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

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

I am here with my co-host, Vic Mattis of the Washington Free Beacon.

We are your morning

show for any hour, moderately right and moderately reliable. There's so much news, as always.

Court challenges, more fighting in the Middle East, both with Houthis and Hamas. There are astronauts

coming home, courtesy of Elon Musk, and the New York Times is now it can be

tolding very much on COVID, though these five years later. But we'll get to that in a minute

before that. How you doing, Vic? Hello, Mary Catherine. I'm doing fine. Had a very reasonable,

well-tempered or not as opposed to temperamental,

St. Patrick's Day. So happy post-St. Patrick's Day and to our listeners, happy St. Patrick's

Day, D-plus-2, as they would say in the military. And it was fine. You know, they had a thing at the Knights of Columbus. They originally

had their official, the Hibernians, as you know, some far. The A-O-H, the ancient order of the

Hibernians, which you don't have, it's not like in Goodfellas where you have to be 100%

from, you know, the old country. You could be 50, 10, whatnot. So they had theirs

last week and they were concerned that maybe there won't be as many people, you know, on St. Patrick's

Day and stuff. Oh, yes, of course there were. It was like a real Irish mob scene. But it's funny

because I still will wear some green, even though, of course, I'm not,

I'm married to somebody who's Irish, but I'm not myself Irish.

But for me, it's like when we grew up in New Jersey and going to Catholic school,

you had to wear green.

It's like, it's like reverse cultural appropriation rather than they're making you.

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