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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Phila-Pest Edition

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Settle in with your best chilled Hungarian dessert wine and Philly cheese steak for this cosmopolitan issue, which finds John Yoo—host for this week's episode—tired out from looting in his home town of Philadelphia, while Lucretia and Steve are together in Budapest carrying on with more conspiracies against the international rules-based order.

John gives us on-scene reports from ground-zero of the "recreational shopping" going on in Philadelphia, plus an update on his three days of testimony in the incredible John Eastman disbarrment trial going on in California. We also cover the aftermath of our event with Heather Mac Donald at Berkeley Law, which made it all the way to Jesse Watter's show on Fox News, and has gained something like 3 million views online.

But that's nothing compared to our beat down on the implosion of Ibram X. Kendi (Sen. John Kennedy's favorite "butthole professor"), which was not only predictable, but was predicted! By Glenn Loury, among others, whose profanity-laced rant about Kendi to John McWhorter we excerpt here for its news value, but also underscore the main point that the academic exaltation of an intellectual fraud like Kendi is another indication of the corruption and deep politicization of our universities today.

Government shutdown? GOP debate? The rest of the Supreme Court docket for the new term beginning Monday. Yes—we cover all that too. Better get a second bottle of Hungarian wine.

Host:
Steve Hayward
Guests:
JYJohn Yoo"Lucretia"

Discussion (2)

  • WilliamWarford@WilliamWarford

    I usually don't like profanity but in this case: Go Glenn!

    Surprised no one mentioned the Media Wing of the Democrat Party in the discussion of shutdowns. The GOP side of the story never gets through to the tens of millions of people who don't really follow the news. They just get the media sound bite: "Republicans shut down the government..." It is truly a dilemma because the Republicans can't win, even when they are right. If they take a stand, they will get blamed, and lose their majority in the House and became even less able to stop the Dems.

    Nice exit music but it was NOT Genesis, despite the 50th anniversary of "Selling England by the Pound" on Thursday. I guess we can forgive Steve because he is on the road.