Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of getting hammered. I'm your host,

Mary Hepburn Ham. I am here with my co-hosts, my co-host, Vic Mattis of the Washington Free Beacon. We are back in the same room. We're holding it down. There's a lot of news. And I will say it's like it's some dark news today because we're going to talk about Israeli hostages. We're going to talk about Gold Star families. So it's a little bit heavy today. So before we get to the heavy stuff,

let's chat about what's going on. We are coming off Labor Day weekend. How was it?

Hello, Mary Catherine. Your slurring is the way I said it on Saturday. So, you know, I know you

went to a lovely baby shower on a Sunday. My wife saw you

not my wife's baby shower. Okay. Let's be clear about that. Ooh. Nor mine. No, no, nor America.

Again. Uh, no. So a good friend of ours. And the dad to be, we took him out on the Saturday.

Nice. For just a little, a day lunch that started at 1230 and somehow ended for me at seven.

Oh, shocking.

Yeah, it was a really long lunch.

Old Town Alexandria's loved so many places to check out.

I haven't done that.

Where was your main?

In a long time.

Okay.

Well, we started off at a lovely restaurant, Ada's on the river.

Okay, nice. Yeah, I like that place. I love that place. And so we started there and then we just

started wandering around King Street and at some point instead of have to go back. And then the great

thing is my son was brought us there as like a designated driver. Oh, we love that. Yeah. You know,

this is the great thing about having your son also acknowledging that you have a problem to your son. This is kind of an indirect way of saying

in case you're wondering, this is it. I do enjoy that my kids can at least bring me a beer from

the fridge now. Yes. That is the thing that they've been trained to do for quite some time. And then

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