Iranian Would-Be Assassins and Shoe Would-Be Bombers
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
An interview with Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey, co-author of 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, covers Biden’s decline, Trump’s courtroom rage, and the political strategy behind legal delays. Also , how potent are Iranian-directed assassination crews? And, as the TSA begins phasing out its decades-old shoe removal policy, a look back on how we were very very concerned with terrorism then, and weirdly blasé about terrorism now. And finally a quiz sifts through the TSA’s baffling baggage rules, from tamales and chapstick to harry potter wands (non-operational).
Produced by Corey Wara
Production Coordinator Ashley Khan
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mike. I'm here to tell you about a substack live I'm doing. It's Thursday at 3, 3 Eastern. |
| 0:06.4 | That'll be noon on the West Coast because I'm doing it with Megan Down. She's actually the host for this one. |
| 0:11.2 | And Megan is a fantastic essayist and writer and book critic and a lot of other things. |
| 0:16.4 | She's also promoting an event she puts together. It's called the unspeakeasy, and one will be in New York |
| 0:22.3 | City, a small gathering for big ideas, two days of off-the-record conversation with your |
| 0:27.1 | favorite independent thinkers. I'm one. We assume I'm one of your favorites. And also Peter |
| 0:33.8 | Moskos is coming on, Rob Henderson, Carol Hoeven, |
| 0:38.5 | John McWater, |
| 0:39.9 | Alana Newhouse. |
| 0:41.8 | These are indeed some of my favorites. |
| 0:43.6 | So if you're interested in that, |
| 0:46.6 | go to the unspeakeezy.com. |
| 0:48.3 | That's all the way in October. |
| 0:49.3 | Just Thursday. |
| 0:51.3 | Listen to me and Megan Down. |
| 0:52.1 | You ready? |
| 0:53.5 | Chopin it up. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah, we're cutting edge communicators. |
| 1:03.2 | It's Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 1:04.3 | It's The Gist. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm Mike Peska. |
| 1:10.7 | And today on the show, we're having Josh Dossy, who wrote one of these big political lookbacks, and that's what |
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