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

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

and also an expert on vodka.

An expert on vodka.

He literally wrote the book, vodka, which you can find on Amazon.

Check it out, or booksellers.

Get it for yourself.

Read up.

But right now we're going to get a crash course because we're doing one of our sought after taste testing episodes. And we're going to drink vodka. Am I going to get an Uber home?

It seems probably so. Well, I mean, the weather, I mean, I don't know for our listeners, but the

storm has lingered for days. It feels like weeks. So, yes, it's be careful out there on the roads. And it's also be careful because we're

doing a little vodka tasting. Flavored vodka, that is right, Mary Catherine. Two things

interesting happen. One, I get these books in the mail, as you know, on the books and arts editor

at the Washington Free Beacon. I said, oh, you know, I wonder what book this was. I opened it up,

and it was my, it was my book. I was like, what? And I had forgotten a very kind listener.

I had sent me a book with a return packing slip.

Oh, nice.

To autograph it, I assuming for her husband maybe, and I did that.

And I said, oh, that's kind of nice.

And I went through and I kind of looked at. I've never read my book like from beginning to end, you know, after I

published after it was published because, you know, I kind of like peak every now.

It feels like a little too much to ask. It is. It is. And you want to sort of just, you know,

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