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Grace America, good Wednesday to you.

I'm Hugh Hewitt Inside the Beltway on the Salem News Channel, Salem Radio Network,

all of our great radio affiliates, welcome aboard.

We're top to bottom with guests today, most talking about Iran.

I'm starting off with Mary Catherine Hamm, co-host of Getting Hammered, and there was a super duper normal getting hermitter today with Kelly Mayer as her guest host, as opposed to Vic Mattis,

I found it very amusing, Mary Catherine. I don't know, Kelly. What's the deal on Kelly?

Kelly is a political operative out in Colorado. So she works in the big square states on

formerly on getting Republicans elected, but the party out there not doing so great these days. And that's one of the things that she comments on and observes and tries to correct to the best of her ability by getting normal people into the party. Because once a party goes into a spiral in a state, it is hard to get back.

So that's what's going on out there.

But is she super duper not normal like your kids thought of you?

No, she's, I mean, we all have to be super duper not normal.

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