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

I'm Mary Catherine Ham, your host, I'm here with my co-host, Vic Mattis of the Washington

Free Beacon.

We are your morning show for any hour.

Vic, it's the holiday season. And do-de-do, I am tired. They didn't, they don't brief you on this part when you're a kid.

No, they don't. And I was very tired and you know I'm still recovering from my

herniated disc and now the sciatica. So the back is better. So it's like the pain has migrated

down to like the leg, particularly now the calf and the ankle. So that's where it is.

Syatica is just a word that sounds old. It is old. Oh, Syatica.

My late Aunt Dolly, she used to complain all the time.

Oh, my sciatica, and we used to laugh about it.

Well, I'm not laughing anymore, Aunt Dolly.

Yeah.

It's a real thing.

Syedica pain is a no joke.

I need her intercession.

So I'm tired, but I got a bit of a jolt this morning.

Okay. So I like to open up the show

with a public service announcement, a PSA. And the PSA is to beware of black ice. Yes. So early

this morning, as you know, in the Virginia and the DC area, it was very snowy, icy yesterday

morning. And then it warmed up a little bit. But then last night,

it dipped below freezing. So then we're driving this morning. I'm bringing my son to his bus stop,

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