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3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

Martini Awards Part 1: Most Overrated, Underrated, Honest Political Figures

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

Radio America

Government, News, News Commentary

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

To say it's been an eventful year in politics would be a massive understatement. So it's time to start deciding the best and worst of 2019 and today, Jim and Greg begin handing out the their Three Martini Lunch Awards. In this first installment, they offer their individual selections for Most Overrated Political Figure, Most Underrated Political Figure, and Most Honest Political Figure.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

0:04.5

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

0:09.3

Three Martini's coming up.

0:11.6

So glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the Three Martini lunch.

0:18.0

Jim Garrity is here. I'm here. This is not a normal day though on the Three Martini lunch.

0:22.0

And for the remainder of our

0:24.1

podcast through 2019 we are turning now to our year end awards this comes at a time

0:30.0

when we've had a political flurry right before the holidays.

0:33.2

Doesn't always happen that way.

0:34.8

This year it kind of did, but nonetheless, we are pressing on with the great traditions

0:39.5

of the three martini lunch.

0:40.8

So over the next week, except for Christmas Day and New Year's Day we're

0:44.7

going to have special podcast we're back with our next normal podcast on January 2nd

0:50.7

and our lineup today is most overrated, most underrated, and most honest

0:56.5

political figure for 2019. So Jim without any further, let's kick it off.

1:03.0

Who's your most overrated political figure for 2019?

1:06.0

First of all, before we go any further, Greg, I want to let the listeners in on a little bit of a secret here.

1:12.0

So Greg and I, we have our categories. We separately

1:15.4

come up with some nominees and we always want to pick two just in case the

1:18.9

other guy picks the same one. We don't want to list the same one twice.

1:22.6

But there's certain ones, so I had a whole bunch of nominees

1:25.1

for this one, but I'm really pleased with this one.

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