Shapiro & the Veepstakes, Sluggish July Jobs Report, Kamala Off Script

3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Hillsdale College Radio General Manager and Radio Free Hillsdale Hour Host Scot Bertram is in for Jim today. After a brief update on the prisoner swap with Russia, Scot and Greg discuss the final jockeying among Democrats to be the vice presidential nominee, July's worse-than-expected unemployment report, and Kamala flubbing her first unscripted moment in weeks.

First, they examine the state of the Democrats' veepstakes, including some last-minute efforts to pour cold water on the possibility of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro joining the Harris ticket. They also comment on how aggressively some figures are campaigning for the job when historically they have downplayed any interest.

Next, they wince as the July unemployment report shows significantly fewer jobs created than expected last month, plus an uptick in the jobless rate and the number of Americans unemployed overall. Is this evidence of a possible recession on the horizon or just a one-month anomaly?

Finally, they react to Vice President Harris finally having an unscripted moment on camera. And even with the softest of questions, her typical word salad was back. Scot says Harris would never have survived a full primary campaign and he marvels at the fawning coverage over her campaign despite the fact she's done absolutely nothing of note in the past two weeks, other than raise money.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.
0:04.6	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:09.4	Three Martini's coming up.
0:11.6	Very glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini lunch, Jim Garrity, on vacation here in his place, is Scott Bertram, general manager of
0:20.4	W.R.F.H. Radio Free Hillsdale, one 1.7 FM on the campus of Hillsdale College,
0:25.0	where he also lectures in journalism.
0:27.0	He is the director of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.
0:29.5	He's the host of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. And he is also the host of the Political Beats
0:35.4	podcast and wasn't that special 50 years of Saturday Night Live.
0:40.3	Scott, great to have you back with us.
0:41.6	Greg was a pleasure to be in the Friday edition, which, as we all know, much different than
0:46.4	the Monday, Tuesday, Thursday edition.
0:48.4	The Friday edition, very special.
0:50.4	It is.
0:51.4	It's the, we finally made it to the end of this crazy week edition of the three martini luncheon
0:55.0	Lately that has been extremely valuable
0:57.0	Before we get to our three martinis today a quick follow-up on one of yesterday's actual four martinis and that was the prisoner swap that
1:04.4	wonderfully brought a number of Americans home but as we said yesterday the
1:10.7	the curious question is what did we give up or what did other nations give up in order to get these people free.
1:16.0	And now we know Jim in his morning jolt today just before he exited for vacation.
1:22.0	Most notable in the list is a guy named Vadim Krasicoff, a Russian assassin who straight up murdered a Russian dissident in broad daylight in a public park in Berlin.
1:31.0	With children watching, this was back in 2019. Krasikoff was on a bike
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