Video: Virtual Happy Hour featuring Jarrett Dieterle and Wayne Curtis

It’s Happy Hour! America has some outdated, bizarre, and outright laughable laws on the books regarding alcohol and how we drink it. Join us as we talk with authors C. Jarrett Dieterle and Wayne Curtis about cocktails, weird laws, Dieterle’s book Give me Liberty and Give me a Drink, and more!

Watch the interview here.

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