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

I'm Mary Catherine Ham, and I'm here with my co-host, Vic Mattis of the Washington Free Beacon,

who is back from Enlightening the Youngs of the nation at Hillsdale.

And he can tell us about that.

We are your morning show for any hour.

We're going to talk about a bunch of stuff today.

We have Pope News.

Obviously, we have a Catholic correspondent.

We have Sonny Hosten saying insane things again.

You're going to get 5K for having a baby.

Is it enough?

And then some tariff talk as usual.

Plus, dims remain in disarray, despite the honeymoon being a little iffy for Donald Trump right now.

Okay. But before all that, how's it going?

Hello, Mary Catherine. It's great to be back. You had a great show.

We did. We were lucky to have Karen Vates, who is a literacy and curriculum expert, who I followed

during the COVID days because she was one of the trustworthy, courageous people who spoke

out about school openings. And so I follow her to learn about what's going on with K-12 learning,

and she had some bright spots to tell us about. So it's always nice to hear that. Terrific.

And I was out there as well. Among the Youngs,

as you were saying, I was invited by John Miller, who teaches journalism and writing at Hillsdale

College. And he hosted me and met with his advanced writing class. So I was there for three days

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