December 26, 2025 • 41 mins
Bradley Jay Fills In On NightSide with Dan Rea
Bradley is considering going dry for Dry January and asked listeners to call in with advice on if he should do it or not.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Beach Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes it is. It's the final hour of the week.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Right, this is Friday, right, rob Okay, Yes, final hour
of night Side, which means you get kind of kind
of one call a week, use it or lose it.
I know the rule is sort of loose, but still
you might want to use it or lose it. Say
high six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty, just
(00:30):
a chat and hang out.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We have a new year.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Coming up, and I've been thinking some people do dry January.
Have you ever thought about doing that? Have you done it?
What was it like? Because I'm thinking about it. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty Dry January. You know, I come from
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rock radio. My job was practically drinking. You know, part
of my job was going out in case you are
new to me and I'm new to you. My early
radio career was in rock radio, and you know, part
of my job was to be on the air and present,
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introduce songs and talk about the bands and all. But
part of it was to interview bands, to go to shows,
big shows that like Great Woods, Yeah, Great Woods, interview
people like anyway from David Bowie to Marilyn Manson to outcasts,
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and of course that's backstage and his beer beer around.
Then you go to the shows, of course there's beer
around or drinks or whatever. And back in the day
DJ's would get drinks, you get drink tickets. I think
that old school love is gone now. I don't know,
but it goes. You say, go to the Paradise and
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they'd say, hey, hey, Brad to Jay. You wouldn't even
need a ticket to get in, and they just give
you a couple of drink tickets. And you might think
that it was kind of living the dream, and you'd
be right, it was. But of course there was a
lot of alcohol involved. And I never liked getting drunk,
never at all. But I'd like to having drinks. I'd
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like to having Budweiser. Bud like Budweiser. Now some crappier,
I guess. But you go to a show and it's
just something you do, change, you take the edge off.
As they say something. It's part of the ritual. That's
what it is. It's part of the ritual. It's so
grooved in that it might be difficult to do. Drive
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January and maybe maybe for you, maybe maybe you work
hard all day, leave over a hot.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Stove.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Maybe you're a cook, Maybe you are a housekeeper somewhere.
Maybe you work hard all day and look forward to
you your cocktail at night. Because you do dry January,
it seems to.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Be gaining well.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I can't I don't have any proof, but it seems
to be becoming more of a thing. I'm not sure
why that is. I think there's a myth that people
drink more. I guess it's true. You do drink more
in December, maybe not so much on New Year's Eve,
but I guess I'd ask you, have you thought about
dry January? Have you tried it? How did you do?
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Do you have any tips? Because I'm feeling like I
might want to try it. Sure I like having a Negroni,
a nice high end Negroni at the Liberty Hotel.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I like having a beer or two, maybe once in
a while even three out in JP. I'm a performer.
I go and do gigs now, and you can come
see me someday. I'll tell you what if I have
a gig coming up, if that's I don't know if
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that's okay, I'll check before I do it. But if
it is okay, then I would let you know, but
you go and perform. Yeah, you're not going on stage
all oh unbuzzed atleast not now. It's you got to
kind of get a little liquid courage in you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
This is not excessive.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
This is just well within our society's guidelines. It's perfectly
normal that I start thinking about, wonder what it's like
to go to the Liberty Hotel and not have a drink.
I had a good situation. Well, I went there for
my birthday and I really enjoyed having a magroni and
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watching the wor watching this the scenario there. Do you
know about the Liberty Hotel used to be the Child
Street Jail, and they've kind of capped the the jail
feel to it. You know, when you see jail movies,
prison movies, usually this is central area where there may
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be tables or something. But then circularly around the edge
are these walkways with rails and there are cells up
there on each level, cell block number two on tier four, whatever.
But they kind of kept that. So you can get
a cocktail and it's I mean expensive cocktail, and you
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can go and you can feel that well, a slight
hint of the essence of the jail vibe.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And the way it's set up, that could be a
football game across the way you can and you can
still see it even though it's.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Far away on a TV. It's pretty interesting. It's it's
not just your hotel.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But then I think, Gee, if I do dry January,
what do I do if I go to the hotel?
These are my thought processes. I'd like to try it,
but I don't know if it's doable. You folks have
done it? How did you do it? Did you have
a trick? Did you just do it called turkey? What
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do you drink when you go to to do something?
Do you drink nothing? Do you drink seltzer water with
a lime? Do you drink some of the new non
alcoholic beers? And by the way, that's a discussion I
want to have what's the best non alcoholic beer?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That's kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Part of the dry January discussion. Man, it's not like
it used to be. There are a lot of good ones.
But I'll get you to get into that in a minute.
But again, have you done the dry January? Dry January?
How did you do? How far did you make it.
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What kind of problems did you run into? What kind
of social situations were challenging?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And how did you deal? Or did you just give up?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
No shame on giving up, Believe me, I get it,
but I'm curious to hear from it. And further, if
you just all together quit drinking all together, how did
your life change?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Sure, how'd you do it?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Is important, But I'm also curious about how your life
changed because I remember a time, you know, when I
was a kid, I didn't drink anything and life was fine. Thinking,
I'm thinking, it must be possible, and it might be
fun to live a different life, a life with no alcohol.
It might be just fun for a number of reasons. One,
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I've gained weight. I have to admit it. I gained some.
It's not super obvious. I'm still fabulously handsome from the
head from the forehead up. But I tried to get
into my clothes, and I'm thinking, what's going on here?
Did these clothes shrink? I actually thought I put on
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this wool shirt I had, and I thought, you know,
maybe it wol shrinks if you don't wear it. Actually,
that's one of those denial thoughts about being a little
being overweight.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And of course there's the pants.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think, yeah, these pants would that this difficult to
get on? When I got him right and I just
said to myself, I'm gonna stuff myself in. But no,
it's not true. The proof is you get on the
scale and oh my god, oh my god. That's the thing.
When your weight sneaks up on you, it's so incremental
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you don't notice it. So there's the weight factor. Don't
get me wrong. I love a cocktail, but I'm curious
about that other life. And the weight is just one aspect.
There's another one, which I'll share with you after this break.
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There's a bunch and I'm going to go through the reasons.
I'm thinking about trying a non drinking life for one month,
the dry January, to see what it's like. First is
the weight. I know, I gotta lose weight, gotta do it,
and I feel like that's probably the easiest way to
do it. But there are other factors that I'll run through.
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But I'm curious to hear about your experience with dry
January and maybe quit and drinking.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh completely, What was it like? How did you do?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Do you have any tips for me or anybody else,
and what is the new life like?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's WBZ.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's
News Radio.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty. Yes, it
is night Side with danuy Bradley Jake for Dan feeling fine,
feeling actually quite good. Enjoyed the the show so far,
and enjoyed the hours tonight. Thanks to Rob Brooks for
working the wheel out there. He's I don't know, you're
the King of Master Control, would you say one of
the if not the king, you're in the King's court.
(10:23):
You're right, he's right up there. I mean, he's a
go to guy. When there's a problem, people call Rob
Brooks to find out what's going on. So I was
talking to possibly dry January. Is that something you'd thought
about six one seven, two five, four ten thirty. I
have friends who have done it, and they pick up
having the cocktails the drinks in February, and I'm wondering,
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I kind of wonder, what's the point of doing it
if you're just going to continue after that? It seemed
to me that dry January would be an experimental launch
pad to see to kind of get used to the
eye idea, because I think one.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Of the notion of never drinking again is brutal.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
If you like cocktails, Oh never again, Never another cocktail,
never another ne groaning, never another glass of wine, which
is a pretty bleak thing. And so perhaps the dry
january is just a.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Launch pad.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It allows you not to feel like I'll never have
another drink again. I have something to look forward to
thirty days away. I stopped from one month.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
One time.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
It wasn't a dry January, and I stopped and said, okay,
I did that, and I'm not noticing any major improvements
in my life. But now, for some reason it's kind
of different. I'm maybe interested in changing it. I guess
getting older, you know, you got a wonder maybe it's
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better for your joints and your systems in general to
not drink, or maybe not drink at all. That would
be that would be an entirely different life for me.
So I mentioned that the weight factor. I'd like to
be thin. You know how much weight I'd like to
lose twenty five pounds, twenty five pounds. There was a
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time I weighed one sixty nine out My goal was
one sixty five. Doctor said you should weigh one sixty
five and I was two nine at one point and
friend of mine, sorry, I was actually there was a
season of the Patriots where I had I was hooked
up big time. I had a stack of parking passes
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and I had a laminated pass to go anywhere in
the place, including the statisticians booth, the WBCN client booth,
the field even could go on the field until kickoff.
So that was a that was quite a thing. And
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someone and they won the playoff. There was a big
divisional playoff game that year on the field. Someone took
a picture of me. I was able to get out
there right near where they're, you know, all gathering and
jumping up and down, and it had just happened. They
had just won the division, I guess. And someone took
a picture of me, a friend actually, and and then
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someone else. I showed the picture to someone else, and
there's someone else another friend said wow, you're fat.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Wow, Wow, you're fat like that, and I thank them
for that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I I'm so thankful for that because that I didn't
realize it until that point. And so over the course
of months, I got down on one sixty nine from
two oh nine. But things have been creeping up, and
I guess they say it's harder to lose weight when
you're older. It's probably true too. And the doctor said,
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it's not so much exercise. It's important because you want
your heart to exercise and all, but when it comes
to weight, it's what you put in your body. And
I think there's something about alcohol besides the calories, that
somehow makes you gain weight more, some metabolistic thing. So
that's reason number one to try January. Try January. Have
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you tried it? How did it go? Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. There is another reason I am so irritated
with the cost of a cocktail. I'm incensed by it.
I'm insulted by it. What's going on? I don't want
to go be the old guy that says, remember when
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I drink was five point fifty. Remember then, Remember when
I was just eight fifty and then whoa eleven dollars
and then everything was fourteen And now ladies and gentlemen,
and trust me, we're not done eighteen bucks. You're going
to see twenty dollars cocktails depending on where you go.
Twenty dollars for a drink, and in the fancy place
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you get. You'll get a Rocks glass with one big
giant ice cube in it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's the drink.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Has the there's a little room for a drink in there,
but not much, and you drink that drink, there's not
that much in it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It's gone quickly.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So let's just say that it's designed so you're not
just going to have one. There's not enough in there
just to have one. You're going to have two, which
puts you up to about forty bucks for two cocktails
before the tip. Say it's ten dollar tip. That puts
you at fifty bucks for two cocktails. Say you going
with somebody else one hundred bucks for two cocktails. That's
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four cocktails total. That is not acceptable. I don't care
if I'm Warring Buffett. I'm not going up to that
bar and paying that kind of money. At least I
say that now because I feel like a sucker.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I feel like a fool. I feel like an idiot.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I feel like the bartender's looking at me saying, here
you go, sucker, give me the money for the drink
and give me that big giant tip for this drink
that took me eight seconds to make.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I was in the business of booze.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I get it, it's hard work and you deserve a tip.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I completely get it.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
But that much really, so there's the cost, and then
there's just the cost of beer.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You can still get.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I happen to know six bag of tall PBRs for
about seven ninety nine most places.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Does that sound right? The reason? I think, oh, Narraganset's
right in there too. There's that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
But if you want anything else, if you want something
in an IPA, say you're starting to pay sixteen dollars
for a four pack, twenty dollars for a four pack?
Why because we pay it. But I'm think I'm thinking
I combined with wanting to lose weight, I want to
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thumb my nose at these prices.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Think of the savings big time. You could probably go.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
On a trip to Europe for the money you saved
if you didn't drink, and you wouldn't even have to
drink that much.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Let's do the math you want. You want to do
a little math.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Okay, Let's say to round things out, a four pack
of IPA is twenty That means two of them are
ten bucks.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And let's just say you have two beers a.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Day just for the sake of adding stuff up.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Let's say five a week, that makes it easier.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
That's fifty bucks a week, right, times fifty weeks, what's
that up to twenty five hundred dollars correct, So that is,
if my math is right.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You could go.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
You can easily get a European plane ticket for a
grant with a good seat. If you want to be
cheap about it, you could pay less, but that's just
airfare roundstrip. Even let's say twelve hundred bucks. That's probably
for maybe even a comfort seat, extra leg room, So
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that leaves you with another eleven hundred bucks for hotels.
If you go on a for a five day trip
to fifty night for a hotel, that's a thousand bucks.
So yeah, it seems to me that booze is so
even beer, the fancy beers now are so expensive that
if you have two beers five times a week and stop,
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that you could afford a tripty to Europe. Shocking, right.
Then you put that on top of the weight loss.
So there you are strutting around in your new clothes
and you got, because you're super thin, on your way
to Europe, practically free. And all you have to do
is not drink easier said than done.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
On the other hand, everything we do involves No, that's
not true. Everything. A lot of stuff in my sphere
involves a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Hey, what do you want to do? You want to
grab a beer? Yeah, which means two at least. Hey,
you want to go gb a cocktail? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I want to go see a band? Yeah, it involves
an alcohol. We want to go to a birthday? Part alcohol?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Want to go to the beach.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Sometimes alcohol? Extricating yourself from alcohol. And I'm guessing do it?
You know, living your life takes some getting used to.
It must be doable. And there's the thing they're looking
forward to part right, You can you want you know
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what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You work all day?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
How do you get through that day of landscaping or plumbing.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Or.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Delivering on.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Ignoring traffic rules on our motor scooter, delivering stuff? You
get through it thinking, Yeah, I'm gonna get home, put
my feet up and have myself a cold one that's
going to beautiful at first snip is going to be beautiful.
How do you give that up? What do you have
to look forward to? That's a crusher. So this is
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a this is a big thing. Dry January is a
chance to experiment and see what it's like, see how
things unfold. Perhaps for the first three days it's murderous,
but maybe that maybe after that you get used to it.
Like when I quit for a month, you kind of
get used to it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I like to go to the.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Mission on Huntington, av great great food. Usually have a
beer A couple of times. Recently I went and I
did not have a beer. I just had a soda
water a soda water, and it worked out.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I didn't miss it. Strangely, I didn't miss it.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I think the big hump for me would be that
looking forward to things, So I guess I have to
have some sort of substitute. Now the question is can
the new and excellent non alcoholic beers feel that I
need something to look forward to? Bill, And if you're
going to try dry January, you might want to look
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into these. I have a list of the ones, some
of the ones I think are outstanding, but I'd like
to get some input from you because I don't know
them all. So I'm going to go through my little
list and if you have any recommendations for non alcoholic
beers or mocktails, If you will, which is non alcoholic cocktail.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I guess some of those are pretty good. I'd love
to hear them.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And also, are you I'm not here, I'm not hearing
a stampede of people saying, yeah, I'm going to do
dry January? But is that something you might think about?
And for those of you who have quick drinking alcohol altogether,
your story is important here too. How did you get
to that point? What were your secrets, what were the challenges,
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how did you overcome them? How many times did it
take you to fail? Did you join an organization? There
are online apps that are supposed to help you with it.
How did that go for you? How is your life
different now? How much I need to just save that
it's helped your relationships, your sleep, your physical health, all that.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
If you.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Managed to quit drinking, and not only if you drank
a whole lot, just even if you drank socially and
he said, you know, I'm just not down with this anymore.
I kind of want to change. I'd like to hear
from you two at six, one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
If you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ
Boston's News radioleven.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Thirty six on WBZ Bradley Jay and for Dan on
night Side.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And I am touring.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
With the idea of doing dry January, and I'm looking
for any advice you might have about getting through that,
whether it's worth it or maybe going all the way
and if that works out, just living a life of
not drinking and what that's even like.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I've always lived in let's have a beer world, and
I'm looking for comments advice from you. So let's talk
to you. Well, first, it's Robert and Waltham. You're on
wv Z.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Robert.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
How you doing, very Bradley, good topic, man. I Uh,
I did that last year, you know. I spent I
dried out, uh you know for a month and a
half and uh and it was great. You feel good.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
But the thing is with even a culture when you're
growing up, you heard this mill of time after work,
mill of time and all that stuff. I just think
that it's it's it's okay to do that and to
control your intake of alcohol. But I think if you're
not to the point like you need an intervention, you know,
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I think that you can discipline yourself and once in
a while I.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Know, you know, you go over the board, you wake.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Up the next say, oh, I hate I hate that feeling.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
But I just think it's a good idea of people.
But you talk about the price and understand it. But
look at cigarette people are paying seventeen dollars for cigarettes,
you know, and then now you get the cannabis like McDonald's,
you just stop buying and they're so expensive. And I
think I drink once in a while.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Shouldn't have heard because.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Everything is, you know, it's just to me. It's like
somebody can try to discipline yourself by doing certain thing.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
It's just like every year people's Yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
What do you figure is a good amount to drink?
How much like a sustainable to do this for the
rest of your life with no adverse effects?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
How many drinks a week?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I will drink three times a week, maybe four, But
it doesn't have to be the same drink. Sometimes I
feel like drinking too beiou is And I said, no,
I don't want to speel me out.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I don't want that.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
And I want to take a shot or something of
vodka or something like that. I'm not a wine drinker.
My wife, you know, she.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Drank wine but if I am on a table and
and and I you know that day I wasn't. I'm
not in the mood drink.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
I'll drink of wine. And I said, we know what,
I should stick to wine, but I always find myself
to go back to beer and on a stiff drink
once a while. So it's gonna figure out.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Two drinks four times a week is a good, uh safe,
healthy place to be.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Absolutely even doctors said, he relaxes you because when when
people say in middle of time or after work, you
want to relax. So it's in the culture. You know,
you relax for the wine, beer or shot. And like
I said, it's the people that you know overdo it.
Like I was listening to the news, you know, listening
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to guys are driving on one way.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Street and and and and and and and the one
way he takes the wrong one way and totally oblivious.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
You know that what they do. And these that's those
those are the peo people that.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Make drinking bad.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Just like just like I had a friend in Medfield.
I remember this guy so nice and quiet. I've to
a few drinks.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
He wants to fight.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
These are the people that don't need to drink.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You know so great call Robert well fam thank you
very much. It's Chuck in Southampton.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Now Chuck.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Hello, Hey, how you doing tonight and just sitting home
from work?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
About about drinking, I mean, drinking is great.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
The thing is, it's, uh, you get out of hand
in life and sometimes you have to say, hey, no more.
And uh I just did a call Turkey. I just
had some situations where my doctor said, hey, you get
a little problem with your your hot and it's you
you can't drink. I looked at him and I says,
are you kidding me? He goes, yeah, So I just
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I just took I said, I stopped right then. I've
been drinking my whole life. I'm don't get me wrong.
It's like the gentleman just said, it's a social thing,
and it's a great thing to do if you know,
if you don't have health problems and stuff like that.
But it's just it's just uh so it was easy.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
The social the social situations were just you'd got a
big deal of it, not any problem.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
You just did it.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
I just did.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
And I was a heavy drinker. I mean I drink
every nice like he said, you stop with the club,
you have a couple of shots, you have beers, you
go home, you eat, do you have another drink, and
then you go to ben you work. You do that
every day.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
So you're basically have like five drinks a night, right
are easy? Sure?
Speaker 8 (28:31):
Short course?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Okay, yep, well that's good.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And you just decided boom because what he do the
doctor decided for you.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
When the doctor said it's a year over. I've been
drinking fifty years and I can't believe I didn't. I mean,
I hang around with it. They drink all the time,
my wife. Everybody drinks in my house every night. They
want to come by, they can drink. I don't care.
You know, it's just when he I was told, I
did what I did and I had no problem dry January.
I never tried that. Maybe if I did, I still
(29:02):
would have a hot problem. But oh no, I feel great.
I didn't lose any weight because I got into a
little ice cream.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
But other than that, yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, so
you feel you feel like, oh, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Have any beer today, I can haven't played a spaghetti
and so that's you gotta be careful about that. Chuck, Great,
great call, Thank you so much Chuck appreciated. Well, now
Karen is Wisconsinville. How you doing, Karen?
Speaker 9 (29:27):
I'm okay. Can I just say hi? Did Jack Card?
Thank him for watching over Boston tonight with this traffic
of course because it's slippery out. He does this every night.
Thank you, Jeck. Now, I just want to say, coming
from Wisconsin here with a barred every corner, I got
(29:50):
a guy down the street who in five months time,
he was told he needs a liver transplant or he'll die.
So he took two weeks to get him a liver
and now he's spent in the hospital and he probably
(30:10):
will die. So I say, if you're having a problem,
and I had that happen to me, if you're having
a problem with it and you know it, you will
know it before anybody else. When you need a drink,
then it's time to stop. And if you're just having
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a couple drinks a week and it's not harming you,
you know, then why even bother having a dry jenuory?
You know you don't need to. That's my take on it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Thank you very much, Karen, Wisconsin shuck in. After this break,
we'll go to Carlon Groveland and and an unknown car on.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
W b Z.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Night's Eye with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
One more little segment on this week's night side practuge
in for Dan and just kind of a musing about
the pros and cons of living a what would be
a different life for me in a non social drinking life,
a life with no alcohol, thinking about the money savings,
the weight loss, and what it feels like. It might
(31:26):
be interesting to try dry January and checking in with
you to see how you feel about it in any hints,
what it's like, what was your experience? And I didn't
get a chance to get to it tonight, but I
want to really explore. I want to have a conversation
about your favorite non alcoholic beer, because it's a thing now.
You have you tried some of the non alcoholic beers.
(31:49):
They are so much better than they used to be
back in the super duper duper old days. What do
they have, odul, I don't want to name names, naming names.
I'm just I'm not naming brands. I'm just telling you, boy,
oh boy, they have some good stuff now. So let's
(32:09):
I don't want to cheat Carlon Groveland out of any
time So, hello, Carl, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Yeah, this is not about alcohol, but this is about
eating out food. Can I name the restaurant?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Is it a positive? Are you naming it positively or negatively?
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Negative?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, let's not this. Let's not this restaurants. Maybe you
just had one bad meal. I don't want to I
don't That's not.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
What it wasn't it was. It wasn't the taste of
the food. It was the price.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Don't name any restaurants.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Ruben sandwich, a bowl of french onion soup and a
petty thirty dollars ninety cents.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Okay, ruben sandwich and what else?
Speaker 7 (33:01):
A pall of french on your soup?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:03):
That that seat.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So the rub was probably what the ruben was probably sixteen,
the soup was probably twelve, right, something like that.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Uh, cyberenteen nine, and the petsy was three or four.
I guess I don't plus that.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And you were shocked. What would you have expected to pay?
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Uh, twenty four, twenty five, but.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You paid thirty eight something like.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
That, thirty dollars I was thirty one plus taxed a
round it off?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, I know, I don't really know what's going on.
With the inflation. There's a bunch of factors.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Fat tours, tariffs.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Maybe you know there was a big bump of inflation
during the pandemic because everybody got all this free money
and people started people just bought stuff like crazy. And
prices never go down. I mean, oil prices due, but
food prices don't seem to.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
So the bunch of.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Factors in there, and I don't like it, and I
especially don't like the price. Well, I also don't like
the price of cocktails. And that's why I'm thinking one
of the reasons I'm thinking of just saying I don't
need you anymore.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Yeah, this would put me off eating out.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
So what are you.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Gonna have instead? What are you gonna eat in?
Speaker 7 (34:18):
Well, I can have a bowl of soup in a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Yeah, okay, so you're gonna have some tomato soup and
a cheese sandwich has really good.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Maybe for three or four bucks.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I don't that's right, there's no no crime in that
at all.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
It didn't hopefully, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I agree. Call thanks a lot to talk to you
next week. Brother.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Now it's Mike and Cambridge. Mike, you're own busy and
there'll be room for another call after Mike, if you
want to dial a six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty, go ahead, let's seem get you on there, Mike. Perfect,
There we go.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Ah, Mike, Hey, brad, how's going? God spent many a
late night listening.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
To you when you were five on Breezy.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
But I just was calling to say alcohol is for
those with no imagination?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Interesting? Do tell explain?
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Well, you know, I kind of switched over from from
alcohol to THC.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
I do and I don't even bother smoking, Bradley, even
that's lacks of imagination. I go out and I make
my own dummies.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
You know, tell me about that. You use to use jello?
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I'm actually just actually starting to make the money. Went
up the name and bought myself for a little less
than two hundred dollars. They call nano emulsified THC. What
that means is it's fast acting THC hits it within
ten to fifteen minutes and it comes in to contain
a ten thousand milligrams. Probably that's a lot of gummies.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
That's a lot of gummies. Ten thousand milligrams is one
milligram gummies.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Right exactly, And uh, I just want to add this
to it. It's gonna be sound a little odd, but
you know something. If you go online you book up
the sand papal cactus, you find out that you can
legally derived mescaline from that plant. Okay, san pedro cactus,
now the sand pap How did.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
You switch from gummy creation to to that.
Speaker 10 (36:36):
I've always been intered in sugadol since you know, since
I was a teenager and h but when I found
out this about the san Pedro, it was just like, wow,
you can order.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
It online, you know. But anyways, that's that.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Okay, so you make gummies? It is it a I
don't want you to tell us, but just tell me.
Is it a big production of a lot of stoves, pots, pans,
melting stuff, sugar?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Is it? How long does it take you to do?
Speaker 7 (37:11):
Got Bradley?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I'm just starting to get in.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
What if it's not worth the hassle?
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Uh, it probably isn't worth the hassle. I tell you
why this nano amulcified THC like you said, it hits
you hum in ten fifteen minutes it's a lot of
soluble browbie, which means you can add it to drinks,
to anything you.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Know about it to make the gurmy.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
You're gonna mix it in your tang You're gonna mix
it in your and you're smoothie.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Be careful with that.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
You could easily overdose, and you don't want to overdose
on edibles, on edible TC.
Speaker 8 (37:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
I don't want to hear about you in the news
Mike and Cambridge, Mike and Cambridge found super high.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Come on, you know what I mean. I'm gonna be serious.
I want you to be careful because I will. Yeah,
all right, I.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Will you you when definitely you go with the all
night kind of vibes, probably absolutely.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah. It's nice to talk to you. It's nice to
talk to everybody. It's nice to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
And I hope that everyone that talks has talked to
me during this three day period will feel comfortable enough to,
you know, call back when I when I'm you know,
when I'm on, as well as when Dan is on.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
Probably be great to talk to you. Brother.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Likewise, you take care.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Oop oop, that's the sound of hanging up, you know,
listen to the whole topic. But we have not addressed
and that is a fertile, fertile topic area is t
I c is cannabis and we've gone past should have
(39:00):
illegalized too. Yeah, it's definitely legalized. And the price of it,
the price compared to beer. What you prefer, what delivery system,
the vape, the flower vape, the oil vape, the gummy,
the tincture, Whether or not you have a medical card
(39:23):
or not, by the way, you might you might want
to consider a medical card if it's doable, because you say,
you don't have to pay the tax. Last I knew,
you did not have to pay the tax if you
had a medical card, which last I knew was about
twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
What it's some people, you know, some people.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Don't like the fact that marijuana is legal because it's
no fun anymore. They liked the illegality of it, the
outlawness of it, the thrill, and they feel there's so
many amateurs now. But I think it's kind of cool
that the labor so very very carefully labeled with the
(40:05):
right every little morsel of every molecule in there. One
point five percent. This CBD, a CBDB CBDBBB THC. You
can buy straight up CBD. You know you don't need
to have THC in it. But that's it. That is
(40:25):
a topic for another day, and it should be a
good one.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I did have.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I've had a cannabis guest on, but I like to
figure another angle.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
And uh figure out how to approach that. What kind
of guess would I get?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Do?
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I want to get a.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Somebody that runs a dispensary, the challenges of running a
weed dispensary, something like that. It's kind of interesting if
you're my age, an age where it used to be
used to go go to jail, if you got caught
to be able to go shopping around, shopping like you're
shopping in a jewelry store for weed, it's a weird world.
(41:11):
Another question for another topic might be might be, hey,
since it's got legal, have you noticed any problems? I
would say I haven't noticed any problems. The sky did
not fall, the world did not end, and state making
a bunch own money.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
So there's that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
I hate to say goodbye, but I guess I got
to say goodbye till Monday, and I we'll speak to
you on Monday. Thank you again, Rob Brooks, all the
best of you all, and a happy New Year on WBZ.
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Beach Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes it is. It's the final hour of the week.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Right, this is Friday, right, rob Okay, Yes, final hour
of night Side, which means you get kind of kind
of one call a week, use it or lose it.
I know the rule is sort of loose, but still
you might want to use it or lose it. Say
high six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty, just
(00:30):
a chat and hang out.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We have a new year.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Coming up, and I've been thinking some people do dry January.
Have you ever thought about doing that? Have you done it?
What was it like? Because I'm thinking about it. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty Dry January. You know, I come from
(00:58):
rock radio. My job was practically drinking. You know, part
of my job was going out in case you are
new to me and I'm new to you. My early
radio career was in rock radio, and you know, part
of my job was to be on the air and present,
(01:22):
introduce songs and talk about the bands and all. But
part of it was to interview bands, to go to shows,
big shows that like Great Woods, Yeah, Great Woods, interview
people like anyway from David Bowie to Marilyn Manson to outcasts,
(01:46):
and of course that's backstage and his beer beer around.
Then you go to the shows, of course there's beer
around or drinks or whatever. And back in the day
DJ's would get drinks, you get drink tickets. I think
that old school love is gone now. I don't know,
but it goes. You say, go to the Paradise and
(02:10):
they'd say, hey, hey, Brad to Jay. You wouldn't even
need a ticket to get in, and they just give
you a couple of drink tickets. And you might think
that it was kind of living the dream, and you'd
be right, it was. But of course there was a
lot of alcohol involved. And I never liked getting drunk,
never at all. But I'd like to having drinks. I'd
(02:32):
like to having Budweiser. Bud like Budweiser. Now some crappier,
I guess. But you go to a show and it's
just something you do, change, you take the edge off.
As they say something. It's part of the ritual. That's
what it is. It's part of the ritual. It's so
grooved in that it might be difficult to do. Drive
(02:54):
January and maybe maybe for you, maybe maybe you work
hard all day, leave over a hot.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Stove.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Maybe you're a cook, Maybe you are a housekeeper somewhere.
Maybe you work hard all day and look forward to
you your cocktail at night. Because you do dry January,
it seems to.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Be gaining well.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I can't I don't have any proof, but it seems
to be becoming more of a thing. I'm not sure
why that is. I think there's a myth that people
drink more. I guess it's true. You do drink more
in December, maybe not so much on New Year's Eve,
but I guess I'd ask you, have you thought about
dry January? Have you tried it? How did you do?
(03:39):
Do you have any tips? Because I'm feeling like I
might want to try it. Sure I like having a Negroni,
a nice high end Negroni at the Liberty Hotel.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I like having a beer or two, maybe once in
a while even three out in JP. I'm a performer.
I go and do gigs now, and you can come
see me someday. I'll tell you what if I have
a gig coming up, if that's I don't know if
(04:12):
that's okay, I'll check before I do it. But if
it is okay, then I would let you know, but
you go and perform. Yeah, you're not going on stage
all oh unbuzzed atleast not now. It's you got to
kind of get a little liquid courage in you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
This is not excessive.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
This is just well within our society's guidelines. It's perfectly
normal that I start thinking about, wonder what it's like
to go to the Liberty Hotel and not have a drink.
I had a good situation. Well, I went there for
my birthday and I really enjoyed having a magroni and
(04:58):
watching the wor watching this the scenario there. Do you
know about the Liberty Hotel used to be the Child
Street Jail, and they've kind of capped the the jail
feel to it. You know, when you see jail movies,
prison movies, usually this is central area where there may
(05:18):
be tables or something. But then circularly around the edge
are these walkways with rails and there are cells up
there on each level, cell block number two on tier four, whatever.
But they kind of kept that. So you can get
a cocktail and it's I mean expensive cocktail, and you
(05:40):
can go and you can feel that well, a slight
hint of the essence of the jail vibe.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And the way it's set up, that could be a
football game across the way you can and you can
still see it even though it's.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Far away on a TV. It's pretty interesting. It's it's
not just your hotel.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But then I think, Gee, if I do dry January,
what do I do if I go to the hotel?
These are my thought processes. I'd like to try it,
but I don't know if it's doable. You folks have
done it? How did you do it? Did you have
a trick? Did you just do it called turkey? What
(06:23):
do you drink when you go to to do something?
Do you drink nothing? Do you drink seltzer water with
a lime? Do you drink some of the new non
alcoholic beers? And by the way, that's a discussion I
want to have what's the best non alcoholic beer?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That's kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Part of the dry January discussion. Man, it's not like
it used to be. There are a lot of good ones.
But I'll get you to get into that in a minute.
But again, have you done the dry January? Dry January?
How did you do? How far did you make it.
(07:01):
What kind of problems did you run into? What kind
of social situations were challenging?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And how did you deal? Or did you just give up?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
No shame on giving up, Believe me, I get it,
but I'm curious to hear from it. And further, if
you just all together quit drinking all together, how did
your life change?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Sure, how'd you do it?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Is important, But I'm also curious about how your life
changed because I remember a time, you know, when I
was a kid, I didn't drink anything and life was fine. Thinking,
I'm thinking, it must be possible, and it might be
fun to live a different life, a life with no alcohol.
It might be just fun for a number of reasons. One,
(07:55):
I've gained weight. I have to admit it. I gained some.
It's not super obvious. I'm still fabulously handsome from the
head from the forehead up. But I tried to get
into my clothes, and I'm thinking, what's going on here?
Did these clothes shrink? I actually thought I put on
(08:20):
this wool shirt I had, and I thought, you know,
maybe it wol shrinks if you don't wear it. Actually,
that's one of those denial thoughts about being a little
being overweight.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And of course there's the pants.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think, yeah, these pants would that this difficult to
get on? When I got him right and I just
said to myself, I'm gonna stuff myself in. But no,
it's not true. The proof is you get on the
scale and oh my god, oh my god. That's the thing.
When your weight sneaks up on you, it's so incremental
(08:57):
you don't notice it. So there's the weight factor. Don't
get me wrong. I love a cocktail, but I'm curious
about that other life. And the weight is just one aspect.
There's another one, which I'll share with you after this break.
(09:19):
There's a bunch and I'm going to go through the reasons.
I'm thinking about trying a non drinking life for one month,
the dry January, to see what it's like. First is
the weight. I know, I gotta lose weight, gotta do it,
and I feel like that's probably the easiest way to
do it. But there are other factors that I'll run through.
(09:40):
But I'm curious to hear about your experience with dry
January and maybe quit and drinking.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh completely, What was it like? How did you do?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Do you have any tips for me or anybody else,
and what is the new life like?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's WBZ.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's
News Radio.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty. Yes, it
is night Side with danuy Bradley Jake for Dan feeling fine,
feeling actually quite good. Enjoyed the the show so far,
and enjoyed the hours tonight. Thanks to Rob Brooks for
working the wheel out there. He's I don't know, you're
the King of Master Control, would you say one of
the if not the king, you're in the King's court.
(10:23):
You're right, he's right up there. I mean, he's a
go to guy. When there's a problem, people call Rob
Brooks to find out what's going on. So I was
talking to possibly dry January. Is that something you'd thought
about six one seven, two five, four ten thirty. I
have friends who have done it, and they pick up
having the cocktails the drinks in February, and I'm wondering,
(10:46):
I kind of wonder, what's the point of doing it
if you're just going to continue after that? It seemed
to me that dry January would be an experimental launch
pad to see to kind of get used to the
eye idea, because I think one.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Of the notion of never drinking again is brutal.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
If you like cocktails, Oh never again, Never another cocktail,
never another ne groaning, never another glass of wine, which
is a pretty bleak thing. And so perhaps the dry
january is just a.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Launch pad.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It allows you not to feel like I'll never have
another drink again. I have something to look forward to
thirty days away. I stopped from one month.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
One time.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
It wasn't a dry January, and I stopped and said, okay,
I did that, and I'm not noticing any major improvements
in my life. But now, for some reason it's kind
of different. I'm maybe interested in changing it. I guess
getting older, you know, you got a wonder maybe it's
(11:54):
better for your joints and your systems in general to
not drink, or maybe not drink at all. That would
be that would be an entirely different life for me.
So I mentioned that the weight factor. I'd like to
be thin. You know how much weight I'd like to
lose twenty five pounds, twenty five pounds. There was a
(12:15):
time I weighed one sixty nine out My goal was
one sixty five. Doctor said you should weigh one sixty
five and I was two nine at one point and
friend of mine, sorry, I was actually there was a
season of the Patriots where I had I was hooked
up big time. I had a stack of parking passes
(12:38):
and I had a laminated pass to go anywhere in
the place, including the statisticians booth, the WBCN client booth,
the field even could go on the field until kickoff.
So that was a that was quite a thing. And
(13:05):
someone and they won the playoff. There was a big
divisional playoff game that year on the field. Someone took
a picture of me. I was able to get out
there right near where they're, you know, all gathering and
jumping up and down, and it had just happened. They
had just won the division, I guess. And someone took
a picture of me, a friend actually, and and then
(13:32):
someone else. I showed the picture to someone else, and
there's someone else another friend said wow, you're fat.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Wow, Wow, you're fat like that, and I thank them
for that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I I'm so thankful for that because that I didn't
realize it until that point. And so over the course
of months, I got down on one sixty nine from
two oh nine. But things have been creeping up, and
I guess they say it's harder to lose weight when
you're older. It's probably true too. And the doctor said,
(14:10):
it's not so much exercise. It's important because you want
your heart to exercise and all, but when it comes
to weight, it's what you put in your body. And
I think there's something about alcohol besides the calories, that
somehow makes you gain weight more, some metabolistic thing. So
that's reason number one to try January. Try January. Have
(14:33):
you tried it? How did it go? Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. There is another reason I am so irritated
with the cost of a cocktail. I'm incensed by it.
I'm insulted by it. What's going on? I don't want
to go be the old guy that says, remember when
(14:55):
I drink was five point fifty. Remember then, Remember when
I was just eight fifty and then whoa eleven dollars
and then everything was fourteen And now ladies and gentlemen,
and trust me, we're not done eighteen bucks. You're going
to see twenty dollars cocktails depending on where you go.
Twenty dollars for a drink, and in the fancy place
(15:20):
you get. You'll get a Rocks glass with one big
giant ice cube in it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's the drink.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Has the there's a little room for a drink in there,
but not much, and you drink that drink, there's not
that much in it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It's gone quickly.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So let's just say that it's designed so you're not
just going to have one. There's not enough in there
just to have one. You're going to have two, which
puts you up to about forty bucks for two cocktails
before the tip. Say it's ten dollar tip. That puts
you at fifty bucks for two cocktails. Say you going
with somebody else one hundred bucks for two cocktails. That's
(15:58):
four cocktails total. That is not acceptable. I don't care
if I'm Warring Buffett. I'm not going up to that
bar and paying that kind of money. At least I
say that now because I feel like a sucker.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I feel like a fool. I feel like an idiot.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I feel like the bartender's looking at me saying, here
you go, sucker, give me the money for the drink
and give me that big giant tip for this drink
that took me eight seconds to make.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I was in the business of booze.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I get it, it's hard work and you deserve a tip.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I completely get it.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
But that much really, so there's the cost, and then
there's just the cost of beer.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You can still get.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I happen to know six bag of tall PBRs for
about seven ninety nine most places.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Does that sound right? The reason? I think, oh, Narraganset's
right in there too. There's that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
But if you want anything else, if you want something
in an IPA, say you're starting to pay sixteen dollars
for a four pack, twenty dollars for a four pack?
Why because we pay it. But I'm think I'm thinking
I combined with wanting to lose weight, I want to
(17:27):
thumb my nose at these prices.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Think of the savings big time. You could probably go.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
On a trip to Europe for the money you saved
if you didn't drink, and you wouldn't even have to
drink that much.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Let's do the math you want. You want to do
a little math.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Okay, Let's say to round things out, a four pack
of IPA is twenty That means two of them are
ten bucks.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And let's just say you have two beers a.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Day just for the sake of adding stuff up.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Let's say five a week, that makes it easier.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
That's fifty bucks a week, right, times fifty weeks, what's
that up to twenty five hundred dollars correct, So that is,
if my math is right.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You could go.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
You can easily get a European plane ticket for a
grant with a good seat. If you want to be
cheap about it, you could pay less, but that's just
airfare roundstrip. Even let's say twelve hundred bucks. That's probably
for maybe even a comfort seat, extra leg room, So
(18:44):
that leaves you with another eleven hundred bucks for hotels.
If you go on a for a five day trip
to fifty night for a hotel, that's a thousand bucks.
So yeah, it seems to me that booze is so
even beer, the fancy beers now are so expensive that
if you have two beers five times a week and stop,
(19:07):
that you could afford a tripty to Europe. Shocking, right.
Then you put that on top of the weight loss.
So there you are strutting around in your new clothes
and you got, because you're super thin, on your way
to Europe, practically free. And all you have to do
is not drink easier said than done.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
On the other hand, everything we do involves No, that's
not true. Everything. A lot of stuff in my sphere
involves a cocktail.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Hey, what do you want to do? You want to
grab a beer? Yeah, which means two at least. Hey,
you want to go gb a cocktail? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I want to go see a band? Yeah, it involves
an alcohol. We want to go to a birthday? Part alcohol?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Want to go to the beach.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Sometimes alcohol? Extricating yourself from alcohol. And I'm guessing do it?
You know, living your life takes some getting used to.
It must be doable. And there's the thing they're looking
forward to part right, You can you want you know
(20:25):
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You work all day?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
How do you get through that day of landscaping or plumbing.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Or.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Delivering on.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Ignoring traffic rules on our motor scooter, delivering stuff? You
get through it thinking, Yeah, I'm gonna get home, put
my feet up and have myself a cold one that's
going to beautiful at first snip is going to be beautiful.
How do you give that up? What do you have
to look forward to? That's a crusher. So this is
(20:59):
a this is a big thing. Dry January is a
chance to experiment and see what it's like, see how
things unfold. Perhaps for the first three days it's murderous,
but maybe that maybe after that you get used to it.
Like when I quit for a month, you kind of
get used to it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I like to go to the.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Mission on Huntington, av great great food. Usually have a
beer A couple of times. Recently I went and I
did not have a beer. I just had a soda
water a soda water, and it worked out.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I didn't miss it. Strangely, I didn't miss it.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I think the big hump for me would be that
looking forward to things, So I guess I have to
have some sort of substitute. Now the question is can
the new and excellent non alcoholic beers feel that I
need something to look forward to? Bill, And if you're
going to try dry January, you might want to look
(22:00):
into these. I have a list of the ones, some
of the ones I think are outstanding, but I'd like
to get some input from you because I don't know
them all. So I'm going to go through my little
list and if you have any recommendations for non alcoholic
beers or mocktails, If you will, which is non alcoholic cocktail.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I guess some of those are pretty good. I'd love
to hear them.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And also, are you I'm not here, I'm not hearing
a stampede of people saying, yeah, I'm going to do
dry January? But is that something you might think about?
And for those of you who have quick drinking alcohol altogether,
your story is important here too. How did you get
to that point? What were your secrets, what were the challenges,
(22:48):
how did you overcome them? How many times did it
take you to fail? Did you join an organization? There
are online apps that are supposed to help you with it.
How did that go for you? How is your life
different now? How much I need to just save that
it's helped your relationships, your sleep, your physical health, all that.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
If you.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Managed to quit drinking, and not only if you drank
a whole lot, just even if you drank socially and
he said, you know, I'm just not down with this anymore.
I kind of want to change. I'd like to hear
from you two at six, one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
If you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ
Boston's News radioleven.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Thirty six on WBZ Bradley Jay and for Dan on
night Side.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And I am touring.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
With the idea of doing dry January, and I'm looking
for any advice you might have about getting through that,
whether it's worth it or maybe going all the way
and if that works out, just living a life of
not drinking and what that's even like.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I've always lived in let's have a beer world, and
I'm looking for comments advice from you. So let's talk
to you. Well, first, it's Robert and Waltham. You're on
wv Z.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Robert.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
How you doing, very Bradley, good topic, man. I Uh,
I did that last year, you know. I spent I
dried out, uh you know for a month and a
half and uh and it was great. You feel good.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
But the thing is with even a culture when you're
growing up, you heard this mill of time after work,
mill of time and all that stuff. I just think
that it's it's it's okay to do that and to
control your intake of alcohol. But I think if you're
not to the point like you need an intervention, you know,
(24:45):
I think that you can discipline yourself and once in
a while I.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Know, you know, you go over the board, you wake.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Up the next say, oh, I hate I hate that feeling.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
But I just think it's a good idea of people.
But you talk about the price and understand it. But
look at cigarette people are paying seventeen dollars for cigarettes,
you know, and then now you get the cannabis like McDonald's,
you just stop buying and they're so expensive. And I
think I drink once in a while.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Shouldn't have heard because.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Everything is, you know, it's just to me. It's like
somebody can try to discipline yourself by doing certain thing.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
It's just like every year people's Yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
What do you figure is a good amount to drink?
How much like a sustainable to do this for the
rest of your life with no adverse effects?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
How many drinks a week?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I will drink three times a week, maybe four, But
it doesn't have to be the same drink. Sometimes I
feel like drinking too beiou is And I said, no,
I don't want to speel me out.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I don't want that.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
And I want to take a shot or something of
vodka or something like that. I'm not a wine drinker.
My wife, you know, she.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Drank wine but if I am on a table and
and and I you know that day I wasn't. I'm
not in the mood drink.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
I'll drink of wine. And I said, we know what,
I should stick to wine, but I always find myself
to go back to beer and on a stiff drink
once a while. So it's gonna figure out.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Two drinks four times a week is a good, uh safe,
healthy place to be.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Absolutely even doctors said, he relaxes you because when when
people say in middle of time or after work, you
want to relax. So it's in the culture. You know,
you relax for the wine, beer or shot. And like
I said, it's the people that you know overdo it.
Like I was listening to the news, you know, listening
(26:46):
to guys are driving on one way.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Street and and and and and and and the one
way he takes the wrong one way and totally oblivious.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
You know that what they do. And these that's those
those are the peo people that.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Make drinking bad.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Just like just like I had a friend in Medfield.
I remember this guy so nice and quiet. I've to
a few drinks.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
He wants to fight.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
These are the people that don't need to drink.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You know so great call Robert well fam thank you
very much. It's Chuck in Southampton.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Now Chuck.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Hello, Hey, how you doing tonight and just sitting home
from work?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
About about drinking, I mean, drinking is great.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
The thing is, it's, uh, you get out of hand
in life and sometimes you have to say, hey, no more.
And uh I just did a call Turkey. I just
had some situations where my doctor said, hey, you get
a little problem with your your hot and it's you
you can't drink. I looked at him and I says,
are you kidding me? He goes, yeah, So I just
(27:51):
I just took I said, I stopped right then. I've
been drinking my whole life. I'm don't get me wrong.
It's like the gentleman just said, it's a social thing,
and it's a great thing to do if you know,
if you don't have health problems and stuff like that.
But it's just it's just uh so it was easy.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
The social the social situations were just you'd got a
big deal of it, not any problem.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
You just did it.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
I just did.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
And I was a heavy drinker. I mean I drink
every nice like he said, you stop with the club,
you have a couple of shots, you have beers, you
go home, you eat, do you have another drink, and
then you go to ben you work. You do that
every day.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
So you're basically have like five drinks a night, right
are easy? Sure?
Speaker 8 (28:31):
Short course?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Okay, yep, well that's good.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And you just decided boom because what he do the
doctor decided for you.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
When the doctor said it's a year over. I've been
drinking fifty years and I can't believe I didn't. I mean,
I hang around with it. They drink all the time,
my wife. Everybody drinks in my house every night. They
want to come by, they can drink. I don't care.
You know, it's just when he I was told, I
did what I did and I had no problem dry January.
I never tried that. Maybe if I did, I still
(29:02):
would have a hot problem. But oh no, I feel great.
I didn't lose any weight because I got into a
little ice cream.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
But other than that, yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, so
you feel you feel like, oh, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Have any beer today, I can haven't played a spaghetti
and so that's you gotta be careful about that. Chuck, Great,
great call, Thank you so much Chuck appreciated. Well, now
Karen is Wisconsinville. How you doing, Karen?
Speaker 9 (29:27):
I'm okay. Can I just say hi? Did Jack Card?
Thank him for watching over Boston tonight with this traffic
of course because it's slippery out. He does this every night.
Thank you, Jeck. Now, I just want to say, coming
from Wisconsin here with a barred every corner, I got
(29:50):
a guy down the street who in five months time,
he was told he needs a liver transplant or he'll die.
So he took two weeks to get him a liver
and now he's spent in the hospital and he probably
(30:10):
will die. So I say, if you're having a problem,
and I had that happen to me, if you're having
a problem with it and you know it, you will
know it before anybody else. When you need a drink,
then it's time to stop. And if you're just having
(30:32):
a couple drinks a week and it's not harming you,
you know, then why even bother having a dry jenuory?
You know you don't need to. That's my take on it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Thank you very much, Karen, Wisconsin shuck in. After this break,
we'll go to Carlon Groveland and and an unknown car on.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
W b Z.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Night's Eye with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
One more little segment on this week's night side practuge
in for Dan and just kind of a musing about
the pros and cons of living a what would be
a different life for me in a non social drinking life,
a life with no alcohol, thinking about the money savings,
the weight loss, and what it feels like. It might
(31:26):
be interesting to try dry January and checking in with
you to see how you feel about it in any hints,
what it's like, what was your experience? And I didn't
get a chance to get to it tonight, but I
want to really explore. I want to have a conversation
about your favorite non alcoholic beer, because it's a thing now.
You have you tried some of the non alcoholic beers.
(31:49):
They are so much better than they used to be
back in the super duper duper old days. What do
they have, odul, I don't want to name names, naming names.
I'm just I'm not naming brands. I'm just telling you, boy,
oh boy, they have some good stuff now. So let's
(32:09):
I don't want to cheat Carlon Groveland out of any
time So, hello, Carl, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Yeah, this is not about alcohol, but this is about
eating out food. Can I name the restaurant?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Is it a positive? Are you naming it positively or negatively?
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Negative?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, let's not this. Let's not this restaurants. Maybe you
just had one bad meal. I don't want to I
don't That's not.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
What it wasn't it was. It wasn't the taste of
the food. It was the price.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Don't name any restaurants.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Ruben sandwich, a bowl of french onion soup and a
petty thirty dollars ninety cents.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Okay, ruben sandwich and what else?
Speaker 7 (33:01):
A pall of french on your soup?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:03):
That that seat.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So the rub was probably what the ruben was probably sixteen,
the soup was probably twelve, right, something like that.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Uh, cyberenteen nine, and the petsy was three or four.
I guess I don't plus that.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And you were shocked. What would you have expected to pay?
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Uh, twenty four, twenty five, but.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You paid thirty eight something like.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
That, thirty dollars I was thirty one plus taxed a
round it off?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, I know, I don't really know what's going on.
With the inflation. There's a bunch of factors.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Fat tours, tariffs.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Maybe you know there was a big bump of inflation
during the pandemic because everybody got all this free money
and people started people just bought stuff like crazy. And
prices never go down. I mean, oil prices due, but
food prices don't seem to.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
So the bunch of.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Factors in there, and I don't like it, and I
especially don't like the price. Well, I also don't like
the price of cocktails. And that's why I'm thinking one
of the reasons I'm thinking of just saying I don't
need you anymore.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Yeah, this would put me off eating out.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
So what are you.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Gonna have instead? What are you gonna eat in?
Speaker 7 (34:18):
Well, I can have a bowl of soup in a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Yeah, okay, so you're gonna have some tomato soup and
a cheese sandwich has really good.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Maybe for three or four bucks.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I don't that's right, there's no no crime in that
at all.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
It didn't hopefully, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I agree. Call thanks a lot to talk to you
next week. Brother.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Now it's Mike and Cambridge. Mike, you're own busy and
there'll be room for another call after Mike, if you
want to dial a six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty, go ahead, let's seem get you on there, Mike. Perfect,
There we go.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Ah, Mike, Hey, brad, how's going? God spent many a
late night listening.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
To you when you were five on Breezy.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
But I just was calling to say alcohol is for
those with no imagination?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Interesting? Do tell explain?
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Well, you know, I kind of switched over from from
alcohol to THC.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
I do and I don't even bother smoking, Bradley, even
that's lacks of imagination. I go out and I make
my own dummies.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
You know, tell me about that. You use to use jello?
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I'm actually just actually starting to make the money. Went
up the name and bought myself for a little less
than two hundred dollars. They call nano emulsified THC. What
that means is it's fast acting THC hits it within
ten to fifteen minutes and it comes in to contain
a ten thousand milligrams. Probably that's a lot of gummies.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
That's a lot of gummies. Ten thousand milligrams is one
milligram gummies.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Right exactly, And uh, I just want to add this
to it. It's gonna be sound a little odd, but
you know something. If you go online you book up
the sand papal cactus, you find out that you can
legally derived mescaline from that plant. Okay, san pedro cactus,
now the sand pap How did.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
You switch from gummy creation to to that.
Speaker 10 (36:36):
I've always been intered in sugadol since you know, since
I was a teenager and h but when I found
out this about the san Pedro, it was just like, wow,
you can order.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
It online, you know. But anyways, that's that.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Okay, so you make gummies? It is it a I
don't want you to tell us, but just tell me.
Is it a big production of a lot of stoves, pots, pans,
melting stuff, sugar?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Is it? How long does it take you to do?
Speaker 7 (37:11):
Got Bradley?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I'm just starting to get in.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
What if it's not worth the hassle?
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Uh, it probably isn't worth the hassle. I tell you
why this nano amulcified THC like you said, it hits
you hum in ten fifteen minutes it's a lot of
soluble browbie, which means you can add it to drinks,
to anything you.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Know about it to make the gurmy.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
You're gonna mix it in your tang You're gonna mix
it in your and you're smoothie.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Be careful with that.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
You could easily overdose, and you don't want to overdose
on edibles, on edible TC.
Speaker 8 (37:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
I don't want to hear about you in the news
Mike and Cambridge, Mike and Cambridge found super high.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Come on, you know what I mean. I'm gonna be serious.
I want you to be careful because I will. Yeah,
all right, I.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Will you you when definitely you go with the all
night kind of vibes, probably absolutely.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah. It's nice to talk to you. It's nice to
talk to everybody. It's nice to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
And I hope that everyone that talks has talked to
me during this three day period will feel comfortable enough to,
you know, call back when I when I'm you know,
when I'm on, as well as when Dan is on.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
Probably be great to talk to you. Brother.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Likewise, you take care.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Oop oop, that's the sound of hanging up, you know,
listen to the whole topic. But we have not addressed
and that is a fertile, fertile topic area is t
I c is cannabis and we've gone past should have
(39:00):
illegalized too. Yeah, it's definitely legalized. And the price of it,
the price compared to beer. What you prefer, what delivery system,
the vape, the flower vape, the oil vape, the gummy,
the tincture, Whether or not you have a medical card
(39:23):
or not, by the way, you might you might want
to consider a medical card if it's doable, because you say,
you don't have to pay the tax. Last I knew,
you did not have to pay the tax if you
had a medical card, which last I knew was about
twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
What it's some people, you know, some people.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Don't like the fact that marijuana is legal because it's
no fun anymore. They liked the illegality of it, the
outlawness of it, the thrill, and they feel there's so
many amateurs now. But I think it's kind of cool
that the labor so very very carefully labeled with the
(40:05):
right every little morsel of every molecule in there. One
point five percent. This CBD, a CBDB CBDBBB THC. You
can buy straight up CBD. You know you don't need
to have THC in it. But that's it. That is
(40:25):
a topic for another day, and it should be a
good one.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I did have.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I've had a cannabis guest on, but I like to
figure another angle.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
And uh figure out how to approach that. What kind
of guess would I get?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Do?
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I want to get a.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Somebody that runs a dispensary, the challenges of running a
weed dispensary, something like that. It's kind of interesting if
you're my age, an age where it used to be
used to go go to jail, if you got caught
to be able to go shopping around, shopping like you're
shopping in a jewelry store for weed, it's a weird world.
(41:11):
Another question for another topic might be might be, hey,
since it's got legal, have you noticed any problems? I
would say I haven't noticed any problems. The sky did
not fall, the world did not end, and state making
a bunch own money.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
So there's that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
I hate to say goodbye, but I guess I got
to say goodbye till Monday, and I we'll speak to
you on Monday. Thank you again, Rob Brooks, all the
best of you all, and a happy New Year on WBZ.
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