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3 Whisky Happy Hour

by Ricochet

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. Listen to the Three-Whisky Happy hour, along with more than 40 other original podcasts, at Ricochet.com. No paid subscription required.

Chart trend

Position in the Politics chart (US), last 90 days.

#117
all-time peak
119
days in the top 200 since Nov 2024

Latest episodes

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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 25 Years On

This week's episode is 100% ad-free, as we take up the somber subject of "memory against forgetting" (to borrow Milan Kundera's useful phrase) on the subject of the 25th

Sep 11
1 h 04 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Is There a Modern Remedy for Ancient Hatred?

John Yoo is off again this week (I know—many of you think he's "off" every week!), so joining us as a special guest is Titus Techera, who wears many hats, including execu

Sep 4
1 h 05 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Privateering Edition

The band is back together again this week as John Yoo ends his truancy, and we take up the fresh legal and constitutional disputes of the moment, starting with the Suprem

Aug 28
1 h 14 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: New Headlines and Old Time Religion

We're a day and a half late with this episode, but better late than never. It's just Steve and Lucretia this week—John Yoo will be back next week—and they spend the first

Aug 23
1 h 14 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Will the Rotting Timbers of Academia Finally Fall?

The shocking suicide of the fraudulent Jason Arday alongside the Atlantic cover story about how a mostly leftist scholar "of color" (Tyler Austin Harper) quit his tenure

Aug 16
1 h 18 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Post-Liberalism + "Henry Kissinger" Cameo?

This week's episode features frequent guest Phil Munoz of Notre Dame University, sitting in for John Yoo, discussing his very timely new article in First Things magazine

Aug 8
1 h 11 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Emergency Executive Order Edition

President Trump's executive orders Thursday afternoon attempting to re-ground his opposition to birthright citizenship prompted an emergency livestream with me and Lucret

Aug 7
34 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Hiatus Is Over!

The hiatus for the rebooted 3WHH is over! We got the band back together, and to further paraphrase the political philosophy of the Ellwood brothers, it's 70 minutes to th

Aug 1
1 h 14 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Emergency Edition, with John Eastman

Lots of people didn't get the memo that the 3WHH is on hiatus for the month of July as we revamp the show's format and lineup, but since I don't want loyal listeners to g

Jul 14
52 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Gala July 4 Special Edition

Two guesses about the topic of this special bonus edition for today's semiquincentennial, and neither of them count. That's right: we take up the Declaration of Independe

Jul 4
55 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Grading the Supreme Court Term

Well, that was quite a finish for this year's Supreme Court term, which, as usual, released the most controversial and consequential cases on the very last day of its sit

Jul 3
1 h 02 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Hot Apple Pie Surveillance Edition

This epicly (is "epicly" a real word?) gonzo episode finds Steve still somewhere in the middle of the storm-tossed north Pacific Ocean, while John and Lucretia hold down

Jun 19
1 h 02 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Channeling Admiral Ackbar? (It's a Trap!)

This week's episode, which finds Steve over in Japan but still with a hoarse voice, ranges widely from exonerating John Yoo from being implicated in a major whiskey heist

Jun 12
1 h 01 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Jet Lag Edition

So your three bartenders are back from overseas, but still a bit jet lagged and struggling to keep up with the news. Was it a good week? The firing of Scott Pelley is cer

Jun 5
57 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Tackling the Admin. State from Sicily

The end of this week finds the 3WHH crew in situ in Enna, up in the highlands of Sicily, visiting the University of Kore for a conference on, well, everything, though it

May 29
53 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Rolling Road Trip Edition

We could have called this the jeg lag from hell episode, as John Yoo managed to spend 11 hours on a airplane yesterday that didn't fly anywhere, while Steve, already plan

May 23
53 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Gonzo Hybrid-Reboot Edition

[CORRECTED AUDIO] We've had some gonzo episodes before, and a couple of trainwrecks, but this is the first-ever episode that is actually two episodes edited together, wi

May 18
56 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: From Plato to NATO

Another hectic week for your 3WHH bartenders, and John Yoo wasn't able to join us at all, so this week's episode includes a special guest Steve has long wanted to bring o

May 9
58 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Left Blows a Gasket

The left was already hysterical ever since Trump won a second term, but this week the left had a total meltdown after the Supreme Court scaled back racial gerrymandering

May 2
53 min

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Thomas Derangement Syndrome?

Move over Trump Derangement Syndrome! The left is clearly afflicted now with a full-blown case of Thomas Derangement Syndrome—after Justice Clarence Thomas's speech last

Apr 25
1 h 00 min

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