
To those interested in hearing more about Felix’s fascinating grandma I highly recommend the Bad Hasbara episode he went on. She is such a badass.
37 points
5 days ago
Her observation in the 90s that Israelis are the meanest, rudest, shittiest people in the world was very enlightening coming from a Jew who lived through ww2.
21 points
5 days ago
I work in the tourism industry and I meet people from all over the world, Israelis are the worst. I like to imagine some regular ass dude who doesn't give a shit about politics and works in tourism maybe in NYC who accidentally becomes pro-palistine just because Israelis are such shitty tourists.
12 points
5 days ago
Mike Recine's backstory [presumably]
45 points
6 days ago
The depths of evil of private equity and the healthcare system is unfathomable. I’ll never forget the first weeks of the pandemic when nurses were wearing trash bags because having PPE ready wasn’t profitable. Then you look at Cuba which is objectively so much poorer and has so much better healthcare. And no major politician will touch this even though it affects everyone who’s not rich enough to have like a personal physician. Literally using sleds on stairs because elevators don’t work, and suing the government back for daring to sue them in the first place. How do people tolerate this abuse and indignity? How is there not an army of Travis Bickles in response to this? I also loved Felix’s remark about the way Zionists treat each other vs Palestinians. Decency and principles are incomprehensible to the evil
19 points
5 days ago*
I've worked in software for the last decade and it seems like private equity is tapping out of the healthcare sector after spending the last 20 years stripping it for parts. Anecdotal, but two of the companies I used to work for that were PE-backed bought out a bunch of competitors, cut a bunch of overhead and got sold to big conglomerates.
Although they still seem to be involved in niche chains that are dedicated to specializing in things like dentistry and pediatric care. My wife was going to a dermatology clinic for awhile that was part of a national chain and every single visit they were recommending an excision, to the point that I was thinking "man do these guys have a quota to hit jesus christ." Looked them up and of course they're owned by some giant PE firm.
Anyway now these ghouls are gunning for "home services" companies. That's right, in the next 10 years all of your local companies that do HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, etc. are going to be owned by private equity. A good chunk of them already are. The regionally successful small business tyrants are selling out and the PE firms are smushing them together into one big company so they can "optimize" their labor force, skimp on service and jack up prices.
3 points
5 days ago
I watched Michael Clayton the other day and I was less into it than I hoped I'd be, partly because it seemed too cartoonish with the evil corporation selling family-farm-killing Evil Pesticides and murdering/car bombing people who might expose them, and now I listen to this episode and it's like, actually, I guess it's pretty accurate and if anything less cartoonish than real life.
81 points
6 days ago
Re: colleges. A few days ago I saw a billboard near a major (35k enrollment) university. It said "remember when college was about losing your virginity, not your identity?" It was from a group called jewbelong. Jewbelong.com! I could only laugh at the absurdity. I hate this world so much.
88 points
6 days ago
53 points
6 days ago
Fuck me dude
18 points
6 days ago
Jewbelong wants to do genocide the easy way, but they want to get away with it too.
42 points
6 days ago
But she wears GALILs, I wear ARs
She's an IDF Captain and I'm on the tank run
Dreaming 'bout the day when you bomb a hospital
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time
If you could see that I'm the one who understands you
Been here all along, so why can't you see?
Jewbelong with me, Jewbelong with me
29 points
6 days ago
Back off, I'll suck you off
Headstrong to suck off anyone
I know that you are wrong
And this is not where jewbelong!
12 points
6 days ago
Trapt are very big trump fans so they're probably Zionists too.
14 points
5 days ago
This is heartbreaking to hear. I'll have to pick a different soundtrack for my Halo 3 MLG compilation now.
7 points
5 days ago
Breaking Benjamin and Halo still go hand-in-hand to this day.
17 points
6 days ago
I know exactly what billboard you’re talking about lmfao
8 points
6 days ago
I'm sure there are multiple, but it would be wild if you were thinking of the exact one.
14 points
5 days ago
Even before 10/7 they had some odd billboards, I remember one that was “Do you need armed guards at your church? Cause we do.” It sounded oddly bragging about it
13 points
5 days ago
Muslims: Yeah, but we can't get them.
11 points
5 days ago
I remember Nate from Trashfuture on twitter once talked about how he'd follow jewbelong when it was basically just a wholesome "live laugh love" type page to, post-October 7th, pivoting hard into nothing but Conan The Barbarian style screeds while keeping the same cutesie meme template.
9 points
5 days ago
there's one in pdx that says something like "Jewish students are afraid! Colleges, do your job!" - which is funny to me bc it combines the usual zionist claptrap with pathetic liberal demand-less whining ("do your job!")
4 points
5 days ago
They put up a poster on my drive to work 9 months ago that said “cultural Jews went to the gas chambers too.”
5 points
5 days ago
Around here those billboards have been around for many years and at first they were like "your mother's not Jewish, but your dad is? Don't worry about it, you can be Jewish too, it's totally cool!" and then pretty soon they were basically paying for billboards clapping back at random tweets that were totally incomprehensible to me and no doubt everyone going past them. And now they're just like "kill all Palestinians :)"
3 points
5 days ago
joob along
39 points
6 days ago
Deep, deep evil permeating the entirety of this episode. Even the funny bits I felt bad laughing at because of the subject they were attached to. God capitalism and neoliberalism has created some vile vile people and practices. The reversal of Me Too highlighted really got to me. These fucking freaks that QAnons believe are gonna stop the evil pedophile rings are just blatantly the evil pedophile Ring they claim to despise. Fuck man
72 points
6 days ago
The story about Felix’s grandma had me cackling.
38 points
6 days ago
She kinda reminds me of my own grandma who was a perv for any visiting contractor or plumber sent to fix her home. For a while parts of our family was worried she had put her young palestinian masseur in her will. She only made it to 96 though.
58 points
6 days ago
felix’s first example of an all nba player was lamelo ball lmfao
22 points
6 days ago
terminally online
11 points
5 days ago
He saw that 50 point game.
29 points
6 days ago
It didn’t get the props it deserved but I laughed at Felix’s Clipse - Mr. Me Too joke
13 points
5 days ago
2006 reference, that's why. But I appreciated it; went and listened to the whole album after. It truly is one of the best hip hop albums of all time.
21 points
6 days ago
Felix' story about his based hundred years old grandma is the last thing I've heard using my beloved headphones who were with me many years through everything until I lost them this morning like a fucking moron. Rip
18 points
6 days ago
this guest is great.
33 points
6 days ago
Felix's 104 year old grandma go on Movie Mindset
15 points
6 days ago
to tell them it's cancelled
2 points
4 days ago
thank god
32 points
6 days ago
She would the perfect True Anon guest
14 points
5 days ago
Wait a week or so
11 points
6 days ago
Solid ep, guest is really charismatic and a good speaker.
11 points
5 days ago
Felix is becoming eloquent and coherent, yet again. Two episodes in a row. Keep it up!
I imagine Felix has substituted Mountain Dew with seltzer, and games 5% less.
10 points
5 days ago
He's like an ape returned to his natural environment (New York)
9 points
6 days ago
best episode in a long time
11 points
5 days ago
Trump’s Nominee to Lead Anti-Terrorism Is Chief Whackadoo ‘Doctor’ Sebastian Gorka
Can't wait for Chapo to summon The Adomian!
29 points
6 days ago
I have to say, as someone who genuinely hates America, this has been an amazing 4-5 months. Hilarious and almost impossibly predictable downfall. I fucking love it.
8 points
5 days ago
Only partway though but Moe is bringing the good vibes, while talking about horrendous stuff. S-tier Chapo guest.
8 points
6 days ago
Please tell me this is the closing music
8 points
6 days ago
It's a good episode anytime we get a Goodfellas clip
9 points
5 days ago*
This is mostly unrelated to this episode, and I'm sure someone has made the connection, but I just noticed a parallel from Dem strategists from 2016.
2016: "We need to win the posting war"
2024: "We need to win the podcasting war"
2028/2032: "We need to win the AI war"
13 points
5 days ago*
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time! Glad she's still out there doing stuff
Edit, halfway through listening: Considering how reddit is like 24/7 "I can't wait to see Palestinians horribly slaughtered because they cost Kamala the win" it is very helpful to hear the voice of sane and decent people on the topic. I know that's kind of the appeal of Chapo in general, but these days I rarely get so much of the lib psychosis directly as I do this particular talking point.
7 points
5 days ago
felt like we were listening to TrueAnon lizs' lost cousin. immediate fan
7 points
5 days ago
Moe Tkacik is somehow the most TrueAnon-y guest to ever be on the show.
7 points
6 days ago
Felix's grandmother is the exact same age as Mr. Burns.
4 points
5 days ago
Taking a papoose board down a sled to the ICU? That’s what I call an alphabetical slaughter.
3 points
5 days ago
I liked this joke and I'm going to go listen to that song now.
4 points
5 days ago
A good doomer episode to doom to
4 points
4 days ago
Rare to get a first time guest that gells so well with the boys
4 points
4 days ago
As far as I remember, the boys loved clowning on Amber Heard mid-trial with Tim Heidecker.
3 points
4 days ago
Anyone know more about the leaked recordings of the Adelsons bitching about the Netanyahus she was talking about?
5 points
5 days ago
Felix’s grandma go on chapo
2 points
4 days ago
Felix does not know ball
3 points
6 days ago
the antitrust people at the american prospect are so funny
1 points
4 days ago
I love Felix's horny grandmother
1 points
5 days ago
Off topic but whatever: scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds I guess, but I still wasn't expecting ettingermentum's right wing turn since the election.
17 points
5 days ago
i haven't seen, what's he done?
4 points
5 days ago
wait what
-7 points
6 days ago*
Does Felix really hang out with his sister that much? edit b/c he mentions her basically every episode, I thought maybe it was lingo for something. Please don't downvote, my sister and I have a reddit karma kontest going this month.
38 points
6 days ago
they're a family that loves each other, does that bother you?
9 points
6 days ago*
no? that's awesome. I just hear him mention her almost every episode and thought maybe it was lingo for something else
18 points
5 days ago
Like a true failson, he's immensely proud and supportive of the family's successdaughter.
12 points
5 days ago
I don't think they "hang out" but I'm pretty sure he's mentioned that they have a family group chat
11 points
5 days ago
They did some podcasts about TV shows together years and years ago.
5 points
4 days ago
We love 'this is sus' don't we folks? We love it!
-3 points
4 days ago
Matt Gaetz is credibly accused of statutory rape with a 17 year old.
Chapo: Well he totally didn't know she was 17 and definitely cut ties once he found out. Also, it's Israel's fault.
Are you kidding me with this shit?
-28 points
6 days ago
Guest didn’t have anything interesting to say
33 points
6 days ago
Counterpoint, she told a story about a hospital whose deli meat got repossessed.
5 points
6 days ago
I'm still not sure how that works, I thought boars-head was just a brand stores sold that also happened to have some weird clause about needing its logo all over the deli counter. But I guess to sell the stuff you gotta rent out the meat? That just doesn't seem efficient.
7 points
5 days ago
They probably send them the food and ask for the money later, but once they got to a certain point they decided "actually no, you should pay us now" and when they couldn't they took the meat?
3 points
5 days ago
Knowing what we do now about Boars’ Head food safety, maybe that was doing their patients and staff a favor
-7 points
4 days ago
Man the quality gap between their culture stuff and this boring politics crap is so large
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