Power Line
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: Globull Threats to Liberty
This special mid-week holiday edition of the 3WHH makes up for the lost ground over the weekend, when schedules prevented the bar from opening at any of the usual meet-up times. Steve, this week's ho…
00:57:59 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Almost Live from Florence!
So your three bartenders weren't able to assemble even virtually this week for our usual format—John is away on a clandestine mission stalking the elusive McRib, while Steve and Lucretia are also lar…
00:20:40 |
Sat 14 Dec 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Repatriation at Last!
The Three Whisky Happy Hour gang is finally all back in the U.S. after weeks of galavanting overseas, and boy is there a lot to catch up on. Among our topics this week are the signs and wonders that …
01:15:42 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Landslide or Earthquake?
Two-thirds of the 3WHH crew were back home in the states for Thanksgiving, while Steve is still galavanting around coastal Italy, defiling the reputation of this podcast by drinking Negronis at happy…
01:08:30 |
Sat 30 Nov 2024
The Three Chianti Happy Hour: Reflections from Tuscany
This week's special episode comes from Tuscany, where the Three Whisky Happy Hour gang put aside their whisky glasses and took up tasting chinati at Castello de Cacchiano between academic conferences…
01:03:37 |
Mon 25 Nov 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Gonzo Unplugged Edition
This is going to be unlike any previous edition of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, because it was literally recorded during happy hour at the annual meeting of the Federalist Society in Washington, in a…
00:33:06 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Priorities for Trump II
The Power Line single-malt whisky bar is still trying to process Donald Trump's decisive victory in the election, and this episode reflecting on the scene offers up a few fresh (we hope) takeaways fr…
01:10:27 |
Sat 09 Nov 2024
The Three (Five!) Whisky Happy Hour: Election Night Vigil Edition
For our many regular listeners who were not able to join us last night for our live taping of this special mid-week episode that included Scott Johnson and (very late) John Hinderaker (hence the "Fiv…
01:05:46 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Garbage Time
In our last episode before the election, the 3WHH bartenders pour a stiff one in honor of the end of recycling, since were back to pure garbage now, though Biden getting in his last chomps of a baby …
01:05:30 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: French Fries for the Home Stretch
So it was Hitler week for Democrats, who are still fuming over being cooked by Donald Trump in a McDonald's deep fryer, and covering up their indigestion with an E.coli outbreak. Behind the public po…
00:52:18 |
Sat 26 Oct 2024
Classic Edition: "Agents of a Hostile Foreign Power"
The news out over the weekend that Israel's attack plans against Iran have been leaked by our government and/or European governments ought to be a major scandal and cause for a serious criminal inves…
00:31:07 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Back to the Classroom!
The Three Whisky gang were together in person live late today, the culmination of an intensive three-day project that we describe at the opening segment of the show. Fortunately John Yoo's office was…
00:59:35 |
Sun 20 Oct 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Make Citizenship Great Again
Lucretia hosts this week's episode, which takes up exactly where we left off last week's episode—with the topic of vote fraud and whether Democrats might (ahem) steal the election from Trump. Without…
01:07:36 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
The Three Whisly Happy Hour: October Surprises Edition
October is not even one week along and we've already had enough "October surprises" to span about five years. First, the epiphany of J.D. Vance, Superstar. If he had been any better we'd need to enli…
00:56:48 |
Sat 05 Oct 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Stalking Kamala Edition
The whole gang is finally back stateside and even in the same time zone, but somehow John and Lucretia found themselves being stalked by Kamala Harris on Friday. First the Veep extraordinaire turned…
01:02:08 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, After All
Well, a forensic miracle recovered the lost or rogue audio file for this week's episode, which feature just John Yoo and Lucretia because Steve was in some kind of second-hand smoke daze over in Amst…
01:18:40 |
Sun 22 Sep 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: No Garlands for Garland
The whole gang is back together this week with a rousing review of the week's highlights, including a post-modern take on the Trump-Harris debate, and the dogs-and-cats-living-togther-before-being-ea…
01:11:46 |
Sun 15 Sep 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Analogy-Free Edition!
With Steve stuck on an ice floe somewhere up around the Arctic Circle, John and Lucretia run wild (also long!) with the microphone in his absence, riffing along about ther latest in lawfare—did Judge…
01:20:10 |
Sat 07 Sep 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Who Is This "Prudence" Person?
After some preliminary discussion of hot dogs and Kamala's stolen fast food valor, this special episode gets down to serious business—a seminar on the topic of political prudence for a thoroughly rec…
01:08:30 |
Sat 31 Aug 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Democratic Nomos
John Yoo hosts this week, and adds to his appalling hypocrisy with his admission that he is teaching a class this summer on the Law of the Sea treaty, even as he continues to embargo any and all disc…
01:08:30 |
Sat 24 Aug 2024
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