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

I'm your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

I'm here with my co-host as a, Vic Madas of Washington Free Beacon.

We got a lot going on.

We got some fundraising update, a little bit of debate preview.

Is the Veep picked?

We shall find out.

Some Olympics news.

And things not going so great for the Jews in either L.A. or New York, both coasts.

So we're going to get to that.

But before we get to all that, how's it going, Vic?

Hello, Mary Catherine.

Doing fine.

It was nice to see you over the weekend at our friends.

I do want to clarify something there.

I don't know if you noticed towards the end of the evening.

I closed my eyes for some moments to pause, but I was not passed out.

If I don't want that to spread or I wasn't falling asleep, although I was up very early

that morning.

And I just want to say after just a couple of martinis and a couple glasses of red wine, you

know, I sometimes like to close my eyes and meditate on the on the wonderful and intellectually stimulating

discussions we were having right of course that's what it was and kate drove you home so it's not

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