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

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

I'm here with my co-host, Vic Mattis, of the Washington Free Beacon.

And as usual, there is so very much news, Vic, including, like, this is how much news there is,

so much that we're like, hey, if we get to all the governments in the world collapsing,

perhaps we should tag those on at the end of the podcast.

So we'll see. That's a teaser. You can find out

which governments of major countries have collapsed in the last 24 to 48 hours. But before we get

to all the news, how you doing, Vic? Hello, Mary Catherine. I'm doing fine. I'm hanging in there.

You're right. You know, it's funny. Usually December things we like to get, you know, things calm down a little bit. There's not a lot of news. We thought about this about the summer, midsummer, late summer, even in the middle of a campaign season. And there was news non. Stop. Each of these little things would have been the biggest story we'd be still talking about. I know. Trump's first assassination attempt, you know,

France's government collapsing or whatever, Syria.

But instead we've got to do this just crazy roundup.

So really quickly, doing fine.

I just want to say, I didn't get a chance to say on the last show, how much I enjoy

being up in New Jersey.

I brought my father back up because he was visiting us for Thanksgiving.

I brought him back up to

Tom's River. I don't have to tell you. You've been up there. You know, the neighborhood, you know,

where it's just like, it's like kind of, you know, it's friendly, but in a sort of rough around the

edge's way. And I like that. And obviously there are things that they don't have up here,

that up there that they have here because here's very trendy. And then there are things that they don't have up here that, up there that they have

here because here it's very trendy.

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