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

I am Mary Catherine Ham, your host. I'm here with my co-host, Vic Mattis of the Washington Free Beacon.

We are your morning show for any hour where there's a lot of news going on as usual. We got India, Pakistan. We got a possible trade deal with the British. Trump meets with the new Prime Minister of Canada. Biden sits down with the BBC and the view, which we will not have clips of, sadly, because it's happening as we speak,

but we will go over it later, as I'm sure it will be a masterpiece in daytime TV. And judicial

nominations from Trump. But before we get to all of that, Vic, how are you doing?

Hello, Mayor Catherine. I'm doing fine. A little heartburny. I had, it was a very difficult

yesterday for me because I had a lunch and dinner appointment, two separate appointments. A true hardship for Vic. It was really hard because I had a whole plan. I said, you know, I'm having dinner with my old college buddy Peter Lowe and I said, well, that's going to be, we're going to tie one on. So I got to brace myself. And so, you know, lunch was with two contributors, one visiting from out of town.

I said, I'm going to, you know, pretty serious people.

So I said, I'm going to, it's going to be a fine working lunch.

Right.

And my plan is iced tea and a salad or like a steak salad.

That's very sensible of you.

Yes.

So I had a martini and they had a special on the menu.

To be fair, martini has the word tea in it.

It does.

It does.

It's true.

You can't spell martini without tea.

And they had a special that I had never heard before, which was at this place.

Well, it was the palm fine.

Okay.

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