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

I'm your host, Mary Catherine Ham, and I am uncharacteristically alone right now.

None of my children are here.

No one is in this room with me.

Vic is out. My co-host, Vic Mattis, as you know, if you are a listener, had surgery. He's doing well. He's been texting me. I assume he's already drinking red wine at this point in his recovery.

I have not confirmed that, but I feel like it's a safe guess.

So Vic Mattis will be back next week. He even said he could come today and do the show,

but I said, take the week off, Vic. You need to take your recovery seriously and also whatever

wine that you're drinking. So he's doing okay and he'll be back soon. We have had guest hosts with me this week. We had

Josh Holmes of The Ruthless Podcast. And now in a week of Joshes, we are going to have Josh Kresshar,

senior politics reporter at Axios. Both of the Joshes are experts in politics, giving us a deeper

dive on what to expect and what to look for on election night, 2022.

Guys, it's late October.

It's time.

It's time.

It's time to brush up on your Virginia 7 and your Virginia 10.

Those are the ones I happen to know because they're near my house.

And all the other toss-up house races that are changing rapidly, Senate races that are changing rapidly.

And Josh Kraushar really knows that stuff.

He's been a reporter at Politico at Hotline and now at Axios.

And those are all the sort of Beltway publications where you know the nitty-gritty,

but also Josh has a really great talent for getting out on the ground and understanding

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