Pope Francis Dies, Dems' New El Salvador Stunt, Hogging the DNC Spotlight
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
First, they react to the passing of Pope Francis, who died just hours after attending Easter Sunday services at the Vatican. Jim and Greg reflect on Francis's 12-year papacy—highlighting how his comments on cultural and political issues often energized progressives before being walked back by Vatican officials. They also discuss how his views on climate change, wealth redistribution, and illegal immigration often frustrated conservatives. And they humorously clarify that Vice President J.D. Vance had nothing to do with the pope’s passing.
Next, they unpack a trip planned by four House Democrats to El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Jim criticizes the media's portrayal of Garcia as a harmless "Maryland Dad," drawing parallels to past sympathetic framing of problematic figures. He agrees Garcia should return to the U.S. for legal proceedings—before being deported back to El Salvador where he belongs.
Finally, they enjoy the drama unfolding within the Democratic Party as David Hogg announces plans to back challengers to numerous sitting Democrats. His efforts are already causing stress within the DNC, with many Democrats pushing back and defending their incumbents. It’s shaping up to be quite the primary season—popcorn, anyone?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stole next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.3 | So glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.5 | Jim Garrity is back. |
| 0:20.1 | And on any other day, that would probably be the banner headline |
| 0:23.0 | just about anywhere in the world. Jim, it is so good to have you back. We are very grateful to |
| 0:28.4 | Andy McCarthy and Scott Bertram and John Gabriel and S. Stetman, Rob Long, everybody who's |
| 0:34.4 | kind of chipped in over the past couple of weeks, but great to have you back. |
| 0:42.7 | As I was going to say, this morning's top headline, I'm still on this podcast. I understand a couple had doubts about it. |
| 0:48.8 | We had our pre-taped Friday one. Irving Schmidlap can call off the search. It was kind of funny. I think he wanted to do this series of each day, kind of aware in the world is Carmen San Diego looking for me. |
| 0:54.6 | And that prompted me to talk a little about where I actually was visiting my parents for |
| 0:57.9 | the early part of the week. |
| 0:59.2 | Second part of the week, first robotic competition, basically the world championship for |
| 1:04.5 | high school robotics had a ton of fun. |
| 1:07.5 | No, I don't understand it. |
| 1:09.0 | Both my kids do way better than I do. I can't get the remote control to work. But they had room for a dad who could, you know, drive them there. And I did find that it's true. Actually, Houston is just, it's only an hour away from Houston. And could bring snacks. And at one point, they needed me to carry a plank. There's a good chunk of the high school robot. |
| 1:27.5 | There's a lot more woodworking involved |
| 1:29.2 | in robotics construction than you think. |
| 1:30.9 | I guess the idea is to make the robots biodegradable |
| 1:33.6 | or something like that. |
| 1:34.8 | We did really well, six and four |
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