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Federal Agents Search Ilhan Omar’s Home in Criminal Investigation · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Karambas of Radio America
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  Speaker 2: and Jim Garrity of National Review. Three Martini's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to another Three Martini Lunch. I am Craig Colonese.
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  Speaker 2: I am going by my real last name now. I
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  Speaker 2: used to go by a fake last name and I
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  Speaker 2: was paired with an investigative reporter in Houston, Texas as
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  Speaker 2: my co-host. And he has demanded that I use my
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  Speaker 2: real last name. Ah, screw it. It's happened. So I
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  Speaker 2: am Craig Colonnades. He is Jim Garrity. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: any of his names have changed. I am filling in
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  Speaker 2: for Greg Carombas. Craig, it is great to have you.
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  Speaker 2: Is Colonnades like Dijonais or something? Is it some sort
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  Speaker 2: of mayonnaise? Okay, all right. Yeah, it's one of those. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's like a Dijon. That's actually what they said to
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  Speaker 2: me all the time in school is, how do you
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  Speaker 2: say it? Like mayonnaise? Okay, I got it. No more Collins,
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  Speaker 2: which I very much miss. We have quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: to talk about today. A lot of things going on
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  Speaker 2: in the world. Ilhan Omar in the news. Maybe we
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  Speaker 2: should start there.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. I was going to say, no matter how bad
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  Speaker 1: your morning is going, it's a Monday. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are feeling it rough. You're having a better day
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  Speaker 1: than Ilhan Omar is because federal agents searched her home
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  Speaker 1: on Monday as part of a criminal investigation. According to
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  Speaker 1: people familiar with the matter, speaking to the Associated Press,
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  Speaker 1: the search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents who
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  Speaker 1: are not allowed to discuss this and spoke on a
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  Speaker 1: condition of anonymity. Omar has not replied, at least as
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  Speaker 1: of this recording, has not issued a statement or something.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department said in a statement Monday that HSI agents
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  Speaker 1: executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the department
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  Speaker 1: in the Washington, D.C. area, but provided no other details. Craig,
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  Speaker 1: I saw this news and I'm sure she just said, oh, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how well done there. How well done there.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if nothing comes of this. This is kind
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  Speaker 2: of my first thought. But the fact that it occurred,
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  Speaker 2: does that satiate the demand on the right for these
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  Speaker 2: types of actions? Like we want to hold people accountable.
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  Speaker 2: So do we get paid for the attempt?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say the short answer is
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  Speaker 1: they won't be satiated until she's deported or drawn and quartered.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, no one should issue any threats against
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  Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar. Yeah. But look, she is one of the
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  Speaker 1: villains on the right. She's said and done enough things
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  Speaker 1: to earn that status. Not a great deal of detail
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  Speaker 1: about what this is involved with. I know that earlier
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  Speaker 1: this year, J.D. Vance had told reporters, it seems like
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  Speaker 1: there is something fishy in there, but everyone's entitled to
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  Speaker 1: equal justice under the laws. This was the idea that
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  Speaker 1: she had married her brother, committed immigration fraud. Certainly, you know, look,
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  Speaker 1: the FBI, you know, knocking on your door and executing
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  Speaker 1: a search warrant is not a conviction in a court.
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  Speaker 1: It's not proof that a crime is committed. Everyone is
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  Speaker 1: entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. But
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  Speaker 1: it does indicate at minimum you have convinced a judge
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  Speaker 1: and if she gets indicted, like this would suggest that
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  Speaker 1: they're getting ready to present stuff to a grand jury.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what the grand jury says. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration has had times where they have thought they
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  Speaker 1: had a very strong case and the grand jury has
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  Speaker 1: not bought it. So maybe the grand jury will see
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  Speaker 1: some sort of partisan political motivation here. But my guess
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  Speaker 1: is if you're walking into a grand jury, you're probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna have something. And for this search warrant, you must
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  Speaker 1: have done, either it's a very friendly judge or you've
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  Speaker 1: convinced them that something is there that is worth looking for.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I also wonder this, Jim, and I mean
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  Speaker 2: this as candidly as possible. I think that the right
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  Speaker 2: wants to see an attempt to throw people in jail,
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  Speaker 2: but the left does valuably use this the same way, say,
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  Speaker 2: that Trump did when they tried to throw him in jail.
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  Speaker 2: So if Ilhan Omar winds up guilty of nothing, Is
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  Speaker 2: this something that also mobilizes the left even more? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In every reference, it will be Ilhan Omar, who had
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  Speaker 1: her home searched by Homeland Security agents, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: Like that just becomes part of her title there in
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  Speaker 1: all references, creating a further cloud of suspicion. I remember
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  Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar represents one of the most Democratic-leaning districts in
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  Speaker 1: the entire country. So it's not like she's going to
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  Speaker 1: lose re-election. Maybe some other Democrat might try to say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they've got a problem here. But yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be close to two years away if that
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  Speaker 1: ever happens. Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see. It'll be interesting to say the least.
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  Speaker 2: I do kind of think she married her brother, but
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  Speaker 2: I know that's not the investigation part yet. So I
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  Speaker 2: kind of think that we'll see if that winds up
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  Speaker 2: being something they prove.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like Troy Jackson is going to lead the
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  Speaker 1: charge against her on this.
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  Speaker 2: Could we just do this like Jerry Springer style?
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  Speaker 2: Now we move on to our second martini. This is
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  Speaker 2: easily the bad martini, and I do agree with some
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  Speaker 2: of what Jim sent us a little bit earlier about this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what good this does, was your own words. Russia, Ukraine,
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  Speaker 2: ceasefire that's not actually happening. President Trump announcing this. This
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  Speaker 2: is on the heels of a big discussion about a
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  Speaker 2: diesel fuel deal with Russia, too. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how those two combined in your mind, but.
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  Speaker 1: If they do at all. They very much do connect, Greg.
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  Speaker 1: And so I will try to keep this rant short.
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  Speaker 2: No, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: So first of all, Russia has never been a major
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  Speaker 1: exporter of diesel fuel to the United States. The Ukrainian
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  Speaker 1: strikes on Russia's energy infrastructure. Russia's supply of diesel fuel
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  Speaker 1: is about 1% of the world's supply. The amount coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the Persian Gulf, which was disrupted by the
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  Speaker 1: war against Iran for several months, it sounds like more
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  Speaker 1: oil is getting out of the Persian Gulf, which is
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  Speaker 1: good news. But that was close to like 17% of
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  Speaker 1: the world's supply. So when you're talking about why are
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  Speaker 1: diesel prices so high, Persian Gulf is a very big reason.
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine strikes and Russia are fairly small. But Trump announces
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  Speaker 1: that the U.S. is going to start importing Russian diesel oil. Now,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, Russian, you know, there's a couple problems here.
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  Speaker 1: One is, again, they've never exported that much. Two, Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: is continuing to bomb their energy infrastructure. Three, that oil
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  Speaker 1: is still under sanctions with European unions and other countries. Four,
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  Speaker 1: The whole point of the Lindsey Graham Act was to
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  Speaker 1: give Trump more authority to enact tariffs on countries that
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  Speaker 1: are importing Russian energy supplies, which we are now doing.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess we're not going to sanction other countries
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  Speaker 1: for doing the exact same thing that we're doing. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, just a little footnote to this. Since the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the war, the U.S. has been importing small
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  Speaker 1: amounts of enriched, I believe, uranium for our nuclear power plants.
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  Speaker 1: The reason we've been doing that is because the contracts
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  Speaker 1: were negotiated before the war began. And my understanding is
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  Speaker 1: that the U.S. power plants would have to pay either way,
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  Speaker 1: even if they refused delivery of this enriched uranium. So
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things where we're actually a little
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  Speaker 1: bit hypocritical from the beginning of the war. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: good uranium is hard to find these days. And so
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  Speaker 1: this is all a prearranged contract. We can't get out
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  Speaker 1: of it. We should have thought about that before we have.
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  Speaker 1: Sure about how we worded those contracts. What's Russia going
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  Speaker 1: to do? Invade Ukraine? Yes, apparently they did exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, so Trump announces this. This is not really
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  Speaker 1: going to help very much with your gas prices. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going to help truckers with their diesel prices. Not
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  Speaker 1: really going to help farmers who use diesel for their
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  Speaker 1: farm equipment. School buses, right? And a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: run on diesel fuel.
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  Speaker 2: Does it help anybody?
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  Speaker 1: Not really. I think the idea is that, well, Trump
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  Speaker 1: can say to the country as we approach the midterms, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing something. See, we're bringing in Russia because he
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  Speaker 1: kept talking about Venezuela. Venezuela does have considerable oil reserves.
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  Speaker 1: They're not readily and easily accessible, at least not in
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  Speaker 1: larger amounts than they're getting right now. Building up the
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  Speaker 1: infrastructure is going to take years and years and a
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  Speaker 1: considerable amount of investment from U.S. companies. Strangely enough, U.S.
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  Speaker 1: companies not eager to invest in Venezuela because of the
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  Speaker 1: last time their stuff got nationalized. You know, fool me once.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on you. Yeah. Fooled me twice. Shame on me.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, so Trump announces out of the blue on
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  Speaker 1: True Social that both sides have agreed to an energy ceasefire.
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine is like, well, we didn't really agree to this,
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  Speaker 1: but we're open to it. If you guys stop hitting
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  Speaker 1: our stuff, we'll stop hitting your stuff. Russia doesn't say anything.
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  Speaker 1: And now apparently the thermal power plant CHP-5 was struck
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  Speaker 1: at least twice, causing a fire. This is a PowerPoint
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine. It's like, why does the president think he
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  Speaker 1: gets something by announcing ceasefires that are not real that
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  Speaker 1: neither side has actually agreed to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't, I don't know. I honestly, I can't
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  Speaker 2: follow the playbook on a lot of this at all
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  Speaker 2: to be candid with you. And it sounds like you
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  Speaker 2: can't either, because as you just pointed out, the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing is I don't know where the win is to, um,
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  Speaker 2: make sense of all the losses that you take along
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  Speaker 2: with this win. I just, I just don't see it.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe there's another play. Maybe there's something else around
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  Speaker 2: the corner. Um, I don't know. And here, I'll say
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  Speaker 2: something else, Jim. And I mean this sort of generically
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  Speaker 2: or like macro. Since Trump has been in office, I've
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  Speaker 2: seen people conservatively start to turn on him in a
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  Speaker 2: way that I think is just... sort of generic, intentional,
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  Speaker 2: like reading the tea leaves, not genuine. This is a genuine,
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  Speaker 2: to me, criticism of like, what the hell are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: A version of a thing. Not because, because I know
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  Speaker 2: a lot of conservatives who would say just simply, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we need more diesel fuel. This is great. We made
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  Speaker 2: a deal for diesel fuel. but they don't actually understand
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  Speaker 2: the logistics of how this didn't solve that problem. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Craig, I'll be honest, you know, this oil has to
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  Speaker 1: get the United States. It's still sanctioned by the Europeans.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the idea is that they think the Europeans
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  Speaker 1: are just going to let the oil tankers go by
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  Speaker 1: without enforcing their own sanctions. I don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: want to like ship it westward all the way across Siberia.
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  Speaker 1: Eastward all across Siberia, then to Alaska. Alaska's got oil,
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  Speaker 1: but fine. You know, this isn't going to have a
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  Speaker 1: huge impact on prices. It's definitely not going to have
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  Speaker 1: a huge impact on prices between now and Election Day.
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  Speaker 1: It really just kind of feels like a flailing move.
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  Speaker 1: And again, also very much doing our part to help
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  Speaker 1: out Russia at a time when they continue to bomb hospitals, schools.
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  Speaker 1: children's playgrounds.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing I would say, Jim, about this is
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  Speaker 2: if he had announced a diesel energy deal with just
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  Speaker 2: a random other country, like just somebody that's- Uganda, right?
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  Speaker 2: We're getting almost nothing from them, but at least we're
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  Speaker 2: saying it out loud. At least I would understand the
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  Speaker 2: attempt to trick people. This comes with so much damage
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  Speaker 2: along with the attempted trick that I just don't, how
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  Speaker 2: does this, okay, I want to slow myself down so
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  Speaker 2: I say it correctly because I don't know how to
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  Speaker 2: say it better and I feel like you're going to
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  Speaker 2: know the answer and I won't. How does this happen? Like,
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  Speaker 2: how do people recommend this to him? How do we
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  Speaker 2: go this road and do this? What is your assessment
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  Speaker 2: of how we got here?
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  Speaker 1: Sure. Going back to Trump's first impeachment, which involved the
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  Speaker 1: golden phone call, the perfect phone call, whatever it was, Zelensky.
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  Speaker 1: Trump has never been particularly pro-Ukraine. He has always been
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  Speaker 1: weirdly touchy-feely, warm and fuzzy towards Vladimir Putin. Sure. And
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  Speaker 1: he went into this insisting that this was going to be,
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  Speaker 1: he could end the war within a day. Didn't work
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  Speaker 1: out that way. Apparently, Trump did start asking his advisors,
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  Speaker 1: is Putin a different guy than the first term? Well,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Putin spent about a year in isolation.
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  Speaker 1: So there are some people who think that Putin, like
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  Speaker 1: Putin has always been an SOB, to use about the
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  Speaker 1: toughest language I can use on this podcast. I could
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  Speaker 1: use tougher. But he basically, you know, people have wondered
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  Speaker 1: if he's as rational as he used to be or
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  Speaker 1: whether he feels a ticking clock of age. and the
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  Speaker 1: war is a big part of his legacy, and he'll
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  Speaker 1: be remembered as Vlad the Conqueror or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So it is like, there's a certain sense that Trump
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  Speaker 1: has always been looking for this rationality in Putin that
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  Speaker 1: I don't think is, I don't know if it was
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  Speaker 1: ever there, but it certainly does not appear to be
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  Speaker 1: there anymore. And so this is the latest move in that,
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  Speaker 1: because we've also invited Putin to Alaska, we've invited Russian,
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  Speaker 1: we're bringing him down to Miami, you know, it, If
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  Speaker 1: we're just nicer to Putin, he's going to see reason,
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  Speaker 1: and yet there's no evidence that suggests that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, none whatsoever. Okay, I get that. I get
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  Speaker 2: that this is really just a deal that Putin wanted,
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  Speaker 2: that Trump said yes to, that has helped nobody else.
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  Speaker 2: As critical as that sounds.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: And now we go on to your last martini of
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: the three-martini lunch with host Jim Garrity and me, Craig Colonese,
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: filling in. Still weird to say my real last name.
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  Speaker 2: Kimberly Guilfoyle is in the news. She had a sweet
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  Speaker 2: gig as a U.S. ambassador yesterday And it appears that
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  Speaker 2: they have gifted her an exit. Is that correct? What's
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  Speaker 2: going on here?
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  Speaker 1: Well, someone who does not like Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: currently our U.S. ambassador to Greece. She's the former fiance
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  Speaker 1: of Donald Trump Jr. Also the ex-wife of California Governor
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom. So you could say she's thoroughly bipartisan in
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: that sense. But so she was appointed U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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  Speaker 1: Someone who has remarkable access to everything she's doing who
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  Speaker 1: does not like her has been leaking to the Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street Journal over the last two weeks and every couple
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  Speaker 1: of days at some other new revelation. The first was
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  Speaker 1: that she had this lobbyist for a Greek construction company,
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  Speaker 1: and she's been meeting with other countries trying to encourage
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  Speaker 1: other countries to hire this Greek construction company. Now, Mr. Colonese,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard of the phrase America first.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I think America first really should prioritize America, not
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  Speaker 1: this Greek construction conglomerate or something like that. And she
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  Speaker 1: goes into meetings with them. People thought she was her
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  Speaker 1: chief of staff. There's just something weird about this. Then
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  Speaker 1: the second story was about her asking this wealthy businessman
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  Speaker 1: to pay her American Express card bill of $ 100, 000 before
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: her confirmation hearings. The Wall Street Journal had the text messages,
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  Speaker 1: and it is basically promising favors, and it just is
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  Speaker 1: every bit as unsavory as you'd think. The news this morning,
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  Speaker 1: again from the Associated Press, President Trump, Secretary of State Rubio,
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  Speaker 1: are considering firing U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle after
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  Speaker 1: a series of reports alleging she has engaged in improper
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  Speaker 1: and possibly illegal conduct before and during her tenure in Athens.
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  Speaker 1: Senior U.S. officials said Sunday that Trump and Rubio are, quote,
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  Speaker 1: extremely pissed off, unquote. by her reported conduct and will
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  Speaker 1: likely decide on what action to take this week after
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  Speaker 1: the Columbus Day holiday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad they got the extremely in there in the quote,
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  Speaker 2: by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Extremely, yes. Not just a little pissed off. Very pissed off.
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  Speaker 1: And it's, look, this administration is not squeaky clean, but
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  Speaker 1: there is a kind of a breaking point. There is
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  Speaker 1: this level where it just becomes absolutely insurmountable. Um, I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, wrote extensively about this on Friday. Uh, some
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  Speaker 1: people said, yes, this is terrible. A couple of readers like, Jim,
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  Speaker 1: why are you making such a big deal out of this? Well,
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  Speaker 1: apparently it's a big deal to Trump and Rubio as well. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can find other people to be ambassador
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  Speaker 1: who will not, by the way, being an ambassador is
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  Speaker 1: a really sweet gig, right? Public housing, make a decent living. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got a security detail. Like most people
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  Speaker 1: really like being ambassadors. There's a reason. The idea that
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  Speaker 1: she's like, well, actually, I also want to make some
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  Speaker 1: extra money on the side.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Honest to goodness, I kind of feel
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: like this is, even by the standards of this administration,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: this is embarrassing. And it's really hard to argue this
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: administration is America first when it's Greek construction conglomerate first,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: America second.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I guess I continue to now think about the,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: like the catalyst to all these things. Cause I'm thinking
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: to myself, what do you, what do you think makes
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: someone that has a sweet gig like this for a
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Guilfoyle need to take that extra shot? Cause you would
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: think the risk isn't worth the reward here to most.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Of us humans. Craig, have you seen the picture of
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: her posing on the rug with Gavin Newsom?
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: It's like a profile in a magazine out there in California. It, um,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: It's like an episode of 80s Dynasty. It's just the most...
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Was it Susan Collins? No, it wasn't Susan Collins. Whoever
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: that actor... It was just absolute... Dallas, J.R. Ewing. It
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: was the most ostentatious... Liberace would say, that's a bit much.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: And that's the... So I think... She has a taste
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: for the finer things in life.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: She does.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: She does. And anyway, she can get them. This is, yeah.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I can't believe you just reminded me of that photo.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: I am now looking at that photo once again, because
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: it is, we should just flash it up. And then
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: that's the answer to the question. Well, thank you, Jim,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: as always, for chatting about all of this stuff. I
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: think we might have a palate cleanser or one last one.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Do we? We do. So I had on paper a
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: very good weekend, Mr. Colonese, because my Jets won, beating
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns 17 to 12. Sure. It was the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: rare game that I did not watch. I usually watch
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: every game with at least one of my sons at
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: a restaurant. We were at a family gathering. So we're
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: just surreptitiously checking our phones the entire time. And the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Jets won. It's probably good that I didn't watch. I
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: would have had a heart attack.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Watching it, but Giants, kind of a mixed day, huh?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: No, the Giants did tie, which I think is no
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: fun and shouldn't happen. This is America. We should not
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: allow these things to happen. But they were down 14
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: points in the fourth quarter, and I think the Commanders
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: more screwed up than the Giants actually did a lot
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: to achieve a tie. So in those scenarios, like if
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I was watching my kid play a sport, and he's terrible,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: but for a couple minutes he's pretty good... I'm going
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: to focus on those couple minutes and ignore the whole
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: rest of it. That seems to be what happened here
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: for the Giants. And again, mostly a giveaway more so
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: than something earned.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: A good, healthy attitude, I think, Craig. And I should
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: observe that, like, you know, I'm old enough to remember
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: when NFL overtime used to be 15 minutes. Right. Now
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it's just 10 minutes. And I understand, you know, they're
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: worried about long games and fatigue and injuries and stuff
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I think you could add another five minutes. 15 minutes
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: over time isn't that much.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: This is America. We should not tie.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: You should never tie.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, good. I'm glad we agree on that.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: This is not soccer, darn it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: We'll talk again next time on the Three Martini Lunch
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: with Jim Garrity. And I think I'm in all week
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: for Greg Krohn.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: You are. And we're glad to have you. Fantastic.