{"podcast":{"title":"Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews","slug":"scott-horton-show-just-the-interviews-970238","podcast_index_feed_id":970238,"rss_url":"http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Scotthortonshow","website_url":"https://scotthorton.org/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cfcff9a4-a62d-11ec-9ad5-3388d66ec854/image/just_interviews_2021.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Scott Horton","episode_count":664,"summary":"This podcast is for individual interviews on the Scott Horton Show. See the Q & A show feed to hear Scott answer listener questions and for the full show archives. Scott Horton is the author of Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, and is the host of the Scott Horton Show podcast. He has conducted over 5,500 interviews with authors, journalists, activists, and whistleblowers on the most important foreign policy issues since 2003.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T10:18:35.435317+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scott-horton-show-just-the-interviews-970238"},"episode":{"title":"4/17/26 Michele McPhee on the Unanswered Questions about the Boston Marathon Bombing and Why They Still Matter","slug":"4-17-26-michele-mcphee-on-the-unanswered-questions-about-the-boston-marathon-bombing-and-why-they-still-matter","published_at":"2026-04-21T14:54:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scott-horton-show-just-the-interviews-970238/4-17-26-michele-mcphee-on-the-unanswered-questions-about-the-boston-marathon-bombing-and-why-they-still-matter","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scott-horton-show-just-the-interviews-970238","url":"https://scotthorton.org/interviews/4-17-26-michele-mcphee-on-the-unanswered-questions-about-the-boston-marathon-bombing-and-why-they-still-matter/","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/SCHM7064139790.mp3?updated=1776783864","summary":"Scott interviews author and journalist Michele McPhee about the extensive research she’s done on the Boston Marathon Bombing that happened exactly thirteen years ago this week. Scott and McPhee dig into the background of the Tsarnaev brothers, the holes in the story that they carried out the bombing entirely on their own, how the Russians warned the FBI about the brothers before the attack, the broader political and geopolitical context that the Tsarnaevs and the US and Russian governments were navigating at the time and much more. Discussed on the show: Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing by Michele R. McPhee Mayhem: Unanswered Questions about the Tsarnaev Brothers, the US Government and the Boston Marathon Bombing by Michele R. McPhee The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (IMDb) The Terror Factory by Trevor Aaronson Michele R. McPhee is a screenwriter and best selling true crime author; five-time Emmy-nominated television investigative producer in Boston for ABC News; award-winning columnist; contributing editor to Newsweek and writer for Boston and LA Magazines. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth app: https://podsworth.com Use code HORTON50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Scott Horton Show! For more on Scott's work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott's other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott's books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: T…","meta_description":"Scott interviews author and journalist Michele McPhee about the extensive research she’s done on the Boston Marathon Bombing that happened exactly thirtee…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4837,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scott-horton-show-just-the-interviews-970238/episodes/4-17-26-michele-mcphee-on-the-unanswered-questions-about-the-boston-marathon-bombing-and-why-they-still-matter/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scott-horton-show-just-the-interviews-970238/4-17-26-michele-mcphee-on-the-unanswered-questions-about-the-boston-marathon-bombing-and-why-they-still-matter.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}