Hey everyone Ben Cooper Radio what is happening as is the theme with a lot of these

podcasts during this lockdown period we're kind of ignoring it like it's just happening but just you know to pretend it's not there

let's just look to move forward let's look to improve areas of our lives that we can

let's look to muse and we will be doing that today. There's not many guests

that return to the show. There's probably been about six over the years that have returned to the show,

but I was watching Chris I was watching his Instagram stories the

other day and he was talking about a topic I've been thinking about a lot about

recently and it's been covered in the news quite a bit because obviously people are locked at home and

what's now happening is our kind of habits, our beliefs, our environments, they've kind of compounded, they've intensified because we're at home.

And whether that's a positive or a negative thing, it's either become more positive or more negative.

And I thought the topic of alcohol and our relationship with it was something that I wanted to go further down the rabbit hole with and on the first episode of this show with Chris

We talked about it. We only really spent sort of about 10 minutes on it and having watched

Chris's Instagram story. No, it was just a post on Instagram I think I was like yes

Let's go there Chris get back on the show so

Chris Williamson welcome back to the show. Great on a mate doubled up two episodes

what can I say yeah man absolute pleasure to be back on and looking forward to

talking about something that I spend a lot of time thinking about so yeah let's get into it

why do you continue to think about it? I think that a lot of people's alcohol use is habituated rather than chosen.

That's the bottom line.

I think most people drink because other people did and then they started to

which a societal norm and then

re-roll the clock forward by five years or ten years or fifteen years or 20 years and you've taken a drug, to call it what it is, alcohol is a drug, you've taken a drug more frequently than once every fortnight for decades.

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