Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three martini's coming up.

Hey, so glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch.

And check out who's here.

It's Jim Garrity.

He's back from vacation. He also had a

couple of work-related events in there, but Jim, thanks as always to Andy McCarthy and Rob Long

for filling in, but great to have you back. It is good to be back. And yes, listeners,

I am so exhausted for my trips. The only way I can relax is to take another trip.

I was in Asheville, North Carolina.

Listeners probably remember that part of the country was hit by Hurricane Helen and just

absolutely devastated. Very pleased to report that's made quite a strong comeback. Not everything's

back to 100%, but, you know, downtown Asheville, the River Arts District, all that stuff, thriving Once again, lots of shoppers, lots of people dining. And I, the Mrs. and I did our part for the local economy. I'll say that much, including the microbreweries. Excellent, excellent. Well, glad you had a good time away. And, you know, a couple of things happened while you were gone. You know, end of the shutdown and a few other things.

But a lot to talk about today.

We're going to get into the Michigan Mammani.

We've talked about him before.

But Abu El-Sayed, one of the Democratic Senate candidates.

And he's been very busy deleting old tweets as he's trying to win a statewide race now.

We're also going to be taking a look at people in

the housing industry, slow learners, not really learning the lessons from a couple decades ago.

And Lee Zeldon, oozing competence once again while talking about people who lack it very much

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