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

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

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

We are bringing you getting hammered in the New Year at least once a week. And I'm going to try to give you some bonus episodes as well. We are your morning show for any hour. We are over-caffeinated and under-prepared. I'm actually medium-prepared today. We're doing all right. Um, Vic, we got a lot going on. We're going to talk about Venezuela. We're going to talk about foreign policy. We're going to talk about a vandalism incident at the very least on the VP's residence back in Ohio.

Crazy stuff still happening in Minnesota. And we have an only fan's story. Just for you, Vic. Before we get to all that, how are things going?

Hello, Mary Catherine. Happy New Year. Let me check my Only a Fans account here just for a second

to make sure that nothing's been affected. I have no idea what the news is. I'm really excited or

nervous about what that has to do. Bring it on you, so to speak. Yeah. Oh, hey now. Hey. Happy New Year. I am, apologies to our listeners, a little under the weather. It's been going around. I did get my flu shot. And that is sort of staved off the worst of it. But, you know, it goes around the family, everybody. It goes,

you know, for person to person. You're out there. You know, we were traveling. We were up in Jersey

and then we were back here now. So I think it was only a matter of time. But it only seems to

really affect me at night going to sleep where I have to prop myself up. because if I lay down completely, then I'll just

stop breathing, like the elephant man. You know, don't you wish it affected you more during the day

so you could just be like, I can't do this work. Sorry, guys. Yes, it would affect me. So apologies,

if you hear various snorts, grunts, or whatever, that's on my end.

And apologies.

In fact, it was a little scary last night.

I don't have sleep apnea.

I want to insist.

I want to insist on this.

I do not have.

Of the maladies you have, of the many maladies, that is not one.

Kate is convinced that I might have some form of it and therefore I need to wear the jock strap over my face.

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