Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

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

Three Martini's coming up.

Really glad you're with us for the Monday edition, the Memorial Day edition of the Three Martini

lunch.

This is a special edition today.

We'll have a few thoughts here at the beginning on the meaning of Memorial Day and

and then we're going to give you a little bit of a glimpse behind the scenes of the

three martini lunch and on a previous holiday special we kind of gave our origin

stories of how we became

conservatives how the podcast got started and all that sort of thing and today we're

going to talk about what goes into the production of the daily podcast how we

pick our stories and and the process all the way through that but of

course we'd be remiss without beginning on the reason for this holiday begun as

decoration day in the wake of the Civil War in 1868 and now for well over 150 years the day that we honor America's

war dead. Veterans Day is for those who have served. Armed Forces Day are

for those who are serving and Memorial Day is for those

who have given their lives in service to this country.

And so, Jim, I know from previous conversations that I believe you did have one relative who passed away in World War II, but as we

think about this day, one day seems the bare minimum we can do to honor those who have

worn the uniform and then given their lives

in sacrifice for the freedoms that we enjoy every day and probably take for granted way too often.

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