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

I am your host, Mary Catherine Hamm.

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

Oh, there's so much going on, Vic.

We have Iowa in a week, less than a week when you're hearing this.

We have, we're playing Where's Waldo with the Secretary of Defense, so we'll get into that.

A Claudine Gay update from the Ivy League, and you love to hear it from Pennsylvania.

Also, a zoomer with some thoughts for us olds on the economy and cost of living.

So we're going to get into that.

But before that, how's it going, Vic?

Hello, Mary Catherine.

Well, it's a bit of a transition for me coming from I was at a journalism conference.

Right.

It was very serious.

You were mentoring.

I was mentoring. I was mentoring.

I was dispensing advice and actually picking a few things up along the way from other

panelists, what we were called the faculty.

You do that thing where you're like, I learn more from the students than they could

ever.

Oh, no, no, no, from the other panelists.

I didn't learn anything from the students.

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