Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of getting hammered this, a special

birthday edition for me, Mary Catherine Hamill.

It is my birthday.

When this is coming out. Are you excited,

my co-host, Vic Mattis? Mary Catherine, I knew it was your birthday now that you're listening to it. So I'm going to say, happy birthday. I would have been caught off guard and have to say,

happy belated, perhaps, but no. But now you know. But now I know. This is the benefit of this sort of time travel device known as the podcast.

It's the magic of podcasting.

That's why I'm wearing this special outfit, which we can talk about.

But before that, there's a lot of news.

I just want to lay it out.

The big three-oh.

We got some battleground state polling. We got some J.K. Rowling news and free speech news.

You love to hear it from a couple folks, including surprisingly, Farid Zakaria.

So stay tuned for that.

An update out of Israel and, oh, sleep divorce.

People will want to hear about this.

But before we get to that, how's it going, Vic of the free beacon?

Hello, Mary Catherine.

Yes, doing just fine.

Thanks to listeners who are putting their two cents in about my Charleston trip and mentioning

I need to go to 82 Queen where they have an amazing sheet crab soup.

I thought that was a different kind of place.

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