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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, with Special Guest Robert Bryce
Friday was cap and gown day for Steve at Pepperdine's commencement for the School of Public Policy class of 2025, while John Yoo is on the road somewhere at an undisclosed location, so Steve and Lucr…
01:01:07 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Long March Back?
Another whirlwird week of controversies that exceeded our bandwidth to keep up (or at least to compress into an hour), but John Yoo, this week's host, leads us in revisiting the question of "birthrig…
00:59:38 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Band Reunion Time
John Yoo is back this week, bringing the 3WHH up to full strength again after last week's astonishingly congenial episode, which can mean only one thing—not even high tariffs, which this week's host …
01:03:49 |
Sat 12 Apr 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The New Tariff in Town
The 3WHH crew is down a glass this week because John Yoo is down with a bug and unable to join us—or was he afraid of subjecting himself to Lucretia, host for this week's episode. With fear, tremblin…
01:01:08 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Make Liberalism Great Again?
As if to put an exclamation point to the crazy story of the week about the Trump national security team adding a hostile journalist to their Signal group chat about bombing Houthi and the Blowups, St…
01:01:01 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Dog Years, Dog Days
Trump does more consequential things in a day that most presidents do in a month, so we may need to measure his tenure in office in dog years. It must certainly seem like dog days for the left, which…
00:59:02 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: OGNC Edition
The only truly functioning high-speed rail in America today is the Trump Train, and not even the prospect of a 200% tariff on the core commodity of this podcast—single malt scotch whiskies—can dampen…
01:00:19 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Sister Souljah Time for the Dems?
The whole gang is finally back together behind the bar this week, with John Yoo in the host chair skillfully leading our unruly gang in a round-robin three-subject format that we're alternating this …
00:59:14 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
The Three-Whisky Happy Hour: Emergency Midweek Edition
Why let our frenemies at the Commentary podcast (frenemies since they dissed the sacred McRib recently) have all the fun with their emergency podcasts: after today's errant Supreme Court rulings, it …
00:42:04 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 180 Proof Edition
John Yoo is away this week, so the 3WHH has brought in a 180-proof guest in John's place—the great Richard Epstein, who speaks at an average rate of 125 words a minute, with occasional gusts of 200 w…
00:47:22 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Great Reset
Our long-running intramural argument on this podcast over the Ukraine War has become just like the Ukraine War itself—lots of casualties on both sides, but very little movement from week to week. But…
00:52:56 |
Sat 22 Feb 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Is Trump Re-Writing Executive Power?
With Lucretia hosting both the episode and the bar this week (with three different whiskies just for herself), we manage to keep John Yoo from excessive gloating about the Eagles win in the Super Bow…
01:08:03 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Trump's Five Big Fights
We're only 19 days into Trump's term, but it seems like 19 months have passed already since January 20. When Alexander Hamilton wrote of "energy in the executive," he had no idea that a real estate t…
00:58:46 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: War, Peaceniks, Bishops, Senators, Onesies, Everything
This wide-ranging, round-robin format episode begins with celebrating the end of "Dry January" (which we, um, didn't much observe), mockery of Bernie Sanders' obsession with "onesies," a brief accoun…
01:00:50 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Getting Right with Free Speech
The 3WHH bartenders raise their glasses high for the first 100 hours of Trump II, which bid to replace FDR's famous "Hundred Days" for breathtaking executive action. You'd think that this is Trump's …
01:05:18 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Non-Jejune Edition
Nothing "jejune" about this edition, except perhaps for the first-ever use of "jejune" in a podcast, but it is the perfect term to describe Joe Biden's "farewell address," which, aside from its jejun…
00:52:06 |
Sat 18 Jan 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: From Emigrating to Immigrating
With this episode the Three Whisky Happy Hour emigrates into its very own identity on Ricochet and Steve's new group Substack, "Political Questions," but not to worry—the old Power Line Show will liv…
01:02:40 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Special Happy New Year's Edition
Since so many of our fellow conservative podcasts are taking the holidays off, we decided to do another special mid-week edition to observe the new year, and gear up for some changes.
Last year's end…
Last year's end…
01:04:08 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Osculate This!
Our final podcast of 2024 looks back on the top story and bottom story of the year, and you won't be surprised to see some symmetries in our answers.
But then we move on to the main event—a question f…
But then we move on to the main event—a question f…
01:00:37 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Merry Christmas Edition
We were going to take up the transcendent matters appropriate for the climax of Advent, but the headlines won't let us! The dam started breaking this week about Joe Biden's unfitness for office, whic…
01:08:22 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
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