White House Spy Protocols (and Cooking)
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Marty Mongiello is a former White House Chef and GM at Camp David, and joins the show to discuss what it's like working inside of the White House, and the astonishing amount of counter intelligence operations staff must deal with.
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Chef Marty's cooking class: mightyheaton.com/cooking
My forthcoming book launch and reading will be at Cosmic Coffee in Austin, TX at 4:00 PM on Saturday, January 15th. See you then!
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| 1:32.4 | I'm Andrew Heaton and I just finished recording today's |
| 1:36.0 | interview and it is wild. Wild. I'm very excited about this one. To wit, a friend put me in contact with a former White House chef and |
| 1:45.0 | asked me if I wanted to talk to him and I thought, yeah, okay, that's kind of |
| 1:49.0 | interesting. I mean I don't know a lot about cooking, but it'll be a nice change |
| 1:52.3 | of pace to find out, you know, which |
| 1:54.6 | president liked mayonnaise and what first lady would day drink, that kind of thing. |
| 1:58.5 | We'll do kind of an interesting vocation today instead of, you know, the kind of more thinking political stuff. |
| 2:05.4 | It's a unique job, it'll be interesting. |
| 2:07.4 | But then today's episode took a left turn real quick and we just go into spy stuff like spy stuff and |
| 2:15.1 | rigorous White House security, straight up Tom Clancy kind of things because |
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