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, especially happy hour.

Please fill up a cocktail.

I'm done being pregnant.

I'm going to have one.

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

How are you doing, Vic?

Hello, Mary Catherine.

I'm doing fine.

It's funny that you should mention cocktails.

I'm in the middle of getting through this book by J.M. Hirsch called Poor Me Another. Nice. And it's basically

they would never call it that because of, you know, obvious reasons. But it's basically a booze for

a beginner's book. Okay. So it's like if you, if you're like interested in cocktails and you're

not really sure where to begin because maybe your only experience was some crazy bad cocktails in college.

You know.

Some Red Bulls.

Yeah, Red Bulls.

Yeah, things like that.

And so it starts off with basically, well, what do you like?

Savory, sweet, creamy, bitter, whatever.

And then it begins there with, well, if you like that, you should try something

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