WEBVTT - Sober October is Over, How Much Are You Drinking? 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.640 Hey, there are folks. It is Sunday, November second, and 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:11.320 did you just wrap up a Sober October. Well, even 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.200 if you didn't participate in Sober October, there's a really 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:19.639 good chance you have cut back on your alcohol intake 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.440 because Americans are doing it in record numbers. And with that, 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.759 welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. What a 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:31.160 positive health alert. Right, this is huge. But we are 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.320 not drinking as much as we you too. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.080 It's true, and this has been something that a lot 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:38.159 of folks have been pointing to. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:39.760 The messaging has changed. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.920 We had been hearing a lot of us of a 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.919 certain age for most of our lives that moderate drinking 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.559 there actually were health benefits to certain types of alcohol. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.360 It wasn't demonized in the way it's been in the 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:56.400 last several years. We have heard on equivocally from doctors, 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:01.480 from researchers who say higher drinking the leads to higher 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.559 rates of cancer. It certainly does not improve your health 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:10.280 in a way that benefits you. So basically, we heard 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:15.840 no amount of drinking is healthy for the first time 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.399 really in a concentrated way in the past few years, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.800 and that messaging is sinking in. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.440 Yeah, it really is how much of it has to 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.880 do with people having alternatives right now? Who knows, But 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:33.720 for whatever reason, the numbers are bearing it out that somebody, 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.399 something is working and some messaging is getting through because 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.600 folks are not drinking as much to the tune of 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.880 some of the lowest rates we've seen in decades, some 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:46.120 thirty plus years in this country. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.559 Yes, lowest numbers in three decades, the percentage of US 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.600 adults who admit to drinking alcohol. And we're at the 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.720 highest number ever in history of Americans who believe that 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.880 even moderate alcohol consumption is a health risk. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:02.440 Those are two really good things. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.440 We have the lowest number and the highest number, and 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.480 they're going in the right direction, respectively. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.680 I don't how are they explaining this? 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.359 So they think that what they're saying now is sinking in. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.880 And they're also saying a lot of what's driving this 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:20.600 are younger Americans, younger kids who are now of drinking age, 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.000 have been hearing since they can remember how dangerous alcohol is. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.440 They also some will point to have the alternative of 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.440 legalized marijuana, which they consider to be a safer or 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.040 a better alternative to alcohols. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:34.880 So do doctors right, Yes. 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.360 So between those two things. They're attributing a lot of 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:42.280 these numbers. But even us older folks, it is sinking in. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:43.400 And they broke this down. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.240 This Gallop poll for twenty twenty five broke down how 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.480 and who is consuming what and how often in a 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.520 really interesting way. So we're at the lowest point in 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:58.480 three decades. Just fifty four percent of US adults report 0:02:58.560 --> 0:02:59.400 drinking alcohol. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.120 Remarkable, and by the way. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:07.080 In twenty twenty two that percentage was sixty seven percent. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:11.440 In twenty twenty three, d it's sixty two percent. Last 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.040 year it was fifty eight percent, and this year fifty 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:18.320 four percent. That is significant. And so this is among 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.400 the lowest number ever reported since the question was first 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:28.160 asked in nineteen thirty nine. Wowep, And here's something else interesting. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.320 Guess what the period was the just give me like 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:38.000 a year period for the highest reported drinking percentage. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.160 Among US adults highest. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.160 Yeah, what were the years where you Americans admitted to 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:44.280 drinking the most? 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:53.520 Thirty nine, nineteen thirty nine, twenty twenty. Going back, I'm 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.120 thinking about historical YEP times, Actually, what do you have. 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:58.280 You're not You're not close. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.240 So they're the period of highest reported drinking was between 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.680 the years of nineteen seventy four and nineteen eighty one, 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.360 where anywhere between sixty eight and seventy one percent. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.880 Of Americans were regularly drinking. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.520 What you're again, seventy four to eighty one, right when 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.280 we you and I were kind of in our prime. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.159 Well yes, I mean I was one when that started. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:22.799 You were in elementary school. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:27.000 But just think about that, we were surrounded by advertisements, adults, 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.760 people who were heavily drinking and not concerned about it. 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.360 Wow, the highest rates of alcohol consumption were right around 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.000 the time you and I entered the world. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:41.000 Yes, indeed. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.920 And also here's another interesting fact about what's happening this year. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.080 In this latest poll, even among those who do drink alcohol, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:54.919 everyone reports drinking less. They're more aware, they're acknowledging the 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.400 health risks, and you and I fall into that category. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.760 We've done dry genuine I've done it once. I've done 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:06.360 a damp January, and we definitely acknowledged when we were 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.000 in a stressful year that we went in the other direction. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.200 So we've corrected. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.880 However, interestingly, we had a good conversation with my brother 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.840 who's a physician, in early October, and we. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.600 Made a big decision. We made a change a shift. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.360 Oh that was my cue. Yes, I'm sorry, I was 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:28.640 taking a sip in my drink. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:30.760 Of water. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.280 No, it's it's interesting. And it was on that trip 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.640 we heard from uh. I think we made a bunch 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.960 of health decisions after that. We just got exposed with 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.560 some folks who hadn't seen it in a while and 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:48.440 got help on running and injury and nausea. We came back. 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.080 But yeah, one of the things we heard, ye, yes, 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.360 your brother, who's certainly a drinker, but he say, yeah 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.440 it is, don't even who, and a physician as well. 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:58.960 He was like, yeah, there's no there's no upside to it. 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.400 So he just decided to drink during the week Yeah, 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.440 like yourself out party on the weekend. But just it's 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.240 just a matter of moderation and that's a pretty good 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.400 plan and if you stick to that, it's really easy 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.159 to do. And we've gotten into that habit now. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.720 So yeah, we came back from that trip to go 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.920 see Georgia play and hung with my brother and we said, 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.040 you know what, we're going to give it a try, 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.440 and we have really liked it. It's kind of nice 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.680 when you give yourself a specific limitation and just say hey, 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.040 on the weekends, I'll drink, you know, in moderation. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:29.919 On the weekdays, I don't need to. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.240 Yes, if there's a special occasion, yes, If there is 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.280 a one off of this, I'm not going to say 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:34.800 oh no. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.960 But it does make for. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.960 Intentional and purposeful drinking, which I think has helped a lot. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:43.000 Like I have loved it. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.920 I can't imagine going back, honestly to the way we were. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.920 So that's been a cool change that we've made. But 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.960 there's a big I know it's not going to be 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.720 surprising to anyone. Men versus women. The decline in drinking 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.720 has been more pronounced among women. So women are down 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.120 a lie eleven percentage points just from twenty twenty three, 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:07.400 So fifty one percent of women report drinking. Men are 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.320 down five percentage points from twenty twenty three, so fifty 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.880 seven percent of men say they're drinking. Well, still dropping, 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.400 still dropping, still dropping, So that's good, just not dropping 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.320 as quickly. Republicans versus Democrats, what do you think in 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:20.080 this year's. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:26.920 Poll, who drinks more Republicans or Democrats. I think Republicans 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:27.720 might admit it. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.840 That's hilarious. Okay, so Republicans. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:36.160 Drinking among Republicans is at forty six percent, drinking among 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.040 Democrats sixty one percent. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.640 Boy, so for pole taken like so twenty twenty five 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.080 in July. In July of this. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.280 Year, Oh you sure it wasn't thinking like November twenty four. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:47.680 But here's something really interesting. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.800 For whatever reason, they say there was a sharp drop 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:55.400 in reported drinking among Republicans, falling nineteen points to forty 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.360 six percent. They say Democrats held steady at sixty one percent. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.080 So who knows flip self reporting? 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.560 It's Republicans who didn't want to report it. Okay, I 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.720 had it flipped so hard. There's not a nineteen percent drop. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.240 In that's shocking, right, right. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.360 So why would the what in the world happened? 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.000 Okay, how about white people versus people of color this 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.160 year in twenty twenty five, that's the percent who drinks 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:20.520 more white. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:21.480 People are people of color? 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:22.200 People of color? 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.680 You're wrong, White people fifty six percent, people of color 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.440 fifty two percent. Again, this is people who admit that 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.960 they drink regularly. That's always important. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.719 You're gonna call us for a pole, of course, we're 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.120 gonna lie to you. I don't know who's on the phone. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.640 And of course, as my brother, my favorite anecdote here 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.679 tell me is that whatever you tell your doctor how 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.160 many drinks you have a week, they automatically double it 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.679 because they know everybody's lying. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.920 So this poll should be taken with a grain of salt. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.200 How about this, people who make less than forty thousand 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.760 dollars a year versus people who make more than one 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:53.959 hundred thousand dollars a year. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.400 This was the biggest disparity. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.320 Uh, the the under forty drinkers forty thousand do what 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:01.600 do more of the drinking? 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:06.240 You're wrong, less than forty thousand, thirty nine percent, more 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.120 than one hundred thousand, sixty six. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.520 It just can't afford to drink, That's what it would 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.760 seem to be. That's exactly what it would appear to be. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.840 Or they're working so much they don't have time to drink. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.439 I mean, it could be a lot of things, right 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.439 when you're in that situation. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:20.839 This is so interesting. So we're at a record high. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.240 I mentioned fifty three percent of US adults now say 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.560 moderate drinking is bad for health. That is up from 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.480 twenty eight percent who believed that. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:30.280 Just ten years ago. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.880 That speaks to the fact that the messaging is worse 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.280 Today's number. I'm sorry, fifty three percent of US adults 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.400 now say hey, yes, we admit even moderate drinking is 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.600 bad for you. Only twenty eight percent of people said 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.520 that or believed that in twenty fifteen. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:47.880 That's kind of crazy, right. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.599 We still get studies every once in a while to 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.440 tell you that red wine is good for you. 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.320 Yes, And that was what was complicating things. They said 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.480 that we were getting enough of a reason to somehow 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.960 convince ourselves that it was not just okay to drink, 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.320 but good to actually have a glass of red wine. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.880 Correct. So, anyway, that was really interesting is hydrating? 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.440 Do you have that information in there as well? 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.719 You love to say that. So do you know what 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.040 the current government recommendations are? 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.400 Did they cut them? Are they new? How about this? 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.199 Have they been updated in recent months? 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.920 They're expected to be soon, but they are not as 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.040 of right now. So do you know what the current 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.000 government recommendations are for drinking? 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.240 The limits are two a day for man, one a 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:32.880 day for women. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:34.480 You are absolutely correct. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.319 So the federal government's current dietary guidelines recommend that Americans 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.480 if they consume alcohol, Men should limit themselves to two 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.760 drinks a day or fewer, and women should stick to 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.959 one drink a day or fewer. Okay, So it was 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.280 a big problem with that, yes, and that is considered 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:53.319 moderate drinking. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:53.760 Correct. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.960 So the outgoing US Surgeon General for VC Murphy, we 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.160 know him, we love him. Earlier this year he is 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:05.600 recommending putting a label on beer, wine liquor that would 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:10.920 clearly outline the link between drinking alcohol and cancer. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.840 And that has not happened. But certainly he was asking 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:14.520 that happened. 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:16.880 And there are a lot of folks who say, look 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.120 at this study and what's even happened with the messaging? 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.960 And people do change their habits when the government changes 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.000 their recommendations or puts a warning label on something. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.880 You really think that warning label is going to make 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:34.120 it onto a bottle of tetoes exactly? 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:34.600 All right. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:35.760 So here's the interesting thing. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:41.160 The government is expected to release new guidelines regarding alcohol 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.640 by the end of the year. Don't know if it's 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.160 going to happen, but that is what has been promised 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:52.679 under the directive of RFK Junior. He has promised big changes, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:58.160 but he has not hinted on how the alcohol recommendations 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.160 may shift. We don't know which direction he's going to 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:02.640 take them in. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.680 But people have taken an issue with these recommendations forever. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.760 Because you say two drinks, what is two drinks? Because 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.720 one bottle of beer you consider one drink. They also 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.640 consider one margarita one drink. But a margarita is made 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.319 up of two shots if it's done directly at least right. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.080 So it's that they're a mess. I don't know what 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.559 recommendations they can come out. All you can really say 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.880 is drink less alcohol. You can't put a number on it. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.400 Because of my body and your body, we patabolize alcohol. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.040 All kinds of things are different. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.040 And perhaps with the guidelines, if they said there is 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.720 no safe amount of alcohol. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:40.959 That's there, you go, that's on. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:42.440 And we know that, don't we. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.679 And we know that this worked with cigarettes, We know 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.600 that this worked with tobacco. Clearly, when you don't just 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.360 make Americans aware of it, but remind them and almost 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.880 constantly barrage them with the messaging, hey, this could kill you, 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:03.839 this will likely end your life or severely lessen your life, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.960 or lower the quality of your life. And when that 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.600 messaging just is constant, people change their habits. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:11.560 That's been proven. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.199 All Right, do you know what the most popular alcoholic 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.560 beverage was in twenty twenty five? 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.000 The most popular? Like you're talking about beer or wine 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.080 or something or. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.000 Yep, between beer, liquor or. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:28.600 Wine liquor liquor to go with beer? 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.000 All right, we'll tell you if TJ's right when we 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:31.480 come back. 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:42.840 All right, folks, we are back. We left it with 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.960 a cliffhanger. That's old school. That was a tease, right, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.640 ask a question, wait for the answer. Was he right? 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.760 We'll tell you right after the break. So I hope 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.000 you stuck around for it. I had nothing to do 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.280 with that. Okay, by the way, folks, and I still 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.560 don't know the answer. What was the most popular you said, beverage? 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:05.640 Alcoholic beverage in twenty twenty five? So far? Yes, between beer, wine, 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.440 and liquor. Yeah, you said, I went with beer. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.640 You went with beer. How would you order it? 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:11.880 How would I order beer? 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:12.360 Like? 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.960 No, that was a fair follow up, how would you 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:20.880 order frosty glass beer? Like? If you had to rank 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.000 the beer, wine, liquor, how would you rank it? 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.720 Man? You said that you asked that question, really strangely, 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:28.360 how would you order it? 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:30.360 How would you rank? 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.840 I know what you say? Yeah, okay, wait is the 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:33.800 first one, right though? 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:34.880 Yes, you are correct? 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.080 Okay, correct on beer after that? This is America. So 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.360 let's go with liquor after that, and then wine, ding 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:42.160 ding ding ning ning. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.520 But here's the funny thing. So that's twenty twenty five. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:45.840 When you asked. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.480 When they asked folks, what's your favorite type of alcohol 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.560 to order, thirty eight percent said beer, thirty percent said liquor, 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.360 and twenty nine percent said wine. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:57.080 Now you close there. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.920 In ninety yes, in nineteen ninety two, forty seven percent 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.720 of Americans said beer, twenty seven percent said wine, and 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.880 only twenty one percent said liquor. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.000 That was interesting to you. That was nineteen ninety. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.440 Two, ninety two, so. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:13.880 Like thirty years ago, give or take. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.120 Yeah, I was just coming into my drinking era. 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:22.160 And yes, exactly, nineteen ninety two was my freshman year 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:22.760 in college. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.040 Yes, so, oh, that wasn't my drinking I was still 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.040 in elementary school with that. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.880 That's not true. You were in high school. Let's just 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:28.560 be honest, all. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.040 Right, this won't be shocking, But there were some big 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.040 gender differences in terms of who likes what. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.560 All right, obviously I shouldn't. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.000 Say obviously, oh you shouldn't see. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.920 Okay, fine, but turns out, yes, men far more likely 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.360 than women reach for a beer, So fifty two percent 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.960 prefer beer versus twenty three percent of. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.840 Women prefer beer. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.680 Prefer it. Yes, hey, that's a special group of women. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:56.720 Twenty three percent. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.160 That was me in college. One hundred percent. That's not 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.160 only was do I actually like the taste of beer? 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.400 It was the cheapest option, and she's frugal. 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.080 Really, you find jeans, t shirt and can belly up 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.840 to the bar and have a draft beer and watch 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.520 a college football game. You just you hold on to 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:15.040 that woman. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:19.600 Yeah, well I see while you fallen in love with me. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.880 Because check, check and check. All right, women were more 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.640 likely than men to choose wine. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:29.240 This is hilarious. Forty four percent to fourteen percent. Come 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.280 only fourteen percent of men chose wine first seeing. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.080 Their number one choice. Okay, maybe that reads okay, that 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:37.520 makes sense. Number one. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.000 That's why when we said, shibli the driest you have 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.920 that was hilarious line in a movie American History. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:43.560 We Died last. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:44.480 We have to go back and watch. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.640 Yes, all right, and then men and women are equally 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:52.160 likely to opt for liquor. Twenty nine percent of men 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.680 will choose liquor first and thirty two percent of women will. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:56.600 Choose liquor first. 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:56.920 Wow. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:01.280 I thought those were some interesting differences the beer and 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:01.680 the wine. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.160 Maybe not that shocking. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:08.520 Great generally speaking, your first option for a drink is 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:09.800 what wine? 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:10.359 Is it? 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:15.040 Really? I know it depends on the setting, but yeah. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.880 And honestly, the only reason why this is so embarrassing 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.000 in me to admit that I wouldn't have said beer 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:24.679 is the carbs. I just don't want that heavy beer 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.160 belly carb fuel. But I love the way it tastes. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.440 I mean, if I could, if nothing else mattered, pick 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.840 my first drink, I'd pick a beer and then I'd 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:34.640 move on from there. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.040 This is it's so difficult. That's what I asked. What 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.919 would your first drink be? What would it be? What 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:41.640 do you want to drink? 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.520 Yeah, if it was if nothing else mattered, I would 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:45.280 pick a cold. 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.360 Beer if nothing else mattered. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.080 In the world as in carbs. Okay, yes, how about you. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.720 I don't know, I have to give it more thoughts. 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.480 But yes, and we did kind of hint at this, 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:04.639 but cannabis use in the US obviously has significantly increased 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:09.680 over the last couple of years, particularly among the eighteen 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:11.800 to twenty nine year olds who have now in the 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.120 same I saw a similar study saying that fifty percent 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.880 of kids between the age of eighteen and twenty nine 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:25.880 report using cannabis regularly fifteen fifty five zero fifty percent 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:32.240 of folks ages eighteen to twenty nine reported using regularly cannabis. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:37.439 That is a huge shift and absolutely has had to 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.520 have had an impact on some of these thankfully declining 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:46.040 alcohol numbers, but they're also clearly looking for another way 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.040 to unwind or escape. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:49.600 Is it a cheaper than liquor. 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.000 It's cheaper than liquor. 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.359 It doesn't have the same health implications so far as 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.520 we know them. And people feel like, you know, you 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.639 can microdose, you can function. You start drinking on the job, 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:06.080 you're gonna get fired, right you have something on your 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.080 smoke break or a little gummy or what little weed water? 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.679 Who's gonna know it's a you know, you can function 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.600 in a way. I think some folks think then you 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.800 could never if you had been drinking. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.800 Get any other alarming statistics over there, no, you get 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:24.720 no more quizzes. 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.440 Were done with my statistics and my quizzes. So there 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.720 is some good news and there is some news to 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:31.960 still be studied. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:37.200 Perhaps I don't know what I feel like making a 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:41.720 drink now all this talk. I think I'm going for Manhattan. So, folks, 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:47.199 we always appreciate you spending some time with us. And look, 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:48.960 we should give a shout out to the folks today 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.679 running the New York City Marathon. We weren't able to 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.560 do it this year for a variety of reasons we 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:56.400 won't get into right now, but we are having some 0:19:56.560 --> 0:20:02.080 serious fauxmo yes right about now. But man, that beer 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.480 at the end of that marathon is maybe the best. 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:06.080