This episode of the Three Whiskey Happy Hour is being recorded before a live audience at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

Why think of my pain, no, my heart needs my brain.

Oh, whiskey.

Don't you think alone when you can drink it all in with ricochet's three whiskey happy hour?

Join your bartenders, Steve Hayward, John You, and the International Woman of Mystery, Lucretia.

Well, this life that I've been living ain't too easy on the soul.

Sometimes you got to give it and let that whiskey go. Well, this life that I've been living ain't too easy on the soul. Sometimes you've got to give it and let that whiskey flow.

Well, that is quite a welcome indeed.

Steve, that's the most applause you've ever had in your life.

And that was even better than the magic trick to board everybody with.

Well, the listeners will not have even heard that, John.

So, all right.

For listeners who are picking us up the usual way on podcast form, this is pretty unusual.

We've never done an episode together in person before live audience, and we're grateful

for the hospitality of the University of Tulsa.

We're going to skip unusual banter about whiskeys.

I was not expecting

to be supplied with some high west double rye. And it is really good. And I'm normally not a fan of

American bourbon whiskeys, but this is really a champ. You're barely a fan of America as it is.

See, let the mud slinging begin.

We're going to get right into our topic of the Declaration of Independence today.

And I'm going to set it up this way.

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