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

We are reunited.

Vic Mattis is back in the building.

We're going to find out how he's doing in a second. We have a great show for you today.

It is, as of this airing, it will be less than a week before election day. So we're going to do a lot of

election news with some free expression news. The free speech, one of my favorite topics. Let's go over to Vic and see how he's doing. We need an update on you.

Hello, Mary Catherine. He looks good. I'll tell you guys that.

Well, thank you. First, I want to say thank you to the medical staff, the doctors and nurses at Fair Oaks, Inova, which is the smaller of the Inova hospitals. Fairfax is the

big one. Fair Oaks is like specialties and outpatient, I think. So I want to say thank you to

Dr. J. Buxen and Michael Gentile. Dr. Buxen said to me to prepare for a post-surgery

looking like the mayor of Whoville. But, you know, they have you on steroids and things to control information and everything

else.

So I did not look like the mayor of Whoville.

I did kind of look like an Asian Freddie Mercury, you know, sort of like with that massive

overbike.

I like it.

Yes.

But I'm doing fine.

And I'm just a little gunked up, but I can't tell if it's post-surgery

or things that are going around right now.

It could be several things.

It could be, but yes, doing fine.

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