836 - Pier One Imports feat. Derek Davison (5/28/24)
Chief Chapo foreign correspondent returns to take us around the wide world of conflict. We get an update on the war in Gaza including the bombing of Rafah, the failing floating Pier, and the Biden administration's attempts to broker some kind of deal between Israel, Palestine and Saudi Arabia without gaining any concessions or movement toward peace in the process. Plus, we discuss the death or Iranian president Raisi, the situation in Ukraine, and what the hell’s going on in French New Caledonia.
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Comments (79)
Derek has the most delightful laugh/squeal
I'm ready to buy a Chapo-branded helicopter.
Glad he talked about the Sudan
I've never listened to this guy before but he seems very smart
Pretty surprised that whole pier thing didn't work. Really thought that was going to work out.
Please call the next Trump episode Free Father Teresa
One of my favorite episode titles!
sometimes i cannot discern whether derek or felix is laughing. you guys are going to have to see to that.
Derek Davison is my favorite Chapo guest.
every time derek comes on i have to go back and listen to the temujin one
Which episode is that?
Imagine trying to sell the F35 to israel but you have to throw out all the stuff about how your weapons are so precise that you can avoid civilian deaths
Fuck around and find out!!! Immediately break my leg taking a step
Excellent guest. I love his newsletter.
Derek's level of knowledge always amazes me.
How the fuck did Blinken get the words "kinder gentler machine gun hand" out of his mouth without his head exploding? Or did he do the cop-out thing and change the lyrics?
He made the poor Ukrainian singer struggle through the verses and only sang the chorus.
Derek’s laugh is a balm for the soul
100%
Blinken thought "hey this song has that great line about freedom and also has a sad feel to it, which is appropriate because it's fucking dreary in Ukraine rn." Then he blessed the world with his shitty, souless performance.
Holy shit Felix does play DCS. CHAPO AIR DIVISION! We can do custom missions into Tel Aviv where we deliver simulated aid packages via rail gun to the Knesset. The moment Master Chief was referenced I immediately knew where it was going and had a complete cutscene animation in my head.
Without fail, anytime Will does his soft Chapo merch voice, it makes me giggle like when Ron Swanson is excited
Death to nazis.
Seeing Macron would feel me with sexual rage
.... pause?
I love hearing Derek laugh at their jokes
does the drop have to be so fucking loud?
Holy fuck I hadn’t listened to the blinken in the free world clip, that is brutal
I don't know who this Adin guy is, but I know we gotta get 'im! Also it's hard for me not to see Blinken singing Keep on Rockin' as a sort of coded public confession, like BTK sending out those floppy disks to victims families. He knows exactly what he's doing.
Adin is that dumb guy who's always beefing with Hasan Piker. A real dipshit, but man what a gulf he's got!
While I love our senior foreign correspondent, I extremely dislike entertaining the Idea Israeli terror strikes hit an "ammo dump." In the middle of refugee tents. Next they will drop a nuke and say they damaged an underground nuclear reactor. Stop entertaining their bullshit. No. They dropped incendiary cluster munitions or blew up a food tent with cooking oil. What fucking re-kind of fighter just leaves explosives in the middle of a camp with dipshit kids walking around. It's not Texas or the sleepover pillow fight Israeli generals are having as they rig buildings. No one is just putting all their weaponry in the middle of tents. I understand they were saying it's still not justified but IT DIDN'T FUCKING HAPPEN. NO.
Yeah but they said "even if we accept that this is true" which it clearly isn't, it would still be bad. So they were saying the Israel excuse of "we tried to do a precision strike on khamas but they had human shields on top of the ammo dumps" would be invalid even if true, which it wasn't
Putin would love to sing Hoochie Coochie Man with Blinken. This is Putin singing Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino to Gérard Depardieux (who was also mentioned in today's episode): https://youtu.be/ekeq4szDmJo?feature=shared
When's the blinken 182 concert?
🎵 I fell in love with the girl at the fed show 🎵
If that pier did anything to relieve Palestinian suffering Israel would have bombed it anyway.
Iran’s president before the hard landing, “KOBE!”
I cant believe they missed the funniest bit in that Blinken story: the band in Kyiv who backed him up actually thought they were going to be playing w Neil Young & were deeply disappointed to have Blinken in his stead
OMG, that is a soul crushing let down.
lol you know isrealees think Muslims say “allahu akbar” to each other like it’s “heil hitlar”
I was in the Navy for a few years and I knew a guy who would tell us he got the scars on his arms from an I.E.D....turns out he just had surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome.... Real heroes here.
The woefully uninformed david davison, who repeats twitter and wikipedia quotes for substack.
What’s he uninformed on?
On “human shields”, I think you guys had a journalist who addressed this trope and one point he made was that Israel only says this to justify civilian deaths, not as an excuse for why they *can’t* target Hamas. Real or imagined, Israel doesn’t view them as shields and will kill civilians indiscriminately. If Hamas really does have an active strategy of using civilians as shields, it’s a shit tactic and can’t really be called a shield. Of course the point of that argument is to pull others down into ridiculous minutia while Israel continues to level Gaza for as long as they can keep everyone arguing dumb shit.
Hamas is using innocent Palestinians as human shields but also all Palestinians are Hamas. Make that make sense.
I overdosed on fentanyl beneath the joe biden memorial pier
The enshitification of all things; drugs, politicians, piers, southern California rap-rock bands ... continues.
oh man I said "Felix DCS arc" as a joke but now he's become one of us after all Yeah it starts with being like "oh man Ace Combat was really good..." and before long you're memorizing targeting pod button combos and have a home-built VR fighter jet cockpit you keep hidden under a sheet so girls don't see it The F-16 is super easy to learn, I'd totally watch the streams
Traphous Squadron
love the neurodivergent infodump about fighter jets
Wish I was paid to tell people about Wikipedia pages i found interesting. He's living the dream. Keep going for all of us
The pier should be remembered like the 13th legion on the HBO show Rome. Remember the pier!
I assume the secondary explosions in Rafah were probably due to the fact that people are living in tents and using gas powered generators for power, not due to an "ammo dump".
“Those were Hamas gas canisters, and Hamas letting refugees have the canisters is using the refugees as human shields” - Matt (Goebbels) Miller.
Felix with the Robert horry joke from downtown
Derek made that Rods from God pull like a master
Legit, is russia supposed to see this pier collapse and belive in American logistics? Why not nuke Ukraine forces? America has no logistically feasible response.
The U.S. maintained two major wars thousands of miles away from the homeland over the better part of a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't think there is any country on earth right now -- aside from perhaps China -- that has the capability to do that. Normally, if there is a viable land route available to provide supplies, they would use the land route, not some stupid pier. I see the use of the pier as less an indictment of the system of logistics, and more a political failure of the Biden administration. e.g. instead of using the multiple available accesses to Gaza by land due to Biden's weakness or incompetence. If the U.S. was able to construct an airport in Gaza, that might make a big difference too. What we are witnessing is a major political failure, not a failure of logistics.
I heard the Gaza pier is sinking into the Mediterranean because a certain Mediterranean comedian was doing a USO show there
I want to listen so bad, but I have to be up early tomorrow. Hell yeah a Derek episode! (not trying to be ironic, I just think he's one of the better repeat guests).
(finally got around to listening and, yes, it was great. While the subjects of the pod were bleak, Derek's laugh is mana from heaven and no one will ever convince me otherwise)
Master Chief sword flying aid from ship to shore
Banger ep already.
Derek is just a little more autistic than the boys
+10 points for the title Pier 1 Imports
Randy Newman mentioned 🥹
imagining an entire episode just of them pretending to do one of those idf fake hamas phone calls
That should be an E1 episode with Felix as a guest
To Felix's point, the really funny thing about applying "they're about to find out why Americans don't have health care" to fucking CHINA is that Chinese people *do* have health care
Please keep calling it the Joe Biden Memorial Pier
Wonder when dummy bessner is gonna actually tell the truth about ukraine
What do u mean by this
Seventh
Hell yeah
Joking my penus to this full time
Didn't even get the notification yet LFG!
Just got done with DUI class. Now I'm a good person again.
Long live drakeo
Hell yeah fortuitous post-work patreon check.