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Getting Hammered®

It Wasn't Fartgate That Brought Down Swalwell

Getting Hammered®

Laissez-Faire Media

Politics, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.7844 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Vic Matus and Mary Katharine Ham talk about Iran, the blockade, the strategy, and the negotiation-athon. They also talk about Trump's AI post, backlash to it, and his fight with the Pope. Allegations against Swalwell continue to rise, but there's a reason they're all happening now. And Artemis II inspires us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:17.2

I am Mary Kat for Ham, your host.

0:19.1

I am here with my co-host, Vic Maddus of the Washington

0:22.0

Free Beacon. We got a lot going on in the news. We got some AI slop Jesus memes from Trump that

0:30.2

we're going to, we got to hash that out. We got a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and some Swalwell news.

0:38.7

I hear something's going on with that guy.

0:41.0

And perhaps with his friend Ruben Gallego, who's also been asked to comment a lot on the news,

0:46.3

Hassan Piker updates, and we went around the moon, guys.

0:51.3

This is huge.

0:52.8

Okay.

0:53.4

But before we get to all that, we should check in with Vic. How are you doing? Hello, Mary Catherine. I'm doing great. I am. As you could see, tan rested it and ready for even Asians tan. It's just a darker, deeper, brown of some sort. But it's kind of a golden. How nice for you? How nice for you?

1:11.9

Yes. It was lovely. So in case anyone was wondering, not that you were, I was on a family

1:17.1

vacation to Bermuda. I had not been there for 20 years. So a lot has changed. You know what?

1:24.5

I'll tell you what's changed. So you have the beautiful turquoise waters,

1:28.8

the pink sands, and now when you go to the beach, everybody's on the phones. It's the weirdest thing.

1:35.3

It's not what you normally would say. But I mean, well, I guess you would have a newspaper or whatever.

1:38.9

Anyway, this was a family trip while we're all still together before the oldest gets ready to go to

1:43.0

college and stuff like that. So let's just do this. Went all out. And for a few days, it was lovely. It's what you call

1:52.3

shoulder season. So it's not full on high season yet. But the weather can be a little dicey. But we

1:58.3

had three great days. And that's when I got the most sun, as you can see.

2:02.5

And I will say this.

2:04.3

The Bermudans themselves are not just friendly because they depend almost exclusively on tourism, but also they're friendly to each other.

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