1041 - Memos of Understanding feat. Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill (6/1/26)
Chapo Trap House
Chapo Trap House
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All my whole |
| 0:07.0 | All I want to do is a joke Hello, everybody. It's a chop. Hello, everybody. It's Monday, June 1st, and this is your chopo. On today's episode, Felix and I are once |
| 0:39.7 | again joined by our good friends from DropSight, Ryan Grimm and Jeremy Skahill. Ryan, Jeremy, |
| 0:45.2 | welcome back. Always lovely to be here. Hey, good to be here. So, gentlemen, I have been told |
| 0:50.1 | that as of 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time drop site you have some breaking news about the ongoing negotiations the Iran war |
| 0:59.9 | would you care to share it with us on today's show? |
| 1:03.0 | No, I hate to scoop you guys but the news is we did it we won. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah, I was going to say. |
| 1:11.9 | We are very close to a deal. |
| 1:14.4 | I just got this update on my Nokia N-Gage. |
| 1:20.0 | Iran is agreeing to go back to Zoroastrian. |
| 1:25.1 | No more Islam in that country. A few words to like iron out, but basically that's the deal. |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Felix Biederman, Axios correspondent. Yeah. Obviously, there's a scoop, but my joke has been scoop because obviously like I was going to say let me guess uh ceasefire |
| 1:46.0 | imminent uh all but a few details still to be worked out uh is that what I'm hearing to just |
| 1:51.1 | but seriously to begin like following this like over the last couple months like there is a very |
| 1:56.2 | distinct pattern to like basically every week there is an assurance that a ceasefire deal is imminent. |
| 2:04.2 | And then by Friday, it's like they tear it up and they say, no, no, they're playing games. |
| 2:08.1 | You're going to go back to killing all of them. |
| 2:10.0 | And then by Monday, it's just like another assurance of a ceasefire. |
| 2:13.9 | But Jeremy, like, where do things stand now? |
| 2:16.2 | Because I've been saying that like it just seems like everybody knows what the stakes are. But Donald Trump, for whatever reason, other because Israel won't let him, there's no way to put a leash on them, or because he just can't admit that we've been stalemated here. We've been checkmated by Iran, that they're going to essentially try to |
| 2:34.5 | restart the war and do the same thing they did in the initial stages of it again in the hopes |
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