Bonus: The SOTU Goes from Policy to Pageantry
Getting Hammered®
Laissez-Faire Media
4.7 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:13.2 | It's a new workday. Hello, everyone, and welcome to another special episode of getting hammered. |
| 0:31.0 | This is the post-State of the Union rundown. |
| 0:33.8 | I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm here with my co-host, as always, Vic Mattis, of the Washington Free Beacon. Thanks for joining us. We both stayed up past our bedtimes, |
| 0:44.7 | watching the State of the Union, didn't we, Vic? |
| 0:47.1 | Hello, good morning, Mary Catherine. Yes, I certainly did. I had the phone next to my |
| 0:53.0 | nightstand and was able to hear the vibrations go off so I can double check a couple pieces that were going up late. I think I did miss the morning email, but it was fine. It was fine. I'll tell you one funny thing. I recommend reading the pieces on the State of the Union by Chuck Ross and Andrew Stiles |
| 1:11.1 | today. The one thing I caught in the Stiles piece is Melania Trump auto corrects to |
| 1:18.7 | Melanie. Yeah. So I fixed that or I told them to fix it. They were up, you know, our assistant |
| 1:26.3 | editors were up, I think, well into about 11.18 a.m. was the last thing that went up. |
| 1:32.2 | So here's my thought, Mary Catherine, really quickly. It's a quick intro that leads into the state of the union, which is this. |
| 1:40.2 | We're seeing friends this weekend that we have not seen in quite some time. |
| 1:45.6 | I've known the husband. |
| 1:47.4 | It's a husband wife. |
| 1:48.4 | The husband for about 20 years, he's German. |
| 1:51.3 | So I thought, you know, whenever we get together, inevitably when the wives and husbands |
| 1:55.5 | break up into many conversations, he'll just switch into German because he remembers when |
| 2:00.2 | we met, it was back in the day. |
| 2:02.1 | But of course now probably speaking to me in German is like, or speaking to somebody in |
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