Welcome to the three martini lunch.

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

Three martini's coming up.

Hey, so glad you're with us for the Christmas Eve edition of the Three Martini Lunch.

We're so glad you're spending a little bit of your special day with us.

Today is day two of our special Three Martini Lunch. We're so glad you're spending a little bit of your special day with us. Today is day two of our special three martini lunch year end awards. We kicked it all off

yesterday on Tuesday with looking at the most overrated, underrated, and honest political figures.

And today we focus on the figures we're most sorry to see go, rising star, and the figure

fading into oblivion. And as we go on past Christmas, we'll be getting into issues with the media,

best idea, worst idea, best political theater, worst and so forth. And ultimately,

person of the year, turn code of the year and predictions as we start 2026. And so Jim, always a somber category, but as usual,

no shortage of options this year. Who are you most sorry to see go in 2025. You are absolutely

correct that, Greg. Before we get into that, though, I do believe there's some breaking news,

right as we started taping, shots fired at Nakatomi Plaza. And so the public is, the authorities are

asking everyone, please do not use the LAPD frequency to order a pizza. That's true. All right,

getting more serious here. This is always one of our least favorite categories to have to talk about.

Sorry to see you go,

which figure departed us in one form or another,

and this one I think was head and shoulders, obvious, Charlie Kirk.

And I think that that was one of the biggest and most consequential events of the year,

his assassination. And I think before his assassination certainly knew who Charlie Kirk was.

I was not as familiar with how extensive his work had been, how many different college campuses he had done.

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