September 26, 2025 • 13 mins
On this episode of “Tommy Talk,” Tommy discusses how there is a shift in how people are viewing alcohol. There are studies and trends emerging that show younger generations are less interested in grabbing the bottle. Do you feel like alcohol is so last year? Many people feel the pressure to drink in certain situations (with co-workers, bosses, friends, family, etc), even when they just aren’t feeling it. Today I am sharing my relationship with alcohol, and how I handle those societal pressures when they come up in my life. Let’s dive into the world of booze.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, guys, Welcome to Tommy Talk. Today's topic is the
pressure to drink and how to handle it. So we
are diving into the world of alcohol now. First and foremost,
I am not judging anybody's drinking habits. Whether you drink
a little, a lot, or somewhere in between, that is
up to you, rock on to each of their own.
I am more interested in this Tommy Talk because I
(00:24):
feel like we are entering a new era and drinking
used to be so glorified and so highly kind of
talked about and praised as the most social thing you
can do with friends and loved ones. And there's a shift.
There's definitely a shift, but that shift is kind of
partially happening, right. I feel like there's a percentage of
(00:44):
the population shifting, and there's a percentage of the population
that is not shifting. And what I find is I
am often in situations where drinking is expected or glorified,
or you're made to feel like you're strange for not drinking.
And I think it's a really interesting topic because whether
or not you drink a little or a lot, as
(01:05):
I said, sometimes you just don't want to drink, but
there's always pressure put on us by people, by society,
and there's a way I think that we can handle
that so that we don't feel so awkward. So, first
of all, there's a study that came out that's very
very interesting from the National Institute on Drug Abuse which
shows that lifetime drinking, past month drinking, and past year
(01:28):
drinking among young people began to decline around the year
two thousand. So that means that such you know, declients
have especially impacted Generation z akagen Z what's up gen Z,
which is defined as anyone born from ninety seven to
twenty twelve, and even millennials born from eighty one to
nineteen ninety six. So today's generations, younger generations, I should say,
(01:52):
are just drinking less and less and less. So why
is alcohol still being thrown in our faces? I'm going
to give you a couple examples in my life where
it's just always around and I am not a huge
drinker anymore, don't get me wrong. In my twenties, Tommy
in his twenties had some fun that was like the
(02:13):
clubbing heyday where for all my New Yorkers I would
go to Marquis and Stereo and Bungalow eight and home
in bed and would party and drink and have fun.
And I'm not going to deny I had a great
time in my twenties and I definitely got out my partying.
But now, you know, I'm just not as interested. If
(02:36):
I'm drinking now, it's never at home, Like, I just
don't ever open up a drink at home. I really
reserve it for celebratory moments. I don't even really drink
if I go to dinner with friends on a Tuesday
or Wednesday, Like for me to have a drink, I'm
celebrating something. I maybe at a wedding, or I haven't
seen friends in a long time and we're getting together,
(02:56):
so we're gonna have a nice, you know, dinner and drink.
It's got to have that kind of celibratory feeling. Otherwise
I'm not really interested. And again that's just me. I'm
not judging anybody. It's just where I am in my life.
I drink a lot in my younger days to make
up for it, trust me, So that's just where I
am right now. I do love a good glass of wine.
(03:17):
I'm an Italian boy. I love a little champagne or
maybe tequila. But again I reserve it for when there
are more special moments, maybe on vacation for example.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So with all that being said.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I feel like I am constantly in a world where
alcohol is being shoved down my throat. I work in
the entertainment business, and perhaps this is similar to fields
that you work in. But there's always events and usually
there's always an alcohol bar, right, But they don't ever
have options if you don't want to drink, except for
club soda really or water. So it's always pushing the alcohol,
(03:50):
pushing the alcohol at every event you go to. I
travel a lot for work, and sometimes the kind people
at the hotel i'm staying at will send a little
welcome package to the room, and it's usually a bottle
of champagne or wine, which is very very nice. But
if I'm there for work and it's a quick trip
and I'm in that mentality of work mode, I'm definitely
not going to be drinking, so I feel bad, but
(04:11):
I usually leave the bottle exactly where it was on
the table. It's interesting that that's the go to gift
instead of being like, maybe we should send a nice
tea package or chocolate package or snacks whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Right, It's always alcohol.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And the most recent thing that got me thinking about
this is Geo and I were in Saint Bart's over
the summer, and the sweet sweet staff of this hotel,
La Buffalo lea Mei, which is a gorgeous place if
you need to check something out and you're visiting there,
they found an article online from earlier this year that
was celebrating ten years of same sex marriage. It was
(04:49):
in People magazine and they featured G and I as
one of the couples. So they wanted to celebrate that,
and they made our room really beautiful and special. And
they know our ten year wedding anniversaries coming up in April,
so they just treated us so beautifully. But with that,
they wanted to keep the celebrations going, so we would
go to breakfast at seven am. Yes we're early birds
and go to breakfast at seven am even on vacation,
(05:10):
don't judge us. And the kind kind weight stuff brought
over champagne, and I'm thinking, oh my god, it's seven am,
and again have I never have I ever had a
champaign at seven am? I'm sure I did at twenty
two or twenty three, like come on, but you know,
as two adult men, I'm thinking, what makes you think
(05:31):
I want champagne at seven am?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I need my tea, I need some caffeine. Your boys
gotta wake the fuck up. So now we have these
really big glasses of champagne on our table at seven am.
The entire weight stuff is beaming with pride. They're so excited,
they're so happy that they brought this over. And we're
looking at each other like we don't want to drink,
like what do we do? And furthermore, why are we
in this position?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Come on right?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So we took a little sip, so they saw us
take a tiny sip, and then I said, let's bring
it back to our hotel room. Will act like we're
going to go sit, you know, in our in our
little terrace area and enjoy some champagne at seven am.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So we did.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We told them, you know, we're going to take this
back to the room, and we went back to the
room and we dumped it down the drain. We just
didn't want to be rude because it was very sweet
and thoughtful and they were so excited, but we didn't
want to drink it. So it's just funny how alcohol
is everyone when you sit down at a restaurant. Now,
I feel like the first thing they say is like,
do you want to drink? Here's a wy men, here's
a cock, silen, you have a drink? Do you want
(06:29):
to drink? Can I get you a drink? Do you
want anything else besides water? Like they almost make it
awkward if you don't want to drink it now at
so many restaurants, it's always being thrown in our faces.
So my feeling is, if you don't want to drink
and you feel pressured to drink, just be honest, Just
say to people like no, thank you, and you don't
(06:51):
have to give an excuse. I did another time we
talk called the Power of No, and a big message
in that was don't give an excuse. It's no one's business.
You don't have to give an excuse. You don't have
to feel like, oh, I'm gonna hurt their feelings or
make They're gonna think I'm weird or lame or stupid
or boring. So I have to say something no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. You don't have to say any of that.
(07:11):
Just simply say I'm good, thank you, my god. It
was that easy. It was that easy. And sometimes you know,
you're best friends in the world. They're not gonna care.
They're not gonna put pressure on you if you don't
want to drink, like that's that's life. They don't give
a shit. But some friend groups do care, and I
find those are the friends you're not the closest too.
And I've had friend groups, you know, I've had a
(07:33):
bunch of guys coming up in the city in my
twenties and thirties, who would make it such a thing
if I didn't want to have a drink, you know,
called being called lame, you're so boring, you don't know
how to have fun. Well, I'm not gonna drink if
you're not going to drink. And it's like, well, whoa,
what does me not drinking have to do with you
not wanting to drink?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You're gonna try to peer pressure me to drink by saying, well,
I'm not going to have a drink now, and my
night he's ruined because you're not drinking.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
No. Guess what it did work for me years and
years and years ago. And then I would feel bad
and be like.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh man, all right, and it's just one whatever and
then I would wake up feeling like shit, and I
was so pissed I didn't have it. That's the other
thing with drinking. Now.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I'm thirty nine, and like.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Sometimes even two glasses of something it makes me not sleep.
I'm on sweating all night. I wake up a little off,
and I don't like the feeling. If I'm drinking, it's
got to be good alcohol and celibratory, and usually I'm
good with like one, and if I'm really wild, maybe
I have two. But anyway, you don't owe anybody an
explanation as to why you do or don't want to
(08:32):
drink periods, So your closest friends should understand. I find
the ones that aren't as close to the ones that
maybe give you a hard time about not drinking, And
guess what, I'm not really friends with those people anymore,
because over years and over time, I've realized we don't
have a ton in common anyway. And if all our
you know, hangouts are centered around alcohol and immense, immense
(08:55):
amounts of alcohol, well that's not really a friendship that
has substance. Like, you know, nothing going on in my life.
You don't ask me questions about anything, like what is
this I don't want to just get together with you
and drink like that's not fun. So anyway, the ones
that you're closest to, they won't care. They won't care.
And if you're in a work situation and you feel
pressure or there's you know, a big boss you're trying
(09:17):
to impress guys, guess what if you fill up a
glass with club soda and ice and even a splash
of cran to make it look like a mixed cocktail
and squeeze in some limes, like you gotta throw in
some limes, that really does the trick. Nobody's gonna know
you're not drinking. Just fake it and don't say anything.
Don't say anything, like if you feel uncomfortable having to
be like, oh, I'm not drinking to somebody that's you know,
(09:40):
a colleague or a boss or whatever, don't say it.
They're not gonna sniff your drink. They're not gonna take
a drink from your drink. Just be like, you know,
I got my drink, and if they acknowledge it, that's
what you say. And if they don't, great, But at
least you feel like you're you know, faking it. In
a situation where maybe you're not as comfortable saying you
don't want to drink and that it's just that, Like
(10:01):
I just I firmly believe I'm in this era now
of we got to stop explaining ourselves away. Do what
you want to do. It is your body, man Like,
if you don't want it, you don't want it. If
someone's gonna look at you crazy for it, well fuck them. Like,
I'm just so over this way that so many of
us are made to feel nowadays, where it's like we
(10:22):
have to make up a lie or an excuse or something. No,
it's your life. If you don't want to drink, you
don't want to drink, period, full stop. And I do
admit it takes a little bit of a of an
adjustment to get into that mentality, because again, you're so
conditioned to feel pressured or baally or like the other
or lame or stupid or not cool if you don't
(10:43):
want to have a drink that it takes a minute
to feel comfortable and confident saying I'm good, I'm totally good,
I'm totally good.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And then when you want one.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Great, you want one, but it's on your terms. It
is on your terms. You decide when you want to
have a drink no one else, and if they try
to just for you, I don't know, I maybe consider
what that friendship really really is. And I often find
people that like to excessively drink, which you know, rock on.
If that brings you pleasure, that's your choice in your life.
(11:12):
They sometimes don't want to do it alone. But that's
not your responsibility. That's not your responsibility. My bottom line
is you need to make a choice based on what
brings you happiness, and if it's not something you want
to do, just don't do it. Just don't do it.
But the good news is, as I told you, from
this little study that I read you earlier, I feel
so so a professor ish professor.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I don't even know what I'm saying at this point, but.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I feel like based off that study, more and more
people are not drinking and feeling more comfortable with not
doing it. So I think that's really cool and it
gives hope for the future that you do what you
want to do. Mocktail bars are popping up. Lots of
other drink options are becoming available in restaurant menus with
the mocktail section. A fair warning, be careful because a
(11:58):
lot of that is sugar, So it's interesting the shift.
There is definitely a shift that we are seeing and
we are feeling. And my bottom line with this Tommy
Talk is it's up to you whether you want a
drink or not. It's not up to colleagues, it's not
up to friends, it's not even up to your bestie.
Like you don't want to do something, don't do it.
It's that simple. Don't do it. You have someone that's
(12:20):
coming over for dinner and they want a glass of wine,
open that bottle of wine for them. You don't want it.
Have some tea, have a sparkling water, have whatever you want.
If you want to have a drink, have a drink.
If you don't want to have a drink, don't have
a drink. I am done with people feeling pressure and
being made to feel badly for not wanting one. So
bottom's up my friends, whether you are drinking or whether
(12:41):
you are not.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Have fun, enjoy your.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
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Hey, guys, Welcome to Tommy Talk. Today's topic is the
pressure to drink and how to handle it. So we
are diving into the world of alcohol now. First and foremost,
I am not judging anybody's drinking habits. Whether you drink
a little, a lot, or somewhere in between, that is
up to you, rock on to each of their own.
I am more interested in this Tommy Talk because I
(00:24):
feel like we are entering a new era and drinking
used to be so glorified and so highly kind of
talked about and praised as the most social thing you
can do with friends and loved ones. And there's a shift.
There's definitely a shift, but that shift is kind of
partially happening, right. I feel like there's a percentage of
(00:44):
the population shifting, and there's a percentage of the population
that is not shifting. And what I find is I
am often in situations where drinking is expected or glorified,
or you're made to feel like you're strange for not drinking.
And I think it's a really interesting topic because whether
or not you drink a little or a lot, as
(01:05):
I said, sometimes you just don't want to drink, but
there's always pressure put on us by people, by society,
and there's a way I think that we can handle
that so that we don't feel so awkward. So, first
of all, there's a study that came out that's very
very interesting from the National Institute on Drug Abuse which
shows that lifetime drinking, past month drinking, and past year
(01:28):
drinking among young people began to decline around the year
two thousand. So that means that such you know, declients
have especially impacted Generation z akagen Z what's up gen Z,
which is defined as anyone born from ninety seven to
twenty twelve, and even millennials born from eighty one to
nineteen ninety six. So today's generations, younger generations, I should say,
(01:52):
are just drinking less and less and less. So why
is alcohol still being thrown in our faces? I'm going
to give you a couple examples in my life where
it's just always around and I am not a huge
drinker anymore, don't get me wrong. In my twenties, Tommy
in his twenties had some fun that was like the
(02:13):
clubbing heyday where for all my New Yorkers I would
go to Marquis and Stereo and Bungalow eight and home
in bed and would party and drink and have fun.
And I'm not going to deny I had a great
time in my twenties and I definitely got out my partying.
But now, you know, I'm just not as interested. If
(02:36):
I'm drinking now, it's never at home, Like, I just
don't ever open up a drink at home. I really
reserve it for celebratory moments. I don't even really drink
if I go to dinner with friends on a Tuesday
or Wednesday, Like for me to have a drink, I'm
celebrating something. I maybe at a wedding, or I haven't
seen friends in a long time and we're getting together,
(02:56):
so we're gonna have a nice, you know, dinner and drink.
It's got to have that kind of celibratory feeling. Otherwise
I'm not really interested. And again that's just me. I'm
not judging anybody. It's just where I am in my life.
I drink a lot in my younger days to make
up for it, trust me, So that's just where I
am right now. I do love a good glass of wine.
(03:17):
I'm an Italian boy. I love a little champagne or
maybe tequila. But again I reserve it for when there
are more special moments, maybe on vacation for example.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So with all that being said.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I feel like I am constantly in a world where
alcohol is being shoved down my throat. I work in
the entertainment business, and perhaps this is similar to fields
that you work in. But there's always events and usually
there's always an alcohol bar, right, But they don't ever
have options if you don't want to drink, except for
club soda really or water. So it's always pushing the alcohol,
(03:50):
pushing the alcohol at every event you go to. I
travel a lot for work, and sometimes the kind people
at the hotel i'm staying at will send a little
welcome package to the room, and it's usually a bottle
of champagne or wine, which is very very nice. But
if I'm there for work and it's a quick trip
and I'm in that mentality of work mode, I'm definitely
not going to be drinking, so I feel bad, but
(04:11):
I usually leave the bottle exactly where it was on
the table. It's interesting that that's the go to gift
instead of being like, maybe we should send a nice
tea package or chocolate package or snacks whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Right, It's always alcohol.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And the most recent thing that got me thinking about
this is Geo and I were in Saint Bart's over
the summer, and the sweet sweet staff of this hotel,
La Buffalo lea Mei, which is a gorgeous place if
you need to check something out and you're visiting there,
they found an article online from earlier this year that
was celebrating ten years of same sex marriage. It was
(04:49):
in People magazine and they featured G and I as
one of the couples. So they wanted to celebrate that,
and they made our room really beautiful and special. And
they know our ten year wedding anniversaries coming up in April,
so they just treated us so beautifully. But with that,
they wanted to keep the celebrations going, so we would
go to breakfast at seven am. Yes we're early birds
and go to breakfast at seven am even on vacation,
(05:10):
don't judge us. And the kind kind weight stuff brought
over champagne, and I'm thinking, oh my god, it's seven am,
and again have I never have I ever had a
champaign at seven am? I'm sure I did at twenty
two or twenty three, like come on, but you know,
as two adult men, I'm thinking, what makes you think
(05:31):
I want champagne at seven am?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I need my tea, I need some caffeine. Your boys
gotta wake the fuck up. So now we have these
really big glasses of champagne on our table at seven am.
The entire weight stuff is beaming with pride. They're so excited,
they're so happy that they brought this over. And we're
looking at each other like we don't want to drink,
like what do we do? And furthermore, why are we
in this position?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Come on right?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So we took a little sip, so they saw us
take a tiny sip, and then I said, let's bring
it back to our hotel room. Will act like we're
going to go sit, you know, in our in our
little terrace area and enjoy some champagne at seven am.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So we did.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We told them, you know, we're going to take this
back to the room, and we went back to the
room and we dumped it down the drain. We just
didn't want to be rude because it was very sweet
and thoughtful and they were so excited, but we didn't
want to drink it. So it's just funny how alcohol
is everyone when you sit down at a restaurant. Now,
I feel like the first thing they say is like,
do you want to drink? Here's a wy men, here's
a cock, silen, you have a drink? Do you want
(06:29):
to drink? Can I get you a drink? Do you
want anything else besides water? Like they almost make it
awkward if you don't want to drink it now at
so many restaurants, it's always being thrown in our faces.
So my feeling is, if you don't want to drink
and you feel pressured to drink, just be honest, Just
say to people like no, thank you, and you don't
(06:51):
have to give an excuse. I did another time we
talk called the Power of No, and a big message
in that was don't give an excuse. It's no one's business.
You don't have to give an excuse. You don't have
to feel like, oh, I'm gonna hurt their feelings or
make They're gonna think I'm weird or lame or stupid
or boring. So I have to say something no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. You don't have to say any of that.
(07:11):
Just simply say I'm good, thank you, my god. It
was that easy. It was that easy. And sometimes you know,
you're best friends in the world. They're not gonna care.
They're not gonna put pressure on you if you don't
want to drink, like that's that's life. They don't give
a shit. But some friend groups do care, and I
find those are the friends you're not the closest too.
And I've had friend groups, you know, I've had a
(07:33):
bunch of guys coming up in the city in my
twenties and thirties, who would make it such a thing
if I didn't want to have a drink, you know,
called being called lame, you're so boring, you don't know
how to have fun. Well, I'm not gonna drink if
you're not going to drink. And it's like, well, whoa,
what does me not drinking have to do with you
not wanting to drink?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You're gonna try to peer pressure me to drink by saying, well,
I'm not going to have a drink now, and my
night he's ruined because you're not drinking.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
No. Guess what it did work for me years and
years and years ago. And then I would feel bad
and be like.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh man, all right, and it's just one whatever and
then I would wake up feeling like shit, and I
was so pissed I didn't have it. That's the other
thing with drinking. Now.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I'm thirty nine, and like.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Sometimes even two glasses of something it makes me not sleep.
I'm on sweating all night. I wake up a little off,
and I don't like the feeling. If I'm drinking, it's
got to be good alcohol and celibratory, and usually I'm
good with like one, and if I'm really wild, maybe
I have two. But anyway, you don't owe anybody an
explanation as to why you do or don't want to
(08:32):
drink periods, So your closest friends should understand. I find
the ones that aren't as close to the ones that
maybe give you a hard time about not drinking, And
guess what, I'm not really friends with those people anymore,
because over years and over time, I've realized we don't
have a ton in common anyway. And if all our
you know, hangouts are centered around alcohol and immense, immense
(08:55):
amounts of alcohol, well that's not really a friendship that
has substance. Like, you know, nothing going on in my life.
You don't ask me questions about anything, like what is
this I don't want to just get together with you
and drink like that's not fun. So anyway, the ones
that you're closest to, they won't care. They won't care.
And if you're in a work situation and you feel
pressure or there's you know, a big boss you're trying
(09:17):
to impress guys, guess what if you fill up a
glass with club soda and ice and even a splash
of cran to make it look like a mixed cocktail
and squeeze in some limes, like you gotta throw in
some limes, that really does the trick. Nobody's gonna know
you're not drinking. Just fake it and don't say anything.
Don't say anything, like if you feel uncomfortable having to
be like, oh, I'm not drinking to somebody that's you know,
(09:40):
a colleague or a boss or whatever, don't say it.
They're not gonna sniff your drink. They're not gonna take
a drink from your drink. Just be like, you know,
I got my drink, and if they acknowledge it, that's
what you say. And if they don't, great, But at
least you feel like you're you know, faking it. In
a situation where maybe you're not as comfortable saying you
don't want to drink and that it's just that, Like
(10:01):
I just I firmly believe I'm in this era now
of we got to stop explaining ourselves away. Do what
you want to do. It is your body, man Like,
if you don't want it, you don't want it. If
someone's gonna look at you crazy for it, well fuck them. Like,
I'm just so over this way that so many of
us are made to feel nowadays, where it's like we
(10:22):
have to make up a lie or an excuse or something. No,
it's your life. If you don't want to drink, you
don't want to drink, period, full stop. And I do
admit it takes a little bit of a of an
adjustment to get into that mentality, because again, you're so
conditioned to feel pressured or baally or like the other
or lame or stupid or not cool if you don't
(10:43):
want to have a drink that it takes a minute
to feel comfortable and confident saying I'm good, I'm totally good,
I'm totally good.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And then when you want one.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Great, you want one, but it's on your terms. It
is on your terms. You decide when you want to
have a drink no one else, and if they try
to just for you, I don't know, I maybe consider
what that friendship really really is. And I often find
people that like to excessively drink, which you know, rock on.
If that brings you pleasure, that's your choice in your life.
(11:12):
They sometimes don't want to do it alone. But that's
not your responsibility. That's not your responsibility. My bottom line
is you need to make a choice based on what
brings you happiness, and if it's not something you want
to do, just don't do it. Just don't do it.
But the good news is, as I told you, from
this little study that I read you earlier, I feel
so so a professor ish professor.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I don't even know what I'm saying at this point, but.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I feel like based off that study, more and more
people are not drinking and feeling more comfortable with not
doing it. So I think that's really cool and it
gives hope for the future that you do what you
want to do. Mocktail bars are popping up. Lots of
other drink options are becoming available in restaurant menus with
the mocktail section. A fair warning, be careful because a
(11:58):
lot of that is sugar, So it's interesting the shift.
There is definitely a shift that we are seeing and
we are feeling. And my bottom line with this Tommy
Talk is it's up to you whether you want a
drink or not. It's not up to colleagues, it's not
up to friends, it's not even up to your bestie.
Like you don't want to do something, don't do it.
It's that simple. Don't do it. You have someone that's
(12:20):
coming over for dinner and they want a glass of wine,
open that bottle of wine for them. You don't want it.
Have some tea, have a sparkling water, have whatever you want.
If you want to have a drink, have a drink.
If you don't want to have a drink, don't have
a drink. I am done with people feeling pressure and
being made to feel badly for not wanting one. So
bottom's up my friends, whether you are drinking or whether
(12:41):
you are not.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Have fun, enjoy your.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Choices, and don't let anyone tell you how to run
your damn life. I've never said this before. Is hosted
by me Tommy Didario. This podcast is executive produced by
Andrew Puglisi at iHeartRadio and by Me Tommy, with editing
by Joshua Colaudney. I've Never Said this Before is part
(13:05):
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