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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

The Karol Markowicz Show: Lessons on Reading, Resilience, and Real Life with Mary Katharine Ham

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Daily News

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this special anniversary episode of The Karol Markowicz Show, Karol marks two years of thought-provoking conversations with Mary Katharine Ham. Together, they dive into the growing crisis in children’s reading skills, share the wisdom they’d pass on to their younger selves, and open up about overcoming life’s toughest challenges.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:09.2

Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHart Radio.

0:13.4

My guest today is Mary Catherine Ham, Fox News contributor, and my co-host at the Normally

0:18.5

podcast also right here on IHeart.

0:21.6

Hi, Mary, Catherine.

0:22.5

How are you doing?

0:23.4

I am doing pretty good.

0:25.2

I feel like you and I talk sometimes, you know.

0:28.3

Now and then.

0:29.3

Now and then.

0:29.8

We're sometimes on the air together.

0:32.5

This episode marks two years of the Carol Markowitz show.

0:36.6

And I do this thing on the Carol Markowitz show where I ask my

0:39.9

guests a set of three questions. And I wanted to bring you on to ask you the three questions from

0:45.5

my second year and to be the first person to answer the three questions. Actually, it's just two new

0:50.7

questions. One stays the same into my third year. I should also note that you were on

0:55.4

in my first year. So you answered my first set of three questions when I used to ask, what's our

1:00.3

largest cultural or social problem? And also, do you feel like you've made it? Those two you've

1:05.5

already covered. So let's get into it. My first question in my second year was, what do you worry about?

1:12.2

What do I worry about? I would say recently, but I would say in the past couple of years,

1:16.8

the thing that I've started to worry about a lot is that people can't read good.

1:22.7

They really can't read good. That is a concern that I have. And I'm being silly about it, but it is very serious. And this is

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