Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool 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 Monday edition of the three martini lunch.

You know, we're in that gap between Christmas and New Year's, Jim, where you're not exactly sure what day it is, but eventually it's, oh, it's New Year's Eve today. That's still a couple days away. And we've got a lot of year-end specials still to go this week. So we hope you join us for all of that. Today we're going to be looking at best idea, worst idea, and boldest tactic. Tomorrow we're going to be taking a critical look at the media.

New Year's Eve, we'll be doing our big awards of person of the year, turn code of the year,

loser of the year. And then on January 2nd, we'll have our fearless predictions for 2026. So

glad you're with us for all of that, hopefully, and hopefully you've enjoyed the specials up to this point.

But with all of that as Prelude, Jim, what's the best idea of 2026?

Well, first of all, before I get to that, Greg,

I want to welcome all of our listeners to that time period.

We were technically working, but nothing's getting done.

So I would characterize myself as something of a skeptic about AI artificial intelligence.

And I don't mean the entire concept.

I just mean the current enormous excitement about it and the way it's been used all over

through the U.S. economy.

I live through the dot-com bubble, right?

I worked at a dot-com.

I don't know if AI is a comparable bubble,

but I looked some of these numbers up.

At some point, there's gonna be a correction.

In 2025, there were 236 AI startups,

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