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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Analogy-Free Edition!

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With Steve stuck on an ice floe somewhere up around the Arctic Circle, John and Lucretia run wild (also long!) with the microphone in his absence, riffing along about ther latest in lawfare—did Judge Marchan blink by postponing his sentencing of Trump? Is a Hunter Biden pardon in the works? And what the hell is Jack Smith up to now? Etc.

And are we really going to do Russia Hoax 2.0? Gee—if only there was someone on the episode who could offer an analogy from Russia Hoax 1.0, but the usual supplier was banished.

Just imagine how long this episode would have been with some historical analogies, which, let's face it, are the "more cowbell" of the Three Whisky Happy Hour.

Host:
Steve Hayward

Discussion (4)

  • Scott Wilmot@ScottWilmot

    I enjoyed the follow-on discussion on prudence. I know Hadley Arkes through First Things. I was always hoping one of you would bring up the fact that prudence is one of the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance), the four principal virtues upon which the rest of the moral virtues turn or are hinged.

  • WilliamWarford@WilliamWarford

    The situation with Steve being gone makes me think of June 2, 1925, when Yankee first baseman Wally Pipp suffered a headache and took the day off. He was replaced by Lou Gehrig, who then played the next 2,130 games at first base for the Yanks. I hope Steve is not the Wally Pipp of TWHH.

    We need all three of our friends in the starting lineup! John and Lucretia did a great job, but we need Los Tres Amigos. Steve is, as Reggie Jackson said of himself during his own Yankee days, "the straw that stirs the drink."

    (Note that the Wally Pipp story is not exactly analogous because there was no third panelist on the show today to take Steve's place and potentially wrest the mike from his hands. In other words, it's sort of like a Steve analogy.)