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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
0:10.5 | Three martini's coming up. |
0:13.3 | Hey, so glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
0:17.3 | Grab a stool, a lot to talk about today. |
0:19.6 | Good, good and bad martinis. I guess the third one could really be described as crazy, too, and we'll get into all that. As you know, Jim Garrity is away in his place today. We're very happy to have John Gabriel, the undisputed King of Stuff, columnist for Discourse Magazine with the Mercatus Center, as well as the the Arizona Republic and the author of the smash |
0:39.5 | hit novel Sink the Rising Sun, a fantastic story of submarine warfare in the Pacific during World |
0:47.1 | War II. So John, congratulations on the success of the book and it's always great to have you with us. |
0:51.3 | Oh, great to be here as well. Yeah, I'm, I'm still, |
0:55.5 | and if anybody from Apple TV is watching, I'm still accepting offers for, I don't know, |
1:00.8 | any royalties, huge smash miniseries, just let me know. We can talk. Well, as John has said, |
1:09.5 | it's the best debut novel he's ever written. And if they were to turn |
1:13.5 | into a TV series or a movie, would you want to play one of the key roles or would you just want to |
1:18.9 | be like Hitchcock and be like the guy at the end of the bar? Yeah, I think I'd be the cameo guy or |
1:24.3 | there's also this very crabby old Scottish man and if I can nail that accent I would be him |
1:30.9 | because he was the most fun to write. Yeah, that's a great character. Absolutely great character. |
1:35.9 | Well, speaking of great characters, let's get to our first good martini and Louisiana Senator |
1:40.8 | John Kennedy is not only good for a reliable vote on the right. |
1:45.8 | He's also good for a good quip just about every time you see him in public, |
1:50.5 | whether he's skewering a Democratic nominee for the federal bench or something else. |
1:56.6 | Now, of course, it's Republican nominees. |
1:58.7 | But he's never one to just say this is a good idea or a bad idea. |
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