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.

Hey, really glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini lunch.

We have good, bad, and crazy Martini's for you today, but Jim, before we get to the Martini's, you know, there are moments as a parent, I'm sure you've been there,

where you're thinking, what in the world am I doing?

Am I having any positive impact here whatsoever.

How are my kids going to turn out?

Well, then there are other days where you hear things that happen

while you're at work and you just feel like running

onto the field and celebrating like Michigan at the end of the Rose Bowl because you're like, yes, this is this. like She's at the library with our girls and our youngest daughter has been looking at some books in the kids biography section one of those who is or who was storybooks for kids and so so my wife text me, oh my goodness, we're at the library and she was so excited

because she found who was John McCain and she was like, mom, look, the guy from diehard did all these really important

things. We should point out that to listeners that actually Greg told me about this

yesterday he's telling me I'm hearing it for the second time and it's still funny it's still every bit is good.

So yes, mother.

I can believe John McCain said that but but yeah so my kids are are actually fascinated by

diehard now even though they're still way too young to see it and will be for a few

more years but one of the reasons they're fascinated now is that my brother recently

sent me a gift of the Nakatomi Plaza Advent calendar where Hans Gruber starts at the top

and there's a magnet on his back and you slide them down one floor every day until he splatters on on Christmas

Eve and so because they haven't seen the movie the kids feel bad that Hans Gruber is

plummeting to his desk though they have come up with this theory that John

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