Author: Nebulous Media

From Ben Affleck to the Build Back Better Act, on this episode of Getting Hammered, it's all about the Benjamins. The Atlantic publishes a story on Covid from someone outside of the media bubble, Elon Musk swings at Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Mary Katharine and Vic read letters to Santa from one hundred years ago.

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• 00:11 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 13:29 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 13:35 - Ben Affleck drama, and Jennifer Garner being a class act
• 25:19 - Sen. Joe Manchin to kill BBB
• 32:52 - Based billionaire Elon Musk takes a crack at Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Twitter
• 33:39 - Segment: You Love to See It
• 33:41 - Matthew Walther piece in The Atlantic: Where I Live, No One Cares About Covid
• 40:11 - Mary Katharine's potato chip Reese's review
• 44:23 - Santa letters from 1921

Would a can of Vienna Sausages outlast mask mandates? CDC director Rochelle Walensky thinks so. Elon Musk joins the ranks of Mary Katharine's husband as an Ideas Man, a comedian and an MSNBC host butt heads, and California experiences a bacon shortage.

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 11:15 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 11:22 - Covid updates: California reinstates indoor mask mandate, Philadelphia requires vaccines for indoor dining, first Omicron-variant death in the UK
• 13:12 - CDC director Rochelle Walensky says masks are for now, not forever
• 16:13 - Dr. Angelique Coetzee, one of the doctors who discovered Omicron,
• 22:55 - Time magazine names Elon Musk Person of the Year
• 29:24 - Sarah Silverman butts heads with MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid
• 33:01 - Bacon shortage in California
• 38:35 - Tornadoes rock Kentucky

Links for charities helping tornado victims

Samaritan's purse

Mercy Chefs

Relevant Church's Tornado Relief Fund

The New York Times reports a groundbreaking story: Parents are upset about school closures. Color Mary Katharine and Vic surprised (not). The Supreme Court hears a case on voucher programs, Democrats are losing the vaccine mandate debate, and Chris Cuomo officially gets the boot from CNN.

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 09:50 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 10:02 - Breaking news from the New York Times: Parents are frustrating with schools
• 20:45 - Supreme Court hears case on voucher programs and religious institutions
• 27:23 - Dems lose vaccine mandate battles in court
• 36:28 - CNN kicks Chris Cuomo to the curb

More than half of young adults are overweight. Stacey Abrams is back for another gubernatorial race. Mary Katharine's college football woes. And Reese's is now adding potato chips to their peanut butter cups—which Vic isn't so sure about. We're not just gluttons—we're gluttons for punishment.

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 12:50 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 12:55 - New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio announces a new vaccine mandate
• 23:40 - Childhood obesity in the United States
• 31:38 - Stacey Abrams throws her hat back into the ring, and claims she never denied the results of her first go at the governor's mansion
• 35:46 - Former Senator Bob Dole dies at age 98
• 40:35 - Segment: You Love to See It
• 40:40 - Democrats fall flat on "Latinx" language, via Politico
• 44:40 - There's nothing at all to talk about sports this week, especially not the SEC championship
• 46:33 - Reese's releases a peanut butter cup with potato chips
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is the science, according to... himself. But Mary Katharine and Vic aren't so sure he—or the Biden administration, for that matter—knows how to tackle the Omicron variant. The Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the Mississippi abortion case, the Women's Tennis Association takes a stand against China, and we learn the history of the golf course beverage cart.

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 09:45 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 09:56 - The Omicron variant is here
• 16:00 - Fauci faces his foes
• 19:27 - Segment: You Love to See It
• 19:34 - Reporter asks Fauci a tough question
• 25:20 - Oral arguments at the Supreme Court on the Mississippi abortion case
• 33:12 - Women's Tennis Association quits China over Peng Shuai's disappearance
• 37:40 - Kids are increasingly cutting ties with their parents
• 44:35 - Golf.com tells the history of the golf course beverage cart

Mary Katharine and Vic have recovered from their Thanksgiving feasts and they're back to discuss Disney's decision to censor an episode of the Simpsons, as well as the new covid variant, fact-checkers, and some very unlucky pub dwellers in England

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 11:24 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 11:26 - The new coronavirus variant, Omicron
• 24:52 - Journalists and Harvard academics work to identify misinformation in the news
• 31:44 - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey steps down
• 35:19 - Disney censors Simpsons episode with Tiananmen Square reference in Hong Kong
• 39:48 - Matthew McConaughey announces he will not run for governor of Texas
• 43:00 - England revelers stuck in pub for three days after snowstorm

Happy Thanksgiving from Mary Katharine and Vic! The hosts are here to talk about their Thanksgiving traditions and the topic they wish they were talking about all the time: food.

We aren't sure who's still listening to Dr. Anthony Fauci, but he officially declared it safe to visit with family during the holidays. Businesses are changing shipping and packaging to fight supply chain woes, CNN takes a mostly unsuccessful drive around Brooklyn in a self-driving car, and a former Obama economic advisor gets real on inflation.

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• 00:11 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 07:39 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 07:40 - Anthony Fauci says it's okay for the vaccinated to enjoy the holidays
• 22:00 - Britney Spears freed from conservatorship
• 27:14 - Shipping containers and supply chains
• 32:18 - CNN takes a self-driving car for a (mostly unsuccessful) spin in Brooklyn
• 39:14- Segment: You Love To Hear It
• 39:21 - Former Obama economic advisor gets real on inflation

There's drama in the White House—Kamala drama, that is. Mary Katharine and Vic talk about tumultuous relationships in the White House, as well as the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, a football miracle, dating while living with your parents, and Taylor Swift making money off of a relationship that ended more than a decade ago. 

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• 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 05:03 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 06:20 - Closing arguments of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial
• 14:40 - Kamala Drama
• 18:58 - The Detroit Lions did not lose
• 21:33 - The Atlantic story on dating while living at home
• 27:00 - The New York Times is concerned that there's no Covid vaccine for pets
• 29:39 - Decoding the Swifty drama

Kamala Harris fakes a French accent, Michigan's Attorney General has one too many Bloody Marys, and Morgan Ortagus rips Adam Schiff on the View

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• 00:13 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
• 06:06 -Segment: The News You Need to Know
• 06:45 - One too many Bloody Marys for Michigan's Democratic Attorney General
• 10:55 - Secretary of Education, teachers union head say no more masks outdoors for kids
• 17:08 - American campaign to vaccinate kids off to good start
• 20:37 - Updates on New Jersey State Senator Ed Durr
• 24:37 - Kyle Rittenhouse trial
• 34:57 - Car break-ins up in San Francisco
• 44:00 - Cotton Candy Lobster caught off the coast of Maine
• 46:14 - Bacon wrapped... presents? Feat. Coolio
• 51:11 - Segment: We Love to Hear It
• 51:49 - Morgan Ortagus rips Adam Schiff on the View