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.

So glad you are with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch.

And boy, did you pick a great day to be with us because jim gerrity is back from

ukraine and additional adventures which included syria which we did not know at least i didn't

before the trip and uh jim nobody nobody new greg when we do our special episode later this week

the first question from greg is going to be what the hell were you thinking? You know, and yeah, look, also breaking news in this podcast. I'm still on this show.

I understand if people had doubts over the last two weeks and Inez and Andy and ex-John had taken

over and God bless them for filling in for me. But yes, I'm back and not itching to travel anymore for a good long while.

Jim is suddenly a homebody and we'll learn a lot more about that later in the week on our special.

But yes, thank you to Enaz Stepman and Andy McCarthy, Scott Bertram and John Gabriel for filling the gap in Jim's absence. But we are back,

and we will have that special episode, most likely on Friday of this week. But today, we have

good, bad, and crazy martinis about last night's major speech. Not officially a state of the union,

for some reason they don't give it that title in the first year, the first a few weeks

of the President's administration. But it was essentially a state of the union address. It was very,

very long, much like the convention speech. So I really wish they would tighten that up. But as you

wrote today, Jim, at this point with Trump, that's probably not likely to happen. But there were

good, bad, and

crazy moments all around here. So let's start with the good. I think two moments really stood out.

I try to approach the speech from someone who's not locked in from either perspective. And I think

there were two moments that definitely worked well for Trump. In addition to all the amazing people in the

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