2025 Predictions: Safe, Bold, and Outlandish Projections for the Year to Come
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Jim's first prediction centers on an issue that is vital for America's economy and our national security. Meanwhile, Greg suspects a problem that has plagued Washington for decades - and desperately needs to change - won't actually change at all.
Next, they get a bit bolder. Jim focuses on an international hot spot that he suspects will get much hotter in 2025. Greg keeps his eye on domestic politics and predicts a major shakeup early in the year.
Finally, they issue their most aggressive predictions. Jim has a particularly dark outlook that would be the story of the year while Greg makes a very positive but unlikely projection about what we'll see on the world stage.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.9 | Hey, so glad you're with us for the New Year's Day edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
| 0:17.9 | Happy New Year, happy 2025. |
| 0:20.0 | We have made it. If you haven't listened to all of our |
| 0:23.6 | year-end awards, please do so. There are six installments of those. They began back on December 23rd. |
| 0:29.7 | And then yesterday, we brought you our person of the year, our loser of the year, new category |
| 0:34.3 | this year, and turncoat of the year. And today we are doing our predictions |
| 0:38.9 | for 2025. In previous years, this had been one category in one of the specials, but today we're |
| 0:44.8 | going to do predictions all across this particular edition of the three martini lunch, and we're |
| 0:50.3 | going to do it in decreasing order of confidence or increasing order of outlandishness. |
| 0:55.9 | So hopefully it'll be pretty fun by the time we get to the end of today's predictions. |
| 1:00.2 | And so we'll start with things that are much more likely to happen. |
| 1:03.3 | And by the end, who knows? |
| 1:05.1 | We might have the Bears and the Jets in the Super Bowl. |
| 1:07.1 | We might have E.T. coming. |
| 1:09.2 | Who knows? |
| 1:09.7 | But Jim, where do you start? What's the, |
| 1:11.6 | what's your least controversial prediction of 2025? Well, someone once told me that if you want |
| 1:16.6 | to make a prediction, if you want to look really insightful and someone who can see things before |
| 1:21.5 | they happen, find something that is true, but that people don't really know, predict that it will happen, |
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