From WNYC, New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

We're actually off this week,

so we offer you a delicious replay of our special hour about ethanol.

As in spirits, sauce, swill, grog, vino, flunk, blanc suds bubbles booze a wee dram the devil's blue we condemn it they want your sweet innocent girls to take the booze so they can be enticed into honkytunks by slick-haired vultures who prey on the fall of American womanhood.

Alcohol must go!

Revel in it!

Throughout the Middle Ages, drunkenness was so common it was unnoticed.

They called it the Middle Ages because no one was able to walk home

unless they were between two other fellows.

I was the middle guy.

We fear it.

It goes by the nicknames blackout in a can and liquid cocaine.

It's the equivalent of four beers, a red bull, and a shot of espresso.

The caffeine masks the alcohol, creating what the FDA calls wide-awake drunks.

You can get very drunk, very fast, very cheaply.

Maggie?

Very scary.

We need it.

My fur coat,

oh, Lord, ain't it cold?

But I'm not going to holler,

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