WEBVTT - A Year On The Rocks 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:06.480 Hey there, everybody fresh off the W train from downtown 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.360 and me and T's here and studio. We just had 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:11.400 a nice moment. We're about to talk about we're going 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.280 to get into this dry jam here thing here in 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:15.760 just a second of row tweet. I love this. It 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.800 happened to us once before. But one of the last 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.360 things that happened to us before we came into this 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.160 studio today was a nice guy we just ran into 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:26.160 on the train, nice and loud, and initially we wanted 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.400 to say, oh, my goodness, he's annoying, but he was very, 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:29.800 very sweet to us, and it was just a great 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:31.400 experience that we wanted to share. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.879 Yes, people don't often know what to do if you 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.480 see someone, and it's always a good thing. I think 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.360 to say something kindly. You don't necessarily have to yell 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.400 it on the subway so that everybody turns in stairs. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.480 But no, I think everyone appreciates a kind word or two. 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.920 And most people do want photos, and it's kind of 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:54.240 nice after our almost year of avoiding all cameras at 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.520 all costs, to be able to say, sure, we'll take 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.240 a selfie with you. And it was nice and it 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.440 was sweet, and he did say he watched us every 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:01.360 day on TV. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:03.800 Out for a year. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.920 I think maybe he didn't pay his bill. Yeah, we've 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:08.479 had that a couple of times, like, are you sure 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:09.440 which channel. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:10.000 I'd like to watch? 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.840 But John is his name? John. We just met on 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.360 the W train from downtown. Rather, we want to know 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.120 that you had an impact on us, and we appreciate 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.280 you taking the time to say hello and as excited 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.440 as you were. And we walked away from him and 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.679 he said to us, don't let anyone get in the 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:30.240 way of love. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:31.440 It was very sweet. 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.160 It was a very sweet moment before we came in 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.080 here and we didn't we planned on starting a different way, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.120 but that was a very nice thing he did. So 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.520 thank you for that. John. But we are talking. We 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.720 know a lot of you out there are doing dry January. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.600 Everybody's talking about it. Seems more and more people are 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.120 participating every year. But we want to start by asking you, 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.960 if you are hearing our voices right now, want you 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:56.040 to answer this question to yourself and answer it honestly. 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:02.240 On average, how many drinks per week do you consume? 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.360 Give you a moment now, Robes, what do you think 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.160 people are doing in their mind? Are they being honest 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:08.040 with themselves right now. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.720 I think they're not wanting to. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.639 But deep down there's that little voice saying, but remember, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.680 oh yeah, then there was that oh yeah, maybe when 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.959 that happened. So I think we all want to believe 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.400 we drink less. In fact, so my brother is a doctor, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.119 doctor Eric Robock, and he told me this a long 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.320 time ago. He's an internist, and so he has people 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:30.919 come in and one of the first things your doctor 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.600 asks you on your yearly exam is how many drinks 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:34.960 would you say you have per week? 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.040 He said, As a rule. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.160 Of thumb among doctors or among physicians, they always know 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.600 to double the number. So whatever you tell your doctor, 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.160 just know they're writing down double because they know you're 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:45.840 not being honest. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.600 All right, So, folks, we gave you a second there. 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.560 If you're hearing us, I asked, being honest with yourself, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.680 how many drinks per week do you have? My next 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.640 question is if you were filling out that questionnaire that 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.720 roboq was just talking, or if your doctor asked you, 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.000 what is the answer you would give. I would normally 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:10.080 give three to five a day, and that is such 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.040 a lie. I would tell a doctor that. But that 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.280 is not true. What would you tell on a questionnaire 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:16.240 I tell your doctor. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:17.880 I would say I have two drinks a day. 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.280 Stop laughing, okay, And that still puts me in the 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.240 heavy drinker category. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.000 I am with you all day, every day almost and 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:28.800 two that's cute. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.119 Last year was a little bit of an anomaly. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:32.680 Yes it was, but a lot of people had an 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.720 anomaly during the pandemic. So and we've come back down 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:39.400 on our levels. But the true answer you said you 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:40.880 would tell a doctor. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.400 What to fourteen to a day, I'd say, you know, 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.200 between ten and fifteen drinks a week. That is what 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:46.760 I would. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.840 Say to a doctor. Is that accurate? 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.200 It was at one point in my life. 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:52.440 But you were fourteen? 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.000 No, No, I actually so I kind of broke this 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.520 down as I was thinking about this. Obviously, high school 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.840 and college is more about just every now and then 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.200 binge drinking, which is not obviously admirable in any way. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.800 But in my twenties, when I started working, A, I 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.920 was working ninety hours a week and B I was 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.160 making twenty thousand dollars a year, so I didn't have 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.600 money for alcohol, which was a good thing. So I 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.679 remember having a six pack of beer in my fridge 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.080 and it would last well over a week. So that 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.280 was just a matter of finances and time. I didn't 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.400 have any time, and I didn't have any money. In 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.000 my thirties, I had kids, I had my babies, and 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.279 I really got into wine. And I think that is 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.160 when I became a moderates a heavy drinker, where I 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.760 was having seven to ten, sometimes fifteen drinks a week, 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.960 and I always binged on celebratory nights, and binging is 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:40.880 what you looked it up. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.320 So that is amazing to me. All right. That's something 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.760 else we want to ask everybody is would you consider 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:51.000 yourself a moderate drinker, a heavy drinker or a binge drinker? 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.320 I guess I would always say I'm a heavy drinker. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.600 Would you have put yourself in that category? 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.280 Oh in the last decade for sure? 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.200 Okay, a heavy drinker. So moderate for you folks out 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.920 there who think you're a moderate drinker, that means that 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.960 you are having for a man at least that is 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:09.479 fifteen is for men. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.520 And one drink a day, so seven less than seven. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.719 Is that's for the week for women? 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:15.640 Right for women? 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.080 All right? So you hear that. We got Andrew and Emma, 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.280 two of our producers in the room here with us, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.560 and we were talking to them about and we're trying 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.320 to get an honest answer. And Emma, if you don't 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.080 want me saying, it's twenty two over there, and we 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.520 were asking her about her drinking habits. Now, would you, Emma, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.080 I have that would you have considered yourself a moderate drinker, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.960 a heavy drinker, or would you have called yourself somebody 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.120 who binge drinks as well? 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.680 Well? I think before learning this information, I classified myself 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.320 as a moderate drinker, but I think according to the numbers, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:48.919 I might be a binge drinker. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:55.599 Oh my goodness. So binge for old men's considered more 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.280 than five drinks on one occasion or within two hours 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.880 for women, And that's four drinks on one occasion or 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.919 within two hours. How often do you do that? 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:04.960 Ropes often? 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:10.200 Off you, Emma. Often? Okay. So this is what this 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.960 is all for, Drid January. And we know and there's 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.919 a lot of differing opinions out there about this. But 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.560 some things think this is great. Anytime you can take 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.240 a break, it's good for your health. That's awesome. Other 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.599 people think, why are we doing this? People just go 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.560 right back to their old habits. It's not good for 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.880 your health. If you binge then abstained, then binged and abstained, 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.160 that's no good. And the other thing about it is 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.200 people all up in your face about it. It gets annoying 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.160 that every time I'm sorry, I'm doing dry January, and 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.560 on social media everybody who look at my mocktail. I'm 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.440 guilty of that. I put up a post showing a month, 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.719 but it gets commercialized and it gets annoying. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.440 I get that, and I understand how that would be annoying. 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.279 In fact, I think you were pretty annoying to me 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:55.440 in years past when you would. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.120 Say you were doing your dry January. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.440 It was like for those of us who didn't in 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.120 the past, who hadn't, it kind of felt like, oh, 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:03.000 are you better than me? 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:04.400 Or you have more willpower than me? 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:05.960 Is that an impression of me you're doing? 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:11.200 Sorry, Yes, but clearly not accurate. 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.320 I would say though, now that I'm participating in dry January, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.160 it is a part accountability, like if I announce it now, 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.120 you're gonna hold me accountable because you can't see me 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:22.760 order a drink and I'm not gonna have a drink. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.720 But also I'm explaining because normally, if you're hanging out 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.800 with me, I'm not going to a restaurant or going 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.560 up to a bar and ordering a club soda. So 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.880 sometimes it's just like, hey, here's why I'm ordering a 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.480 club soda. Not that I own anyone an explanation, but 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.920 it sometimes requires an explanation. If you know me and 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.520 you're friends with me, I'm not pregnant. But that's kind 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.680 of funny anyway, because I'm fifty, so. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.400 It wouldn't even't really be an option. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:51.200 But any you're not pregnant. Some of us appreciate that 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:52.240 information more than others. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:53.120 Oh my goodness. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.360 And Andrew here in studio with us actually is doing 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.559 dry January as well, And can I ask you why 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.040 and how you would have classified yourself as a drinker. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.200 Yeah, So for the holidays, it's usually ramps up a lot, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.920 like November and December. I did't even go into October 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.119 at this point. It's just there's a lot of drinking. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.080 It's a lot of celebrating, and come January, you just 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.600 kind of want to dry up a little bit and 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.720 just like give yourself that clarity that I feel it 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.120 gives you. I did it last year, and it really 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.200 just helped me realize, like, oh, when you go out, 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.120 it's okay to have one or two drinks. You don't 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:32.120 need to be drinking four, five, six, seven, eight drinks 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.040 when you're out, because for me, I think I do 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:36.920 been drinking. I don't drink during the week. Become a 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.199 Friday or a Saturday or even a Sunday. When I'm 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.120 at home with my parents, it's like bottles of wine, 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.640 tons of drinks, and I just was like, I need 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:45.840 to take a break. 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.679 We don't even think about it. And most people, it's 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.320 four of us sitting in here, all four of us. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.240 We didn't coordinate, but all of us are. Wait, you're 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.720 not doing the dry January. You all should see how 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.800 you can see how Emma just looked at me as 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:58.360 you're doing it. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.360 That was that was me every other year. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.000 Oh hell no, but you did a lot. So fifteen 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.760 percent of the adult population. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.000 That's about forty million million folks. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.360 Are doing dry January. Then you have millions more who 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.400 are doing a damp or some type of dryer dry ish. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.000 It's called semi dry or damp January. And that is 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.959 what I had done in the last couple of years, 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.120 because even that feels great, that's even better than doing nothing. 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.560 So you designate. I designated. I think I did three 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.720 days a week. I could drink four days a week. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.120 I did not, and that actually felt really good and 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.360 very reasonable. If it seems too overwhelming to go on 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.880 like full cold turkey for January. So and by the way, 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:42.960 at any point, it's okay to start. You can start 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.040 right now. You don't have to have done it starting 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.600 January one. We actually, in all truth started January second. Yes, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:58.400 because January first, U stay well, because it was well, 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.199 I mean I get it. We by a day because 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:02.160 it was football. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:06.520 Okay, No, this didn't Technically it doesn't matter because you're 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.240 New Year's Eve. You're celebrating as soon as you you know, 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.240 you clinking the glasses at midnight, you're technically drinking on 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.559 January one. Anyway, we're big college football fans, so the 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.040 big college football day, so we were going to drink 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.280 during that. So, yes, we did drink on January one. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:21.480 We started January two. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.840 I think a lot of people did that, So don't 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.040 hold that against this if you could, please. But yeah, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.120 it is kind of a movement now, so people have 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:33.400 their reasons. So Andy, you just mentioned something about going 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.199 out and drinking. Do you need five or six or 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.200 seven or eight drinks when you go out? What's the 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:42.080 other part of that, though, that's a problem buying six, seven, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.600 eight drinks? You're so right at a restaurant, yep, cost 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.679 you a pretty penny. So, in addition to Robes and 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.720 I are feeling great right now because we are on 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.120 our drive January kick, we feel amazing. She was walking 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.679 today into the studio said, I got some pepp in 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:58.120 my step. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.320 That's exactly what I said. 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.800 How you do? It feels absolutely great. But we added 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.320 up December. Oh my goodness, how much money. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:08.640 So embarrassing. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.520 We spent on alcohol for the month. And we were 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.280 able to do this by going back and looking at 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.760 receipts from our account, also looking at Drizzly. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:18.400 We love Drizzly. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:19.640 How much reorder there? 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.079 For those of you who don't know, it's an app 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.280 on your phone and in major cities, all you have 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.679 to do is go on to drizzly and say what 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.040 you want alcohol wise to come to your apartment and 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:34.800 it is there within thirty minutes. It's pretty amazing and 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.000 also very dangerous, so it's easy. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.600 For us to come up with what we spent. This 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.800 does not include, however, the trips we made every once 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.280 in a while to a liquor store. So this is 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:49.240 strictly drizzly and going out our number. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.960 Can I also say, though a couple of my Drisley 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.600 orders involved other people in my apartment, it wasn't that I. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:56.920 And the only one who can do this. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.520 I had people over, my parents, friends, So just I 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:05.079 wanted to make that caveat why because it's a crazy number. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.240 Most of that don't do that. We were here to 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.920 be open and honest, to have every third number. Well, okay, 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.959 we spend in the month of December two eight hundred 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.520 and sixty nine dollars on alcohol alone. Period. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.360 I'm so embarrassed. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.680 I mean, I don't know what I thought the number 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.880 would be higher, to be honest with you, but that 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.439 is an amount of money now that is going to 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.800 be saved in January. So Andy was saying, you go out. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.400 That is another benefit. There are health benefits, there are 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.960 financial benefits. Some people do it with a family member 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.839 or a friend. He talked about accountability. Some people just 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.440 want to reset, like Andy was saying as well. Between 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.839 Thanksgiving and New Year's we all go at it food 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.319 wise and alcohol wise, and some people want to do 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.439 a little weight loss. You were talking about this. Have 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:53.400 you experienced it yet? 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.280 Yes, So we're a week and a half in and 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.720 I have been stepping on the scale because I'm curious, 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:01.920 and I've already lost two pounds. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.040 I'm three to five pounds down. Wow, three five. But 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.200 do you know how I that eating as well? Yep? 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.120 And all the running and I drop weight so quickly, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.880 which isn't healthy, I don't think. But I've dropped that 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.040 weight already this month. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.439 That's incredible. I mean, that's just and that's just. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.640 This is a week and a half in so and 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.200 that's the only major change. I mean, we've always been runners, 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.559 and we've always been pretty good about watching what we eat. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.640 So the alcohol is the big change that we've made. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.640 We haven't talked about our numbers yet. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.680 And I say this because one of the biggest problems 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.760 with drinking and alcohol in your relationship with it, as 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.360 we mentioned at the top, is that most people are 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.679 not honest about it. And you know, I hesitate a 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.520 little bit because I just know what the headlines are 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.599 going to be, and it's daunting to think about what 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.840 people will write in a headline if I say how 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.559 much I drink a week. But I will say this 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.120 past year, a lot of people experience the pandemic and 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.280 excessive amounts of drinking because a were bored. You didn't 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.079 have anywhere to go, you had nothing to do, you 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.640 had no one to see, and work was from home. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.200 I didn't experience that. I was at work every day. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.840 I was working more than I have actually in recent years. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.880 So last year was my pandemic. I didn't have a 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.480 job to go to, I was staying away from a 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:18.480 lot of friends and family. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:19.800 We were laying low. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.320 And so what did I do. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.040 I drank a lot, a lot more than I ever have. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.240 I don't think I've ever gone a full year where 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.480 I drank every single day, and that was twenty twenty 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:29.960 three for me. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.880 And it wasn't that I was getting wasted or drunk 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:33.560 or any of that. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.640 It was just keeping a buzz going all day, or 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.400 at least keeping a relaxed state of mind in a heightened, 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:48.400 anxious year. And so I'm appalled when I look back 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.360 at how much I actually drank. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:55.080 But we were look a lot of people and including 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.320 the ones in the room here with us. We asked 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.360 you asked folks initially how much did you do? And 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.400 people want to try to initially fudge the numbers. And 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.280 then once you start talking a little more about it 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.240 and getting a little more open and honest about it, 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.240 you find some realities about your alcohol use that maybe 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.880 you need to re examine your relationship with I think 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.840 you are somebody who would admit that. I am certainly 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.200 somebody who right now and in years past, need to 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.920 re examine my relationship with alcohol. And that's what we 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.920 are doing, and I hope a lot of you all 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.040 are doing right now as well. But we part of 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:28.800 this in us talking to you is we have to 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.360 be honest, and so we are going to be honest 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.720 about our alcohol intake, why we do it, what that 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.160 number actually is, and what we're going to do about 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.560 it moving forward. All of that is coming up next, 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.600 Amy and TJ back here now, we were speaking to 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.680 you before we took that little break about the number. 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.240 We asked you all to come up with it. Really, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.880 how much, if you're being honest with yourself, how many 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.360 drinks do you have per week? You'll tell yours the 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.920 honest number is one thing you tell your doctor on 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.720 a questionnaire a different answer. But Robes, you said something 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.000 before we took that break that jumped out at me, 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.120 and I get it. You said you're worried about what 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:18.880 the headline would be. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.120 Right, Isn't that what it always is? So you're worried 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.560 about about what people will think, what people will say, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.200 and so you fudget a little bit. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:31.040 When we say people. Right, in our situation, we know 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.960 that saying something is going to get plucked and is 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:39.680 going to get twisted in some way to make some awful, 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:43.160 salacious headline just to get you to click, click bait, 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:44.480 just to get you to click, and then you're going 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.560 to click and ah, that's not weirdly what it really was, 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.200 but as long as you click, so it was just something. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.600 And it's unfortunate that we sit here and we're trying 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.320 to be open and honest and talk so freely and 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.520 relate to people on this very issue, and we hesitate, 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.320 And I get why, but we hesitate because while being 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.680 honest is going to produce something. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:08.159 Yeah, cheers to my new Google search. That's what I 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.919 say before I talk about this. When I did an 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:14.840 honest assessment and It's funny because I'm going to bring 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.920 you into this because as I was doing it in 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.240 my head and my math, you jumped in with something 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:23.200 that changes it. So I think it's pretty honest to 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.159 say before last year, I think fifteen to twenty is 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.800 probably a more honest answer of what I drank per week. Yeah, 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.720 two drinks a day average, but sometimes i'd have three 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.720 or four. This year, I would say it was at 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.880 least three drinks a day and oftentimes more so, could 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.200 be four, could be five. And so I was saying 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.960 I'm at least above twenty one plus drinks per week. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.160 But you made a good point. So yes, if I'm 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:53.680 having a glass of rose or a beer that's measurable, 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.400 Actually probably not even because my pores are heavy. Five 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.680 ounces is actually what it is for wine, and ain't 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.879 no I pour myself a five ounce glass of wine. 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.480 So I mean you might even double what I just said, 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.240 given the fact that I make probably more of a 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.040 nine ounce poor, which is what you are typically used 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:11.359 to seeing. 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.440 But you and I, the drinks I drink. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.560 Are beer, wine, and Margarita's. Oh, aprile spritzes too. I 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.639 love apple spritzes. Those are I mean, okay, that's pretty 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.199 much my wheelhouse. But you pointed out when you make 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.800 a margarita, it's not just one drink. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.320 So that's a mistake that a lot of people make 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:31.160 and doing your number. So we asked you the top 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.359 what your number was. You might recalculate once you hear this. 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.280