Borders, Bombing Iran's Nukes, & More: What We're Politically Thankful For
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
First, Jim applauds a reporter who broke the most significant political scoop of the year. And while it didn't change the outcome of the election, it does give Virginians clear eyes on what to expect over the next four years. Meanwhile, Greg applauds the Trump administration for getting it's most important policy priority done right - and almost instantly after taking office.
Next, Jim has some fun and says he's thankful that he's not on the hook for designing secure facilities In Iran that turned out not to be so secure this year. Jim also utters a line likely to shock President Trump's staunchest supporters and his fiercest critics. Greg focuses on the homefront and is glad there is a backstop of sanity to deal with the blizzard of ridiculous rulings from federal judges playing politics from the bench.
Finally, Jim is thankful for the establishment of honorable journalistic principles in a news cycle where reporters like Olivia Nuzzi are taking a blowtorch to any notion of ethical reporting. And Greg thanks outgoing Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin for four years of sanity as we buckle up for four years of dumpster fires from the Democrats.
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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 Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch, a special edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:19.7 | Our longtime listeners will know that every Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we talk about |
| 0:23.9 | the things we're politically thankful for. |
| 0:26.0 | Sometimes they're serious. |
| 0:27.0 | Sometimes they're lighthearted. |
| 0:28.2 | Sometimes it's a little bit of a mix. |
| 0:30.2 | And then tomorrow we'll have one of our favorite recent episodes. |
| 0:34.1 | And then on Friday, our Black Friday special where Jim and I pick out gifts for political |
| 0:39.1 | figures that we think might be helpful to them. That is almost always tongue firmly planted |
| 0:43.9 | in cheek, but not necessarily. So make sure you check us out on Friday for that as well. |
| 0:48.3 | So today, what we're politically thankful for, Jim, I know you'll probably be thankful for roads that aren't |
| 0:55.7 | clogged as you head out of town. I'm always thankful for that too. So what tops your list for what |
| 1:00.6 | you're politically thankful for this year? Well, first I want to say if you are listening to this |
| 1:04.2 | program in your car and you are on Interstate 95 between Northern Virginia and Bucks County, |
| 1:10.4 | Pennsylvania, please get out of the left-hand |
| 1:12.7 | lane because I'm probably behind you and you're slowing me down. Also, if you are a driver from |
| 1:17.8 | Maryland, it's kind of early gift suggestion, please get a self-driving car because it would make |
| 1:23.3 | Elon, you can save all of us. Please do that. Sorry listeners in Maryland, but like I've just run into too many of you. |
| 1:44.9 | Actually, too many of you have tried to run into me. That's a better way of putting it. And that's, you know, somebody where. All right. So I, you just said, usually we do this very serious. Sometimes we do it funny. Actually, I think all of my selections this year are kind of a little bit in both categories. I am thankful for my National Review colleague Audrey Falberg and her excellent reporting earlier this year on the text |
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