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

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

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

We are your morning show for any hour, but we're actually in the morning today.

And we're going to talk debate.

I guess we can just get started with that.

Or we can goof off a little bit.

But how's it going, Vic?

We've had a late night.

We're drinking some coffee.

Yes. good morning,

Mary Catherine. I hope our listeners appreciate that we don't, we decided not to do our pre-tape

routine like Parade Magazine, which, which, you know, one time had Benazir Budo on the cover,

and then a week later, you know, a week before that, she had been assassinated.

And then they still ran the cover and said, here's what she has, her big plans for Pakistan.

It's sort of like when Vogue ran Jill Biden saying, we'll make our own decisions about.

Yes.

The same thing.

I hope they appreciate that.

I'm hanging in there.

As you mentioned, it was a very late night. We had copy coming in very late, just to try to do a lot of the fact-checking that certain moderators did not do.

But powering through, I see you have your coffee.

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