Hello, everyone, everyone, and welcome to a bonus episode of getting hammered.

I am happy to bring in a friend with some real insight on the news this week.

Daniel Di Martino is a Manhattan Institute fellow and an economist and a speaker.

You may have seen him a lot this week because he was born in Venezuela

and has many thoughts about free enterprise and freedom and what exactly is happening there right now.

Welcome to the show, Daniel.

Thank you, Mary Catherine.

Tell me a little bit first about your week. We've known each other for a while,

and I was rejoicing to watch you rejoice in public over what has happened in Venezuela.

Tell me a little bit about getting the news and hearing about this and how it feels for you.

Well, I was at home. I was sleeping.

I tell people, I slept actually pretty early Friday night because I wanted to have a really

productive Saturday.

I wanted to go to the gym very early.

So I woke up at six on a Saturday.

And when I woke up, I mean, I didn't go to the gym, let's just say.

I saw the news.

I had like 100 calls, text messages.

My social media was blowing up. I'm like something really bad or something really important

is happening. And that's when I called my mother and she said that it was Majura who got captured.

And I looked up the news and I was just ecstatic. I, like, I was without words. And I called friends. I kept reading to see what was happening, talk to people in the country who I know, extended relatives and friends. And it's one of the happiest days of my life.

It's really amazing to see people react in this way.

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