967 - Whitehat feat. Derek Davison (9/8/25)

Clitoral Combat

In light of Charlie Kirk, you guys fucking stay safe. Please.

Ending song like I just finished an anime.

Calmly whistling Dixie on Main Street Columbus georgia in 2043 oblivious of the Hyundai sonata shaped nuke aimed at my fat bald dome

I haven't listened yet I but too think the outro song was pretty great.

Yess another Derek ep 🙌

My theory is that Trump personally wants to have some kind war, just to fulfil MAGA, as in to show that the USA can win wars again under his great leadership. Not a huge conflict with a global power, just his little Blitzkrieg invasion of Poland situation, to flex power.

What’s the song at 39 min?

Felix at 14:05-14:20 is so correct. When I was in college, anytime someone found out about my dead parent they would say some shit like "Well it's admirable that you were able to move beyond that" as if the normal reaction to something shitty is to do some hollywood style murder suicide thing

Per the substack of Matthew Cole, who helped write the NYT story with Dave Philipps: [Matthew Cole] learned about the mission to North Korea in 2023 from a trusted and vetted source. The circumstances of the disclosure—one of the most highly classified military missions in a generation—required that I do what is nearly impossible for me: sit on it. To protect my source, I needed to pretend I had never heard the story and wait months before I started making other calls. Why? Contacting other potential sources who knew about the mission—an extremely limited group of people—could expose the source who provided the tip. Perhaps because I have experienced the consequences of moving too aggressively on a story that deserves public disclosure, I erred on the side of discretion and patience. [Matthew Cole] waited 8 months.

Love that Outro song!

Isn't "Cartel of the Sun" a Tintin graphic novel?

which lie was worse: trump saying he couldn’t have writen the card to epstein because he doesn’t draw or mike johnson saying he was a white hat fbi informant on epstein?

Imagine getting spotted in Splinter Cell, shooting and stabbing your way through the alert, and getting an "S" rank.

Vijay Prashad on Useful Idiots had a great recap of the cartel of the suns thing. It’s quite hilarious

trump and his administration are literally a fucking cartel!!!! why do we take them at their word EVER??? all they do is lie and project!

Will, it’s HUN-DAY like Sunday.

what is this outro song

I get 4 Kristi Noem “LEAVE OUR COUNTRY NOW” ads per American Prestige episode over here in Mexico lol

Why didn't the USA just send a balloon to make all their base belong to us like China did?

this one’s right up there with the one from when he brought clemson mcdonalds for winning the national championship

Cartel of the Sun doesn’t exist anymore. Check the Greyzone most recent Episode

Even Radio War Nerd didn’t say one word about the Thai border conflict

The laughter of 2 Felixs 🫶🏼

I will always remember the "Mark Kirk Press Secretary" ban

Only like 5 minutes in and another Christman-ism remains perpetually relevant: they’re dabbing on us

mark kirk was moving like real-life bullworth

It’s pretty funny that the NYT released the SEALs in North Korea story like a month after Seth’s book was released. Like now I know that there is a non zero chance those SEALs were high on opiates and overdosing on dextroamphetamines

The navy SEALs were actually trying to send copies of that Seth Rogan movie about killing Kim to freedom loving North Koreans

Are they also going to go after the drug smugglers working with the CIA?

I do really love Derek. I appreciate how much he obviously appreciates Felix's humor and his laugh always gets me laughing too. Given the content of the eps he's always in, it's just always easier to hear when Derek delivers.

I assume that DHS just sees a tattoo on a Venezuelan guy and immediately goes 'wow that's a new gang we gotta track'

I think Citgo is the refinery/retail company owned by VZ, not Chevron.

Thank you editor Will for that hit of Paul Simon!

"Department of War" is a euphemism. It's accurate and explicit title would be "Ministry of Genocide".

Real heads will remember The Wire cops using a stingray to get Stringer Bells cell number in Season 3

Song at the end?

tell me what happened in 1949??

What’s the song at the end?

The most frustrating thing about the name change "reversal" for the Department of War is that these idiots think it's like... A woke 1940s new deal culture war thing? When it was never even "changed" to begin with. Prior to 1945 the Department of War only included the Army, and the Department of the Navy operated separately. After WW2 the Pentagon looked back at all the queeny screaming matches that guys like Nimitz and MacArthur had with each other that caused embarrassing operational failures like the Phillipines and went "we should really get these two departments under one command structure that they both have to listen to." Thus we made the DoD, so the Army, Navy, and the newly formed Air Force would all play nice and not feel like they gave up "their" department by merging. Hegseth, despite being the SecDef, is apparently too fucking stupid and unqualified to know that. I know MAGA Navy guys who are genuinely mad about this because they feel like this is Navy cultural erasure.

Felix first talks about fighter jets at 58:40, sukhoi-30MKI, dassault rafale

To me at least, I feel like the Taliban victory in Afghanistan has kinda galvanized the idea of insurgency of being an effective strategy after doing so for 20 years. Like no one but a handful of states could hope to stand up to overwhelming US firepower in a coordinated assault. But an ideological resistance group could hope to outlast them over years or even decades. And I think that’s something both the Venezuelan and Iranian gov’ts have come to terms with and a reality the US military and foreign affairs are aware of.

On the subject of landmines, j highly recommend looking up my boy Magawa. He was a giant African pouch rat and mine detecting expert. Pouch rats are smart enough to train, live a pretty long time, and are too small to set off a mine but large enough to keep track of in the field. He won a medal and he looks so cute wearing it! I can't speak to the legitimacy of the NGO behind the Hero Rat program (Apopo). They are Belgian, so there's probably something shady, but a cursory glance suggests they're somewhat more above board than average in this field.

at first I was a bit shocked at how little discussion of Trump and his old pal Jeffy there was in this episode, but in retrospect what else is there left to say? the president is a paedophile, everyone knows it, and nobody is going to do a fucking thing about it

Felix begins speaking at 3 minutes and 59 seconds.

I need China to ramp up its space program to increase the chances of select members of our government being hit by falling space debris.

Well that does it, the Donald was playing 4D chess all along

Really disappointed at Trumps drawing skills

Healing my inner child by going to war with Mexico (my dad used to drink rum and be mean :( )

There’s a show on Amazon with Taylor Kitsch Sheridan Kitsch called The Terminal List:DARK WOLF. The first 20 minutes will fuck you up

Will seemingly describing america as a Terminator shedding its skin without any apparent knowledge of American Prestige's cover art.

There’s a fantastic quote at the end of Disco Elysium from the Deserter; he talks about how capital has to take off the mask of humanity to do the deed (I.e killing everyone you love). I thought of that when Will was talking about the Terminator. The bourgeois are not human.

Closing song? Sounds more Thai than Khmer but idk

I got here as fast as I could, I'm looking for that one guy who always comments saying that Derek is the most uninformed man of all time

Name of song at the end?

Usually when I set off an alert during a sneaking mission I just restart

Speed boat dope has been sunk.

If JD Vance really wanted to avenge his mother’s pill addiction he should have pushed for drone strikes on the Sackler family.

Felix's sleep schedule wrapped around and now we get slop at quittin' time again

That T800 line has been flitting around the corners of my mind for months... I didn't remember it was Matt. Of course it was. The GOAT.

The call is coming from inside the house. White American school teachers make the best drug dealers, as seen on television.

Chapo should really review the movie Enemy of the State if they haven’t already. I was a sigint marine of that era and the tech like stingrays was already quite advanced. I can imagine what the collections gear looks like these days. Makes the “standard training operation” in the movie a really salient thing to consider. https://linas.org/mirrors/cryptome.org/2001.11.13/nsa-ussid18.htm

Ok, I’m a midwit but what is Derek referring to happening in 1949?

Is this a fabled Monday Pod Drop?

Matt Christman predictions don’t “come true”. They are true from the instant of utterance. The rest of us simply require the passage of time to see with his same clarity.

we Love our boy D-D

Is that guy who hates Derek gonna comment?

Ah, what a blessing

Loving the early episode drops recently!

❤️‍🔥 DEREK

D Rock in the house. Does anyone call him that? Can I?

GLAD TO SEE EVERYTHING IS GOING GREAT

Go head Derrck!