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

I'm your host, Mary Katzenham.

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

The news will not stop newsing. We have so much to get to.

I feel like I need a breather, but we're not going to get one today. But before we get into the Biden speech, the BB speech, the reaction to both, the chaos on the hill next to the Capitol brought to us by pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas, rioters. Before we get to all that, how are you doing, Vic? I'm doing well, Mary Catherine, footloose and fancy free. The kids are in different locations. And we literally could say now, I hate using the term literally, but we actually can say now,

we don't hear from the kids.

And I haven't heard from my son, you know, he's up with his cousins in Connecticut.

My daughter is at a camp for cheerleading and I guess she's been texting Kate.

So at least I hear she's fine.

I think they're just talking to my wife is what I'm saying.

They talk to their mother, but not me.

That's okay.

And other than that, I have a ton of reading to do because I've got this trip coming up.

As you mentioned, this really exciting World War II battle trip that I'm doing.

And it's just, I'm also in addition to sort of assigned readings I also have decided

to read I've been reading Rick Rick Atkinson's day of battle now he had done the original

which was the North Africa which is army at dawn and now this is about Italy and where I don't

think I'm going to get to Rome before the trip, like where the

allies are. But don't tell me how it ends, Mary Catherine. I just want, you know, they haven't even

land. I heard they might land in Anzio. Everybody's called Anzio. I'm not really sure. Salerno,

you know, they're there now, but it's kind of a slog I have no

idea what's gonna yeah let's leave you in suspense there is another possible like

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