The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Making Child’s Play of Everyone’s Files
Among the revelations of this week’s episode that were entirely predictable when you think about it: “Lucretia” was a child TV star in Mason City, Iowa, on the local non-PBS kid’s show “Bart’s Clubhouse“; John Yoo confesses he was bad at sports as a schoolkid; and as everyone can guess, in childhood Steve merely aspired to be a walking historical analogy when he grew up. Meanwhile, poor Phil Munoz, last week’s drive-by guest, is still in therapy. . . So what’s all this about the Epstein Files? Does Richard Epstein still have any unexpressed thoughts at this point. . . Wait. What’s that? You mean Jeffrey Epstein’s files? Never mind. Anyway, we weigh the evidence and circumstances as to whether Epstein’s exploits merit elevation to the status of plausible conspiracy or not.
And this week saw the fulfillment of Glenn Garvin’s classic 1983 article, “How Do I Hate NPR? Let Me Count the Ways.” And Steve offers his favorite recipes for how he’d like to see Big Bird cooked.
Other name checks on this episode include Zohran Mamdani, Upton Sinclair, Tony Podesta, Jasmine Crockett, and Craig Masback (bonus points if you know that name). And some exit music in a minor key to bring listeners back donw after this extra-exuberant episode (and also to annoy Lucretia. . .).
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