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.

So glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.

Jim Garrity is not here today.

He's probably basking in the second win of the season for his beloved New York Jets wherever he is today. I can promise he's not in a war zone, but here in his place today is Rob Long. Rob is a co-founder of Rickettsay. He's co-host of the Glob podcast. He's host of the Martini shot. So many accomplishments.

Hollywood screenwriter and so many things.

Rob, good to have you with us. I'm glad to be here. We got so much to talk about. We got a theme today. Kind of bad decisions. So we're going to be talking about the Democrats' decision to shut down the government for, you know, almost a month and a half. and then after, you know, doing really well in the elections,

then they decide to pack it in and go for the clean resolution in the Senate. So their caucus

is having a lot of fun today. And then there's also President Trump wanting to cut $2,000

checks to low and middle income Americans based on revenues from the tariffs. We'll be digging into that. And we'll be taking a look at the price tag. Now that he's been elected, we can actually look at the price tag because we don't want to do that first for Zerun Mondani's agenda in New York City, free childcare, free buses, all that kind of stuff. So Rob, I know you don't live in New York City anymore. I bet you're pretty glad of that right now, but we've got a lot to dig into today. Yeah, I don't live there anymore. I'm happy to not live there anymore. It allows me to sort of like laugh and smirk and be completely free of any kind of impending doom. But everybody I know who is still living there is now just terrified. It doesn't know what to do. Let it unfold, is what I say.

This is how we doom. But everybody I know who is still living there is now just terrified. It doesn't know what to do.

You know, let it unfold is what I say. This is how we learn, as they say. All right. Well, we'll talk about

all of that in a moment, starting with the shutdown. But first, today's episode is sponsored in part

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