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3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg for the Labor Day 3 Martini Lunch. In this special edition, they unveil opinions that might catch most of our listeners by surprise. From K-12 schools to college life and from covert ops to conducting elections, they have some ideas and positions that are different than what you might expect.

First, Jim wants to create an organization that tells you what to do but that no one would listen to. Then Greg, while a huge fan of the school choice movement, sounds the warning on vouchers and details why school choice laws need to focus on making sure that money doesn't ever come with government strings attached.

Next, Jim notes how campus living is conducive for forming friendships and wants to apply that to grown ups. Greg explains why he wants to repeal one of our constitutional amendments.

Finally, Jim wants the intelligence community to convince the world that the U.S. has an elite, deployable strike team capable of carrying out any sort of mission anywhere in the world at any time. And whether it exists or not, the key is making the rest of the world believe this "dangerous clique" is real so they will behave. Meanwhile, Greg wants to make major changes to how our elections are run. Brace yourself if you like mail-in balloting, dropboxes, or lots of early voting and other current practices.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the three martini lunch.
0:04.4	Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.6	Three martini's coming up.
0:13.1	So glad you're with us for the Monday, the Labor Day edition of the Three Martini lunch.
0:18.6	Jim, the labor movement, certainly not one of my favorite things.
0:22.4	But I do like Labor Day just due to the fact that there's nothing you're expected to do on Labor
0:27.0	Day. You just get the day off. Also, don't buy the hype that the unions brought you the weekend.
0:31.5	It's pretty much Henry Ford brought you the weekend. But, you know, we're not getting into that
0:36.1	today. But we are going to be talking about unpopular opinions on this special edition of the three martini lunch.
0:43.3	Opinions that three for Jim, three for me that we have, that might be a little bit surprising to our normal audience.
0:51.4	No, we're not going to, you know, suddenly endorse Zoran Mamdani or anything like that,
0:55.4	but we are going to have thoughts on different ideas that might be a little bit surprised
1:00.1	if you're normally on the right. Well, I just want to point out that, yes, we are real critics
1:04.2	of the labor movement, but not enough to work. Like, we have, we got to draw a line somewhere.
1:12.4	Second of all, for everyone who says, wait, this is a special edition focusing on unpopular
1:16.6	opinions.
1:17.5	How is that different from every other weekday with you guys?
1:21.9	But, no, no, I'm going to point out, like, I feel like I enjoyed Labor Day more.
1:26.9	When the NFL season started
1:28.2	closer to it, they now got into that second week of September. And the other one is growing up, for me, like the Tuesday after Labor Day was like most often the first day of school. Here in Virginia, my kids are going back mid-August. They've been at school for a while now. So I feel like that takes away that like labor now used to be the end of summer your last little get
1:26.7	together with your friends before you had to get together They've been at school for a while now. So I feel like that takes away that like Labor Day used to be the end of summer, your last
1:46.0	little get together with your friends before you had to go back to school. And like, now it just kind of feels like, everybody's been back to school already. It's no big deal. All right. Well, I certainly don't encourage anyone to call in sick if you're not actually sick for that first day of school. but you do need a good phone system,
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