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Morning, Gloria and Amy Grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, a good Wednesday to you, kicking off the program with the jet fuel. Comfortably Smug of the Ruthless Podcast, one of the fellas. And they have been on fire this week. Smug, Merry Christmas, happy New Year to you, if I don't see you before then. I want to go to what you guys talked about. Oh, thank always. I love having you got the fellows on. I don't know how big you are,

you four people have become, but it's gigantic enormous and I love it.

Should I criticize you first? Thanks for leading the way.

I'm going to criticize you first. You had Mary Catherine Hamm on for a ride along,

and I love Hammer.

She's on today, as a matter of fact.

But, you know, that's a very anti-Ohio State football guest when you bring on a Georgia homer like Mary Catherine.

So I'm going to suggest you need Bernie Marino or dare I suggest J.D. Vance, a Buckeye graduate for a ride-along before they meet in the semifinals? I, I 100% agree with both of those. J.D., we actually just had on, I'd say maybe a few weeks ago, about a month ago. That was terrific. But I always love to have Bernie on the show. He's one of the hardest working members of the Senate. He's been doing a terrific job.

The folks in Ohio are surely proud of his work.

Well, we need a buck-eye to counterbalance

that bulldog imbalance that went on. Now, let's go to what you guys

talked about, the collapse of the Democrats.

This was music to my ears.

Now, you, of the four fellows,

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