Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered. I am your host, Mary

Catherine Ham. We are your morning show for any hour keeping you updated on the news, but not

freaking you out.

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

How are you doing, Vic?

I'm doing just fine, Mary Catherine, although I'm rather puzzled right now because I don't know if you could tell behind me on the TV screen as we record the show.

It seems that all the news is stopped, and the only thing that's

happening right now is some basketball games. I don't know what's going on. It is very strange.

And I thought maybe it's just my one station that I was watching here, CBS, and then I checked

the TBS, TNT, and True TV, and they just have all these different basketball games. So I guess there's

nothing else going on.

There's no choice for you.

But to watch that.

Round the clock, apparently.

As a child, because I grew up in North Carolina on Tobacco Road, as they call it, on the

Friday of the ACC tournament, we would watch the games if we behaved ourselves.

That was the...

That was the treat?

That was the incentive.

Like, if you guys can behave yourselves until noon, we will pull in the old AV cart and turn on the ACC tournament.

And all of us were, you know, to a student, we're like, yes, we will behave ourselves.

That is, that's how you know. It's very sacred down there. That's a very, that's a very specific

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