426: Would You Still Drink If It Wasn’t Fancy?
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
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🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The hidden influence of "drinking the good stuff" is shaping your relationship with alcohol in surprising ways. As you upgrade your drink choices to fancy wines, craft beers, or top-shelf spirits, you might notice thought patterns around waste and value that are driving overconsumption.
Our beliefs about what constitutes "good" alcohol trace back to ancient times, when Greeks first established wine as an elite drink compared to the beer consumed by common people. These age-old status distinctions continue influencing modern drinking habits, as many of you feel compelled to finish expensive or rare drinks rather than "waste" them – even when you've had enough.
Listen in this week to learn how labeling certain drinks as special, rare, or healthy impacts your consumption patterns and makes changing your drinking habits more challenging. Understanding this is what allows you to question whether the "good stuff" narrative truly serves you, or if it's simply marketing and social conditioning getting in the way of mindful drinking.
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| 0:00.0 | What if part of the reason you overdrink has nothing to do with alcohol's intoxicating effects or a lack of willpower, but an aversion to waste? |
| 0:07.9 | Whether it's an expensive bottle of biodynamic wine or small batch bourbon, we're taught to believe that certain drinks are more special and shouldn't be wasted. |
| 0:16.2 | And it's true, there are, of course, differences in quality and craftsmanship. |
| 0:20.3 | But what if the story of the |
| 0:21.3 | drink is actually what's clouding your judgment? This is episode 426, and I'm exploring the |
| 0:27.0 | hidden drawbacks of drinking the good stuff. Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, |
| 0:33.5 | this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. |
| 0:40.9 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:44.3 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire |
| 0:49.3 | and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:52.1 | Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 1:05.8 | Well, hello, my friends. We are back for another episode and talking today about drinking the good stuff. So when I say the good stuff, maybe it is that really fancy bottle of wine or the |
| 1:13.0 | rare limited edition scotch, whatever the good stuff means for you. We're going to be talking |
| 1:18.2 | about how it impacts the habit and impacts your ability to change your relationship with |
| 1:25.2 | alcohol and change your desire. because I think this is a very |
| 1:28.1 | under-discussed part of why it can be hard to change. Now, I will tell you this. I did not start |
| 1:36.7 | out drinking the good stuff. I started out drinking when I was in college. I was 17. I was |
| 1:41.6 | going to frat parties, and I was drinking Hawaiian punch and grain alcohol in red |
| 1:45.7 | plastic cups. I was drinking things like Mike's hard lemonade. But in my late 20s, I started |
| 1:53.6 | drinking what I thought was the good stuff. So my taste matured. So I became picky about the gin that I would drink or picky about what exactly |
| 2:05.5 | went into one of my fancy cocktails. I remember that I started spending money on buying real |
| 2:11.2 | mereschino cherries. So not like the bright red one that you get on top of a Sunday, but like |
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