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

I'm your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

I am here with guest Kelly Maher from the great state of Colorado.

Vic is out for the day. We'll talk to him later. However, Kelly's great at holding down the fort,

having some conversation about the vibe shift, about the politics, about the confirmation

hearings. We're all paying attention to all of this. But before we get to that, we should talk

about just like how life is going.

How's it going, Kelly?

Yeah, it's going.

It's January.

And I am out here in the West, in the big square state.

We're smack dab in the middle of my favorite time of the year in Colorado during the

national Western

Stock Show and rodeo. That's right. When we last talked to you, you were preparing for the parade.

How cold were you? So cold. So cold. But you know, and it was snowing pretty badly. And the traditional

parade is usually down the 17th street we parade a

bunch of longhorn cattle down 17th but they did not make it over the hill because it was

snowing this year so you know these cattle today, they can't, they just can't be

depended upon like cattle of the past. Right, right. You know, the parade, the parade marshal,

Grand Marshal was a friend of mine, Kathy Sabin, who also happens to be the, I would say this is going to be controversial for people in Colorado, but she's

Colorado's best meteorologist. And she's amazing, by the way, this is a woman you should meet.

She's amazing. She was like, she's as tall as me and brilliant and can talk about all kinds of weather formations and also

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