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Steven Hayward, John Yoo, and "Lucretia" bring you a whisky-sodden perspective on the week's big headlines, and occasional deep dives into law and philosophy.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 559
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, On the 'Theological-Political Problem'
With Steve and John away overseas, Lucretia takes full control of the podcast this week, welcoming back a much more sober special guest, Prof. Vincent Munoz of Notre Dame University, this semester vi…
01:01:02 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: McDs vs Cracker Barrel, and other Burning Topics
In the same week Cracker Barrel retreats on its foolish decision to "rebrand" itself with a proposed logo as boring as a hospital parking lot sign (with new interior decor to match), John Yoo, freshl…
01:01:05 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Almost Live Q & A Episode
John Yoo is over in Korea this week, where he says he is "lecturing," but we know he's really just arranging to smuggle back a ton of tariff-free Korean barbecue sauce. So in his absence Steve and Lu…
01:06:59 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Summit of Everything
The Three Musketeers of the 3WHH are back with our typical end-of-week roundup, including what we think of the Trump-Putin summit (which will be over by the time everyone listens to this, so this is …
00:59:12 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Classic Format Conversation with Michael Walsh
This special episode marks the revival of the classic format edition with one-on-one conversations between Steve and a special guest, with the first in the series being author Michael Walsh, discussi…
00:56:23 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: With Special Guest Star Ken Green
This week's episode expands the format to include a guest appearance by environmental scientist Ken Green, whe recently joined the ranks of contributors to Steve's "Political Questions" Substack (sig…
01:00:53 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Tempest in a D Cup Edition
This week the 3WHH lives up to its name, as two of us were half in the bag—maybe more than half in the bag in Steve's case—when we recorded late in the evening because difficult travel schedules, but…
00:59:21 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: High Crimes & Misdemeanors
We lead this week's show with a few short news announcements, including new menu items from McDonalds to excite John, and the debut of a new podcast competitor: Hadley Arkes and his merry band at the…
01:04:08 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
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 Clubho…
01:04:23 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Special AWOL Edition
Behold the great 3WHH fugitive episode. Although it was posted over the weekend, somehow an Internet gremlin or something disappeared it! But now it's back, in its restored glory. (Well, almost resto…
01:08:28 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Gala July 4 Special Edition
The 3WHH bartenders take time away from the news headlines and court cases to take up some aspects of patriotism (but also with a tutorial for John about the mellotron!). We start with an origin sto…
01:06:47 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Daddy's Home
A NATO potentate may—or may not—have said this week that President Trump is the "daddy" of the alliance, but daddy is firmly back in charge here at the 3WHH, as Steve has finally decided to rejoin th…
01:03:41 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Successfully Suppressing the Rebellion
After last week's thrashing after leaving John and Lucretia with the car key to the podcast. Steve threatened to return this week like George Washington leading the troops to squash the Whiskey Rebel…
00:58:10 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Unplugged (or Unhinged?) Edition
Hoo boy—Steve wasn't able to work out the schedule (and internet acess in the Norwegian Sea) to join Joohn and Lucretia for this week's episode, so he left them completely unsupervised, resulting in …
01:12:18 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Northern Exposure Edition
With two of the three bartenders hanging around near or above the arctic circle this week, this is an official Northern Exposure episode of 3WHH, with Lucretia, instead of channeling her usual Barry …
01:04:36 |
Sat 07 Jun 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Time for Viking Justice?
John Yoo hosts this week where there is so much free trade in ideas that you'd need a 1,000% tariff to slow it down. Which the U.S. Court of Intenational Trade attempted to do for about six hours, du…
00:58:34 |
Fri 30 May 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: John Yoo's Top Five Legal Rules
Lucretia hosts this week's episode, and puts Steve and John through their paces, challenging both to judge Trump's winning streak (John isn't so sure), plus more mixed signals from the Supreme Court,…
01:00:19 |
Fri 23 May 2025
The Whisky Happy Hour: Lucretia's List of the Five Dumbest Ideas
One of Lucretia's favorite epithets is "that's the dumbest idea," so we decided to put her on the spot and demand a list of "Lucretia's Top Five Dumbest Ideas" for this episode, but not before a thor…
00:58:02 |
Sat 17 May 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Neoconclave Edition!
We're up a day early with this special emergency edition of the 3WHH because it isn't every millennium when you get an American Pope. With John Yoo hosting this week we hold ecumenical court on what …
01:05:31 |
Fri 09 May 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Lookism and Imperial Conquest Redivivus
Lucretia hosts this week as the Three Musketeers are back together again, taking on Trump at the 100 Day mark, the latest in lawfare, the dismal Canadian election, whose solution John Yoo suggests is…
01:09:57 |
Sat 03 May 2025
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