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

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

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

As always, we are your morning of the Washington Free Beacon.

As always, we are your morning show for any hour.

Vic, how are you doing?

Hello, Mary Catherine.

This is a packed week, as you know, and heading into the holidays.

So today was particularly very busy.

It's for Catholics, it's a holy day of obligation, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. So I went to the 9 a.m. Mass, which turns out to be the school mass.

Nice. So all the kids are there. And I'm not saying that these kids are saints. You know, I know

all kids are bad, but they're so at church, you look around from a distance, not as a teacher and not as a student, because I

remember what that was like.

They're so well behaved.

They're like little angels.

They raise their hand to answer questions about Adam and Eve and stuff like that.

And it was very nice.

And so doing that and then I've got to go to my son's Christmas concert tonight all the way out in Silver Spring, which is like, that's like about five hours from Arlington, I think.

In Washington driving, yes, that is five hours away.

If you go to the like the beltway, it's horrendous. And so that's been going on. But I'm again, like I said the other day, trying to focus on the Advent, Christmas spirit,

what matters most, which means I also went to confession.

Now really quickly, as a good Catholic, went to confession for the Advent season.

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