Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered.

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

He is my co-host, Beck Mattis of the Washington Free Beacon. How are things going in the life of Dick?

Hello, Mary Catherine. Busy. Lots going on. You know? There's a lot of news. There's a lot of news. And, you know, I do the arts and culture section. So book reviews and hounding book reviewers to file their reviews. And God bless him.

I'm not going to name names, but some of them, you know, have amazing excuses.

Oh, I have a thousand in my disposal. Yeah. I had a reviewer. He finally finally finally.

There's nothing I write better than an excuse. It was, there was a reviewer and the piece came out already and it was

great i was really happy but he needed more time because he was training his doberman puppy and it

scratched his eye fair he is blaming the dog like the dog ate my homework except my homework was my

eyeball yes exactly i said marl you do have the other eye.

But nevertheless, how was your mother's day?

It was good.

By the way, one of the reasons I have not written for Vic is so as not to ruin our relationship.

The deadline issue?

Right.

Just surprise me when you actually filed. I'll make room.

I'll part the scenes.

That's what I would do.

Except that would never happen because I need a deadline in order to file.

And then I need to pass the deadline by several hours at least.

You know, I don't know if it's easier.

I want to say to some of these people just like, just tell me it's going to be next month rather than have this torturous, torturous and torturous path, you know, of every day. Okay,

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