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

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

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

There's a lot going on.

As always, but, like, a lot this summer.

This summer's not going to slow down, folks.

Just everybody buckle in.

We've got some pretty serious economic news.

Some throwback news from 9-11 that we're going to update you on.

Trump's in Georgia shooting himself in the foot.

Kamala Harris has picked a VP candidate, and we've got some news from the Olympics, from the

poll vault. We'll get into that. It might be, maybe need a little content warning on that.

Before we get to all that, how are you doing, Vic?

Hello, Mary Catherine. Doing fine. Yes, I love to say that, how are you doing, Vic? Hello, Mary Catherine.

Doing fine, yes.

I love to say that this is an emergency podcast episode, but the timing just happened to be perfect.

Right before we started, we were texting and you said, well, we can't do veep stakes because we're recording in the morning.

And who knows when she's going to make the announcement?

And suddenly at 9 o'clock, it had leaked. She has obliged us. That's it. So here we are.

For once in our lives, the timing is perfect. Before we get to that, doing fine. I want to thank you

for your restaurant recommendation because I was in Tom's River to see my father and my sister's family,

but I took my dad out to Patricia's in Tom's River, where you had been before me. And I grew

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