1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Beach Radio. 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 2: Yes it is. It's the final hour of the week. 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 3: Right, this is Friday, right, rob Okay, Yes, final hour 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 3: of night Side, which means you get kind of kind 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 3: of one call a week, use it or lose it. 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 3: I know the rule is sort of loose, but still 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 3: you might want to use it or lose it. Say 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 3: high six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty, just 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 3: a chat and hang out. 10 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 2: We have a new year. 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 3: Coming up, and I've been thinking some people do dry January. 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,319 Speaker 3: Have you ever thought about doing that? Have you done it? 13 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 3: What was it like? Because I'm thinking about it. Six one, seven, two, five, 14 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 3: four ten thirty Dry January. You know, I come from 15 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 3: rock radio. My job was practically drinking. You know, part 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 3: of my job was going out in case you are 17 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 3: new to me and I'm new to you. My early 18 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 3: radio career was in rock radio, and you know, part 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 3: of my job was to be on the air and present, 20 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 3: introduce songs and talk about the bands and all. But 21 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 3: part of it was to interview bands, to go to shows, 22 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 3: big shows that like Great Woods, Yeah, Great Woods, interview 23 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 3: people like anyway from David Bowie to Marilyn Manson to outcasts, 24 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 3: and of course that's backstage and his beer beer around. 25 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 3: Then you go to the shows, of course there's beer 26 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 3: around or drinks or whatever. And back in the day 27 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 3: DJ's would get drinks, you get drink tickets. I think 28 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 3: that old school love is gone now. I don't know, 29 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: but it goes. You say, go to the Paradise and 30 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: they'd say, hey, hey, Brad to Jay. You wouldn't even 31 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 3: need a ticket to get in, and they just give 32 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 3: you a couple of drink tickets. And you might think 33 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 3: that it was kind of living the dream, and you'd 34 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 3: be right, it was. But of course there was a 35 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 3: lot of alcohol involved. And I never liked getting drunk, 36 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 3: never at all. But I'd like to having drinks. I'd 37 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 3: like to having Budweiser. Bud like Budweiser. Now some crappier, 38 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 3: I guess. But you go to a show and it's 39 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 3: just something you do, change, you take the edge off. 40 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 3: As they say something. It's part of the ritual. That's 41 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 3: what it is. It's part of the ritual. It's so 42 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 3: grooved in that it might be difficult to do. Drive 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 3: January and maybe maybe for you, maybe maybe you work 44 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 3: hard all day, leave over a hot. 45 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 2: Stove. 46 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 3: Maybe you're a cook, Maybe you are a housekeeper somewhere. 47 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 3: Maybe you work hard all day and look forward to 48 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 3: you your cocktail at night. Because you do dry January, 49 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 3: it seems to. 50 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 2: Be gaining well. 51 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 3: I can't I don't have any proof, but it seems 52 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 3: to be becoming more of a thing. I'm not sure 53 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 3: why that is. I think there's a myth that people 54 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 3: drink more. I guess it's true. You do drink more 55 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 3: in December, maybe not so much on New Year's Eve, 56 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 3: but I guess I'd ask you, have you thought about 57 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 3: dry January? Have you tried it? How did you do? 58 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 3: Do you have any tips? Because I'm feeling like I 59 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 3: might want to try it. Sure I like having a Negroni, 60 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 3: a nice high end Negroni at the Liberty Hotel. 61 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 2: Sure. 62 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 3: I like having a beer or two, maybe once in 63 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: a while even three out in JP. I'm a performer. 64 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 3: I go and do gigs now, and you can come 65 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 3: see me someday. I'll tell you what if I have 66 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 3: a gig coming up, if that's I don't know if 67 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 3: that's okay, I'll check before I do it. But if 68 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 3: it is okay, then I would let you know, but 69 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 3: you go and perform. Yeah, you're not going on stage 70 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 3: all oh unbuzzed atleast not now. It's you got to 71 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 3: kind of get a little liquid courage in you. 72 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 2: This is not excessive. 73 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 3: This is just well within our society's guidelines. It's perfectly 74 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 3: normal that I start thinking about, wonder what it's like 75 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 3: to go to the Liberty Hotel and not have a drink. 76 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 3: I had a good situation. Well, I went there for 77 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 3: my birthday and I really enjoyed having a magroni and 78 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 3: watching the wor watching this the scenario there. Do you 79 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 3: know about the Liberty Hotel used to be the Child 80 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 3: Street Jail, and they've kind of capped the the jail 81 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 3: feel to it. You know, when you see jail movies, 82 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 3: prison movies, usually this is central area where there may 83 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 3: be tables or something. But then circularly around the edge 84 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 3: are these walkways with rails and there are cells up 85 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 3: there on each level, cell block number two on tier four, whatever. 86 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 3: But they kind of kept that. So you can get 87 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 3: a cocktail and it's I mean expensive cocktail, and you 88 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 3: can go and you can feel that well, a slight 89 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 3: hint of the essence of the jail vibe. 90 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 2: It's kind of interesting. 91 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 3: And the way it's set up, that could be a 92 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 3: football game across the way you can and you can 93 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 3: still see it even though it's. 94 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 2: Far away on a TV. It's pretty interesting. It's it's 95 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 2: not just your hotel. 96 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 3: But then I think, Gee, if I do dry January, 97 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 3: what do I do if I go to the hotel? 98 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 3: These are my thought processes. I'd like to try it, 99 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 3: but I don't know if it's doable. You folks have 100 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 3: done it? How did you do it? Did you have 101 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 3: a trick? Did you just do it called turkey? What 102 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 3: do you drink when you go to to do something? 103 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 3: Do you drink nothing? Do you drink seltzer water with 104 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 3: a lime? Do you drink some of the new non 105 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 3: alcoholic beers? And by the way, that's a discussion I 106 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 3: want to have what's the best non alcoholic beer? 107 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 2: That's kind of. 108 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 3: Part of the dry January discussion. Man, it's not like 109 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 3: it used to be. There are a lot of good ones. 110 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,359 Speaker 3: But I'll get you to get into that in a minute. 111 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 3: But again, have you done the dry January? Dry January? 112 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 3: How did you do? How far did you make it. 113 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 3: What kind of problems did you run into? What kind 114 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 3: of social situations were challenging? 115 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 2: And how did you deal? Or did you just give up? 116 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 3: No shame on giving up, Believe me, I get it, 117 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 3: but I'm curious to hear from it. And further, if 118 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 3: you just all together quit drinking all together, how did 119 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 3: your life change? 120 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 2: Sure, how'd you do it? 121 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 3: Is important, But I'm also curious about how your life 122 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 3: changed because I remember a time, you know, when I 123 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 3: was a kid, I didn't drink anything and life was fine. Thinking, 124 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 3: I'm thinking, it must be possible, and it might be 125 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 3: fun to live a different life, a life with no alcohol. 126 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 3: It might be just fun for a number of reasons. One, 127 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 3: I've gained weight. I have to admit it. I gained some. 128 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 3: It's not super obvious. I'm still fabulously handsome from the 129 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 3: head from the forehead up. But I tried to get 130 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 3: into my clothes, and I'm thinking, what's going on here? 131 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 3: Did these clothes shrink? I actually thought I put on 132 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 3: this wool shirt I had, and I thought, you know, 133 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 3: maybe it wol shrinks if you don't wear it. Actually, 134 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 3: that's one of those denial thoughts about being a little 135 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 3: being overweight. 136 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 2: And of course there's the pants. 137 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 3: I think, yeah, these pants would that this difficult to 138 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 3: get on? When I got him right and I just 139 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 3: said to myself, I'm gonna stuff myself in. But no, 140 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 3: it's not true. The proof is you get on the 141 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 3: scale and oh my god, oh my god. That's the thing. 142 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 3: When your weight sneaks up on you, it's so incremental 143 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 3: you don't notice it. So there's the weight factor. Don't 144 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 3: get me wrong. I love a cocktail, but I'm curious 145 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 3: about that other life. And the weight is just one aspect. 146 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 3: There's another one, which I'll share with you after this break. 147 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 3: There's a bunch and I'm going to go through the reasons. 148 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 3: I'm thinking about trying a non drinking life for one month, 149 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 3: the dry January, to see what it's like. First is 150 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 3: the weight. I know, I gotta lose weight, gotta do it, 151 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 3: and I feel like that's probably the easiest way to 152 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 3: do it. But there are other factors that I'll run through. 153 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 3: But I'm curious to hear about your experience with dry 154 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 3: January and maybe quit and drinking. 155 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 2: Oh completely, What was it like? How did you do? 156 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 3: Do you have any tips for me or anybody else, 157 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 3: and what is the new life like? 158 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 2: It's WBZ. 159 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's 160 00:09:59,280 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: News Radio. 161 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 3: Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty. Yes, it 162 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 3: is night Side with danuy Bradley Jake for Dan feeling fine, 163 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 3: feeling actually quite good. Enjoyed the the show so far, 164 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 3: and enjoyed the hours tonight. Thanks to Rob Brooks for 165 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 3: working the wheel out there. He's I don't know, you're 166 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 3: the King of Master Control, would you say one of 167 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 3: the if not the king, you're in the King's court. 168 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 3: You're right, he's right up there. I mean, he's a 169 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 3: go to guy. When there's a problem, people call Rob 170 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 3: Brooks to find out what's going on. So I was 171 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 3: talking to possibly dry January. Is that something you'd thought 172 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 3: about six one seven, two five, four ten thirty. I 173 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 3: have friends who have done it, and they pick up 174 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 3: having the cocktails the drinks in February, and I'm wondering, 175 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 3: I kind of wonder, what's the point of doing it 176 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 3: if you're just going to continue after that? It seemed 177 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 3: to me that dry January would be an experimental launch 178 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 3: pad to see to kind of get used to the 179 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 3: eye idea, because I think one. 180 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,559 Speaker 2: Of the notion of never drinking again is brutal. 181 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 3: If you like cocktails, Oh never again, Never another cocktail, 182 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 3: never another ne groaning, never another glass of wine, which 183 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 3: is a pretty bleak thing. And so perhaps the dry 184 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 3: january is just a. 185 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 2: Launch pad. 186 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 3: It allows you not to feel like I'll never have 187 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 3: another drink again. I have something to look forward to 188 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 3: thirty days away. I stopped from one month. 189 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 2: One time. 190 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 3: It wasn't a dry January, and I stopped and said, okay, 191 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 3: I did that, and I'm not noticing any major improvements 192 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 3: in my life. But now, for some reason it's kind 193 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 3: of different. I'm maybe interested in changing it. I guess 194 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 3: getting older, you know, you got a wonder maybe it's 195 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 3: better for your joints and your systems in general to 196 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 3: not drink, or maybe not drink at all. That would 197 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 3: be that would be an entirely different life for me. 198 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 3: So I mentioned that the weight factor. I'd like to 199 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 3: be thin. You know how much weight I'd like to 200 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 3: lose twenty five pounds, twenty five pounds. There was a 201 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 3: time I weighed one sixty nine out My goal was 202 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 3: one sixty five. Doctor said you should weigh one sixty 203 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 3: five and I was two nine at one point and 204 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 3: friend of mine, sorry, I was actually there was a 205 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 3: season of the Patriots where I had I was hooked 206 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,479 Speaker 3: up big time. I had a stack of parking passes 207 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 3: and I had a laminated pass to go anywhere in 208 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 3: the place, including the statisticians booth, the WBCN client booth, 209 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 3: the field even could go on the field until kickoff. 210 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 3: So that was a that was quite a thing. And 211 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 3: someone and they won the playoff. There was a big 212 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 3: divisional playoff game that year on the field. Someone took 213 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 3: a picture of me. I was able to get out 214 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 3: there right near where they're, you know, all gathering and 215 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 3: jumping up and down, and it had just happened. They 216 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,839 Speaker 3: had just won the division, I guess. And someone took 217 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 3: a picture of me, a friend actually, and and then 218 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 3: someone else. I showed the picture to someone else, and 219 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 3: there's someone else another friend said wow, you're fat. 220 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, you're fat like that, and I thank them 221 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 2: for that. 222 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:49,679 Speaker 3: I I'm so thankful for that because that I didn't 223 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 3: realize it until that point. And so over the course 224 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 3: of months, I got down on one sixty nine from 225 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 3: two oh nine. But things have been creeping up, and 226 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 3: I guess they say it's harder to lose weight when 227 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 3: you're older. It's probably true too. And the doctor said, 228 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 3: it's not so much exercise. It's important because you want 229 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 3: your heart to exercise and all, but when it comes 230 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 3: to weight, it's what you put in your body. And 231 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 3: I think there's something about alcohol besides the calories, that 232 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 3: somehow makes you gain weight more, some metabolistic thing. So 233 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 3: that's reason number one to try January. Try January. Have 234 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 3: you tried it? How did it go? Six one, seven, two, five, four, 235 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 3: ten thirty. There is another reason I am so irritated 236 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 3: with the cost of a cocktail. I'm incensed by it. 237 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 3: I'm insulted by it. What's going on? I don't want 238 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 3: to go be the old guy that says, remember when 239 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 3: I drink was five point fifty. Remember then, Remember when 240 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 3: I was just eight fifty and then whoa eleven dollars 241 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 3: and then everything was fourteen And now ladies and gentlemen, 242 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 3: and trust me, we're not done eighteen bucks. You're going 243 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 3: to see twenty dollars cocktails depending on where you go. 244 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 3: Twenty dollars for a drink, and in the fancy place 245 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 3: you get. You'll get a Rocks glass with one big 246 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 3: giant ice cube in it. 247 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 2: That's the drink. 248 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 3: Has the there's a little room for a drink in there, 249 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 3: but not much, and you drink that drink, there's not 250 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 3: that much in it. 251 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 2: It's gone quickly. 252 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 3: So let's just say that it's designed so you're not 253 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 3: just going to have one. There's not enough in there 254 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 3: just to have one. You're going to have two, which 255 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 3: puts you up to about forty bucks for two cocktails 256 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 3: before the tip. Say it's ten dollar tip. That puts 257 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 3: you at fifty bucks for two cocktails. Say you going 258 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 3: with somebody else one hundred bucks for two cocktails. That's 259 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 3: four cocktails total. That is not acceptable. I don't care 260 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 3: if I'm Warring Buffett. I'm not going up to that 261 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 3: bar and paying that kind of money. At least I 262 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 3: say that now because I feel like a sucker. 263 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 2: I feel like a fool. I feel like an idiot. 264 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 3: I feel like the bartender's looking at me saying, here 265 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 3: you go, sucker, give me the money for the drink 266 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 3: and give me that big giant tip for this drink 267 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 3: that took me eight seconds to make. 268 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 2: I was in the business of booze. 269 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 3: I get it, it's hard work and you deserve a tip. 270 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 2: I completely get it. 271 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 3: But that much really, so there's the cost, and then 272 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 3: there's just the cost of beer. 273 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 2: You can still get. 274 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 3: I happen to know six bag of tall PBRs for 275 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 3: about seven ninety nine most places. 276 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 2: Does that sound right? The reason? I think, oh, Narraganset's 277 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,439 Speaker 2: right in there too. There's that. 278 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 3: But if you want anything else, if you want something 279 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 3: in an IPA, say you're starting to pay sixteen dollars 280 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 3: for a four pack, twenty dollars for a four pack? 281 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 3: Why because we pay it. But I'm think I'm thinking 282 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 3: I combined with wanting to lose weight, I want to 283 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 3: thumb my nose at these prices. 284 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 2: Think of the savings big time. You could probably go. 285 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 3: On a trip to Europe for the money you saved 286 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 3: if you didn't drink, and you wouldn't even have to 287 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 3: drink that much. 288 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: Let's do the math you want. You want to do 289 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 2: a little math. 290 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:50,400 Speaker 3: Okay, Let's say to round things out, a four pack 291 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 3: of IPA is twenty That means two of them are 292 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 3: ten bucks. 293 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 2: And let's just say you have two beers a. 294 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 3: Day just for the sake of adding stuff up. 295 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 2: Let's say five a week, that makes it easier. 296 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 3: That's fifty bucks a week, right, times fifty weeks, what's 297 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 3: that up to twenty five hundred dollars correct, So that is, 298 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 3: if my math is right. 299 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 2: You could go. 300 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 3: You can easily get a European plane ticket for a 301 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 3: grant with a good seat. If you want to be 302 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 3: cheap about it, you could pay less, but that's just 303 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 3: airfare roundstrip. Even let's say twelve hundred bucks. That's probably 304 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 3: for maybe even a comfort seat, extra leg room, So 305 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 3: that leaves you with another eleven hundred bucks for hotels. 306 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 3: If you go on a for a five day trip 307 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:52,719 Speaker 3: to fifty night for a hotel, that's a thousand bucks. 308 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 3: So yeah, it seems to me that booze is so 309 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 3: even beer, the fancy beers now are so expensive that 310 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 3: if you have two beers five times a week and stop, 311 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 3: that you could afford a tripty to Europe. Shocking, right. 312 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 3: Then you put that on top of the weight loss. 313 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 3: So there you are strutting around in your new clothes 314 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 3: and you got, because you're super thin, on your way 315 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 3: to Europe, practically free. And all you have to do 316 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 3: is not drink easier said than done. 317 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 2: Right. 318 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 3: On the other hand, everything we do involves No, that's 319 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 3: not true. Everything. A lot of stuff in my sphere 320 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 3: involves a cocktail. 321 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 2: Hey, what do you want to do? You want to 322 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 2: grab a beer? Yeah, which means two at least. Hey, 323 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 2: you want to go gb a cocktail? Yeah? 324 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 3: I want to go see a band? Yeah, it involves 325 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 3: an alcohol. We want to go to a birthday? Part alcohol? 326 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 2: Want to go to the beach. 327 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 3: Sometimes alcohol? Extricating yourself from alcohol. And I'm guessing do it? 328 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 3: You know, living your life takes some getting used to. 329 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 3: It must be doable. And there's the thing they're looking 330 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 3: forward to part right, You can you want you know 331 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 3: what I'm saying. 332 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 2: You work all day? 333 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 3: How do you get through that day of landscaping or plumbing. 334 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 4: Or. 335 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 2: Delivering on. 336 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 3: Ignoring traffic rules on our motor scooter, delivering stuff? You 337 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,360 Speaker 3: get through it thinking, Yeah, I'm gonna get home, put 338 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 3: my feet up and have myself a cold one that's 339 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 3: going to beautiful at first snip is going to be beautiful. 340 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 3: How do you give that up? What do you have 341 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 3: to look forward to? That's a crusher. So this is 342 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 3: a this is a big thing. Dry January is a 343 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 3: chance to experiment and see what it's like, see how 344 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 3: things unfold. Perhaps for the first three days it's murderous, 345 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 3: but maybe that maybe after that you get used to it. 346 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,679 Speaker 3: Like when I quit for a month, you kind of 347 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 3: get used to it. 348 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 2: I like to go to the. 349 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 3: Mission on Huntington, av great great food. Usually have a 350 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 3: beer A couple of times. Recently I went and I 351 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 3: did not have a beer. I just had a soda 352 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,160 Speaker 3: water a soda water, and it worked out. 353 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 2: I didn't miss it. Strangely, I didn't miss it. 354 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 3: I think the big hump for me would be that 355 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 3: looking forward to things, So I guess I have to 356 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 3: have some sort of substitute. Now the question is can 357 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 3: the new and excellent non alcoholic beers feel that I 358 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 3: need something to look forward to? Bill, And if you're 359 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 3: going to try dry January, you might want to look 360 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,719 Speaker 3: into these. I have a list of the ones, some 361 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 3: of the ones I think are outstanding, but I'd like 362 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 3: to get some input from you because I don't know 363 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 3: them all. So I'm going to go through my little 364 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 3: list and if you have any recommendations for non alcoholic 365 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 3: beers or mocktails, If you will, which is non alcoholic cocktail. 366 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,400 Speaker 2: I guess some of those are pretty good. I'd love 367 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 2: to hear them. 368 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 3: And also, are you I'm not here, I'm not hearing 369 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 3: a stampede of people saying, yeah, I'm going to do 370 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 3: dry January? But is that something you might think about? 371 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 3: And for those of you who have quick drinking alcohol altogether, 372 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 3: your story is important here too. How did you get 373 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 3: to that point? What were your secrets, what were the challenges, 374 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 3: how did you overcome them? How many times did it 375 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 3: take you to fail? Did you join an organization? There 376 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 3: are online apps that are supposed to help you with it. 377 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 3: How did that go for you? How is your life 378 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 3: different now? How much I need to just save that 379 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 3: it's helped your relationships, your sleep, your physical health, all that. 380 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 2: If you. 381 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 3: Managed to quit drinking, and not only if you drank 382 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 3: a whole lot, just even if you drank socially and 383 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,439 Speaker 3: he said, you know, I'm just not down with this anymore. 384 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 3: I kind of want to change. I'd like to hear 385 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 3: from you two at six, one, seven, two, five, four, 386 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 3: ten thirty on WBZ. 387 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: If you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ 388 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: Boston's News radioleven. 389 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 3: Thirty six on WBZ Bradley Jay and for Dan on 390 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 3: night Side. 391 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 2: And I am touring. 392 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 3: With the idea of doing dry January, and I'm looking 393 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,640 Speaker 3: for any advice you might have about getting through that, 394 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 3: whether it's worth it or maybe going all the way 395 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,679 Speaker 3: and if that works out, just living a life of 396 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 3: not drinking and what that's even like. 397 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 2: I don't know. 398 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 3: I've always lived in let's have a beer world, and 399 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 3: I'm looking for comments advice from you. So let's talk 400 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 3: to you. Well, first, it's Robert and Waltham. You're on 401 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 3: wv Z. 402 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 2: Robert. 403 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 5: How you doing, very Bradley, good topic, man. I Uh, 404 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 5: I did that last year, you know. I spent I 405 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 5: dried out, uh you know for a month and a 406 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 5: half and uh and it was great. You feel good. 407 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 6: But the thing is with even a culture when you're 408 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 6: growing up, you heard this mill of time after work, 409 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 6: mill of time and all that stuff. I just think 410 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 6: that it's it's it's okay to do that and to 411 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 6: control your intake of alcohol. But I think if you're 412 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 6: not to the point like you need an intervention, you know, 413 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 6: I think that you can discipline yourself and once in 414 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 6: a while I. 415 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 7: Know, you know, you go over the board, you wake. 416 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 5: Up the next say, oh, I hate I hate that feeling. 417 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 6: But I just think it's a good idea of people. 418 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 6: But you talk about the price and understand it. But 419 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 6: look at cigarette people are paying seventeen dollars for cigarettes, 420 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 6: you know, and then now you get the cannabis like McDonald's, 421 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 6: you just stop buying and they're so expensive. And I 422 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 6: think I drink once in a while. 423 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 5: Shouldn't have heard because. 424 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 6: Everything is, you know, it's just to me. It's like 425 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 6: somebody can try to discipline yourself by doing certain thing. 426 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 5: It's just like every year people's Yeah, So. 427 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 3: What do you figure is a good amount to drink? 428 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 3: How much like a sustainable to do this for the 429 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 3: rest of your life with no adverse effects? 430 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 2: How many drinks a week? 431 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 6: I will drink three times a week, maybe four, But 432 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 6: it doesn't have to be the same drink. Sometimes I 433 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 6: feel like drinking too beiou is And I said, no, 434 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 6: I don't want to speel me out. 435 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 5: I don't want that. 436 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 6: And I want to take a shot or something of 437 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 6: vodka or something like that. I'm not a wine drinker. 438 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,360 Speaker 6: My wife, you know, she. 439 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 5: Drank wine but if I am on a table and 440 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 5: and and I you know that day I wasn't. I'm 441 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 5: not in the mood drink. 442 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 6: I'll drink of wine. And I said, we know what, 443 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 6: I should stick to wine, but I always find myself 444 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 6: to go back to beer and on a stiff drink 445 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 6: once a while. So it's gonna figure out. 446 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 3: Two drinks four times a week is a good, uh safe, 447 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 3: healthy place to be. 448 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 6: Absolutely even doctors said, he relaxes you because when when 449 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 6: people say in middle of time or after work, you 450 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 6: want to relax. So it's in the culture. You know, 451 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 6: you relax for the wine, beer or shot. And like 452 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 6: I said, it's the people that you know overdo it. 453 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 6: Like I was listening to the news, you know, listening 454 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 6: to guys are driving on one way. 455 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 5: Street and and and and and and and the one 456 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,360 Speaker 5: way he takes the wrong one way and totally oblivious. 457 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 6: You know that what they do. And these that's those 458 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 6: those are the peo people that. 459 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:01,360 Speaker 5: Make drinking bad. 460 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 6: Just like just like I had a friend in Medfield. 461 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 6: I remember this guy so nice and quiet. I've to 462 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 6: a few drinks. 463 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 8: He wants to fight. 464 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 6: These are the people that don't need to drink. 465 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,199 Speaker 3: You know so great call Robert well fam thank you 466 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 3: very much. It's Chuck in Southampton. 467 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 2: Now Chuck. 468 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 8: Hello, Hey, how you doing tonight and just sitting home 469 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 8: from work? 470 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 2: Cool? 471 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:26,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. 472 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 8: About about drinking, I mean, drinking is great. 473 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 3: Yeah. 474 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 8: The thing is, it's, uh, you get out of hand 475 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 8: in life and sometimes you have to say, hey, no more. 476 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 8: And uh I just did a call Turkey. I just 477 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 8: had some situations where my doctor said, hey, you get 478 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 8: a little problem with your your hot and it's you 479 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 8: you can't drink. I looked at him and I says, 480 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 8: are you kidding me? He goes, yeah, So I just 481 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 8: I just took I said, I stopped right then. I've 482 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 8: been drinking my whole life. I'm don't get me wrong. 483 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 8: It's like the gentleman just said, it's a social thing, 484 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 8: and it's a great thing to do if you know, 485 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 8: if you don't have health problems and stuff like that. 486 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 8: But it's just it's just uh so it was easy. 487 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,359 Speaker 3: The social the social situations were just you'd got a 488 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 3: big deal of it, not any problem. 489 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 2: You just did it. 490 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 7: I just did. 491 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 8: And I was a heavy drinker. I mean I drink 492 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 8: every nice like he said, you stop with the club, 493 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 8: you have a couple of shots, you have beers, you 494 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,199 Speaker 8: go home, you eat, do you have another drink, and 495 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 8: then you go to ben you work. You do that 496 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 8: every day. 497 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 2: So you're basically have like five drinks a night, right 498 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 2: are easy? Sure? 499 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 8: Short course? 500 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,120 Speaker 2: Okay, yep, well that's good. 501 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 3: And you just decided boom because what he do the 502 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 3: doctor decided for you. 503 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 8: When the doctor said it's a year over. I've been 504 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 8: drinking fifty years and I can't believe I didn't. I mean, 505 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 8: I hang around with it. They drink all the time, 506 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,239 Speaker 8: my wife. Everybody drinks in my house every night. They 507 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 8: want to come by, they can drink. I don't care. 508 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 8: You know, it's just when he I was told, I 509 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 8: did what I did and I had no problem dry January. 510 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 8: I never tried that. Maybe if I did, I still 511 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 8: would have a hot problem. But oh no, I feel great. 512 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 8: I didn't lose any weight because I got into a 513 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 8: little ice cream. 514 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 2: But other than that, yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, so 515 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 2: you feel you feel like, oh, I didn't. 516 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 3: Have any beer today, I can haven't played a spaghetti 517 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 3: and so that's you gotta be careful about that. Chuck, Great, 518 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 3: great call, Thank you so much Chuck appreciated. Well, now 519 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 3: Karen is Wisconsinville. How you doing, Karen? 520 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 9: I'm okay. Can I just say hi? Did Jack Card? 521 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 9: Thank him for watching over Boston tonight with this traffic 522 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 9: of course because it's slippery out. He does this every night. 523 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 9: Thank you, Jeck. Now, I just want to say, coming 524 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 9: from Wisconsin here with a barred every corner, I got 525 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 9: a guy down the street who in five months time, 526 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 9: he was told he needs a liver transplant or he'll die. 527 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 9: So he took two weeks to get him a liver 528 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 9: and now he's spent in the hospital and he probably 529 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 9: will die. So I say, if you're having a problem, 530 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 9: and I had that happen to me, if you're having 531 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 9: a problem with it and you know it, you will 532 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 9: know it before anybody else. When you need a drink, 533 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 9: then it's time to stop. And if you're just having 534 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 9: a couple drinks a week and it's not harming you, 535 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 9: you know, then why even bother having a dry jenuory? 536 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 9: You know you don't need to. That's my take on it. 537 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 2: Perfect. 538 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Karen, Wisconsin shuck in. After this break, 539 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 3: we'll go to Carlon Groveland and and an unknown car on. 540 00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 5: W b Z. 541 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 1: Night's Eye with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news Radio. 542 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 3: One more little segment on this week's night side practuge 543 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 3: in for Dan and just kind of a musing about 544 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 3: the pros and cons of living a what would be 545 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 3: a different life for me in a non social drinking life, 546 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 3: a life with no alcohol, thinking about the money savings, 547 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 3: the weight loss, and what it feels like. It might 548 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 3: be interesting to try dry January and checking in with 549 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 3: you to see how you feel about it in any hints, 550 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 3: what it's like, what was your experience? And I didn't 551 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 3: get a chance to get to it tonight, but I 552 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 3: want to really explore. I want to have a conversation 553 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 3: about your favorite non alcoholic beer, because it's a thing now. 554 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 3: You have you tried some of the non alcoholic beers. 555 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 3: They are so much better than they used to be 556 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 3: back in the super duper duper old days. What do 557 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 3: they have, odul, I don't want to name names, naming names. 558 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 3: I'm just I'm not naming brands. I'm just telling you, boy, 559 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 3: oh boy, they have some good stuff now. So let's 560 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 3: I don't want to cheat Carlon Groveland out of any 561 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 3: time So, hello, Carl, what's going on? 562 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: Uh? 563 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 7: Yeah, this is not about alcohol, but this is about 564 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 7: eating out food. Can I name the restaurant? 565 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 3: Is it a positive? Are you naming it positively or negatively? 566 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 7: Negative? 567 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's not this. Let's not this restaurants. Maybe you 568 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 3: just had one bad meal. I don't want to I 569 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 3: don't That's not. 570 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 7: What it wasn't it was. It wasn't the taste of 571 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 7: the food. It was the price. 572 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 2: Don't name any restaurants. 573 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 7: Ruben sandwich, a bowl of french onion soup and a 574 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 7: petty thirty dollars ninety cents. 575 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 2: Okay, ruben sandwich and what else? 576 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 7: A pall of french on your soup? 577 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 2: Yeah? 578 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 6: That that seat. 579 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 3: So the rub was probably what the ruben was probably sixteen, 580 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 3: the soup was probably twelve, right, something like that. 581 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 7: Uh, cyberenteen nine, and the petsy was three or four. 582 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 7: I guess I don't plus that. 583 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 2: And you were shocked. What would you have expected to pay? 584 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 7: Uh, twenty four, twenty five, but. 585 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 2: You paid thirty eight something like. 586 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 7: That, thirty dollars I was thirty one plus taxed a 587 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 7: round it off? 588 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I don't really know what's going on. 589 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 3: With the inflation. There's a bunch of factors. 590 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 2: Fat tours, tariffs. 591 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 3: Maybe you know there was a big bump of inflation 592 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 3: during the pandemic because everybody got all this free money 593 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 3: and people started people just bought stuff like crazy. And 594 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 3: prices never go down. I mean, oil prices due, but 595 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 3: food prices don't seem to. 596 00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 2: So the bunch of. 597 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 3: Factors in there, and I don't like it, and I 598 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 3: especially don't like the price. Well, I also don't like 599 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 3: the price of cocktails. And that's why I'm thinking one 600 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 3: of the reasons I'm thinking of just saying I don't 601 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 3: need you anymore. 602 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,399 Speaker 7: Yeah, this would put me off eating out. 603 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:14,879 Speaker 8: So what are you. 604 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 2: Gonna have instead? What are you gonna eat in? 605 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 7: Well, I can have a bowl of soup in a sandwich. 606 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so you're gonna have some tomato soup and 607 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 3: a cheese sandwich has really good. 608 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,239 Speaker 7: Maybe for three or four bucks. 609 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 2: I don't that's right, there's no no crime in that 610 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 2: at all. 611 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 7: It didn't hopefully, I'm telling you. 612 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 2: I agree. Call thanks a lot to talk to you 613 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 2: next week. Brother. 614 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 3: Now it's Mike and Cambridge. Mike, you're own busy and 615 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 3: there'll be room for another call after Mike, if you 616 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,879 Speaker 3: want to dial a six one, seven, two, five, four, 617 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 3: ten thirty, go ahead, let's seem get you on there, Mike. Perfect, 618 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 3: There we go. 619 00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 4: Ah, Mike, Hey, brad, how's going? God spent many a 620 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:02,919 Speaker 4: late night listening. 621 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,319 Speaker 7: To you when you were five on Breezy. 622 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 2: Thank you. 623 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 4: But I just was calling to say alcohol is for 624 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 4: those with no imagination? 625 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,360 Speaker 2: Interesting? Do tell explain? 626 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,319 Speaker 4: Well, you know, I kind of switched over from from 627 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 4: alcohol to THC. 628 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 7: You know what I mean? 629 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 4: I do and I don't even bother smoking, Bradley, even 630 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,839 Speaker 4: that's lacks of imagination. I go out and I make 631 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 4: my own dummies. 632 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 2: You know, tell me about that. You use to use jello? 633 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 2: What do you do? 634 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 4: I'm actually just actually starting to make the money. Went 635 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,040 Speaker 4: up the name and bought myself for a little less 636 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 4: than two hundred dollars. They call nano emulsified THC. What 637 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,319 Speaker 4: that means is it's fast acting THC hits it within 638 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,200 Speaker 4: ten to fifteen minutes and it comes in to contain 639 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 4: a ten thousand milligrams. Probably that's a lot of gummies. 640 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 3: That's a lot of gummies. Ten thousand milligrams is one 641 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,280 Speaker 3: milligram gummies. 642 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 4: Right exactly, And uh, I just want to add this 643 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 4: to it. It's gonna be sound a little odd, but 644 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 4: you know something. If you go online you book up 645 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 4: the sand papal cactus, you find out that you can 646 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 4: legally derived mescaline from that plant. Okay, san pedro cactus, 647 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,479 Speaker 4: now the sand pap How did. 648 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 3: You switch from gummy creation to to that. 649 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,960 Speaker 10: I've always been intered in sugadol since you know, since 650 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 10: I was a teenager and h but when I found 651 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 10: out this about the san Pedro, it was just like, wow, 652 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:46,800 Speaker 10: you can order. 653 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 4: It online, you know. But anyways, that's that. 654 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,360 Speaker 3: Okay, so you make gummies? It is it a I 655 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,880 Speaker 3: don't want you to tell us, but just tell me. 656 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 3: Is it a big production of a lot of stoves, pots, pans, 657 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 3: melting stuff, sugar? 658 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 2: Is it? How long does it take you to do? 659 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:11,960 Speaker 7: Got Bradley? 660 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 4: Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I'm just starting to get in. 661 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 2: What if it's not worth the hassle? 662 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 4: Uh, it probably isn't worth the hassle. I tell you 663 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,440 Speaker 4: why this nano amulcified THC like you said, it hits 664 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,600 Speaker 4: you hum in ten fifteen minutes it's a lot of 665 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 4: soluble browbie, which means you can add it to drinks, 666 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,799 Speaker 4: to anything you. 667 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,440 Speaker 2: Know about it to make the gurmy. 668 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,319 Speaker 3: You're gonna mix it in your tang You're gonna mix 669 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,600 Speaker 3: it in your and you're smoothie. 670 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:41,879 Speaker 2: Be careful with that. 671 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,280 Speaker 3: You could easily overdose, and you don't want to overdose 672 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,280 Speaker 3: on edibles, on edible TC. 673 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 8: Yeah. 674 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:49,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess. 675 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:51,360 Speaker 7: You know. 676 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 3: I don't want to hear about you in the news 677 00:37:55,080 --> 00:38:01,800 Speaker 3: Mike and Cambridge, Mike and Cambridge found super high. 678 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,280 Speaker 2: Come on, you know what I mean. I'm gonna be serious. 679 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 2: I want you to be careful because I will. Yeah, 680 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:09,799 Speaker 2: all right, I. 681 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,000 Speaker 4: Will you you when definitely you go with the all 682 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 4: night kind of vibes, probably absolutely. 683 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. It's nice to talk to you. It's nice to 684 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,279 Speaker 2: talk to everybody. It's nice to talk to you. 685 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,120 Speaker 3: And I hope that everyone that talks has talked to 686 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 3: me during this three day period will feel comfortable enough to, 687 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,880 Speaker 3: you know, call back when I when I'm you know, 688 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,120 Speaker 3: when I'm on, as well as when Dan is on. 689 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,040 Speaker 7: Probably be great to talk to you. Brother. 690 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:38,799 Speaker 2: Likewise, you take care. 691 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:43,279 Speaker 3: Oop oop, that's the sound of hanging up, you know, 692 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,640 Speaker 3: listen to the whole topic. But we have not addressed 693 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 3: and that is a fertile, fertile topic area is t 694 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,960 Speaker 3: I c is cannabis and we've gone past should have 695 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 3: illegalized too. Yeah, it's definitely legalized. And the price of it, 696 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,200 Speaker 3: the price compared to beer. What you prefer, what delivery system, 697 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:17,080 Speaker 3: the vape, the flower vape, the oil vape, the gummy, 698 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 3: the tincture, Whether or not you have a medical card 699 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,040 Speaker 3: or not, by the way, you might you might want 700 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 3: to consider a medical card if it's doable, because you say, 701 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,600 Speaker 3: you don't have to pay the tax. Last I knew, 702 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 3: you did not have to pay the tax if you 703 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,759 Speaker 3: had a medical card, which last I knew was about 704 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:36,360 Speaker 3: twenty percent. 705 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,839 Speaker 2: What it's some people, you know, some people. 706 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,239 Speaker 3: Don't like the fact that marijuana is legal because it's 707 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:47,520 Speaker 3: no fun anymore. They liked the illegality of it, the 708 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:53,000 Speaker 3: outlawness of it, the thrill, and they feel there's so 709 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,240 Speaker 3: many amateurs now. But I think it's kind of cool 710 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:04,800 Speaker 3: that the labor so very very carefully labeled with the 711 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:10,759 Speaker 3: right every little morsel of every molecule in there. One 712 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:17,799 Speaker 3: point five percent. This CBD, a CBDB CBDBBB THC. You 713 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,359 Speaker 3: can buy straight up CBD. You know you don't need 714 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:25,719 Speaker 3: to have THC in it. But that's it. That is 715 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,560 Speaker 3: a topic for another day, and it should be a 716 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:28,080 Speaker 3: good one. 717 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:29,399 Speaker 2: I did have. 718 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,920 Speaker 3: I've had a cannabis guest on, but I like to 719 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 3: figure another angle. 720 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,680 Speaker 2: And uh figure out how to approach that. What kind 721 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:42,680 Speaker 2: of guess would I get? 722 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:44,359 Speaker 3: Do? 723 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:45,839 Speaker 2: I want to get a. 724 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,920 Speaker 3: Somebody that runs a dispensary, the challenges of running a 725 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:55,680 Speaker 3: weed dispensary, something like that. It's kind of interesting if 726 00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,480 Speaker 3: you're my age, an age where it used to be 727 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,880 Speaker 3: used to go go to jail, if you got caught 728 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,319 Speaker 3: to be able to go shopping around, shopping like you're 729 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:11,319 Speaker 3: shopping in a jewelry store for weed, it's a weird world. 730 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,839 Speaker 3: Another question for another topic might be might be, hey, 731 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,160 Speaker 3: since it's got legal, have you noticed any problems? I 732 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,200 Speaker 3: would say I haven't noticed any problems. The sky did 733 00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,520 Speaker 3: not fall, the world did not end, and state making 734 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,879 Speaker 3: a bunch own money. 735 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,040 Speaker 2: So there's that. Thank you so much. 736 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,279 Speaker 3: I hate to say goodbye, but I guess I got 737 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,719 Speaker 3: to say goodbye till Monday, and I we'll speak to 738 00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,040 Speaker 3: you on Monday. Thank you again, Rob Brooks, all the 739 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,960 Speaker 3: best of you all, and a happy New Year on WBZ.