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945 - Hashtag Fordow Fail feat. Libby Watson (6/23/25)

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Chapo Trap House

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Libby Watson returns to the show! We discuss the weekend’s limited US strike on Iran and Trump’s baffling behavior around what already may be a winding-down conflict. We also talk Democratic & media responses, and where Iran might go from here. Then: all eyes are on Zohran in the NYC mayoral primary, voting is tomorrow, we discuss Zorhan’s campaign and his chances of bringing this all home. Finally, we celebrate the love & marriage of an old friend of the show with their NYT vows section announcement. Find Libby’s new show “What’s All This Then” wherever you get podcasts, and all her other links here: https://linktr.ee/whatsallthisthen New merch for the summer up at https://chapotraphouse.store

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0:00.0

All I want to be it's a joke Hello, everybody is there a chopro.

0:39.5

Hello, everybody. It's Monday, June 23rd, and we've got some chopper for you.

0:44.9

On today's episode, Felix and I are joined by our old pal Libby Watson, who is back with us.

0:46.6

Libby, thanks so much for being here.

0:49.2

Hello, thanks for having me again. It's been a while.

0:50.9

It's been too long, Libby. And originally, we were going to have you on last Monday. And then it

0:55.6

became clear that the United States was going to get involved with the war in Iran. So, like,

0:59.8

this whole week, I'm like, oh, God, I'm going to have to do serious episodes all week. You know,

1:04.8

what more is there to say? And Felix, to echo your concerns, I was like, we got Libby coming up for Monday. What are we all thinking?

1:11.2

Really don't want to do another serious episode. But thankfully, Donald Trump has heard our concerns.

1:18.5

He has responded by doing possibly the most farcical U.S. military in history.

1:26.4

So, like, I'd like to begin there.

1:27.7

I'm glad that we don't have to do a serious show.

1:29.9

And I don't want to underplay the gravity of this situation.

1:34.1

But thus far, US war in Iran seems to be quite a dud from both sides.

1:41.0

Yeah.

1:41.8

So Iran, like, they did another, like, symbolic strike, you know, flashbacks to True Promise

1:48.9

2.

1:50.0

I, if you're an AOR fan like me, you remember True Promise 2.

1:55.4

It was like, it was last year.

1:57.7

It was like, hey, we could do this if we wanted to strike, which, you know, to be fair to Iran, would have worked like 10 years ago, but just doesn't work, at least on Israel during the suicide pact, murder suicide fact years.

2:11.8

But this time they did it again.

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