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Getting Hammered®

2020 Vibes as Signaling is Up and Competence Down

Getting Hammered®

Laissez-Faire Media

Politics, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.7844 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Mary Katharine Ham and Vic Matus talk the Washington Auto show and generational shifts in car culture, plus their first cars! They delve into the Democratic drama of the Texas Senate race and the influence of social media on politics. The conversation also touches on the Grammys, the Kennedy Center's controversies, city dysfunction with school closures and trash heaps, and the Loudoun County School Board is absolutely insane again. Finally, they are trying to care about the Winter Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered.

0:43.8

I'm your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

0:45.3

I'm here with my co-host, Vic Mattis of The Washington Free Beacon.

0:49.0

We are your morning show for any hour.

0:50.5

We are over, caffeinated, and underprepared.

0:53.5

Thank you for joining us. We got a lot going on

0:56.8

because, you know, we're giving you once a week episodes. We're trying to build up, but this is what

1:02.3

we can do, and you need to help us out by telling your friends, leaving a review, letting people

1:08.8

know we're here at getting hammered, and, you know, subscribing.

1:12.4

Click the subscribe.

1:13.4

We got Texas drama.

1:15.1

We got the Grammys and Billy Elish telling us what's what.

1:19.6

We got the Kennedy Center News, schools closed, city dysfunction, and a couple updates internationally and domestically. But before we get to all that,

1:30.2

Vic, how you doing? Hello, Mary Catherine. I'm doing just fine hanging in there, feeling a little

1:35.2

bit better slowly but surely every day. And to our listeners, you know, when you think, oh,

1:41.1

we're only once a week. You wish that we were twice a week more than that.

1:45.3

Some people wanted every day, if you remember.

1:47.5

The solution is, listen to us in 15-minute increments every day, a 15-minute dose.

1:54.3

That gives you an hour over four days, I think.

1:57.4

So it's decent.

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