Newsom's Energy Reality Check, Dems Openly Embracing Socialism, Acosta's Ghoulish 'Interview'
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
First, they dig into California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s retreat from his aggressive green agenda. After years of vilifying oil companies and pushing to end fossil fuel use, Newsom is now trying to keep refineries open and even expand drilling. Scot and Greg explain the truth about the scope of our energy needs and the only realistic ways they will be met anytime soon.
Next, they react to Sen. Elizabeth Warren backing far-left New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. She not only praises his socialist platform on housing, child care, and food prices but also claims his message is what Democrats should embrace nationwide. Scot and Greg unpack what “affordable” really means under progressive policies and how big government failures continue to pile up in America’s largest cities.
Finally, they recoil at former CNN anchor Jim Acosta’s podcast “interview” with an AI version of Joaquin Oliver, a student killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting. Acosta used the bot to advocate for greater gun control. Scot and Greg discuss the many ethical problems with this disturbing spectacle.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.8 | Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.4 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.7 | Super glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.1 | As you know, Jim Garrity is away. |
| 0:19.4 | And here in his place once again is Scott Bertram, |
| 0:21.3 | the general manager of WRFH Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.7 on the campus of Hillsdale College, |
| 0:27.2 | where he also lectures in journalism, directs the Hillsdale College Podcast Network, |
| 0:31.7 | and hosts the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, among many others. And Scott, great to have you with us again. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello, Greg. Good to be back. Great to have you again. As teased yesterday, Scott will be giving |
| 0:42.0 | us a brief review of the Naked Gun movie. But today, we're also going to be talking about a number |
| 0:47.7 | of things. Jim Acosta is back in the news, and it's never for a good reason. He's not at CNN. He's got |
| 0:52.4 | his own little media deal now. |
| 0:54.4 | And yesterday, he interviewed the bot of a teenager killed at Parkland High School in that mass shooting back in 2018. |
| 1:02.2 | We're going to talk about a lot of the ethical ramifications of that. We'll also talk about how the Democratic Party is more openly embracing socialism as Elizabeth Warren openly |
| 1:12.1 | endorses Zohran Mamdani and what that means for the larger political picture. And Democrats |
| 1:17.8 | smacked in the face with reality. Happens a lot. So it's good to see policy-wise that sometimes |
| 1:23.6 | they're seeing reality too. There are effects for every cause. |
| 1:28.0 | There are outputs for every input. |
| 1:29.7 | And occasionally they actually pop up in inopportune places for politicians. |
| 1:34.4 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:35.1 | Gavin Newsom, once again, realizing that just not liking Trump is not enough to get the job done out there. |
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