2025 Martini Awards Finale: Person of the Year, Loser of the Year, Turncoat of the Year
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On Person of the Year, Jim chooses the figure who was at the center of everything in 2025 and enjoyed some major victories while also making some missteps. Meanwhile, Greg chronicles the biggest policy success of the year and honors the men and women responsible for executing the policy in face of unhinged political protest.
For Loser of the Year, Jim chooses the political figure who burst onto the national political scene in 2024 and ends 2025 immersed in one of the biggest political scandals in the nation Meanwhile, Greg chooses a top Democrat who became a pariah in his own party and is condemned whether he makes deals with Republicans or launches a pointless government shutdown.
For Turncoat of the Year, Jim highlights eight people who ended a protracted and meaningless impasse in Washington. Greg chooses the elected figures and others who hate Trump so much they openly take the side of criminals.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:05.0 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.0 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, really glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch, but it's not any Wednesday. |
| 0:18.0 | It is New Year's Eve, the final day of 2025. We hope |
| 0:22.6 | you celebrate and have a great time tonight and ring in 2026. Hopefully it's a great new year, |
| 0:28.7 | but we are not done with our year-end awards. And today, the biggest awards of them all, the person |
| 0:34.9 | of the year, the loser of the year, and the turncoat of the year. |
| 0:39.7 | So the most prestigious awards of all, Jim, who's your person of the year? |
| 0:44.5 | Greg, just as a fact check, is loser of the year one of the most prestigious awards? |
| 0:50.2 | You're a bigger loser than everyone else. |
| 0:52.2 | Congratulations. |
| 0:53.0 | For shadowing, I had two strong candidates, and the person who I've decided is second really |
| 0:58.8 | should be qualified as loser of the year because they couldn't even win loser of the year. |
| 1:02.0 | Now could they? |
| 1:03.0 | All right. |
| 1:04.0 | So even before Time Magazine came out with the AI architects, I was thinking that artificial |
| 1:10.5 | intelligence felt like one of the biggest and |
| 1:13.2 | most consequential stories of the years, so multifaceted affecting all kinds of different parts of |
| 1:17.6 | business and the news media and economics and potential employment and all that stuff. But the more |
| 1:24.7 | I thought about it, this was Donald Trump's year. And you just think |
| 1:28.4 | about the way President Trump has been the center spoke of just about every major news story, |
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