Drink Less and Prosper

The Wirecutter Show

The New York Times

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4.4 • 894 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.
0:08.0	Hey, everyone, it's The Wirecutter Show.
0:10.4	I'm Cairo Blackwell.
0:11.8	I'm Christine Cyr Clissette.
0:13.3	And I'm Rosie Garron, and we work at Wirecutter, the product recommendation site from the New York Times.
0:19.4	Each week, we bring you expert advice from our newsroom of 140 journalists who review everyday products that will make your life better.
0:27.7	This episode of The Wirecutter Show is called Drink Less and Prosper.
0:39.7	Happy New Year, Pels. Happy year.
0:40.6	Wow, 2025.
0:42.3	Here we come.
0:43.6	We're on off with a bang.
0:44.5	Yeah, we're living in the future.
0:45.8	What are your resolutions?
0:47.1	Will either of you be doing dry January?
0:50.3	Well, it is January.
0:51.8	The years I've tried, I feel like I've failed so completely that I don't want to actually commit.
0:57.8	Do you, does that I also like the idea of not committing?
1:00.4	Completely resonant. That's why I don't make resolution.
1:05.2	Well, dry January is something that a lot of folks are doing. And I get it, actually. I really do because I've
1:13.0	consistently been seeing reporting every month. It just seems like more and more research comes
1:18.1	out about how bad drinking is for us. I find this devastating. It's really bad. Can we not have anything
1:24.1	anymore? Like nothing. Yeah, life can't be fun. Okay. I feel like that's, yeah,
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