Elon's Email, Chicago Mayor's Shocking Polls, Trump vs. States on Girls' Sports

3 Martini Lunch

Radio America

Politics, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Hillsdale College Radio General Manager and Radio Free Hillsdale Hour Host Scot Bertram fills in for Jim on 3 Martini Lunch. Join Scot and Greg as they break down Elon Musk’s Saturday email to federal employees, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s disastrous poll numbers, and blue states setting themselves up for another humiliating defeat over girls’ sports.

First, they analyze Musk’s DOGE email to federal employees, demanding they reply by midnight Monday with five accomplishments from the past week. Scot explains how this is common in the private sector, especially during management transitions, and argues that a short email shouldn’t be a major burden. Greg says the current amount of spending in our government in simply unsustainable. But he does hope government downsizing can be done as orderly as possible.

Next, they react to a shocking new poll showing Mayor Brandon Johnson with a dismal 6.6 percent approval rating and an overwhelming 80% disapproval. Scot, a Chicago-area native, walks through Johnson’s long list of failures and explains how the mayor’s leadership has left him more than 73 points underwater with voters less than two years into his term.

Finally, they shake their heads as lefties in multiple states insist on losing ground legally and politically by resisting President Trump's executive order removing federal funds for states and locales who allow males to participate in girls' and women's sports. They specifically highlight Trump's public exchange with Maine Gov. Janet Mills and the Michigan High School Athletic Association refusing to change its policy.

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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.
0:10.5	Three martini's coming up.
0:13.2	So glad you are with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch.
0:16.9	Jim Garrity, as you know, is away.
0:18.7	Keep reading the morning jilt for the latest that he's learning overseas.
0:22.5	Here in his place again today is Scott Bertram, the general manager of WRFH, Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.7 FM on the campus of Hillsdale College, where he is also a lecturer in journalism.
0:33.1	Scott also directs the Hillsdale College Podcast Network, which means he hosts multiple college-related
0:38.8	podcasts, including the radio-free Hillsdale Hour. He also, in his spare time, the co-host
0:44.6	of the Political Beats podcast, as well as Wasn't That Special 50 years of Saturday Night Live.
0:50.4	You can subscribe to that and learn more at wasn't that special.com. So Scott, thanks as always for being with us. We appreciate it.
0:57.3	Greg, there's no such thing as free time. There's only allotted time.
1:01.3	That's right. That's right. Hopefully it's profitable time as well. But we've got three big martinis today. Let's start with the one from Saturday, which had some people cheering and some
1:13.0	people not too happy if they're federal employees. And that is the email that they got from Elon Musk,
1:20.0	which really started with a truth post from President Trump saying Elon is doing a great job,
1:25.5	meaning with Doge and finding money to cut out of the government,
1:28.8	but I would like to see him get more aggressive.
1:31.4	And as a result, we got an email from Elon on Saturday afternoon, early evening, to all
1:37.5	federal employees, supposedly, saying, consistent with president at real Donald Trump's
1:42.2	instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
1:49.2	Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. And so the deadline for responding is basically midnight tonight, 1159.
1:57.9	And so it's gotten a little more convoluted since then because government
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