3 Whisky Happy Hour

Steven Hayward, John Yoo, Lucretia

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Booking Overview

A weekly, whisky-soaked roundtable reviewing the week’s major headlines, with occasional deeper dives into law and philosophy. Best suited to guests who can translate public policy, constitutional issues, and ideological debate into clear arguments and sound bites.

Metrics

Episodes: 604

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Steven Hayward - A conservative commentator and writer associated with the intellectual/academic ecosystem around law, politics, and public-policy debate (as reflected by his role on Ricochet and the show’s themes ...

John Yoo - Legal scholar and public intellectual known for work related to constitutional law and U.S. government structures; frequently engages in arguments about judicial power, institutional design, and th...

Lucretia - Co-host/regular on the show; credited as “Lucretia” and appears to serve as a comedic/relatable host persona for the group’s roundtable format.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Academics and public intellectuals—especially legal scholars, constitutional theorists, political scientists, or authors with recognized policy-law writing (e.g., Claremont Institute/Law & Liberty-style think-tank ecosystems).
Required Achievements:  
Authored books/monographs, Think-tank or foundation affiliations, Academic leadership roles, Regularly published commentary in law/policy venues

Recent Guest Discussions

R.J. Pestritto - Administrative State; Woodrow Wilson/progressive Era Influence; Limits On Unelected Governance; Government By The Unelected And How It Might Be Tamed (anchored In His Claremont Institute Monograph).

Recent Topics

Constitutional, Administrative, Philosophy, Law, Court

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
3 Whisky Happy Hour
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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Channeling Admiral Ackbar? (It's a Trap!)

June 12, 2026

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, to what the prodigious drinking habits of the Founding Fathers has to say about constitutional law today. Justice Neil Gorsuch reminds us that “John Adams took a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast every day. James Madison reportedly drank a pint of whiskey every day. Thomas Jefferson said he wasn’t much of a user of a...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Jet Lag Edition

June 05, 2026

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 f...

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

May 29, 2026

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 is hard to tell since half the speakers are speaking in Italian and the rest of us arenspeaking in English. John Yoo's incoming plane was delayed—again—but it gave us the prompt we needed to have in John place R.J. Pestritto, the Dean of graduate education at Hillsdale College, but above all one of the most treachant critics ...

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