Podcasts

Podcast: The 3WHH on Supreme Court Touchdowns

Featured image It’s late in the 4th quarter for this year’s Supreme Court season, and the Justices are starting to score with some long bombs. Our Three Whisky Happy Hour bartenders celebrated with entire flights of whisky (our kind of diversity!) while pondering Thursday’s clean sweep of two 9 – 0 decisions that reinvigorate the “takings clause” of the 5th Amendment, and clip the wings of the EPA without once mentioning either »

Podcast: The Woke War in Hollywood, with Christian Toto

Featured image The hiatus in Hollywood brought on by the current writers strike seemed a good occasion to check in with Christian Toto with a classic format one-on-one conversation. Christian, a previous guest on our podcast, is proprietor of the indispensable HollywoodInToto website, as well as a podcast, and a terrific recent book, Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul. Our conversation ranges widely from the problems of streaming »

Podcast: The 3WHH, Decoding RFK Jr with KJT

Featured image With me back in the host chair this week, the Three Whisky Happy Hour actually breaks some real news with special guest Kelly Janes Torrance, the op-ed editor of the indispensible New York Post. This week Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is attracting surprising interest from many conservatives, visited the Post for a grilling from the Post‘s editorial board, and Kelly Jane opened up her reporter’s notebook to share previously »

Podcast: The 3WHH on Wot Corruption?

Featured image Lucretia hosts this week’s episode, and as Hamilton predicted about how executive power would promote sobriety, the awesome responsibility of the host chair led Lucretia to praise Kevin McCarthy for the second week in a row (making Mitch McConnell feel optimistic about his chances), and she even has nice things to say about me! After the smelling salts were passed round to John and me (and fresh glasses of whisky »

Podcast: The 3WHH with a Triple-Shot of News

Featured image With all three bartenders back together and John Yoo in the host chair, the gang wonders why it is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr is so far making the most sense in the 2024 presidential race, how it is that Kevin McCarthy has (stop the presses!) actually impressed Lucretia, and why the obviously political attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas expose the left at their power-grasping worst. But then we get »

Podcast: When Race Trumps Merit, with Heather Mac Donald

Featured image Heather Mac Donald may be the most fearless journalist in America. She is relentless in her reporting, bracing in her truth-telling, and ferocious in arguing her case. Her new book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives, explores how the current attack on meritocracy in the name of “equity” is rampaging through almost all American institutions, in particular arts and culture, »

Podcast: Celebrating Judge Carlos Bea

Featured image We’re flipping the script this weekend: since we had a special mid-week edition of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, today we’re offering up a classic format conversational episode, and it’s a really fun one. Who is the only federal judge to have played basketball in the Olympics for Cuba? Who is the only federal judge known for driving around town in a 1960s-era convertable Rolls Royce? Who is the only »

Podcast: The 3WHH, Almost Live at Commenter-Con II

Featured image ‘Ammo Grrrll’ in action. This week we took the 3WHH on the road for a special mid-week, ad-free episode, as Lucretia and Steve recorded before a live audience at Commenter-Con II in Phoenix. Commenter-Con II is the inspiration of ‘Ammo Grrrll” (known in real life as Susan Vass), with Power Line readers from 27 states turning up. It also coincides roughly with the 40th anniversary of Lucretia and Steve’s very »

Podcast: The 3WHH on The Devil and Miss Lucretia??

Featured image In what may be the most wide-ranging episode of the Three Whisky Happy Hour yet, the troika ranges from the implications of the Fox News settlement with Dominion for the defective NY Times v. Sullivan doctrine (and the old article that prompted my story of being threatened once with a libel suit is here), to an extended discussion of the natural law arguments on abortion—the topic aborted last week for »

Podcast: Religious Liberty and the American Founding, with Phil Munoz

Featured image This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Groff vs. Dejoy, involving a Post Office mail carrier named Gerald Groff, who, for religious reasons, wished not to work on Sundays. Previously the postal service had granted this accommodation, which was easy back when the Post Office didn’t do mail delivery on Sundays. A few years ago the Post Office started contracting with Amazon and other package »

Podcast: No Leaking at the 3WHH

Featured image Lucretia hosts the bar this week, as John and I extol the virtues of Japanese whisky while trolling the left for its latest futile attempt to take down Justice Clarence Thomas. Lucretia celebrates a brew pub in Arizona that stood up to the braying mob that resents real beer drinkers who like the Federalist Society, which deserves to go with a lighter highland malt. And in our “This Week in »

Podcast: The 3WHH on the Peak Crazy Week

Featured image From a reader. . . You know how people who think they can top something crazy like to say, “Hold my beer”? Well, this week Budweiser decided to try to top Alvin Bragg’s bogus indictment of Donald Trump by rebranding their “light” beer such that no one want to hold it even for Alvin Bragg. What explains this dumbest marketing move since the New Coke? And does the Biden Administration »

Podcast: the 3WHH, on Israel’s Judicial Coup

Featured image Lot going on this week, including my successfully completing my mandatory online “Abusive Conduct Training,” otherwise known as Lucretia’s How-To Guide to Blunt Speaking. Did you know abusive conduct is bad? How would we have known without an online training module? The good news for Lucretia is that “making unpopular statements about controversial issues” is not considered abusive. The bad news is that “making egregious statements about a person’s lifestyle” »

Podcast: The 3WHH on Alvin (Bragg) and the Chipmunks

Featured image We’re a day late getting to the whisky bar this week on account of complicated travel schedules. Lucretia sits in the host chair as I was still feeling light-headed from too much high-altitude skiing while John is his usual jaunty self, baiting Lucretia with his thoughts in the Boston Globe about how Alvin Bragg and the other chipmunks of the left are blowing it with their attempt to bring down »

Podcast: The 3WHH on Silicon Death Valley Days

Featured image John Yoo and I are off galavanting in Florida, up to all kinds of mischief and boozy dinners, so this episode was recorded sans whisky but after a lot of fine wines. So this episode really could have been called “the three Bordeaux happy hour,” plus steak. We picked up where we left off last week, with some follow up thoughts on the defects of the criminal justice system especially »

Podcast: The Return of Willmoore Kendall

Featured image Willmoore Kendall Willmoore Kendall was one of the great political scientists of the postwar era, and has been back on our minds lately for a number of reasons. As a heterodox champion of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, a critic of the place of John Locke in American political thought, and a defender of majoritarian deliberation, his provocative ideas are making a comeback in the age of nationalist populism. Kendall died »

Podcast: The 3WHH, Uniparty On!

Featured image The unifying theme to this week’s episode (recorded before a live Zoom audience) is that Republicans had a pretty good week, except for Sen. Mitch McConnell, who preceded falling down a stairway (Lucretia swears she didn’t push him, but we’re waiting for the video footage!) by falling for the liberal line that releasing the January 6 video footage is somehow a threat to the republic—almost as big a threat as »