Iran Crisis Sends Jet Fuel Prices Soaring
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
(00:05:44) Jet Fuel Prices Impact on Economy
(00:12:10) Hantavirus Cruise
(00:19:02) Remembering Ted Turner
Craig Collins is in for Greg Corombus today, and Craig and Jim wonder why the Democratic National Committee still refuses to release its heavily-researched "autopsy" of the 2024 election and what it means that Kamala Harris is now saying the DNC should release it.
Then they lament the higher price of jet fuel, the warnings from the airline industry to the Trump administration about the economic fallout from the war against Iran and closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and the forecast that higher air travel costs will last until autumn.
In the crazy martini, Jim and Craig note the captain of that cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak initially told passengers that there was nothing contagious on the ship. And finally, they say farewell to Ted Turner, a unique figure on the modern media landscape.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:06.2 | Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:11.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.4 | This is the three martini lunch. |
| 0:15.2 | I am not Greg. |
| 0:16.2 | My name is Craig Collins filling in for Greg Corumbus. |
| 0:19.0 | Thrilled to be here. |
| 0:19.9 | Still have the Jim Garrity, of course, as part of the show. |
| 0:23.3 | And lots and lots of things to get to in such a short amount of time. |
| 0:26.9 | We will start with our good topic, which I feel like this is very old and late in the Democratic |
| 0:32.9 | process to do this thing. |
| 0:34.9 | They're doing an autopsy on the 2024 campaign and how terrible it went. |
| 0:40.7 | I think they're probably going to find out that she was an awful candidate. That's my guess. |
| 0:45.1 | Jim, tell me what's going on. Sure. The new wrinkle. So they actually did this in the core, |
| 0:49.5 | over the course of 2025. And they talked to people in all 50 states and they did all kinds of advanced data analytics. |
| 0:57.0 | Now, there are a lot of people that say, oh, it's very obvious. It's Harris's fault. And Biden had |
| 1:01.5 | really put her in a tough spot and all that stuff. But look, if you're the Democratic National |
| 1:05.6 | Committee, your job is to elect Democrats and you want to know every jot in detail. And there are a couple |
| 1:12.3 | interesting questions. You combine the spending of the Biden campaign and the Harris campaign. |
| 1:17.6 | You get up to $2 billion. That was a lot of money. And you still go 0 for 7 with the Trump campaign |
| 1:22.5 | spending less. Something that always had jumped out to me was that Harris, if you read her book, which, yes, I suffered through. |
| 1:29.1 | She said that on the Friday, their analytics, not polling, but analytics said they were on pace to win the swing states. |
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