High Potential and Whiskey On The Rocks. With guests Leo Woodall and Quintessa Swindell

High Potential and Whiskey On The Rocks. With guests Leo Woodall and Quintessa Swindell

Author: Empire Magazine January 20, 2025 Duration: 1:16:35

We’re chatting Prime Target with Leo Woodall and Quintessa Swindell this week (34:16), before hand-picking a single pair of shows to review this week — which has a lot more to do an array of embargoes than an indicator of special quality. Still, we’re back in procedural land for High Potential (54:53) and back in the ‘80s for a bit of geopolitical wrangling with submarines in Swedish miniseries Whiskey On The Rocks (1:03:21) — both on Disney+. Plus we get a small assortment of listener questions from Kay and Boyd reveals his unnatural love of the big light.

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