Hello, everybody, and welcome to another edition of getting hammered with me, Mary

Catherine Hamm, and my buddy, Vic Mattis.

How you doing, Vic?

I'm doing just fine.

A little wheezy, but I promise you it's from fall allergies,

mold, ragweed, something or other. Sure. Yeah, no, really. I swear. It's also,

this is a challenge because it's also cigar weather now, right? It's becoming false. I want to do that,

but I don't know what's going to happen. I mean, you know what? I like that you combine your fall allergies with your cigar. It's really seasonal,

my eating, my drinking, and smoking. But no, I don't smoke. As you know, if you go to the doctor's

office, they ask you, you know, do you smoke? And I don't know if that counts. Like, if I have

one, do you have to admit that? And if you do, does that change everything? I don't think there are any rules, man. You don't have to tell them nothing.

This is my libertarian streak.

I had a worksheet for my impending kids' birth certificate the other day that they gave me from the state.

And it has all this information requested, and I'm blithely filling it out because I'm a bit of I kind of like a form I'm like oh

fill out forms I know the answers to these questions this is easy I'm going to kill this

scantron and then I get halfway through it I'm like why do they they don't need this information

they want everything do you do you smoke a scar yourself have you ever I have I have I mean I'm

from North Carolina sure so'm from North Carolina.

Sure.

So everyone from North Carolina has used tobacco habitually at some point.

In fact, in North Carolina, at the beginning of the rollout of vaccines for COVID, one of the rules they made was that you could qualify early if you had smoked at some point.

And I was like, well, that's the whole state.

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