1041 - Memos of Understanding feat. Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill (6/1/26)

1:23:14 Missed opportunity to say "There are no brothers in Band of Brothers"

PLEASE someone identify the track in the outro. it's very beautiful but i don't think it's finlandia, at least not any arrangement of it i can find. howard shore maybe?

boss episode love serious Felix

amazing ep. love the guests

Another thought-provoking episode. The amount of information and context covered here is honestly overwhelming at times, but I appreciate hearing perspectives that don't always make it into mainstream conversations. It's interesting how events happening thousands of miles away can end up affecting so many aspects of everyday life. As someone who spends a lot of time on the road, I often find myself listening to discussions like this and thinking about the bigger picture. On a lighter note, if anyone here enjoys travel stories and life on the road, feel free to check out my profile. I'm a female truck driver from Texas 🚛💕 and I share parts of my daily adventures, experiences, and behind-the-scenes moments from trucking life. Always happy to connect with fellow listeners. 😊

Movie mindset has been the only thing that made this podcast worth subscribing to over the past couple of years can we please get an update concerning when/if it's coming back?

"Does Meyer lanksy have kids?" yeah Brett Ratner

Felix closing statements remind me why I love you guys. Thanks for a good episode.

Felix, I hope you never let the haters get you down. Those ending bits were on the money, and, deadliest warrior featuring the incompetent diaper forces and attendant clown-step would be hilarious.

Funny to hear Felix turning into the old Matt - the voice of moral righteousness. He's not quite there yet, but on this evidence he could get there. Damn, that left me desperately sad for al those lives Israel has destroyed, including the empty Israeli ones..

Felix is the weakest link. Goodbye.

Felix is dead weight

I remember someone saying "the generation that stormed Normandy on D-Day were the same ones attacking civil rights activists with fire hoses" and that stayed with me

I've been saying for ten years that if you just had a person work with a psychologist to interview trump in a way that exposes him or triggers him or whatever he's a clinical narcissist , you can f*** with him so easily , but nobody ever does it

Thank you Felix for that ending, I believe that the only true warriors of our time, those who fight against a fascist death state with everything they have, are from Palestine, from Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, etc. And their courage and steadfast resolve, even in death, will lead to a liberated Palestine, no matter what happens to our cursed country. DTI DTA

Felix brother dial back the rambles by about 50%. Ryan and Jeremy were absolutely cooking at the end and he took all the air out.

NYC-DSA should all join NYC SERVICE, after which they should be issued weapons and deputized by the new NYC SHERIFF

The AI PACs aren't as toxic as AIPAC? Give them 70 years, they'll get there.

Great end by Felix. Loved his monologue at the end.

pair this with the Radio War Nerd episode with Max Blumenthal to make me really want to kms

At first I thought the title was “Momos of Understanding.”

the chapos will never get their fill of ayatollah spluge

Excellent Ep. This is why I've been subscribing to Chapo since like 6 months in, saw you guys live in S.F then in Chicago, used to think Ryan was a Spit Lib, but he ain't no Crystal Ball or Dimmie-party phony, he & Jeremy are a Left Dream Team.

I was so depressed listening to this episode. But the last ten minutes made my eyes swell w tears for the bravery of the martyrs. The indomitable human spirit against Israel.

Zohran’s continued wimpy responses to these egregious provocations is frustrating for sure. But idk the zios roll so deep in NY. I’ve been thinking he needs to like have a public armed security force in order to do more aggressive actions. He seems scared to poke the Golem and tbh I don’t blame him.

Lee's Summit mentioned!

For the imbeciles in the White House we should revert to Post-It Notes of Understanding.

Felix forgot to read off a random string of numbers, colors, and dog breeds on the podcast, and thus no Chapo operatives were activated to redact Beazelbub Smotrich.

How does Felix know Lee's Summit Missouri? Such a specific pull

Band of Brothers track at the end goes hard

Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism for genocide invented by the perpetrators of the Bosnian Genocide without the same legal weight (because there is no international crime of "ethnic cleansing")

I implore Felix to watch something other than Band of Brothers.

Why does Felix know what Lee’s Summit is

beautifully put by Felix in the last 10 minutes ❤️🇵🇸

I am unsubscribing from Chapo. I have been paying for over six years but this disrespecting the Mortal Kombat soundtrack is a bridge too far. 😡

Best Chicago political positions are the O’Hare Commission

Very encouraged by the news that Trump is seeing a psychologist for the first time in his life. Iran might save humanity with this.

Whoa I never knew Israel is responsible for the modern cherry tomato

Felix name dropping lees summit Missouri for no reason is killing me

lmao USS Quagmire (giggity)

i love that "they are more toxic than any lobby" and no one mentions the nra... aipac and crypto are somehow laundering the nra

about the Israel day parade and the lack of condemnation about the 'people' attending. Bezalel Smotritch calls himself a fascist.

I think ultimately this shit will escalate. The conflict continuing benefits fffaaaarrrr too many actors involved in the foreign policy machine. The point of Trump spinning this one way or another is moot. The World Cup starts Thursday. Americas big birthday is a month away. I’m blown away his attention has lasted this long. The future is basically the shit unraveling and the president being way too fucking bored to care (07 and 08 redux). What’s the solution? Hakeem making a new rap as they announce all GDP will be funneled to bail out the donors interests.

New word from scahill: Trumpenkompanie

nominative determinism really did her thing with ryan (love his and jeremy’s reporting)

I love band of brothers as much as Felix I fear

Felix third eye opening

They want to take care of animals and their kids in normal situations 💔

The conditions Israel creates perpetuates the violence in Lebanon and Palestine etc

“Finlandia” for the credits beautiful. Another reluctant ten points awarded to bourgeois acculturation

final conversation in this episode, about the heroism of regular Palestinian people, made me cry a lil bit. Prob the first time that's happened while hearing Felix talk but I'm not mad about it. Love you all keep it up

The danger of allowing a capitulation narrative to emerge is that it will become the orthodoxy in the west and the US government and will fuel future and further aggression. Iran should not do this, and should maintain the capability to enrich uranium to whatever capacity necessary for its own purposes.

What song is the snippet at around 50:00-51:00? It’s beautiful

Bravo Felix at the end there

Love the drop site journalists and Jeremy is incredibly informative, but man he is a mic hog

I thought Band of Brothers was just okay.

Zohran can only do symbolic bull shit like not showing up to a parade. This is the upper limit of social democratic politics.

Love Scahill but Grim is such a slimy little clout chaser, leave him on The Hill or whatever

Platner is a problem because Washington doesn't know how to handle a Normal Maine Guy

at this point it feels like the best possible outcome with the Iran war is that the republican blob, which really wants Marco over JD in 2028, says "drop Netanyahu so we can abandon this unsuccessful war and instead successfully turn Cuba into Gaza" which is not really a great outcome Edit: oh this was covered later in the episode, I guess I have attained Chapo mindset

Tasmania mentioned 🍏

I kinda like the idea of 24 year old IDF Brigadier General Spiers linking up with Item Company because General of the Army Winters (age 26) heard that battalion was serving burger pizzas and/or pizza burgers

wait the tank was wearing track pants?

"Palestinians are like all other people in the world." This is the load-bearing fact, to me. The rest of anti-zionism follows logically from there.

Anyone know what that song at 50:39 is?

Death to Israel IMO

First time I ever heard of Chapo it was on intercepted with Felix. It took me a year to tune in. It’s been bliss every since

Another issue Israel doesn’t have an answer for is the manpower shortage in the military. Unless they get a good chunk of ultra Orthodox men to enlist the military could collapse.

Schumer is no longer cuck Schumer - he’s chucky the child killer

RYAN GRIM THE RAPIST BABY KILLER ADVOCATE LOOOOL

O preço do petróleo não deve cair tão cedo.

Damn Ryan and Jeremy are back, lemme get ready to be mad or sad real quick

Hello?

Recently Trump has said he doesn’t care about the midterms and I’ve seen a bunch of people shocked by that statement but it makes perfect sense. Of course he doesn’t care about the midterms, he’s done after this. He’s not going to get in any real trouble so why would he care what happens in the midterms. Everyone waving around the midterms for the past year as if it’s something he personally should care about was always confusing to me. Maybe the GOP overall should care but never made sense to me why Trump should

Dammit Chapo, stop ruining our bedtimes

Stop playin' Iran!

I’m straight?

Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and 2 seconds

I'm gahill for Scahill. Yee Haw.

Avast me hearties, this be slop

I have a heterosexual partnership

A Grim episode, to be sure

Shit!!!!

I’m not fucking gay

Seems early again. Not complaining

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