{"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":602,"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":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836"},"episode":{"title":"The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Shots Fired—Winning Here, Losing There","slug":"the-three-whisky-happy-hour-shots-fired-winning-here-losing-there","published_at":"2026-03-21T18:41:42+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836/the-three-whisky-happy-hour-shots-fired-winning-here-losing-there","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-three-whisky-happy-hour-shots-fired-winning-here-losing-there--70800131","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/3809862/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70800131/3whh_3_21_26_3_21_26_10_31_am.mp3","summary":"This week we raise the Jolly Roger against an imitator podcast that is intruding on the 3WHH's exclusive right of commentary on all things McDonald's, but then we move on to our own balance sheet about the Iran War (verdict—we're winning big, and Trump is killing it), and the saga of the SAVE Act in the Senate, where opinion divides more sharply among the three of us. Here we land the blame squarely on GOP Senate leader John Thune, and did you know that \"thune\" is a slang French expression for for money, though it is often used with a modifier to indicate the lack thereof, like \"sans thune.\" Seems fitting for a GOp Senate that can't figure out how to fight. The exit music this week is an obscure callback. . . I doubt one person in 1,000 will get it.","meta_description":"This week we raise the Jolly Roger against an imitator podcast that is intruding on the 3WHH's exclusive right of commentary on all things McDonald's, but…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3323,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836/episodes/the-three-whisky-happy-hour-shots-fired-winning-here-losing-there/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-shots-fired-winning-here-losing-there.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}