Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered.

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

I'm here with my co-host, Vic Mattis of the Washington Free Beacon.

We are over-c caffeinated and underprepared.

We are slightly right and slightly reliable. We are your morning show for any hour.

We're going to talk about the news, and there's so much news. We got tariffs. We got trade wars.

We got USAID. We got Democrats weeping over USAID. We got federal worker buyouts, Panama news. And Dem's trying to figure out what the heck they stand for at the DNC in order to become a party that comes back from these four years. But before we get to all that, how's it going, Vic?

Hello, Mary Catherine. Doing fine, much like Alexis de Tocqueville. I am continuing to discover

America over the weekend. I was in Nashville, Tennessee for the first time. For the first time?

For the first time? I've been to Memphis. I've been to Beale Street and Graceland, which is amazing. But I had never been to Nashville and everyone's talking about Nashville these days.

Everybody's moving to Nashville for that matter. And Kate had a work thing. So I said, maybe I can

just tag along for my birthday weekend. Yes. Very nice. Birthday's on a Sunday, so that's going to be

a travel day. But I said, you know, which is a subtle way of telling me that I missed it.

Sorry about that.

Nobody knows.

I don't make a big thing.

And the older you get, the last year.

I woke up on Sunday and thought, oh, my birthday.

I actually thought that versus like, you know, my special day.

But the day before was wonderful.

And so things that I discovered out there, Nashville.

Number one, people do talk about how Nashville is much changed, you know, just over the last 10 years or whatever.

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