Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered. I'm your host,

Mary Catherine Ham. I'm here with a co-host, Vic Mattis of the Washington Free Beacon.

We are your morning show for any hour.

We are moderately right and moderately reliable, proudly coming to you from the nation's capital-ish.

How's it going, Vic?

Hello, Mary Catherine.

I've been better, and I'll get to that later on the show.

But one of the, there's two other reasons, minor reasons why I say I've been better,

because one, I finally finished the John Updike novel, Rabbit Run.

Oh, look at you.

And, man, it is not a happy ending.

It's, you know, a guy leaves his wife and horrible consequences happen.

Horrible.

And there is the worst one. Let that be a lesson to all of you let that

be a lesson the selfishness and greed and so at some point i remember i couldn't go to sleep and i was

like you know i usually read the fall asleep and you know it was just plotting along where i was in the

book and i just happened to hit the worst part of the book, and then I couldn't go to sleep after that.

I mean, it is really horrific.

And then, not only that, but Mary Catherine, I finally finished Breaking Bad.

Oh, man.

You're having a dark week.

Yes.

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