Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered.

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

I'm here, as always, with my friend and editor at the Free Beacon.

Vic Mattis, how are you doing, Vic?

Hello, Mary Catherine. I'm doing fine.

sounding a little hot here. Sorry about that.

To our last there's, good morning.

Hello.

Yes. As you know, I was in New York recently, and I went to see my Aunt Dolly, who was in hospice,

and I made it up to see her on Thursday, oh, no, on Friday night, and then the next morning,

she passed. So she hung on long enough. I mean, she wasn't obviously really aware at that time

in hospice at that stage, but I feel like this is the kind of story you can share with our, you know, 65 episodes

into our show.

It's kind of a family.

The Hammerheads can be a part of this family so I can share these kind of details.

So I went up to New York and then I saw her and then she passed.

And I'm heading up there to New Jersey on Thursday for a memorial service.

I'm glad you got to see her.

It is, in my mind, having been through these things a couple of times, I prefer if I can only

make one trip and you're going to get to make both.

I can only make one trip.

I want to make the trip to see somebody as opposed to the funeral trip, although

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