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Getting Hammered

Bad Actors

Getting Hammered

Nebulous Media

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Parenting

4.8 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

From the Department of Homeland Security’s new disinformation board to maskless White House Correspondents’ Dinner guests catching Covid—after years of berating others for failing to wear masks—to the New York Times taking a baseless swing at Elon Musk, Mary Katharine and Vic are blasting bad actors today. Times 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show 07:24 - Segment: The News You Need to Know  07:30 - Segment: Now It Can Be Told  07:45 - David Leonhardt of the New York Times reports—after two years—how virtual learning has failed America’s students  18:10 - American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten is unsure of who’s responsible for the learning and mental health crises caused by… virtual learning…  25:31 - The New York Times takes a big ol' swing at Elon Musk (who brought his sweet mother to the Met Gala!)  32:36 - A follow-up on the "super spreader" White House Correspondents’ Dinner 38:09 - Senators pepper Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas with questions about his newly tapped head of disinformation, Nina Jankowicz Link Get involved with the Travis Manion Foundation

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered. I'm Mary Catherine Ham. I'm your host. I'm here with the friend Vic Mattis of the Washington Free Beacon. How are you feeling, Vic?

0:21.2

I'm very tired. As you know, I do the Sub Beacon on 3rd. We did it on Wednesday night.

0:26.2

We do an hour for the main show and then the bonus episode, which comes out on Mondays.

0:30.6

And it was basically 90 minutes on Nicholas Cage.. I'm really, I've caged out.

0:39.3

So that's that.

0:41.3

Other than that, I just wanted to wish you a happy Cinco de Mayo.

0:45.3

Oh, thank you very much.

0:46.1

Although I'm not seeing anywhere or anything talking about it today, which is very strange.

0:51.5

And it used to be a very big thing, but I don't know, is it because of cultural

0:55.5

appropriation that we don't see big synchondomyro celebrations anymore? It might be, actually,

1:01.4

in college, when I sat outside of the local burrito place with a sombrero on, I think that was

1:06.2

probably a hate crime. Did you wear like bandoliers and the guns in the mustache?

1:11.7

No, but it was one of, I think I might have,

1:13.4

I feel like I might have said this before.

1:14.6

It was one of my greatest college nights out because all of my college nights out were

1:18.7

dictated by the fact that I had very little money.

1:21.0

So this, on this particular night, the local burrito place, barbaritos, decided that it

1:26.9

would make, it was sort of a precursor to

1:28.5

Chipotle. It was that kind of thing. They made the mistake of telling college students they could

1:33.9

have endless chips and salsa. So we made, and I think it was just that night, I think they

1:42.1

might have abandoned this policy shortly afterwards. But on that night, we bought a couple cheap, cheap pitchers, and we ate chips and salsa

1:50.5

on the outdoor seating where all the drunks were going by, all the drunk college kids were

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