{"podcast":{"title":"Kibbe on Liberty","slug":"kibbe-on-liberty-687266","podcast_index_feed_id":687266,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BMDC2113717430","website_url":"https://get.blazetv.com/kibbe/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/07ba0ec6-28d7-11ea-b588-cb5e2f3009c4/image/784f6d34e32fc76d6f4e72be9b9d199a.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Blaze Podcast Network","episode_count":395,"summary":"Kibbe on Liberty is a weekly podcast with libertarian author and economist, Matt Kibbe. Kibbe believes that honest conversations, driven by intellectual curiosity and mutual respect, can ignite a new revolution of free thinking and a willingness to question the official narrative. That means talking, and listening, to a wide variety of people outside the echo chamber of officially sanctioned experts. Kibbe on Liberty's guests include politicians, economists, musicians, comedians, writers, radio personalities, activists, journalists, and even magicians—with topics of conversation ranging from current affairs to obscure philosophy, from craft beer to the Grateful Dead. Cold one in hand, settle in for the next brain-stimulating hour of Kibbe on Liberty. As the president of Free the People, Kibbe has decades of experience in the libertarian political sphere. He is the author of three books, including Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff, a #2 NY Times Best Seller. Kibbe is a fanatical DeadHead, drinker of great whisky, and collector of obscure books on Austrian economics.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T06:20:07.000361+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kibbe-on-liberty-687266"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 376 | The War in Iran Is Going Badly | Guest: Kelley Vlahos","slug":"ep-376-the-war-in-iran-is-going-badly-guest-kelley-vlahos","published_at":"2026-03-11T15:25:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kibbe-on-liberty-687266/ep-376-the-war-in-iran-is-going-badly-guest-kelley-vlahos","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kibbe-on-liberty-687266","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/4V6da/arttrk.com/p/BLZM1/verifi.podscribe.com/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/285/pscrb.fm/rss/p/chrt.fm/track/1655CF/cohst.app/pdcst/5I2S5F/traffic.megaphone.fm/BMDC6674876402.mp3?updated=1775568133","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/4V6da/arttrk.com/p/BLZM1/verifi.podscribe.com/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/285/pscrb.fm/rss/p/chrt.fm/track/1655CF/cohst.app/pdcst/5I2S5F/traffic.megaphone.fm/BMDC6674876402.mp3?updated=1775568133","summary":"After premising his 2024 campaign on the promise of no new wars, President Donald Trump is taking military action in Iran that has already cost over a thousand civilian lives. Matt Kibbe is joined by Kelley Vlahos, editor in chief of Responsible Statecraft and a senior adviser at the Quincy Institute, to discuss the confusing rationale for this war and the best-case scenario Americans can hope to see. The administration has succeeded in killing the ayatollah, only to replace him with his more radical son, so any pretense of liberating the Iranian people seems farcical. Moreover, there appears to be no strategic plan or exit strategy to avoid turning this war into an Iraq-style quagmire. The best we can hope for is that Trump declares victory and pulls out before more lives are lost, but even in that case the reversal of one of his key campaign promises is likely to cost the Republicans badly in the midterm elections.","meta_description":"After premising his 2024 campaign on the promise of no new wars, President Donald Trump is taking military action in Iran that has already cost over a tho…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5048,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kibbe-on-liberty-687266/episodes/ep-376-the-war-in-iran-is-going-badly-guest-kelley-vlahos/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kibbe-on-liberty-687266/ep-376-the-war-in-iran-is-going-badly-guest-kelley-vlahos.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}