Welcome to the three martini lunch.

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

Three martini's coming up.

Hey, so glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the three martini lunch.

And Jim, plenty to talk about today as always.

And just a moment we're talking about the ridiculous math performance from incoming college students it's really alarming and

it says a lot about people getting shuffled through high school and middle school and elementary

school and suddenly they show up at college literally knowing almost nothing when it comes to math at least.

And I'm guessing that's probably true in some other subjects as well. We'll dig into that.

The United Nations, unsurprisingly, is now joining the cause of regulating, cracking down on social media speech,

internet speech because what they call misinformation and disinformation

is damaging to their agenda.

But of course, we'll start in just a moment with the shutdown,

finally being over, longest shutdown in history.

So we'll talk all about that and what comes next year

in the next couple months, but Jim, our,

I don't know about long national nightmare, but stupid democratic stunt is finally over. Yeah, I don't want to preview everything I'm going to say about the government shutdown, Greg, but I got to say, like the shutdown feels really long. I would also point out that this week feels really long, and I've only been on this podcast for two days. I've noticed that, like, when it's Monday, you always know what day it is. You always know it's Monday. When it's Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. These three are like three triplets. They're the Hanson brothers from Slapshot. You can mix them all up. They all look the same. It is Thursday. But man, it feels like it should be a Friday.

All right, Jim, good martini.

I think most people already know.

It's certainly gotten plenty of attention.

We've talked about it a couple of times this week.

The shutdown is over.

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