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

I am your host, Mary Catherine Hamm, and I'm here with my co-host, Vic Mattis of the Washington Free Beacon.

This is a little bit of a special episode

because Vic and I were in Austin, Texas, this weekend,

and did a live show, which we are going to play for you.

But we're going to do a little preview

before we get to the live show

to fill out this offering for you.

We don't want to fall short.

We want to be up to date. We want to serve the hammerheads.

The listener needs to be up to date. So we'll do a little current chit-chat and current

politics and then get into our live show, which was very fun. How's it going, Vic?

Hello, Mary Catherine. I'm doing fine. And I feel like for my putting in my two cents on this show is just all about clarifications. So let me begin with several clarifications. I'm going to work my way backwards. Yesterday, I was on a Hugh Hewitt's show. And I'm normally in the office, but of course it was President's Day. So I was home.

I set up my thing to do, you know, the podcast, which is on with video. And the sun is now shining

through the window. So I had to put the blinds down. And as a listener to the show immediately

emailed me, like after my segment was done, is please get better lighting. And, and I looked at

it and I couldn't, you know, by the time I set myself up, it was too late to move locations. And it does

look like one of these 60 Minutes whistleblower interviews where like I can't reveal. I'm about to,

I'm about to tell you the truth behind big tobacco

and you're talking like this yes yeah with a different voice I'll tell you what I saw behind the

scenes I mean so it was not great video quality and that won't happen again that's the first thing

okay and then the other thing was a wonderful time in Austin, Texas, as they say,

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