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 another special edition of the three martini lunch.

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

Got everything you wanted under the tree and also enjoyed time with family and friends we are back today with our third installment of our special

three martini lunch year and awards if you haven't already heard the first two installments go back to

December 23rd that's where we kicked it off with overrated underrated and honest political figures

and then on Christmas Eve we talked about the figures we were very sorry to see pass away in 2025. And also we talked

about rising stars and the figures fading into oblivion. So today our categories are biggest lie,

best political theater and worst political theater. So for the biggest lie of 2025, Jim, what tops your list?

Well, Greg, I really tried to struggle with like what was the most consequential lie of the year.

Politicians lie all the time. I kind of jokingly say, oh, this is what our category is that has

the most intense competition. I don't think, you know, you look at the, there were not a lot of

elections this year, but I think you look at the one that was probably the biggest surprise and one

that got a lot of coverage was Zoron Mamdami's victory in the New York City mayoral race. And I don't

know if you want to say his entire campaign was a lie, but the entire coverage of him, I think, was

from the mainstream media, was insufficient to the task.

It did not reflect his true record.

It did not reflect what his policies would actually do.

His entire campaign was basically him on social media, walking around the city, giving a charming smile and saying, affordability.

And then smile. And just, you know, like, and the idea that and saying, affordability, and then smile,

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