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Controversy Erupts as Team USA Star Balogun's Suspension Is Revoked · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch. Greb a stool next
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  Speaker 1: to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garritty of
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  Speaker 1: National Review.
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  Speaker 2: Free martinis coming up. This is the three Martini Lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Just a couple more days. You have to suffer through
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  Speaker 2: me before Greg Corumbas, I believe, returns on Wednesday. My
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  Speaker 2: name is Craig Collins filling in. That is Jim Garrity
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  Speaker 2: hanging out. Lots of things to talk about. We will
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: get into the Red Card and all the reactions to it,
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  Speaker 2: and if Belgium again will challenge what the US might
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  Speaker 2: have challenged and successful the one I don't know what's
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  Speaker 2: happening there. We'll talk about that. China has released an
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  Speaker 2: imprisoned Christian pastor. This seems like good news and proof
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  Speaker 2: that every relationship is valuable, no matter who Trump has
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  Speaker 2: a relationship with. And then finally on the last one,
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  Speaker 2: we have a Senate campaign to retire, which is going
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  Speaker 2: to be fun for us to do. So many things
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  Speaker 2: to talk about today on the Three Martini Lunch, Jim.
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  Speaker 3: Craig, we are very happy to have you any day
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  Speaker 3: of the week on the on our last Martini, we
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  Speaker 3: may just may like if only we had a son
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  Speaker 3: of Michigan for this one.
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  Speaker 1: But we will. We'll muddle through the best we can. Cool.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, Well, let's get right to our first martini.
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  Speaker 3: Then.
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  Speaker 2: Balagun is the name that I did not know before
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  Speaker 2: this World Cup started. I do now know his name.
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  Speaker 2: Quite a good striker, lots of goals, red card, not
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  Speaker 2: gonna play. President Trump made a phone called a FIFA
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  Speaker 2: and now Larigan flow Arragon. I'm not sure, but anyway,
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  Speaker 2: he will be playing in the match tonight. This is
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  Speaker 2: exciting news, Jim.
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  Speaker 3: So this is you do this, that we were not
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  Speaker 3: going to get through a World Cup without some egregious
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  Speaker 3: referee decision, without some giant controversy, and without President Trump
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  Speaker 3: getting involved in some way, and this one checks all three.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So Falaren Bugolin's step in the US game against Bosnia
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  Speaker 3: and Herzegovidia the US one two nothing, but about like
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  Speaker 3: two thirds of the way into the game, Ballogan steps
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  Speaker 3: on the ankle of one of the Bosnia Hertzegovinia players.
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  Speaker 3: They had this thing called VAAR Video assistant referees, you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of comparable to instant replay and football. They go
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  Speaker 3: and review it and when you're watching at normal speed,
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  Speaker 3: he does step with the guy's ankle. I think a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people said, Okay, if you want to give
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  Speaker 3: him a yellow card for that, you can, but there's
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  Speaker 3: no sense of intent, there's no sense of trying to injury.
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  Speaker 3: And in today's Morning Jolt, I went through a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of you know, former Premier League referees, basically every referee
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  Speaker 3: who commented on it, and almost all of them said, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's really harsh. It was, you know, no intent, just
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  Speaker 3: kind of incidental. They're both going for the ball. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: you don't want guys stepping on their ankle. There's always
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  Speaker 3: a chance you're going to break a guy's ankle when
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  Speaker 3: that kind of thing happened. So again, most people felt
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  Speaker 3: like it was not that not that nothing happened, but
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  Speaker 3: then you probably a yellow card is the sort of
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  Speaker 3: thing which would do it. I think most listeners are familiar,
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  Speaker 3: but just in case, two yellow cards equal a red card, right,
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  Speaker 3: yellow cards are warning, kind of like don't do that again,
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  Speaker 3: or else I'm tossing you out. You get two yellow
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  Speaker 3: cards in the same match, they don't call them games,
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  Speaker 3: they call them match.
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  Speaker 1: You end up being you get tossed.
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  Speaker 3: However, under FIFA rules, if you get a red card
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  Speaker 3: during the game, first of all, you're out, which means
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  Speaker 3: your team's playing with ten players and the other team
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  Speaker 3: is playing with eleven players, so that gives you an
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  Speaker 3: advantage for the remainder of the game. You're also suspended
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  Speaker 3: for the following game, which is like, that's where it
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  Speaker 3: really turned into eight, Like whoa, whoa, whoa for a
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  Speaker 3: very iffy call that probably shouldn't have been a red card.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're not just losing him for you know, a
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  Speaker 3: portion of one game, you're missing for the next one.
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  Speaker 3: So there are a whole bunch of people who are saying,
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  Speaker 3: you know, is this can be rescinded. This apparently has
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  Speaker 3: only happened like twice before in FIFA World Cup history.
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  Speaker 1: Trump.
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  Speaker 3: First of so, apparently the Trump administrate Howard lutt Nick
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  Speaker 3: and Andrew Giuliani. Giuliani is the son of Rudy Giuliani,
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  Speaker 3: executive director of the White House World Cup Task Force.
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  Speaker 3: They're mad as hell, and they start immediately saying we
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  Speaker 3: got to start lobbying for it to push this against this.
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  Speaker 3: They have the authority to resend this sort of thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so Trump makes the call to the Commissioner of FIFA.
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  Speaker 3: Now Infantino does He does not say in Fatida, does
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  Speaker 3: not say, yes, sir, We're going to rescind this. He
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  Speaker 3: explains the rules, and Trump nods, and that's the FIFA
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  Speaker 3: president says, I'll look into it, does not commit to
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  Speaker 3: overturning it. A couple of days later, FIFA says, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, this really shouldn't have been a red court.
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  Speaker 3: Our judicial body has the power to partially suspend the
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  Speaker 3: implementation of a disciplinary measure under Article twenty seven or
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  Speaker 3: the FIFA Disciplinary Code. We're invoking that and bea logan
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  Speaker 3: can play. Now, it's possible without Trump's call, this would
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  Speaker 3: have shaked out the exact same way. And one of
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  Speaker 3: the things I point out in today's Morning Jolt is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, look, you and I have talked about soccer
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  Speaker 3: several times on this podcast, and I don't know, a
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  Speaker 3: couple of years ago we might not have done that, right,
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  Speaker 3: Like people, Americans have really got. Television ratings are high,
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  Speaker 3: even sounds the non US games television ratings have been high.
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  Speaker 3: So if your FIFA, the idea of having the US team,
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  Speaker 3: you know, most best player taken out on a really
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  Speaker 3: iffy at best call.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad publicity.
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  Speaker 3: It looks bad for you, right, So they might have
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  Speaker 3: undone that the Trump call. Maybe that does increase pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it does, you know. I think if your FIFA,
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  Speaker 3: you just you want this to go away.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Belgium is screaming bloody murder. This is, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: biggest outrage there. Basically they're there there. Issued statement was
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  Speaker 3: the equivalent of flopping. Oh but this is such an injustice.
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  Speaker 1: We want so wronged.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so they're they're saying they're going to try
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  Speaker 3: to appeal this decision. I guess they have this right.
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  Speaker 3: The game is tonight, We'll see how it shakes out.
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  Speaker 3: I think both Trump's fans and foes want to believe
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  Speaker 3: that he was a deciding factor in this. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's possible it was not the deciding factor. I also think,
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  Speaker 3: look to the Belgians, they care about soccer the way
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  Speaker 3: we care about football and baseball and basketball and winning
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  Speaker 3: World Wars.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a really big deal to YEA, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: love that.
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  Speaker 2: So a couple of things that I was thinking when
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  Speaker 2: I saw this, And I think Belgium only has to
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  Speaker 2: like now to you know, complain about this and if
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  Speaker 2: they don't win, then he's gonna play the other thing,
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  Speaker 2: I would say, And this just seems to be in
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of the World Cup. It's now, don't you
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  Speaker 2: want to beat the team at its best? Like Belgium
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  Speaker 2: complaining now is essentially saying that we'd rather play a
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  Speaker 2: week in US team so we can beat the week
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  Speaker 2: in US team instead of playing the better team that
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  Speaker 2: is still ranked below us in the world. We still
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  Speaker 2: are the favorite going in even with him playing, Like,
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  Speaker 2: why do you want to handicap the team you want
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  Speaker 2: to defeat in the World Cup of all events? Just
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  Speaker 2: because I feel like they should just accept that this
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  Speaker 2: is a better outcome for the quality of the game
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  Speaker 2: and if they win, the quality of the match, and
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  Speaker 2: if they win, they can brag even more about defeating
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  Speaker 2: the United States.
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  Speaker 3: The Belgian complaint is strangely complimentary in indication that if
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  Speaker 3: Belgian felt like they were confident they're going to win,
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  Speaker 3: they wouldn't be raising this stink the way they did. Whatever,
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  Speaker 3: you your favorite team is playing your least favorite team,
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  Speaker 3: and you find out that your least favorite teams one
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  Speaker 3: of their best players is injured.
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  Speaker 1: On the one hand, You're like, ah, yeah, I love
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  Speaker 1: the better team.
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  Speaker 3: On the other hand, you know that for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the time, the fantasy the other two well, it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't really win.
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  Speaker 1: If we'd had.
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  Speaker 3: So and so, we would have beat you a guy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, so you know this is now going to
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  Speaker 3: peer an insu like, you know, the the biggest issue,
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  Speaker 3: and people are just like, this is going to ruin
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  Speaker 3: the reputation of FIFA, which is a demonstration that you
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  Speaker 3: know nothing about. The reputation of FIFA does not have
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  Speaker 3: a reputation to lose.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like the runners of any other organization, they are
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  Speaker 2: definitely criticized often.
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  Speaker 3: All right, that's great, But I'm just kind of struck
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  Speaker 3: by the fact that the degree to which people want
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  Speaker 3: a bad call to stay in place to quote unquote
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  Speaker 3: preserve the integrity of the game.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a bad call should you want to fix them.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I think that ref needs to see
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• 8:36
  Speaker 2: Now we move on to our second martini and another
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  Speaker 2: good martini. This one is and certainly a surprising one,
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  Speaker 2: I guess to some. Ezra Jin is the name of
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  Speaker 2: a Christian pastor that China has released from prison. The
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  Speaker 2: reason for the release his President Trump, his campaigning for this,
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  Speaker 2: his valuable relationship with Chijinping that he has often talked about.
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: Trump brags, even when he wraps on countries or creates
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  Speaker 2: tariffs that make them mad, that he actually does have
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  Speaker 2: a good relationship with a lot of world leaders. This
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: seems to be a potential demonstration of the reality of
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  Speaker 2: that fact. I thought that was pretty interesting, Jim.
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  Speaker 3: There are a lot of times where Trump says, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Jijin Pig and I we get along so well,
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  Speaker 3: and there are times where it seems like happy talk.
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  Speaker 3: There's times where it says, great, I'm glad he's so
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  Speaker 3: complimentary in the meetings. But for a guy who you
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: keep saying is so terrific, you know what's actually happening. Well,
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  Speaker 3: here we have an actual, concrete piece of evidence that
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  Speaker 3: Trump's lobbying of Ji can get results. I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to pretend that I know church pastor as Jin particularly well,
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  Speaker 3: but his son in law, Bill Drexel, was sotha on
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  Speaker 3: me on a trip to India last fall. So when
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  Speaker 3: you hear guys are saying, yeah, my father in law
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  Speaker 3: has been you know, put into a Chinese prison, and
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  Speaker 3: we have no idea when he's going to get out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's terrifying.
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  Speaker 3: And so, you know, this is the sort of thing where,
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  Speaker 3: you know, statements from the Secretary of State and other
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  Speaker 3: international organizations, Christian organizations, they're all good. Nothing is going
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  Speaker 3: to have the power of the President the United States
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  Speaker 3: bringing this up, specifically in a meeting face to face
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  Speaker 3: with Jijinping, and Trump did that. He said an interview
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  Speaker 3: with Brett Bair that he felt fairly optimistic about it.
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  Speaker 3: This is back in mid May. Some time has passed,
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  Speaker 3: and it sounds like they had decided to do this
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: around the fourth of July holiday. Look, you know, I've
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of complaints with the Trump administration, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of it, but this is genuinely could give them
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  Speaker 3: all the credit in the world by bringing up the issue.
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  Speaker 3: Pastor Ezra Jin is out of jail, and it probably
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  Speaker 3: would not have happened if not for the President's action himself.
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  Speaker 3: So kudos to the Trump administration. Raise a glass. This
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  Speaker 3: is a happy day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm again very impressed that this can actually work
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  Speaker 2: out the way that Trump, hyperbolically, as you said, continues
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  Speaker 2: to talk about these things. I wonder if any of
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  Speaker 2: these conversations also have little jabs still because I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that's the relationship. It's both happy, and then there's
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  Speaker 2: still a little shot of some kind back and forth.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're just say, you know, presidents have done this
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  Speaker 3: for a while. The Biden administration also should put out
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  Speaker 3: like as far as we know, no ransom payments or
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  Speaker 3: anything like that. Reagan did this a lot, where like
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: before the president would meet with Gorbachev or any other
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  Speaker 3: Soviet premiere, they'd send over a list of these are
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  Speaker 3: the people you have in jail that we're watching their
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  Speaker 3: cases very closely and we'd hate to see anything bad
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  Speaker 3: happen to them.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes the Soviet need to release them. Sometimes they didn't.
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  Speaker 3: But just by bringing it up and saying this is
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  Speaker 3: a priority for us, you can get somebody out of
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  Speaker 3: jail who does not belong there. We should point out
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  Speaker 3: esther Jin is to come back to the United States
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  Speaker 3: so there's no risk of him being rearrested or something.
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  Speaker 3: This is a fairly inexpensive way for an authoritarian regime
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  Speaker 3: to kind of purchase some good will with the US government,
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  Speaker 3: and I heartily recommend it. This doesn't mean we have
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  Speaker 3: to give China everything they want. This doesn't mean but
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  Speaker 3: it's just kind of a nice sign. Okay, you guys,
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  Speaker 3: recognize you've done something that strikes us as wrong, and
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  Speaker 3: you're willing to rectify that. You send them to the
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  Speaker 3: United States. He's out of your hair. You don't have
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  Speaker 3: to worry about him anymore, you know. We like to
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  Speaker 3: see this happen for a couple other Chinese dissidents and
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  Speaker 3: critics of the regime. We're not done yet, but I'll
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  Speaker 3: take my wins where i can get them, and this
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: is definitely a win. But we'll be talking about another
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  Speaker 3: autocratic state ruled by Gretchen Whitmer.
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  Speaker 2: And just second, and now we are on to our
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: third martini, we have a high profile dropout in a
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: high profile US Senate race. That would be Michigan and
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  Speaker 2: Mallory mcmarrow. She is out as far as this campaign goes.
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  Speaker 2: So it's opening and closing night for us tonight to
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  Speaker 2: talk about her. What do you got in this one, Jim.
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  Speaker 3: So Craig, I'd said earlier, this is one of the
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: times I wish we'd had Greg on the show. But
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: that point, Greg Brob would say, they're all Democrats, they're
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: all bad. It doesn't there are no good options for
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: what it's worth right. So this is State Senator Mallory mcmarrow.
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: She there's a three person race, and she was seen
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: as the one who was kind of in the middle.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: Congressman Haley Stevens of Birmingham is considered the centrist or
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: establishment candidate. This doesn't really that's not that centrist. But
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: you know former Wayne County healthchief Abdul lsied Ovann Arbor,
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: this is the Hassan Piker endorsed one.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: This is the one who.
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: Said, well, that guy shot up from synagogue. We got
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: to understand the root causes. You know, this is this
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: is like he's just the absolute worst. So by that standard,
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: Hailey Stevens is an improvement. I suppose if you're Mike Rogers,
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  Speaker 3: the almost certain Republican nominee, then you probably want the
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: Hassan Piker endorsed nutjob to be the Democratic nominee. So
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: I suppose, if you're a Republican, after what we've seen
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  Speaker 3: with Chavalier and mom Dommi and AOC, the idea of
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: oh the radical wins that you like, sometimes there's a
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: chance the radical is gonna win. In Michigan is not
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: an easy state for Republicans to win. So there's a
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  Speaker 3: part of this, like, given a choice between Rogers and Stevens,
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  Speaker 3: I prefer that to a choice between Rogers and I'll say, Yet,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see how it goes. The thinking is is that
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  Speaker 3: this is you know, on paper, it helps Hailey Stevens,
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  Speaker 3: but there's a real sense of doubt and just kind
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  Speaker 3: of this attitude of the momentum is all towards the
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: hard left, sometimes openly communists, sometimes quasi communist, and you know,
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: sometimes openly is lobbist candidates and on the left. So
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: I look at this as like, dropping out with a
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: month to go is kind of interesting, not clearly was
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  Speaker 3: not part of what mcborrough was hoping. You can alsos
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  Speaker 3: kind of diff She has her support declined to the
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: point where her departure is not a huge game changer
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  Speaker 3: in this race.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I know that people are surprised by it.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that her crapping on rural Americans was
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily a good thing. That quote that people often
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  Speaker 2: remember about her on social media, where she said many
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: rural Americans have isolated themselves from the rest of the country.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: They live in very unrepresentative areas. This isn't a good
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: move not a good way to get elected in.
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  Speaker 3: Any is Detroit representative probably, I would say, look, Axel
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Foley moved away years ago, and RoboCop is not there
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: on the beat yet, so.
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  Speaker 2: Now we need them though I think you naid them
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  Speaker 2: in Detroit sometime soon. It is sad to see Gingers
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: go though there's not a whole lot of Gingers and politics.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll be right back with a prediction with
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: a World Cup in just a moment.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: And it is that time, the time I most waited
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: for during the three Martini lunch day. We're going to
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: predict the outcome of tonight's game. Tonight's match. I don't
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: want to use the soccer words, Jim, I just want
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: to put that out there. Sure, even every time they
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: make them like you were shown a red card, you
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: weren't given one. I'm annoyed by that. But nonetheless, the
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: match that is tonight, it features the United States and Belgium.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Who do we think is going to win? Would you
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: like me to go first on this one? I want
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: you to go first, so okay, no problem. I believe
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: the United States will win this contest. I believe, especially
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: now that you've Balligan in there, they'll win this contest.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: I think it'll be close, though, I'm going to go
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: to one and I'm going to say it actually gets
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: to penalty kicks.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Interesting. I that's a very reasonable and realistic prediction. Thanks.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: I would point out that this is a Monday night
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: game in Seattle. Yeah, those who watch football know that
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: when there is a game in Seattle, I'm all kinds
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: of weird, wacky things happen. So I am predicting the
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: team USA, the Screaming Eagles will beat the Belgian Waffles
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: by a score of forty nine to nothing.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: And yes, people, I say, wait a second, what are
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: you talking about?
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: That would be way more our goals for forty nine
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: to nothing and forty eight of them will be scored
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: by Fuller and Bogul. But Logan, he is going to
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: come out like the Incredible Hulk, and he is just
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: going to gi It's just gonna be one goal after another,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: and they're gonna say, wait a minute, you can't score
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: touchdowns in this game.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Somehow he will find a way.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: And it will be a route and it'll be the
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: greatest victory in US soccer history. And the Belgians will
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: say we will we would have won if it wasn't
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: for Banuk.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: And he'll just go back to Yeah, that would be
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: on their French fries and just you know, so many
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Americans would be soccer fans for one day if a
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: score of forty nine to nothing was possible.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: That sounds amazing.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's that's my my extremely optimistic prediction for
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Team USA.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: All right, well, this has been three Martini Lunch. I'm
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Craig Collins, He's Jim Garretty. Thank you as always for
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: hanging out with us.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: I will be back tomorrow. Craig will be back tomorrow.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Greg is still out and he's missing all this fun,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: but we hope you will join us tomorrow on the
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Three Martini Lunch