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Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody fresh off the W train from downtown

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Speaker 1: and me and T's here and studio. We just had

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Speaker 1: a nice moment. We're about to talk about we're going

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Speaker 1: to get into this dry jam here thing here in

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Speaker 1: just a second of row tweet. I love this. It

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Speaker 1: happened to us once before. But one of the last

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Speaker 1: things that happened to us before we came into this

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Speaker 1: studio today was a nice guy we just ran into

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Speaker 1: on the train, nice and loud, and initially we wanted

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Speaker 1: to say, oh, my goodness, he's annoying, but he was very,

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Speaker 1: very sweet to us, and it was just a great

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Speaker 1: experience that we wanted to share.

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Speaker 2: Yes, people don't often know what to do if you

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Speaker 2: see someone, and it's always a good thing. I think

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Speaker 2: it on the subway so that everybody turns in stairs.

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Speaker 2: But no, I think everyone appreciates a kind word or two.

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Speaker 2: And most people do want photos, and it's kind of

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Speaker 2: nice after our almost year of avoiding all cameras at

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Speaker 2: all costs, to be able to say, sure, we'll take

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Speaker 2: a selfie with you. And it was nice and it

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Speaker 2: was sweet, and he did say he watched us every

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Speaker 1: Out for a year.

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Speaker 2: I think maybe he didn't pay his bill. Yeah, we've

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Speaker 2: had that a couple of times, like, are you sure

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Speaker 3: I'd like to watch?

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Speaker 1: But John is his name? John. We just met on

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Speaker 1: the W train from downtown. Rather, we want to know

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Speaker 1: that you had an impact on us, and we appreciate

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Speaker 1: you taking the time to say hello and as excited

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Speaker 1: he said to us, don't let anyone get in the

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Speaker 1: way of love.

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Speaker 3: It was very sweet.

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Speaker 1: It was a very sweet moment before we came in

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Speaker 1: here and we didn't we planned on starting a different way,

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Speaker 1: but that was a very nice thing he did. So

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Speaker 1: thank you for that. John. But we are talking. We

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Speaker 1: know a lot of you out there are doing dry January.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about it. Seems more and more people are

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Speaker 1: participating every year. But we want to start by asking you,

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Speaker 1: if you are hearing our voices right now, want you

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Speaker 1: to answer this question to yourself and answer it honestly.

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Speaker 1: On average, how many drinks per week do you consume?

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Speaker 1: Give you a moment now, Robes, what do you think

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Speaker 1: people are doing in their mind? Are they being honest

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Speaker 3: I think they're not wanting to.

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Speaker 2: But deep down there's that little voice saying, but remember,

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Speaker 2: oh yeah, then there was that oh yeah, maybe when

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Speaker 2: that happened. So I think we all want to believe

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Speaker 2: we drink less. In fact, so my brother is a doctor,

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Speaker 2: doctor Eric Robock, and he told me this a long

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Speaker 2: asks you on your yearly exam is how many drinks

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Speaker 3: He said, As a rule.

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Speaker 2: Of thumb among doctors or among physicians, they always know

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Speaker 1: All right, So, folks, we gave you a second there.

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Speaker 1: If you're hearing us, I asked, being honest with yourself,

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Speaker 1: how many drinks per week do you have? My next

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Speaker 1: give three to five a day, and that is such

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Speaker 1: I tell your doctor.

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Speaker 3: I would say I have two drinks a day.

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Speaker 2: Stop laughing, okay, And that still puts me in the

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Speaker 2: heavy drinker category.

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Speaker 3: Last year was a little bit of an anomaly.

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Speaker 1: Yes it was, but a lot of people had an

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Speaker 2: What to fourteen to a day, I'd say, you know,

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Speaker 3: It was at one point in my life.

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Speaker 2: But in my twenties, when I started working, A, I

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Speaker 1: So that is amazing to me. All right. That's something

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Speaker 1: else we want to ask everybody is would you consider

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Speaker 1: yourself a moderate drinker, a heavy drinker or a binge drinker?

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Speaker 1: I guess I would always say I'm a heavy drinker.

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Speaker 1: Would you have put yourself in that category?

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Speaker 1: Okay, a heavy drinker. So moderate for you folks out

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Speaker 3: And one drink a day, so seven less than seven.

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Speaker 4: Well? I think before learning this information, I classified myself

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So binge for old men's considered more

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Speaker 1: Off you, Emma. Often? Okay. So this is what this

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Speaker 1: some things think this is great. Anytime you can take

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Speaker 1: your health. If you binge then abstained, then binged and abstained,

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Speaker 1: that every time I'm sorry, I'm doing dry January, and

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Speaker 1: on social media everybody who look at my mocktail. I'm

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Speaker 3: I get that, and I understand how that would be annoying.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I think you were pretty annoying to me

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Speaker 3: Say you were doing your dry January.

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Speaker 2: It was like for those of us who didn't in

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Speaker 3: Or you have more willpower than me?

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Speaker 1: Is that an impression of me you're doing?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, Yes, but clearly not accurate.

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Speaker 2: I would say though, now that I'm participating in dry January,

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Speaker 2: it is a part accountability, like if I announce it now,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna hold me accountable because you can't see me

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Speaker 2: order a drink and I'm not gonna have a drink.

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Speaker 2: But also I'm explaining because normally, if you're hanging out

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Speaker 2: sometimes it's just like, hey, here's why I'm ordering a

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Speaker 2: club soda. Not that I own anyone an explanation, but

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Speaker 2: And Andrew here in studio with us actually is doing

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Speaker 2: dry January as well, And can I ask you why

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Speaker 2: and how you would have classified yourself as a drinker.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So for the holidays, it's usually ramps up a lot,

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Speaker 5: It's a lot of celebrating, and come January, you just

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Speaker 5: just like give yourself that clarity that I feel it

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Speaker 5: it's okay to have one or two drinks. You don't

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Speaker 5: when you're out, because for me, I think I do

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Speaker 5: been drinking. I don't drink during the week. Become a

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Speaker 5: at home with my parents, it's like bottles of wine,

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Speaker 1: We don't even think about it. And most people, it's

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Speaker 1: We didn't coordinate, but all of us are. Wait, you're

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Speaker 1: not doing the dry January. You all should see how

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Speaker 1: you can see how Emma just looked at me as

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Speaker 1: you're doing it.

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Speaker 3: That was that was me every other year.

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Speaker 1: Oh hell no, but you did a lot. So fifteen

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Speaker 1: percent of the adult population.

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Speaker 2: That's about forty million million folks.

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Speaker 1: Are doing dry January. Then you have millions more who

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Speaker 1: are doing a damp or some type of dryer dry ish.

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Speaker 2: It's called semi dry or damp January. And that is

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Speaker 2: what I had done in the last couple of years,

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Speaker 2: because even that feels great, that's even better than doing nothing.

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Speaker 2: So you designate. I designated. I think I did three

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Speaker 2: days a week. I could drink four days a week.

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Speaker 2: I did not, and that actually felt really good and

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Speaker 2: very reasonable. If it seems too overwhelming to go on

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Speaker 2: like full cold turkey for January. So and by the way,

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Speaker 2: at any point, it's okay to start. You can start

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Speaker 2: right now. You don't have to have done it starting

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Speaker 2: January one. We actually, in all truth started January second. Yes,

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what I said.

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Speaker 3: I drank a lot, a lot more than I ever have.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever gone a full year where

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Speaker 3: And it wasn't that I was getting wasted or drunk

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Speaker 1: Amy and TJ back here now, we were speaking to

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Speaker 2: Right, Isn't that what it always is? So you're worried

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Speaker 2: But you made a good point. So yes, if I'm

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Speaker 2: So I mean you might even double what I just said,

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Speaker 3: But you and I, the drinks I drink.

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Speaker 2: Are beer, wine, and Margarita's. Oh, aprile spritzes too. I

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Speaker 1: So what does that do to your number? So I

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Speaker 1: But you're not alone in it, and we're just happen

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Speaker 1: Okay, so, and again you're you're not alone in that,

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Speaker 1: So I can easily go through eighteen drinks a day, Nan,

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Speaker 1: How you can do that? It's we run. Everybody's familiar

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Speaker 2: We do that during the we do that, but normally

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Speaker 2: That is true though, That is when we had actual

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Speaker 3: You obviously we're not drinking.

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Speaker 1: You want to stop talking about the past.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Run to fun is what you coined. When you finish

443
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Speaker 1: your drink, it's nice outside, you literally run to what

444
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Speaker 1: I say.

445
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Speaker 3: Finished when you finish your run.

446
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Speaker 1: When I finished my drink, I go for a run,

447
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,480
Speaker 1: but you literally finish your run and the run end

448
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Speaker 1: at a bar. You map out your run so that

449
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 1: you're running five miles. You hit five miles at a

450
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Speaker 1: particular bar insteadive to get the work done. So now

451
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,400
Speaker 1: if we're not doing that out, we'll go run eight

452
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Speaker 1: nine in the morning, it doesn't matter what two miles, four, five, six, ten,

453
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Speaker 1: and I come back and we have a beer. I

454
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Speaker 1: put two beers in the freezer and let them get

455
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Speaker 1: a little colder, and we'll have a Miller light. A

456
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Speaker 1: Miller light, okay, so you have the one. I'll end

457
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Speaker 1: up with two. So here we are at ten in

458
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Speaker 1: the morning after a run, I am two drinks in

459
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Speaker 1: at ten am. That's easy. We go to lunch to

460
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Speaker 1: drink minimum at lunch fair to say, yeah, okay, Now,

461
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Speaker 1: if we're not out and about for the day running

462
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Speaker 1: errands or doing something and we're just inside, could easily

463
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Speaker 1: have my drink a drink in my hand from two

464
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Speaker 1: in the afternoon until seven, eight, nine, ten o'clock at night.

465
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Speaker 1: So you do those numbers, and that's a drinking hour

466
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Speaker 1: for another eight hours, you could argue, or even less,

467
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Speaker 1: but that's another eight hours of a drink in hand,

468
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Speaker 1: plus the four I've already had during the day. The

469
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,479
Speaker 1: problem there is that some of those drinks made at

470
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Speaker 1: home are margarite.

471
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Speaker 2: You're not actually pouring yourself eighteen drinks. You're actually adding

472
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Speaker 2: the liquor you put into it. And I would argue,

473
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Speaker 2: what also makes it a little fuzzier is what we

474
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Speaker 2: would do sometimes in the afternoon, chilling whatever, again no work,

475
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Speaker 2: and we would make just a big margarita and we

476
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Speaker 2: would just kind of sip it and share it. So

477
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Speaker 2: I have no way of knowing actually how much I had,

478
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Speaker 2: how much you had. It was just like a slow

479
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 2: you know, over a period of you know, an hour.

480
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Speaker 2: I don't know.

481
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Speaker 1: So if you do that math, eighteen drinks a day

482
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Speaker 1: for seven days, oh.

483
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Speaker 2: My god, I can't.

484
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Speaker 1: That is it's difficult to compute. But again for folks

485
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Speaker 1: out there, And we were talking to Emma here in

486
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Speaker 1: the room, our wonderful producer who's sitting here, but she's

487
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Speaker 1: twenty two year old, young lady. We were talking to

488
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Speaker 1: her about the drinking and it was surprising and a

489
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Speaker 1: lot of people will will reassess your number, because she said, yeah,

490
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Speaker 1: I have this many, but then I'll have drink. I

491
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Speaker 1: have shots in between, but I don't count the shots.

492
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Speaker 1: Don't count the shots? Now why did that even? Why

493
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Speaker 1: did you even? Why don't shots count? In your head?

494
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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's either a good way to start

495
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 4: the night, so you kind of forget that you took them.

496
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Speaker 4: It's like exit the door a couple shots, or you're

497
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Speaker 4: at the bar. You took them and then you grab

498
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Speaker 4: your drink, so all you remember was grabbing your drink

499
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Speaker 4: and leaving the bar.

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Speaker 2: And so the shots didn't count because it was just quick.

501
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Speaker 2: It wasn't an exerience of having a drink. Yes, correct,

502
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Speaker 2: and so yes we have to count.

503
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Speaker 3: The shot was.

504
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Speaker 4: Absolutely an experience, but they were not counted in my drinking.

505
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Speaker 3: Correct?

506
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Speaker 2: And do you think that you also, like I didn't

507
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Speaker 2: do this either. Consider if you're having a mixed drink,

508
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 2: how many shots are in the mixed drink so it's

509
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Speaker 2: not just one drink?

510
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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, right, really think about that.

511
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Speaker 2: Neither did I.

512
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Speaker 4: I explicitly would get a double shot gin and tonic.

513
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Speaker 1: That was my thing. So and again, folks, we say

514
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Speaker 1: this in look obviously we love our drinking, but to

515
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: hear like the World Health Organization and these big groups

516
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Speaker 1: say there's no amount of alcohol that is safe to consume,

517
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Speaker 1: not a sip of it, and the recommendations for heavy

518
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Speaker 1: drinking a moderate drinking that you should obviously be in

519
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 1: the moderate drinking category. You want to be as low

520
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Speaker 1: as possible. But for me to sit here and actually

521
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Speaker 1: do the math, which is the first time I've done

522
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Speaker 1: it in the past year, but eighteen drinks that I

523
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Speaker 1: don't do that every day on an You don't do

524
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Speaker 1: that every day, no, no, no, no no, But easily

525
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Speaker 1: when we were just lounging and doing nothing. That's an

526
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Speaker 1: easy number to get.

527
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Speaker 2: When I was looking into the research of this, because

528
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Speaker 2: there was so much I didn't know. One of the

529
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Speaker 2: first things that all of the experts suggest, if you're

530
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Speaker 2: considering or you are doing dry January or maybe even

531
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Speaker 2: starting now mid January, I mean, it's never too late.

532
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Speaker 2: Why why do you want to make a change? And

533
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Speaker 2: I can say this for me, I knew this past

534
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 2: year was an anomaly. It was not a year that

535
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Speaker 2: hopefully will ever be repeated. But it's been weighing heavily

536
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Speaker 2: on me. Not just about the amount of alcohol that

537
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Speaker 2: I consumed, but also what I know about alcohol and cancer,

538
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 2: and specifically breast cancer. I am a breast cancer survivor,

539
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 2: and when I was diagnosed, one of the first things

540
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Speaker 2: that my doctors told me was to reduce my alcohol intake.

541
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Speaker 2: It raises estrogen levels, so it increases your chance of

542
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Speaker 2: developing breast cancer in the first place. And I will

543
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Speaker 2: say this because I'm someone who lives with the fear

544
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Speaker 2: of for currence, as all breast cancer survivors do. There's

545
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Speaker 2: no scientific proof as of yet, but most doctors believe

546
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Speaker 2: because it raises your estrogen levels, especially if you have

547
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Speaker 2: a hormone positive cancer like I did, it also then

548
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 2: it would make sense that it raises your chance for reoccurrence. Now,

549
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 2: there is no strong evidence from studies to support or

550
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 2: to refute it, but my god, I would still always

551
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Speaker 2: say it's better to err on the side of caution,

552
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 2: and so I know that that's such an important part

553
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Speaker 2: of my life. I have changed my diet, I have

554
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 2: changed my exercise, I have focused on sleep, but alcohol

555
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 2: has been something that I haven't fully committed to reducing.

556
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 2: And in fact, as I pointed out last year, I increased.

557
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Speaker 1: But why don't you. I'm saying, this is somebody in

558
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Speaker 1: this conversation that works with you, but somebody that loves you,

559
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Speaker 1: who who sees what you go through really for the

560
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: past nine plus years, right, but now someone who I

561
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: am this close to and dealing with every day and

562
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: every little health scare and everything that goes on. And

563
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 1: folks who are listening, wait a minute, you got another

564
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: chance at life, you had, you beat breast cancer. So

565
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: why is it when your doctor tells you you need

566
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: to reduce this just cuts Why even take the risk?

567
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: Why is it you still drink the way you do?

568
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Speaker 2: I think that for me, and I always said this,

569
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Speaker 2: I don't. I've never been one to drink to mask pain.

570
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 2: I always drink to enhance joy. And so I love

571
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 2: that little extra kick of I loved a lot. It's

572
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 2: probably my favorite thing to do in life. And so

573
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: if you have that drink in your hand, you laugh

574
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 2: a little more, you dance a little more. Life just

575
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 2: gets a little more fun as long as you know

576
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 2: not to drink too much. And that has always been

577
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 2: part of what I've loved about the experience of drinking,

578
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 2: is just getting that little extra boost I guess is

579
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,719
Speaker 2: the way I would put it. And then you can

580
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 2: also go into this whole thing where life is short,

581
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 2: have the wine. I do so many other things that

582
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 2: are healthy that might offset the drinking. So you start

583
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 2: rationalizing it in your head, and there's no I will

584
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 2: also say this, and I think you can agree.

585
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Speaker 3: And most people who know me know that I don't

586
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 3: know why. I don't know how, and.

587
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 2: I've always called it a curse and a blessing. I

588
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 2: don't get hangovers, so I don't really pay the price

589
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 2: the next morning the way a lot of people do,

590
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 2: and so there's a lot less incentive for me not

591
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 2: to go ahead and have some fun. So all of

592
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 2: those reasons why I rationalize drinking.

593
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Speaker 1: But you say I rationalize almost as if you're acknowledge

594
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Speaker 1: that it's irrational.

595
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm acknowledging it fully fully.

596
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: How about you?

597
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 3: Why do you drink?

598
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 1: Well, it's changed over time, right, College is one thing

599
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: and high school is a different thing. And talk about

600
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: my relationship with alcohol, it goes back to I have

601
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: needed to change my relationship with alcohol for a long time,

602
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: to the point I was suspended from high school for drinking,

603
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: and my dad was the princess. I was going to say,

604
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: by your father, my dad sent my ass home to

605
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: his house to suspend me. This is one hundred percent

606
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: true story. I'll have him on and let him tell

607
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: you later. But that was a rough day, but it

608
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: goes back to it. I was getting in trouble for

609
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: drinking that early on. Of course, college is a blur,

610
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: but after that just alcohol has always been a part

611
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: of the social experiment. But I got to and I

612
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,719
Speaker 1: think for the first time, twenty twenty fifteen, I got

613
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: a diagnosis of modredly severe depression. I didn't do anything

614
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: about it until about twenty twenty, but in that five

615
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: year stretch, I was in a really, really bad mental place,

616
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: and that is when I, for the first time in

617
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: my life, I started drinking to mask pain. You just

618
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: want that pain to stop, and that alcohol was doing it,

619
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Speaker 1: and I was. I drink. We talked about the eighteen

620
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: drinks here, but then I could easily get up first

621
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: thing in the morning in poorovodka orange juice. Wow, no problem.

622
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: But that was trying to mask pain. I drink downs.

623
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: You know, I like my drinks. You know I like

624
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: to mixing. But initially I started it before it became

625
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: a movement just because, to Andy's point, earlier Thanksgiving to

626
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: New Year's we are all going at it hard, so

627
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: much alcohol, you're not eating the way you normally would.

628
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,719
Speaker 1: And then when January one came around, like a let

629
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Speaker 1: me take a break. So I just started doing it

630
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: kind of after college and enjoyed it, loved how I felt.

631
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: And then you have to ask yourself, well, you feel

632
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: this good, why the hell won't you just do this

633
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: all the time, and you can curtail, you can cut back.

634
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: I just I think maybe I did a little in

635
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: twenty I think before everything went down with us, I

636
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: was probably curtailing my drinking a little bit. And then

637
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: everything went down with us in twenty twenty three and

638
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: we were drinking non stop.

639
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 3: And so now it is a reset.

640
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 2: And I want to give you props here because I

641
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 2: have done, as I said, a couple of times, a

642
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 2: damp or a semi dry January, which I love. But

643
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 2: I don't know that I would have felt comfortable or

644
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 2: felt honestly, this may sound crazy, but I don't know

645
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 2: that I would have felt brave enough or courageous enough

646
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 2: to say I am one hundred percent going cold Turkey

647
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 2: this month if you hadn't said I'm doing it and

648
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 2: we can do it together. And I know that that

649
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 2: is one of the big tips if you're thinking about this,

650
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 2: is to have somebody do it with you. It does

651
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 2: make a big difference.

652
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: And so you.

653
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 2: Absolutely gave me the confidence and the courage to go

654
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,479
Speaker 2: ahead and say, Okay, I'm on record, I'm not drinking

655
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 2: at all this month. In fact, I have to say,

656
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 2: my two daughters said, you're not going to make it,

657
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 2: You're not going to last They did not. They don't

658
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 2: think I'm going to make it.

659
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you want a drink like the

660
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Speaker 1: past couple of days, have you? Well, I really want

661
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Speaker 1: to drink?

662
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, But it's nothing crazy. I mean, there's to

663
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 2: the point where we've just said how much we have

664
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 2: been drinking this past year. There's no withdrawal for me, Like,

665
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 2: I don't feel that at all. But yeah, I've definitely

666
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: wanted an aperol sprits around five PM a couple of days.

667
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: Sure, not at all. I haven't even the past few days.

668
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: I'm in a rhythm now to where alcohol is not

669
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: a part of my life anymore. So I don't even

670
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: think about it and planning in events I'm doing and

671
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: parties I'm going to, or lunches I'm having or games

672
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: I'm watching. It's not even a part of it. It's

673
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: just second nature.

674
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Speaker 2: Now, stop drinking, all right, So when we come back,

675
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about our tips, what we've been doing,

676
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 2: and also what scientists would doctors say actually happens to

677
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 2: your body in thirty days when you stop drinking. Welcome

678
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 2: back everyone to Amy and TJ. We are talking about

679
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Speaker 2: ride January. We're a week and a half in and

680
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: so far, so good. We mentioned I've.

681
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 3: Lost two pounds, you've lost three to five.

682
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 2: Three to five pounds, okay, so that's just scratching the surface.

683
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 2: I have already a lot more energy. And I know

684
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 2: I'm sleeping better. I feel like I have more mental clarity.

685
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 2: So there's all these things that you feel better about. You.

686
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: You're the same.

687
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: I mean, you see me and you know my sleeping habits.

688
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: So I sleep much better. I sleep so much better.

689
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: And yeah, you're not in a haze. I'm sharper. I

690
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: got more energy. I feel so much better in the

691
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: month of January when I do this.

692
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 2: I saw you smile this morning and I said Oh,

693
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 2: you're smiling in the morning.

694
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 3: That was a big wait.

695
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Speaker 1: I don't usually smile, Lord, yeah, not that much.

696
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 2: What I mean, you're usually focused in the morning. But

697
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 2: you were smiling, and that was so great.

698
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: Because I was happy to see you. I had been

699
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: sitting up by myself two hours working on this podcast

700
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: four am.

701
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 2: I get up in a six am. That's about the

702
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 2: way we roll. Interesting what happens though. We talk about cravings.

703
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 2: It's not necessarily a craving for alcohol. But I read

704
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 2: that eating more protein curbs cravings when you are doing

705
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 2: a dry january, because scientifically this makes sense. Your blood

706
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 2: sugar is responding to the reduction of alcohol intake, and

707
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 2: so your body what does it want and wants sugar

708
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 2: and you have experienced this. I'm not a big sugar

709
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 2: person anyway, but wow, you have really invested in Twizzlers.

710
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: I have a lot of you know, I stopped eating.

711
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: I'm in a bad, bad candy habit my whole life,

712
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: really and certainly during my career, and sitting on a

713
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: set it'd be a big bag of what gut ummy

714
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: Bear's Summi Bears sitting there during every single show. I

715
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: got some a bad report from a dentist a couple

716
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: of years ago, and I quick candy cold turkey just stopped.

717
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: And I went almost two years without having a single

718
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: bitey can until now. Until now, And you've seen me.

719
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: I can't stop heavy.

720
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 2: It is.

721
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: I am going after candy non just stop during January. Men,

722
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: that makes sense, Yeah, it does, okay.

723
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 2: And so what we've done is I have been drinking

724
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: about a case today of Lacroix.

725
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 3: I love club soda. I'm not a big.

726
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 2: Mocktail person because I again I don't like to add

727
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 2: the sugar, but we put them in wineglasses and I

728
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 2: send some lemons or limes or rosemary and one of

729
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 2: the other big things to talk about saving money. We

730
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 2: would go out probably once a day or close to that,

731
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Speaker 2: at least, you know, five times a week. And we

732
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: where do we sit at the ba at the bar?

733
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 2: That's where the fun is, right. It just there's energy

734
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 2: up there. It just it feels good. But then probably

735
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 2: you end up having more drinks flow than you would

736
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: have otherwise if you were sitting at a table.

737
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the bartender you could just call the name,

738
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: that'll come right to.

739
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 3: You and just another round. Sure, why not?

740
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Speaker 2: So we've only gone out once for lunch one time

741
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 2: and we sat at a table. We did not sit

742
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 2: at the bar. So we're not going out and so

743
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 2: we're staying in. We're saving a lot of money. We're

744
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 2: cooking at home and it's nice, right, it is nice.

745
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: So there are incentive and to your you can people

746
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: want to can a month make a difference? Yes, there

747
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: are differences your body. These are measurable. We have anecdotal

748
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: evidence of it working, but there is science behind it that,

749
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: in fact, in a month you can do and reverse

750
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: some damage. In one month of abstaining from alcohol.

751
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,959
Speaker 2: It's pretty remarkable. In fact, we can break it down

752
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 2: by week. So the first week of alcohol free, doctor say,

753
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 2: you'll see you have improved hydration and that includes like

754
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 2: your skin, Ladies, if you're worried about aging, that all

755
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 2: helps with skin and headaches and fatigue, so those all

756
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 2: get better. And then you have improved sleep quality even

757
00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 2: the first week, because alcohol disrupts, it suppresses that rem

758
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 2: sleep that you all need. So anyway, you're gonna feel

759
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: more refreshed, less tired, and your skin's gonna look amazing.

760
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 2: Second week of being alcohol free, doctor say, you will

761
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,479
Speaker 2: absolutely experience mental clarity because you're gonna wake up feeling

762
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 2: more rusted. This is what happened to me today. Increased

763
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 2: hydration also helps with energy and brain fog. You also,

764
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:28,280
Speaker 2: and this is huge, improved digestion because alcohol causes inflammation

765
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: in your intestines, so it actually starts creating stomach acid

766
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 2: backing up, So you know you have acid reflux sometimes

767
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 2: like a whatever, you just have a bad stomach. A

768
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 2: lot of that has to do with alcohol intake.

769
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: Okay, well everybody in the room knows you're having some

770
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: stomach isissues right now.

771
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 2: Boystomic is always noisy, and with all that lacroix that

772
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 2: actually is I'm sure do.

773
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: You want to blame it on the local world nor

774
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 1: you had? You had a hot chili dog yesterday?

775
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 2: I did not. I didn't put a chili on because

776
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 2: when you were giving me so much crab about it,

777
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 2: I just used mustard instead, and I didn't have a bun.

778
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 3: So here's me trying to work around having a hot dog.

779
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 3: I love them.

780
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: But bottom line, after two weeks without alcohol, your stomach

781
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 2: lining begins to return to normal. So if any of

782
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 2: you out there have acid reflux or heartburn, you will

783
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 2: see those symptoms start to ease up or even go

784
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 2: away after just two weeks of not drinking alcohol. Third

785
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 2: week alcohol free, This is what we have to look

786
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 2: forward to next week. Reduced blood pressure, So if you

787
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 2: have elevated blood pressure, you will see your blood pressure

788
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 2: most likely go down and that reduces your risk of

789
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 2: stroke or heart disease, which obviously is huge. And then

790
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 2: you also have improved kidney health because drinking alcohol damages

791
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,760
Speaker 2: your kidneys over time. So after only three weeks without alcohol,

792
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 2: doctors say your kidneys can start to heal and function properly.

793
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 2: I mean, that's remarkable, But here's like one that really

794
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 2: through me four weeks without alcohol. Improved liver health. This

795
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 2: is what you were talking about. Your liver actually can scar.

796
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 2: That's you know, talk about liver disease if you are

797
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 2: an alcoholic or a heavy drinker, but your liver is

798
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 2: actually capable of recovering from the damage alcohol caused. After

799
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 2: just thirty days, you can restore your liver to its

800
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 2: normal function. These are people who are heavy drinkers, not

801
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 2: people who have you know, alcohol as a disease. That

802
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 2: might be a completely different level of drinking, but heavy drinkers.

803
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: Thirty days, your liver can return to normal, your glucose

804
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 2: levels stabilize, and you have reduced anxiety. And that's ironic

805
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 2: because a lot of people, some people may drink to

806
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 2: ease anxiety, but actually it disrupts your entire brain, your

807
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 2: brain's chemical structure when you're drinking all the time, So

808
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 2: you're giving it space to actually function the way it's

809
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 2: supposed to, and it will ultimately reduce anxiety.

810
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Speaker 1: So thirty days and make a difference. In the point

811
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: of the thirty days is not just the break. It's

812
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: great to have the health break, but this is meant

813
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: for all of us to re examine our relationship with

814
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: alcohol and ask some of those questions, why can't I

815
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: go a day without a drink, Why can't I go

816
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: a week? Why do I drink? And it's a good

817
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: time of self reflection. And we talk about men and

818
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: women here, but women particular in particular need to pay

819
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 1: closer attention to this for a number of reasons. Women,

820
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: it takes obviously, it takes less alcohol. So you were

821
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: saying you and I could drink the same thing right now,

822
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: you will get drunk faster, and you will stay drunk

823
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: longer than I will, and during the pandemic they started

824
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: to notice it. And it happens in the past few years,

825
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: there is an increase in deaths among women, a sharper

826
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: increase in alcohol related deaths for women. Still more men

827
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: are dying, but the increase is sharper among women. This

828
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: happened around the pandemic and got to the point around

829
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: on alcoholic alcohol related deaths in that month. Excuse me,

830
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, California recorded more deaths from alcohol use

831
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: than they did from breast cancer and car accidents combined.

832
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: I just got chills during the pandemic, right, and those

833
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: numbers and women are the one You really have to

834
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Speaker 1: pay attention to the alcohol you're taking in when it

835
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: comes to breast cancer, but also just being able to

836
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: keep in mind heart disease, everything. It increases your everything.

837
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: But for women, those increases and how your body takes

838
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: in and metabolizes alcohol is something you really really have

839
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: to pay attention.

840
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 2: All Right, So what happens on February one, TJ.

841
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: Nothing. I probably won't have a drink until the Super

842
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: Bowl is how it usually goes, because I start to just, yeah,

843
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: I'm in a routine. So I'm not planning and want

844
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Speaker 1: to run right out on February first and get a drink.

845
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: I have no desire for a drink right now.

846
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 2: What about my birthday?

847
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 4: Ah?

848
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 3: Yes, a little bit before the.

849
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, we gotta go to town. That will probably

850
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: be okay, that's what I figure it'll probably be.

851
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 3: Yet, But how about, just like in general, are you

852
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 3: more aware now?

853
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 2: Are you going to change your habits or just be

854
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: at least more aware of your habits?

855
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: I am aware of them, I just don't take the

856
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: time I'm taking now to actually do a real assessment. Right.

857
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: I know how much I drink. I know I drink

858
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 1: too much, But now is a time to whar If

859
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: February first, we should all if you're doing a dry January,

860
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: have a different habit moving forward, and that is going

861
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: to be long term beneficial for health. So yeah, that's

862
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: and you're going to have to help me with that.

863
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,439
Speaker 1: And I are together all the time and can't remember

864
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 1: the last time I had a drink when you weren't

865
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: next to me.

866
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 4: Yeah.

867
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 2: No, I mean having someone to be accountable to and

868
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 2: with is important. And you know there are a couple

869
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 2: we'll leave you with some tips that I'm going to

870
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 2: try to incorporate for the rest.

871
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 3: Of the year, for the rest of my life.

872
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 2: So you can do something as simple as choosing one

873
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 2: or two days a week where you say I am

874
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,280
Speaker 2: not going to drink, so designated dry days.

875
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 3: No matter what, just pick them and go with it.

876
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 2: Also, you could pick a time that is your cutoff.

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Speaker 2: So during the week, I'm not going to drink after

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Speaker 2: eight pm, or during the weekends, I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: drink after ten pm. And while i may still be out,

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Speaker 2: I'll just switch to club soda. And if you may

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Speaker 2: that specific rule for yourself, you're more likely to follow it,

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Speaker 2: So be specific. You also can set a drink maximum

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Speaker 2: for the week, like I'm not going to go over

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Speaker 2: ten drinks this week, whatever it is. And then and Andrew,

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Speaker 2: you said you were doing this in between drinks, and

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Speaker 2: I've done this in the past. Don't just get a

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Speaker 2: second round. It's so easy to say I'll take another instead,

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Speaker 2: skip a beat, have a full glass of water in

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Speaker 2: between your drinks, and that will also set you up

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Speaker 2: for success and not drinking more than you wanted to

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Speaker 2: or more than you should.

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Speaker 1: And they do say, folks that about seventy percent of

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Speaker 1: folks who do a dry January do in fact end

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Speaker 1: up drinking less for the rest of the year. They

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Speaker 1: actually do make changes and reduce their alcohol intake. So

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Speaker 1: if you're doing it now and you make it through

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Speaker 1: the month of January, chances are you're going to be

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Speaker 1: better off, all right, And.

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Speaker 2: Let us know how you're doing. We love to hear

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Speaker 2: feedback on our Instagram podcast page, Amy and TJ. We'd

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Speaker 2: love to hear from you how you're doing what your doing,

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Speaker 2: And it's good to know you're not alone. It's good

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Speaker 2: to know there are other people doing it with you.

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Speaker 2: There is something about that safety and numbers. So cheers

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Speaker 2: to all of your efforts in just improving your health

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Speaker 2: in any and every.

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Speaker 3: Way you can.

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Speaker 1: And be kind to yourself. It's okay. If you've already

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Speaker 1: slipped this month, it's okay. You can start up again,

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Speaker 1: but don't be too hard to yourself. Be a little

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Speaker 1: kind to yourself about it. You're trying at least, and

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Speaker 1: that's okay. So enjoy the rest of the month. Happy

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Speaker 1: health to you all. But for now, Amy and TJ,

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Speaker 1: here cheers is what you said.

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Speaker 3: Cheers Cheers to the new year