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

My dear co-host, Vic Mattis, is on vacation, and we are not going to bother him while he's sitting by the pool having his

drinks. But we are going to bother Jenna Lee of Smart Her News, one of my great friends, to come and chat about

what's going on in the news with us. How's it going, Jenna? I mean, second best here, Mary Catherine,

but I'll take it. I hope he is enjoying his drinks in the

beach and we are jealous. And also how wise to do that vacation right after the holidays. I feel like

there's something there we should unpack, you know? I'm sure that you wish that you could be Vic.

And Vic, we're here right now. But we are like, huh, we were like huh that's how smart yeah i was going to say uh i

think i've told this story on the podcast before uh but i um every year after the holidays have to

rally for post holidays birthdays in our family yes and the first year I was married to my husband,

or dating him, I can't remember which, he's like, you know, not that into his birthday.

His birthday is January 5th. And I was like, watching your birthday. Birthday is the best. What a

blessing. It's amazing. So fun. And then we got to January 5th after the, you know,

holidays and all the things and all the bad eating and all the drinking. And you get to January 5th.

And not one person wants to come to your house. They don't want to eat cake. They don't want to have

ice cream. They don't want to have an event at all. And so I went to bed, bath and beyond and

picked up a, to be fair, a very nice trash can, put a bow on it and put it in our kitchen.

And I was like, happy birthday, babe.

But now, knowing Steve, though, I think he might appreciate that.

That might have been like his dream gift.

He actually really liked it.

And it's been there ever since doing its job flawlessly. I mean, I feel like you really nailed that, you know.

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