Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered, which I am happy to announce

will not be quarterly anymore. Oh my gosh, I'm here, Mary Catherine Ham with my

co-host of the Washington Free Beacon, Vic Mattis, who has generously agreed to do this craziness

with me at least once a week during this holiday season. How are you doing Vic?

Hello, Mary Catherine. I have no idea what I'm walking into right now. You just said you want to do

a podcast. And I said, sure, let's do it. What's going on idea what I'm walking into right now. You just said you want to do a podcast.

And I said, sure, let's do it. What's going on? So I'm with the... That's how podcasts always work. Well, that's how podcasts with you always work. The readers and I are all experiencing at the same time. This is very exciting to know that we're going to get back on a regular schedule. I am doing just fine, but I have to tell you and I have to

apologize to our readers, I am a bit breathless because I had a lunch appointment in Washington, D.C.,

and it was bumper-to-bumper traffic. So initially they said, oh, it'll only take 15 minutes to

get into the city. But of course, today, one of the worst days of the year,

if you're familiar with D.C., the tree lighting day. So the tree lighting day, 17th Street is

closed, Pennsylvania Avenue is closed, and it's just insanity. So midway, I was like,

I'm not going to be able to make it to lunch on time i'm going to be 15 minutes late

that's unacceptable people think about this and the question is do you do it which is do you get

out of the cab or the uber and say i'm just going to book it yeah and i did and you know what

it's a good thing that i have done running in the past because i ran

how far did you run let's see down by the octagon house which is on like east street and 17

all the way to joe's seafood on h and 15 which sounds close but it's not because i had to go all

the way up past pennsy Pennsylvania Avenue and then several blocks across

past Lafayette Park to my lunch appointment. Breathless, a group of young people yelled to me,

run, forest, run. Okay, so I love the idea that for Vic, a lunchtime martini engagement with

seafood is basically when Harry met Sally. Like he's got to. Oh, I'm running to the oysters. I'm running to the oysters. The moment I realize I want to spend the rest of my life with you, I wanted to begin as quickly as possible. That's right. I love the way the oysters just sit there. I love the love. Sorry. Yeah, that's how I felt about it to you I want to get started with the rest of my life right now. So that's what I did. But again, I'm glad I had some practice and also I needed Mary Catherine the exercise because of Thanksgiving. I'm still trying to shed the pounds. And believe it or not, and I want to know about your Thanksgiving,

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