The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Rolling Road Trip Edition

About this episode

The episode discusses jet lag, political dysfunction, and recent news events while preparing for an upcoming conference in Sicily.

We could have called this the jeg lag from hell episode, as John Yoo managed to spend 11 hours on a airplane yesterday that didn't fly anywhere, while Steve, already planted as an advance guard in Palermo ahead of next week's conference in Sicily where the 3WHH crew will be together in person at the University of Enna, is batting both jet lag and a airplane-acquired bug that left his voice raspy. So Lucretia hosts this week, and wonders whether both parties are a hot mess at the moment, what to make of the scene from the cashiering of Messy Massie to Der Platner of Maine to Ken Paxton in Texas, but landing on the breath of fresh air that is Spencer Pratt. In the middle of taping the news broke of the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard, so we pivoted to an impromptu discussion of the wider scene of dysfunction in the "intelligence community." Steve made a case for bringing back James Jesus Angleton from the dead, drawing the predictable guffaws from John. All just a warm up for our on-location episodes next week.

People in this episode

Hosts: Steve, Lucretia

Topics covered

• jet lag
• political commentary
• intelligence community
• current events
• travel
• party dysfunction

Keywords

• jet lag
• politics
• intelligence community
• Tulsi Gabbard
• James Jesus Angleton
• Spencer Pratt
• current events

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Enna

Places: Palermo, Sicily, Texas, Maine

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