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

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham, and we got a lot to talk about today.

We're going to do some 2024 updates. There's some people doing interesting media interviews. There's some third-party

upstarts. We're going to do a bunch of updates on some stories we talked about earlier this

week, the defense bill, because I know you guys need to understand the Hill. And what happened

with this chicken Alabama? We're going to get to all of that. But first, here's my co-host, Vic Mattis, of the Washington Free Beacon. How are you, Vic?

Hello, Mary, Catherine. It was so wonderful to see you. And, you know, the normal thing you would say is your lesser half, but he really isn't quite lesser, is he?

It's not lesser.

At least at the same level, it was great to see you and your husband and hang out with him.

You know, hanging out with him, it's like, it's like drinking with a motivational speaker.

And it like, he makes you feel good about yourself. He's a real, like, he's like a motivational poster come to life.

He is. No, he, yeah, let the cat hang in there. For me, that's what I'm, I'm the cat all days.

Hang in there. You can do it. Right. But one thing is, I can't really lift my arm so much right now

because I took his advice on a particular weightlifting move.

That probably works for him and anybody that is like G.I. Joe. And for me, it is the combination

of the curl with the dumbbells and then you shoulder. I don't know if you call it shoulder

press, but then you do that. And then, and you do just, you know, 10 of those and then like maybe four sets or something like

that.

And he kept on telling me about the shoulders screaming for oxygen.

He just kept on talking about the oxygen.

Does he do that a lot with you?

Does he talk about the oxygen?

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