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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: "Never Murder a Man Who Is Committing Suicide"
Lucretia hosts this week's episode, reminding us once again that Republicans are living up to their reputation as "the stupid party" with the proposed "Anti-Semitism Awareness Act" that seems to have…
00:59:58 |
Sat 04 May 2024
Victims of Communism Memorial Day
Today is May Day, but also the Victims of Communism Memorial Day, and as such today is the prefect days for this classic-hybrid format podcast, featuring Steve Hayward in a conversation with Elizabet…
00:58:50 |
Wed 01 May 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Sober Thoughts on Immunity
We're going up a day earlier than usual this week, partly because our constantly irregular travel schedules complicated things again, but more importantly to be timely, as John, Steve, and Lucretia h…
01:01:08 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
The Two Whisky Happy Hour: Will It Get Worse Before It Gets Worse?
This week's ad-free episode is probably better thought of as a Two Whisky Happy Hour, because John Yoo is away on a lecture- and Philly-cheesesteak-procurement tour back east, and Lucretia is out of …
01:00:46 |
Sat 20 Apr 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Letter from the Birmingham Starbucks Edition
Steve hosts this crisp episode despite his creaky voice from a springtime bug (and Lucretia is partly hobbled, too) covering a lot of ground, starting with a brief recap of the latest (unanimous!) pr…
01:08:41 |
Sun 14 Apr 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: On Earthquakes, Physical and Political
John Yoo takes command of host duties this week, as Steve was on the road at an academic conference at City University of New York, where a knowledgeable faculty member remarked that he was surprised…
01:19:13 |
Sat 06 Apr 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: To Obscenity and Beyond
This week's episode has it all, starting with the lamentable fact that when you hear "porn is everywhere these days," it included even the Powerline website this week, and then proceeding to the obsc…
01:16:33 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour—With a Twist!
This episode could be mistaken for the Three Martini Happy Hour, because this week's episode comes with a tangy twist. John Yoo is away this week, so we brought in a ringer to take his place: Prof. H…
01:17:39 |
Sat 23 Mar 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Hur, Harried, Hopeless, and Fiery!
Move over "Republicans pounce" as the favorite media deflection. We now know that when an old man yells at clouds—or members of Congress—the media fall in line and declare it "fiery."
Well the 3WHH is…
Well the 3WHH is…
01:08:38 |
Sat 16 Mar 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Normalizing Dishonesty Edition
Lucretia hosts this week's episode, which we recorded in the morning over coffee instead of whisky because travel schedules prevented the normal and proper Friday evening happy hour, and guess what? …
01:17:48 |
Sat 09 Mar 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Eye-Bleach Edition
This episode has everything: a how-to guerilla guide to improving your McDonald's hamburger experience; a spirited discussion of the Alabama Supreme Court decision that defines frozen embryos as pers…
01:10:34 |
Sat 24 Feb 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Real Prosecutors of Atlanta Unreality Show
We're up a day early with this week's episode because of schedule problems, but mostly to get a drop on the streaming services with our new (un)reality TV show, "The Real Prosecutors of Atlanta," sta…
01:05:58 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The 25th Hour
The Twenty-Fifth Hour is the 1950 novel by the Romanian writer C. Virgil Gheorghiu that weaves a tangled, early post-modern tale of central Europe and the Balkans in World War II. It is justly forgot…
01:13:31 |
Sat 10 Feb 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Civil War and the Fire This Time
John Yoo is where?? Mexico!?!? So after all that talk the last couple weeks saying the situation at the southern border did not constitute an "invasion," now he's in Mexico on some undisclosed clande…
01:11:00 |
Sat 03 Feb 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Civil War at the Border Special Edition
This special ad-free edition, posted a day ahead of the usual schedule because of the urgency of events at the southern border, finds the 3WHH hosts engaging in their own civil war over the question …
01:13:06 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Inside John's Briefs, Plus the Civil War Over the Civil War
This week's episode covers more ground more quickly than a Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes passing attack. Which the Philadephia Eagles won't get to experience because they flopped in the first round o…
01:04:53 |
Sat 20 Jan 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Iowa Stubborn Edition
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses Monday, we got to wondering just who or what lives up to the description of "Iowa Stubborn" in Meredith Wilson's "Music Man":
And we're so by God stubborn
We can stand …
And we're so by God stubborn
We can stand …
01:11:28 |
Sat 13 Jan 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Happy Insurrection Day Edition
Ronald Reagan used to joke that for Republicans, every day is the 4th of July, while for Democrats every day is April 15. Today we need to update that contrast by noting that the favorite new holiday…
01:21:40 |
Sat 06 Jan 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Gala New Year's Edition
Who needs a rockin new year's party when you have the Three Whisky Happy Hour in peak form, dishing out on the top stories of 2023, and, in the spirit of the late financial analyst Byron Wein, offeri…
01:22:14 |
Sat 30 Dec 2023
A Conversation with Will Inboden
This special holiday week bonus episode features a conversation between Steve and Will Inboden, author of a fabulous recent book based on the very latest declassified files of the Reagan presidency e…
00:40:07 |
Wed 27 Dec 2023
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