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🗓️ 22 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.8 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.0 | Very glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.4 | We should tell you that this is the last normal format three martini lunch of the year. |
| 0:22.2 | Tomorrow, Jim and I begin our prestigious year-end, three martini lunch awards. Six different |
| 0:28.4 | installments of those, everything from overrated and most underrated political figures to best |
| 0:33.4 | ideas, worst ideas, best and worst political theater, most overreported and underreported |
| 0:38.1 | stories, person of the year, turn code of the year, and even all the way up through the end |
| 0:42.5 | and next week are predictions for 2026. So we've put a lot of thought, a lot of work into those, |
| 0:48.4 | hopefully enjoy those special episodes. But today, we're not going to finish on a light note. |
| 0:53.5 | We've got a real clown car of |
| 0:55.7 | insanity in the Democratic field for the U.S. Senate in Michigan. We've talked about Abu El-S. |
| 1:00.7 | Ayyed, the Bernie Sanders acolyte and a guy who wants socialized medicine and, of course, |
| 1:06.2 | hates Israel and demonizes the police. There's other psychos in this race, too, and you're |
| 1:10.8 | going to hear about that today. |
| 1:12.3 | We're also going to be talking about the curious case of Elise Stefanik, the longtime Congresswoman, |
| 1:19.5 | who was long planning a run for governor, finally announced it, and now she's not running for governor. |
| 1:24.7 | So we'll dig into that. |
| 1:26.0 | But in a moment, we're going to be talking about what happened at Turning Point USA's Amfest over the weekend, |
| 1:32.6 | and specifically the dust up between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson. |
| 1:36.0 | So let's start with Amfest, Jim, because this is out in Phoenix. |
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