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

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

Happy New Year.

If you haven't already heard all the year end specials, please go back and take a listen to those.

We had a lot of fun doing those. We also had our predictions on Friday. This year we did not choose military action in Venezuela, but man, that would have been some low-hanging fruit and an easy one come true. I think a lot of people saw it coming, given what we amassed there, just off the coast of Venezuela. And so we'll be talking about the

operation itself and what comes next in Venezuela, as well as the news today that Minnesota

Governor Tim Walls not running for a third term. But Jim, certainly an exciting start to the year,

to say the least. January 3rd is a terrible day to be an enemy of the United States. That's the

six-year anniversary of, I guess, yeah, Qasem Soleimani turning into a charcoal briquette on a highway in Iraq. I would say on January 3rd, if you're an enemy of the United States, you should just stay in bed. But in the case of Nicholas Maduro, that didn't do any good. No, no, that didn't work either. So we'll get to all of it in just second. But first, happy to report. We have a brand new sponsor here. And it is Coast Pay. And look, if you're managing different teams, especially if it's construction or landscaping, you know, any business where you have guys out in the field a lot and they're putting stuff on their own card or they're buying in cash and then you're trying to reconcile everything with a bunch of receipts at pay time. That's a headache. That's a mess. Accounting hates that.

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