{"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: The Best (Podcast) Regime?","slug":"the-three-whisky-happy-hour-the-best-podcast-regime","published_at":"2026-01-17T00:09:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836/the-three-whisky-happy-hour-the-best-podcast-regime","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-whisky-happy-hour-589836","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-three-whisky-happy-hour-the-best-podcast-regime--69474914","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/3809862/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69474914/3whh_1_16_26_1_16_26_3_48_pm.mp3","summary":"Is it just us, or did this week seem even crazier than usual? We didn't have time to cover all the crazy in the news, and had to settle for trying to select the most stupid crazy thing said this week, though even that was a hard selection to make. But we gave a group award to everyone involved in trying to persuade the Supreme Court that boys should be allowed in girls sports. So much to work with. We considered whether and how the Insurrection Act might work in the case of insurrectiony Minnesota, and then move on to our main event today: is America in fact the \"best regime\" in the classical, Platonic/Aristotelian meaning of the term (Steve and Lucretia say Yes, while John is confused and cantankerous as usual), and if so does this help explain the left's deep hatred for America?","meta_description":"Is it just us, or did this week seem even crazier than usual? We didn't have time to cover all the crazy in the news, and had to settle for trying to sele…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3598,"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-the-best-podcast-regime/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-the-best-podcast-regime.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}