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

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

Vic is gallivanting in Britain, and we have brought in a worthy, worthy guest host today.

Well, he's a guest.

I'm promoting you to host.

That's what I just did.

This is Jeff Blair of...

You know what?

I'm always happy to accept the battlefield promotion.

There you go.

This is Jeff Blair.

He's a writer at National Review.

You probably know him on Twitter as at Esoteric CD.

He's also the host of a podcast, Political Beats, where a bunch of Politicoes come on and talk

about something not political, which is so refreshing.

Thanks for doing that.

By the way, I've thought about before what catalog do I know well enough to actually be worthy of political beats?

And I'm not sure there is one.

Oh, that's a question that's been lurking in the back of my mind as well.

I have tried to think about it.

I'm like, well, I was, this one is really dumb.

But as a seven-year-old, I was a huge monkeys fan.

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