It's Thursday, May 7th, 2026 from Peach Fish Productions. It's the gist I'm Mike Peska.

And today is a not even mad day. We've got great guests, Russ Muirhead, who if you don't know him or have heard and read him, you should.

He's a Dartmouth professor. And what's really cool is he's an elected officials. He brings a lot of perspective from that job.

And being an elected official, I don't think, drives him, like many elected officials, to say things just to get reelected.

He's elected in New Hampshire. And it's nice. He likes his job. But he's not going to distort his analysis to keep it. And Ben Dreyfus,

who is not going to distort his analysis for anyone. I think his professional career is proved.

So the one topic you won't hear us talking about, well, everything except the three we do.

But the one big one in the news is Iran and why not? What do you think we can say?

What do you think that would give us or you any extra insight into the basic facts of Iran,

which is Trump didn't think it out too well?

And now everyone's mad at him.

Plus the fact that he promised to lower prices.

And I don't know, people probably notice gas prices.

I would say maybe they're one of the things that people pay attention to.

What with them being on giant signs and everyone's life depending on filling your car up with gas?

Or even if you don't, just eating food that might have had to

have been fertilized. So what are you going to say about, at the very least, the poor execution

thereof? I did see a report in the Washington Post today headline, U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump's Hormuz

blockade for months. A confidential intelligence community assessment delivered to the White House

also finds that Iran retains a substantial missile and drone arsenal. Yeah, I think all the drones

that have been

hitting us and our allies may be attest to that. But a different way of writing this headline

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