{"podcast":{"title":"3 Whisky Happy Hour","slug":"3-whisky-happy-hour-589836","podcast_index_feed_id":589836,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5816484/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://ricochet.com/series/powerline/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/351c982a3f8f0b143adb9fcacdc33fe3.jpg","author":"Ricochet","episode_count":604,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T18:20:29.001683+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836"},"episode":{"title":"The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Jet Lag Edition","slug":"the-three-whisky-happy-hour-jet-lag-edition","published_at":"2026-06-05T21:09:30+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836/the-three-whisky-happy-hour-jet-lag-edition","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-three-whisky-happy-hour-jet-lag-edition--72376446","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/3809862/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72376446/3whh_6_5_26_6_5_26_2_03_pm.mp3","summary":"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 certainly good news, as are the initial results of the California primary, where the energy and enthusiasm is clearly on the side of the outsider insurgent candidates. (Knock on wood: let's see how the \"vote counting\" goes over the next several weeks in the \"incompetent\" Golden State.) Not such a good week for John Bolton, nor for aesthetic sensibility, if the Obama library is any indication. Why does the left prefer brutalist ugliness? We have our suspicions. . . We do our longer dive this week into some meta-narratives about the Supreme Court, inspired by Paul Moreno's terrific Law & Liberty article, \" Save the Last Branch for Me .\" It's a new day indeed. We also get in our licks at woke British policing, Star Trek , and the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, which has some rather uncommon Eucharistic forms. Oh, also McDonalds news, just to keep John Happy and well fed.","meta_description":"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 Sco…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3454,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836/episodes/the-three-whisky-happy-hour-jet-lag-edition/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836/the-three-whisky-happy-hour-jet-lag-edition.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}