Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered. I'm your host, Mary

Catherine Ham. I am here with my co-host, Vic Mattis of the Washington Free Weekend. We are

your morning show for any hour,

moderately right and moderately reliable. I mean, how hard do we want to try at that, you know?

And a little bit over-c caffeinated today, frankly. We'll see how prepared I am. There's a lot of,

a lot, a lot of news. In fact, as you listen to this, you will have heard the State of the Union. So we will not do a preview. We will

do a follow-up on that later this week. But there's plenty to talk about without that.

So no problem. But before we get to all the news, particularly foreign policy, both economic

and warfare related, how are things going with you, Vic? Hello, Mary Catherine.

Thank you for pointing out for our listeners that this is a pre-state of the union address.

But let me say because you're listening to it now.

I should say it's a joint session.

It's a joint session.

Yeah, that's right.

You can do a stadium.

You know, it's a different thing.

But this is a joint session. And I have to say, it was amazing last night,

wasn't it? I loved when Zelensky made an appearance there, a cameo. And it was really,

look, don't put it past them. And then he sort of repelled down from the gallery. Okay.

Reminiscent of January 6th. Yes, that's right. That's right. Just tying it all together in a nice

little bow. Happy, happy Fat Tuesday. That's right. Just tying it all together in a nice little bow.

Happy, happy, happy Fat Tuesday.

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