Episode 326: Unrest in Iran
The McCarthy Report
National Review
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the McCarthy Report, the podcast where I, Rich Lowry, discussed with Annie McCarthy, the latest legal and national security issues. This week, what else? The unrest in Iran. If for some |
| 0:21.8 | reason you're not already following us on a streaming service, by the way, you can find us |
| 0:25.1 | everywhere from Spotify to Apple Podcasts. And please give this podcast an Annie McCarthy, the glowing, |
| 0:30.2 | indeed gushing, five-star reviews that they deserve wherever you listen to your podcast. And now, |
| 0:35.8 | without further ado, I welcome to this very podcast |
| 0:38.6 | through the miracle of Riverside, none other than Annie McCarthy. Rich, how are you? |
| 0:43.9 | Good, Andy. How are you? I'm good. You were right. Indiana is like a juggernaut. |
| 0:50.3 | They're really, did you see? There were like crazy statistics after that game last week where they went 55 to 20, |
| 0:59.9 | but it was like the fifth game this season, |
| 1:05.1 | if I'm remembering this right, |
| 1:07.0 | that this quarterback Mendoza had more touchdown passes than incompletions in the game. |
| 1:14.4 | And apparently, that's only happened like two other times. |
| 1:20.5 | Maybe I'm getting this mixed up with the other crazy statistics about, like, teams that beat other teams. |
| 1:26.5 | They score more than 50 and they beat other teams by like, you know, |
| 1:30.1 | however many touchdowns. |
| 1:31.6 | But like they're in a category now that is shared only by like a Yale and Princeton team |
| 1:38.3 | that were at the beginning or of the 20th century or the end of the 19th century. |
| 1:43.3 | I mean, that's how crazy these |
| 1:44.6 | stats are. Unbelievable. There's a phrase sometimes I think of in these context, Tom Cotton once, |
| 1:50.2 | he's a Patriots fan, I'm a Titans fan, and this was during the Tom Brady heyday, and the Titans |
| 1:54.8 | had somehow made it into the playoffs, and we're playing in Foxborough. And he told me beforehand, |
| 1:59.9 | my Patriots are going to monkey-stomp your Titans this Sunday. |
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