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🗓️ 27 May 2025
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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 | So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
0:17.0 | We trust you had a wonderful Memorial Day, taking time to reflect on those who have given everything for this country and their families. |
0:24.8 | Hope you enjoyed our Memorial Day special of Three Martini Lunch as well. |
0:27.8 | If you haven't heard that yet, please take the time to do that. |
0:31.3 | Jim, as you well know, I was interviewing veterans Sunday and Monday, a number of World War II veterans, including a couple of |
0:38.2 | concentration camp liberators, a total of three Medal of Honor recipients from Vietnam, |
0:44.0 | also a veteran from the war in Afghanistan, and Gene Simmons of Kiss. |
0:50.6 | And you're wondering why is Gene Simmons of Kiss being interviewed at a veteran event? |
0:54.9 | He is not a veteran. |
0:56.0 | However, his mother, born in Hungary, was a concentration camp prisoner for a while, three different camps. |
1:03.4 | And one of the liberators that we had liberated the camp that she was at. |
1:07.6 | So that was a pretty cool moment. |
1:09.8 | Gene and I, as you know, Jim, don't have a |
1:11.7 | ton in common, but it was an interesting conversation and obviously a great time, spending |
1:16.7 | time with all those heroes throughout the weekend. I figured you two would hit it off like |
1:20.9 | peanut butter and jelly. And here's the thing, if you'd like to appear on the Three Martini Lunch |
1:25.7 | podcast, we have very few guests, but I think if Gene Simmons wanted to talk about the Three Martini Lunch podcast. We have very few guests, but I think |
1:28.4 | if Gene Simmons wanted to talk about the importance of saluting American veterans, I'm up for that. |
1:32.9 | Yeah, we can say. No, very interesting conversation. But so yeah, we got a lot to talk about today. |
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