Bottled Up: Your Stories About Alcohol
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Podcasts
4.6 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We asked you about your relationships with alcohol—why you drink, or don't, the strategies you use to manage your consumption, and what alcohol brings you besides a buzz. Here's what you told us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Anna. Wherever you are, we hope you are finding some pockets of relaxation and |
| 0:05.9 | cool this summer. We've been hearing from a lot of you lately in our email inbox. |
| 0:10.7 | Some of you are sharing your experiences of a strangement with us. Others of you are |
| 0:14.6 | describing your personal style transformations as we are gathering again in public after |
| 0:19.9 | so much time apart. And we're also hearing your fears after the Supreme Court overturned |
| 0:24.8 | Roe versus Wade. And your questions when it comes to student loans and public service |
| 0:29.4 | loan forgiveness as federal student loan payments are set to resume at the end of August after |
| 0:34.6 | being on pause since the start of the pandemic. All of this comes in through our email inbox |
| 0:40.4 | at deathsexmoneyatwnyc.org. And our ongoing conversation with you is what makes this show |
| 0:45.9 | so special. So thank you for being a part of our listening community. Whether you're |
| 0:49.6 | new or have been here for years, we love being able to ask you big. Sometimes sense |
| 0:54.7 | of questions and to hear the stories you share back with us. Again, that email is death |
| 0:59.4 | sex money at wnyc.org. And as we sort through the latest stories and questions you're sending |
| 1:05.2 | us and we work on some episodes that will be coming out soon, we thought we'd share |
| 1:09.6 | another episode with you based on stories you told us. This one is about drinking and |
| 1:14.0 | alcohol use. This episode first ran in 2019 pre-pandemic, which obviously feels like |
| 1:20.0 | a really different time. And since then, in the first year of the pandemic, deaths related |
| 1:25.2 | to alcohol use increased in the United States by 25%. So we thought it'd be a good time |
| 1:31.0 | to listen back to this episode to hear our shared experiences of drinking, not drinking. |
| 1:36.7 | When some of you realized it was time to cut back, we hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:42.0 | I always wondered when I was going to get my adult card. You know, you think it's going |
| 1:45.6 | to be 18 and then at 21. And really now I'm thinking maybe 34 is when I got my adult |
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