Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered.

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham. We are your morning show for any hour, especially if you're on the road,

getting to some Thanksgiving grub right now.

Thank you for having us on your trip.

I'm here, as always, with my co-host, Vic Mattis of the Free Beacon.

How's it going, Vic?

Hello, Mary Catherine, and, you know, happy Thanksgiving week to all of our many, many listeners, including many new additions to the Hammerheads.

Yes.

If that can happen.

I don't know if the Hammerheads were just a select group that started and they don't

let anybody else in.

There's a tier system, I think.

There's a cast system in our fans.

Yes.

Yes, that's right.

That's right. They're like a cast system. That's good. So happy Thanksgiving. And again, this is coming out on a Wednesday and many of you are driving up or down. Hopefully it's a nice and relaxing drive. Somebody was asking me about travel during Thanksgiving. And we have a whole Thanksgiving segment on the show,

but I do want to say, you want to get a head start. An early head start. When I worked at the

weekly standard, when I started working there, so this was probably in the late 90s, and I had

to go up to New Jersey. and it was a Wednesday because we finished

the magazine on a Wednesday, and I had to bring up my best friend, Steve's girlfriend,

who happened to be in town, and I was going to drive her up back to Jersey and bring it back

to where he was. And I could not, because I was a staff assistant, just leave. Like, I'm going to get a head to start, and I was to because I was a staff assistant just leave.

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