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We begin and end this episode with more discussion on Ukraine, what we got wrong, where it goes from here, and the media response to it. But in the middle we talk about an elephant we met and a delightful Bavarian town we passed through in northern Georgia, so, trying to lighten it up a little.

Thanks to Emma and Shannon for hooking us up here in Atl!

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Major bit me

Helen Georgia 🇬🇪 🇬🇪🇬🇪a wonderful place

vermouth

Duncecast but i still love u

etienne

I *have* been going completely insane over ukraine. I went from crunchy alterworldist maoist thirld worldist all the way to realist nato cold warrior neocon within a span of 6 days. because i have pudding brain.

caroline

they bribe us with elephants

Louis

Needed this.

Bobby Volcano

I think I can fix you in approximately 900 patreon volleys

Zach Pierce

Well (the) Ukraine girls really scare incels, they leave the west behind/ And Moscow girls can have so many kids/ and Georgia’s always on my my muh muh nazi mind …

Will

it's okay. I was ironic Putin cool type of guy and within the span of 4 days I would love to kill him myself. it's natural to see bad shit happening to good people and want something to intervene.

Osborne MOCs

They host a great Oktoberfest every year. Lovely little town.

HeyB00B00

Im ready to serve in the Blue Wave Brigade under the 2nd Krassenstein division

Zach Pierce

Come to Asheville fuckers

Ian Priest

All I can say gentlemen is that you are clearly only placating us with dope animal facts in order to cravenly save face after getting owned and whatsmore that it is 100% working. Good ep.

Brad Brew

Washington State has a fake Bavarian town as well, Leavenworth!

nateybakesss

Wow I can’t believe you’re talking about Ukraine but not (insert anything bad happening anywhere else in the world)

EZ

Please support ukraine! Go to meatspin.com to buy a “I stand for Ukraine” shirt

Brad Overbeck

Throwing in Elephant by Tame Impala was a nice touch for the bumper after the zoo talk.

EZ

You talk like you failed an audition for a canceled avengers movie.

J.P. McD.

I haven’t listened yet but ladies and gentlemen, it looks like we’ve held Mr. Chapo accountable

Trevor

I hope you boys didn't give the elephants covid

Loco Lobo

So sick of libs comparing the Ukraine conflict to The Wire or the Avengers. Anyway, Putin is like the Godrick the Grafted and Zelensky is Starscourge Radahn. Right? I don't understand the Ukraine situation or Elden Ring's lore.

vermouth

GO TO GATLINBURG TN ITS KRAUTPILLEF

Gengeros

The leftist response to this is revolutionary defeatism, the same position Lenin and social democrats took.

etienne

I love our boy chris but he undeniably likes to keep things litteral

Gengeros

Yup this war is great for nato longevity, arms manufacturers, far right wing, and every other evil person earth. Demand peace and accept all refugees.

Gengeros

100% like iraq war. Putin’s “denazify” argument is just total bullshit and just cover for the obvious land and resource grab. Is that why Alexander dugin is an advisor in the Russia man government? It’s same as bush’s “debaathifcation” of iraq. I mean if you support Russia invading Ukraine you must logically support bush invading iraq. In fact in terms of body count, iraq is far more justified than Ukraine.

EZ

Jared your hot takes suck balls and no one cares. Stop eating all the subway sandwiches.

Null_null

It is 100% like the Iraq war in the sense the US media and both major political parties in the US are manufacturing consent for anything the US/NATO wants to do from here. As far as your equation where Russia is the US circa 2003....naaaahh. Absolutely shitty and illegal invasion on Putin's part, but he's actually up against a REAL nuclear power that wants to put Nukes...ON HIS DOORSTEP. And already has nukes there. I get you're just a guy. I'm just a guy. Neither of us is in a place to create history. But jesus christ man save these takes for your wife or your mom or whatever.

Jeff Martin

Damn I felt bad for your boy last week saying "Our stuff is probably outdated by the time this uploads" now there's 60 miles of hell on the way to Kyiv

otis

Fuck it. I'll go fight if Brace and Liz do.

Smalls

Brandon in shambles fellas

otis

(Use code CUM420 for 10% off)

Smalls

Came here for super serious analysis of Ukraine and instead I got gushing over big fluffy eyebrows and Brandon

Jacob White

“we were wrong about russia invading ukraine, they invaded… so anyways we went to a zoo and i really like pandas”

Clean Shirt Piggie

If ever Chapo needed Virgil’s perspective, it’s now

Carl Johnson

That's it. I'm done. I'm unsubscribing. Russian launches an invasion on Ukraine and this is somehow our fault? Good God I pay to be entertained not listen to Russia Propaganda. I could do that for free anywhere. Looks I like you guys a lot but this doomerism and assuming the USA is the evil empire is getting really fucking boring. Look, I come here because it's usually entertaining. I know things are hard since Trump left but please get yours shit together.

Blake Patraw

"i hate when i get the business from noahpinion!!" quote of the episode

Blake Patraw

what the hell are you talking about??

Blake Patraw

"mmm seventeen year old tits" there ya go

Greg

Yall should check out Leavenworth WA. It's also Bavarian themed

Matt Pasker

Loving the animal facts, fellas. I drove over to Atlanta for the live show and stayed the night and checked out the aquarium today. Got to watch the giant pacific octopus swim around and change color for good while. It was so fucking cool

J P 3

It's good, but worth noting that Mearsheimer was also clear that a full invasion of the country by Putin would be a massive strategic blunder. Right on both counts, perhaps.

J P 3

It's "Russian propaganda" to say that Putin made a massive strategic blunder?

J P 3

Terrell Starr really summed up war coverage best a few hours ago: "In fact, all of my TV hits tomorrow and in the future are cancelled unless I am paid. I am drawing a line in the sand. And I don't care if I ever appear on TV again. I will not be exploited! Thank you to all who have provided $$$ support. You are my REAL viewers."

caroline

what am i missing here

dog stone

best not to know

AKorgar

lol If Putin is evil for invading Ukraine then the US is definitely "the evil empire" it's kinda been doing the same exact shit for decades now

AKorgar

Putin is Voldemort, and Zelensky is like Link from Legend of Zelda

AKorgar

High five, someone give this man a beer

AKorgar

I think it was definitely a massive strategic blunder, the damage this is doing to Russia's economy, to their international reputation, to their military prestige should they continue to do poorly, and all for what kind of gain? It's absurd.

AKorgar

I remain an anarcho-monarchist

Antipaganda

Is this your first episode?

AKorgar

Jared Fogle Innocence Project

etienne

All you had to do was to follow the damn train CJ

B2B Commuter

MSNBC Brain rot update: Petro Portoshinko ( I will not look up how to spell that name) just said on morning joe that “Putin was expecting us to greet him with flowers instead we greeted him with Molotov Cocktails, which we call Banderra Smoothies.”

Doug B

I love you guys but I will never understand the zoo talk

IHaveHemorrhoids

You should go to Visnooskis house and play Elden Ring after that one show, Felix. Not sure where that guy is, so plugging for him

Isaac Jones

Cancel This is Sus, introduce Zoo Tour mini series

syd

wtf is that song at 44:45? its familiarity is bothering me deeply

Dan Z

I think the whimsical tone of this episode is in poor taste. Maybe it's because I have direct family in Ukraine but I really think this warrants a more serious tone and not another opportunity to rehash stupid bits and talk about American politics

Evan Scott

Tame Impala's 2012 breakthrough hit "Elephant"

Dan Z

Oh then I hear "enough about Ukraine let's switch gears". It's good to see how urgent this really is to Americans

BL

Growing up, I rode elephants (and camels) multiple times a year at the Cincinnati Zoo. My 3 year old, who has actually grown up around horses and has a more realistic/less Disney view of animal personalities than I did, is like, um, yeah, hard pass Mom. Lol

City Boy Media

Yeah, I wasn't really into this one either. "THE SNAKE ISLAND DEFENDERS WEREN'T KILLED, UH-UH, THEY WERE CAPTURED", who fucking cares? Civilians are being murdered here

Sammi Jawsome

The Bronx Zoo used to let you ride an elephant (I think). I have a memory as a wee lass of getting too scared to do it.

Sifl

The Atlanta Zoo used to be a pretty sad place. They had a western lowland gorilla named Willie B (after the former mayor William Hartsfield). He lived in an enclosed cage and would watch TV all day. When the zoo was renovated and created a new habitat for the gorillas, Willie B got to go outside for the first time in many years. He even assumed the role of the silverback among all the new gorillas that were put in the habitat with him.

Mike Miller

Come to Denver! I'll take you on a tour of the world's largest large carnivore sanctuary!

Julia

More animal content please. Would listen to an entire series of y’all meeting animals

Nobody

You can't make fun of libs and cons getting shit wrong all the time then just do an oopsie daisy and do the sarcastic "oh what's REALLY important is that we were wrong!" You and plenty of shitty Tankies and other left people ate shit on this and no NATO doesn't justify any invasion by Russia. US being shitty doesn't mean other nuclear powered countries should throw their weight around and take over smaller nations. Russia totally lost any moral high ground vs NATO with this. Now Tankies need to permanently fuck off for rooting for Russia to spite the US. They're just as bad as neo cons were for Iraq if not worse since nukes are involved.

Sam Zeng

Russia and more specifically Putin is totally at fault and bears responsibility for this invasion. I don't think anyone can argue otherwise. CTH did not authorize the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 but rather was wrong in assuming that Putin was a rational actor and would seek a diplomatic solution.

Sam Zeng

Its a comedy political podcast, I don't see how a more serious tone will end the conflict.

Jonathan Conklin

I don't know how you could think this wasn't going to happen the way it did. It is just an excuse for resource grabbing, it's just not USA doing it this time. The authoritarians cheering this shit in really letting the mask slip though

Dev Burton

orangutan not orangutang

Mule K.

while this is accurate you could start with getting the name right, its Zoo Atlanta

Bobby Volcano

Hearing Blake's comment in Nick's Robin Williams voice x his Virgil voice

Cooper Rodgers

"You can't make fun of libs and cons getting shit wrong all the time then just do an oopsie daisy" yeah you can

Paul larkin

Really bro? So were you enjoying comedy before this? Cause all kinds of my kin have been getting blown the fuck up by U.S. weapons constantly, but now it's someone you care about and we all gotta be serious Sam up in here. Fuck off with your righteous bullshit.

Dan Z

Yes really. Idk what you want me to say?

Damen Irving

This take is like peasants arguing which fiefdom is more evil but then not figuring out that feudalism is the problem.

Sifl

While this is accurate, you could start by properly using an apostrophe when using a contraction of "it is". See how annoying it is when all you do in a post is nit pick other people?

Epic Soundtracks

anyone using the word "tankie" unironically in 2022 goes directly on the pay no mind list. it's like 12 loud idiots on twitter. let it go.

Vincent Utah

I’m not mad about the takes on Ukraine. They were kind of expected at this point. More so just disappointed that you guys have completely checked out. Must be nice.

rtlsnk

Dan, thank you for admitting that you dont care about conflicts where you dont have family members.

Vincent Utah

Lefties falling in line with Steve Bannon’s talking points and then getting pissed at people like me for not supporting Putin has to he some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen online. Yeah, like I’m going to support Putin, a guy who would throw my trans ass into a fucking furnace if he had the chance.

Sam Zeng

Sean no amount of us caring is going to change the status of this conflict. I think its fair to say everyone here wants the war to end as soon as possible. If you have family members in Ukraine you should contact the state department and see how they can be evacuated.

Paul larkin

I don't want you to say a damn thing. Like Sam stated. work on helping your fam, and let folks listening to a comedy podcast laugh.

Paul larkin

You sound like a lib Dad, "I'm not mad at you, just disappointed" What are they suppose to do bro? Check-in? Do some symbolic shit to prove they care? WTF are you doing about this? I'm black and don't go around telling folks they "Checked-out" because they don't constantly talk about racism and police violence towards African Americans and I've literally lost family members to that shit. Hell, I'ma just go around telling every white person I know "Must be Nice". Jeezuz christ....

Vincent Utah

Oh no, some asshole on CTH called me a lib.

Paul larkin

I said you sound like a lib Dad but go off king.

Garth Hillsborough

Reminder to the dimwits and rosey-moji wastrels in the comments that if you use the term 'tankie' as if it means anything your opinion is lower than dirt

Brian Taulbee

Hang on…is Matt dating Amber? Like, Chapo Amber?

Vincent Utah

As opposed to your opinions that… wait… oh yeah, nobody fucking cares.

Sam Zeng

Russia is the aggressive force in this war there is no question at the same time we must remember that NATO and the US's action regarding the situation did not stop it and I would argue when NS2 was stopped for good was the breaking point. The threat of sanctions did not deter Russia but rather became a tit for tat game that only led to escalation. It has been a failure in that regard for both sides. Now please stop with the moralism its pathetic.

Sam Ray

More zoo coverage please

Lilbean

Wild there’s the exact same type of town with the exact same story in Washington called Leavenworth

Laurel

Great episode, but elephants are too majestic / dignified to enjoy performing for humans. It’s probably just in a good mood so it’s amusing itself as well as you. It’s nice to hear animals aren’t languishing in the zoos quite so much. Anyway- southern tour seems to be going well! 🔥

Sam Zeng

Vincent yeah if anyone that supports Putin right now is a idiot just put them on the pay no mind list.

Alexander Cobb

So no talk of Nazis in Ukraine? Very disappointed i. yah'll once again. Except Matt who is the goat.

etienne

makeing up a guy in my mind and getting mad at it

Daniel

A lot of the dour internet addicted listeners of the show (myself included) could do well to learn from the zoo segment… don’t let humanity’s death drive completely prevent you from finding some joy in the small wonders of the world! like seeing and appreciating all the variety of silly little animal tricksters some higher being put on this earth with us. The wholesomeness of the reoccurring animal/zoo segments is how I know these are people still worth listening too. Cheers

True Horror Productions

Elephants up close is a mind blower for sure, glad to hear yall enjoyed some pachyderm time. It's true you think of like an alien, theres an old larry niven where elephantlike aliens invade earth and while not widely known it stuck with me as kind of an animal nerd you know

J.P. McD.

Nah it’s a different Amber

J.P. McD.

It’s like that Zen story with the monk hanging off a cliff who eats a delicious strawberry

etienne

"chapo's take on this was really bad and it's offensive that they chose to stop talking about it"

Simon

no one is claiming russia has the moral high ground. (ok, some people do claim that, but if you were expecting to find them here, then you don't understand the show or its audience)

AKorgar

That'd be the craziest arc

Lukas Kuligowski

anyone in these comments saying they don't like zoo talk is doomed, learning gibbons and orangutans are friends made my day

AKorgar

Hey if we're supposed to not enjoy life because bad things are happening in Ukraine, you might as well just put a shotgun in your mouth over the horrors unleashed by the US on the Middle East including right now in Yemen Fuck off

AKorgar

"Oh no, some asshole on CTH called me a lib." So now you know how much we care about your fucking disappointment

Andrew Nicholson

Schenectady already has a Little Italy that’s like two blocks, we can expand

Vincent Utah

Gosh AK, you’ve been sliding into my comments so much, I’m starting to think you might have a wittle crush UwU

Alejandro Pepsi

Thanks so much for a great show Sunday, and Im glad yall had a good time at our zoo and in Helen. If youre looking for more stuff to do, there are a lot of great Civil War historical sites in GA you can bring your Matt to. Andersonville is great when the weather is as nice as it has been.

Joseph Mabrey

Putin literally committing Seppuku

Julie Baxter

If things keep getting worse, I'd rather go out laughing. Thanks guys, in advance.

AKorgar

I'd say that'd be pretty consistent with an internet narcissist

AKorgar

Sifl it's about accountability

max longtin

Always love zoo reviews/animal content. Good show guys :)

AKorgar

Nazis in Ukraine, snakes on a plane

AKorgar

And Frankenmuth, Michigan!

Sam Tung

What was the squirrel-eating bird called? Also I like the animal talk

etienne

oh yeah minor point but if this happens to be the crisis the legitimizes cryptocurrencies as a reliable mechanism for capital flight I will become The Joker edit inb4 "it already is" you know what I mean

Vincent Utah

Oh give me a fucking break bud

Baby truck

Someone should make a transcript of this ay. Always try to go back and find something never can

Evan Scott

Don't worry, I always buy an insignificant amount at times like this so that the universe spiting me prevents it from taking off again

Matthew Black

If the Russian gov’t uses crypto to evade sanctions I guarantee you crypto will not be both secure and usable anymore

Joseph Mabrey

This better not effect my NFT portfolio

Matthew Black

Wrt the capybara/rabbit—sounds like a nutria?

NYCM&AHole

Putin was sick and tired of those motherfucking Nazis in the motherfucking Ukraine

Natalie

That's a really scary situation and I hope your family is okay! I think the discussion was appropriate considering chapo is basically a comedy podcast. Also Will said multiple times during the podcast that Ukrainians didn't do anything to deserve this and he said regarding the media's extremely pro-ukraine stance "how could you blame them?".

etienne

oh yeah someone I saw on tumblr pointed out that when trump had a quote "perfect phone call", the interlocutor was Zelensky

寿帝武

This is Internet radio that won't lead you to war. "Now turn off your radio and fuck shit up!" 🎶 we were born to sin 🎶

Bodie Tack

I think they're talking about "cavies"

etienne

people are picturing in their brains what would be a really bad thing for chapo to say, then convince themselves that they said that, then get angry about it. it's fascinating

Gordon Schmidt

Nixon also definitely would've fought to the end. They'd find him in the Oval Office with a machine gun. Also, speaking of elephants, I'm reminded of the story of Kaavan, the only elephant at the Islamabad Zoo. My parents visited once in the late 90s and they said he looked absolutely miserable. Thankfully he was relocated to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia like a year and a half ago thanks to a campaign by Cher

AKorgar

Just settle the fuck down I don't even know you

Vincent Utah

Lol are you fucking serious?

Brandon

Is MTG not German?? She looks like it to me. Ive got some German step-cousins that are super dark. I could see her being some kind of mick kraut blend cuz us bog apes can vary in looks sometimes although we usually just look like dough faced funny boys with weak facial structure

Gengeros

There are Nazis everywhere, including Russia.

SF

Thank you for dunking on Noahpinion 🙏

Antonio

I know this is probably hack, but one of the best things about the Havana Syndrome claims is that if it were real, the best way to combat it would be wearing aluminum foil hats. Then, aluminum hats would become a signifier for those wanting to be taken seriously on par with lanyards

anna

damn i wanna experience the zoo with the chapo boys

kelsey

I grew up in a Bavarian themed town, Kimberley BC Canada. Just like that city you describe, they rebranded the town Bavarian after the loss of the main highway through the city. We used to host the world's largest old time accordion festival until all the old ppl going died off.

Heather L.

Looking forward to a show with Matt doing his Louisiana accent the whole time.

Nashwa khalil

I. Oop is owow 🙊 I’m just getting out. I. I. O. Oh. Oh. OhOh . Oh wow. Oh. Oh. I. I. Oh. Oh. I. Oh wow 😯. Ok.

B2B Commuter

If you’re looking for a fun way to do an episode on how Putin is ultimately a creation of American policy you could do a movie episode on Spinning Boris.

The Adventures of Mac

Y'all sounding a lot like liberals when you talk about Putin here.

James Mikulec

If you live in nashville I have an extra free ticket tonight. Not joking. Buddy fell through. Lmk if you’re interested.

Comedy News

The invasion's going very well, a major success to be celebrated, yes... go russia (?)

etienne

chris where is slop

Evan

v cool outro

Eric The Bed Humper.

Pretty weird how you guys never mentioned the racism against Russians in ukraine and the whole west backing ukraine nazis campaign since like 2014.

BryceSprungstein

they've mentioned that tons of times, its been a running joke on the podcast for years