Betting on the Future When You Know the Future is Easy Money
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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(00:05:38) A Bailout for Spirit Airlines?
(00:10:27) Betting on the future when you know the future
Craig Collins remains in for Greg Corombus Friday, and Craig and Jim start by noting the U.S. Navy’s success in capturing Iranian-flagged ships trying to run the blockade on Iran’s ports – while noting that the growing size of the “ghost fleet” in the past decade or so is a scandal.
Speaking of ghosts, the Trump administration is attempting to resurrect the bankrupt Spirit Airlines, in a move unpleasantly reminiscent of the federal government’s bailout of General Motors.
In the crazy martini, Craig and Jim have mixed feelings about the special operations soldier who was involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who allegedly made more than $400,000 by betting on Maduro’s removal from office. Is this what they mean when they say to bet on yourself?
Finally, a New York Giants fan and a New York Jets fan watch the first round of this year’s NFL Draft and come away… happy!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:06.4 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:11.8 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.8 | It is the three martini lunch. |
| 0:15.8 | My name is Craig Collins filling in for Greg. |
| 0:17.9 | You have Jim Garrity sitting there, of course, seemingly a little bit |
| 0:22.5 | high on a good draft for both of our teams. That seems like a good thing. High on something at this |
| 0:27.4 | hour of the day. Absolutely. We have lots of things to get to. Let's get right to the good. |
| 0:33.4 | The good of this day of this Friday is the U.S. Navy succeeding. |
| 0:39.6 | What do we have here, Jim? |
| 0:41.1 | Sure. |
| 0:41.4 | This is in the Wall Street Journal from this morning. |
| 0:44.6 | It says the Iranian flagged oil tanker Durina attempted to slip past the U.S. Navy blockade, |
| 0:50.3 | was headed out to the Indian Ocean, switched off its location signal and went dark. |
| 0:55.9 | But the Navy caught it. |
| 1:05.4 | And Thursday morning local time, a Navy destroyer was escorting the Dorino off the West Coast of India after foiling its attempt to escape and deliver its cargo. |
| 1:11.6 | In addition, they also had two other ship, Iranian flag ships, the Hero 2 and the Hetty. |
| 1:17.0 | They've also boarded a ship known as the Majestic X, which by the way is like one of my least favorite Marvel superhero characters, Majestic X, full of Iranian oil and sailing in the |
| 1:22.7 | Indian Ocean. Now, listeners may remember earlier in the week, we talked about a report |
| 1:26.5 | from Lloyd's List, |
| 1:27.8 | part of Lloyd's of London. |
| 1:29.6 | They had said that the 24 Iranian ships had escaped the blockade. |
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