Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered. I'm your host, Mary

Catherine Ham. I am here with Vic Mattis of the Washington Free Beacon. We are your morning

show for any hour, over caffeinated

and underprepared. And there's a lot of news today. Before we get into the news, which is like,

you know, four or five confirmation hearings, you know, not much on our plates. Let's hear from

Vick about what's going on with him. Hello, Mary Catherine.

Sorry, I missed the last show and thank Kelly for doing a great job, filling in.

And we are, as you know, remote today because I'm up in New Jersey.

So a little bit of personal news.

Earlier this week, my father was going out to get batteries at a nearby strip mall, and he was returning to

his car walking back in the crosswalk, and he got hit by a car. I can't get into the details,

obviously, but he is on the mend. And so I just want to thank all the wonderful people, bystanders, Good Samaritans, who are there at the time.

EMTs, as our president said, first responders, got to think they're first responders,

and especially all of the nurses and doctors at Jersey Shore Medical, especially the trauma

unit for taking such good care of him. I rushed up to see him.

My sister, she got the next of Kincawl.

I do not have to tell you, but that is like he looked terrible.

At the time, he's doing much better.

One of his first words to me when I finally got there was,

I'm still alive, which he is.

The guy survived Japanese occupation. He's not going down

without a fight. And also Mary Catherine, I always try to look for silver linings for these things

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