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And to end our show today, for our last 15 minutes, we turn to dry January.

That's the sobriety challenge to abstain from alcohol for this whole month that many people are undertaking. So now that we're

halfway through dry January, we're opening up the phones for any of you who are participating

to call in and say how it's going. 212-433 WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-9-2, or you can text that number. At the top of the show, I said we're going to start

and end the program today on the topic of alcohol. And we heard back at 10 o'clock from U.S.

Surgeon General Vivek Morthy about his recent report that says alcohol is a leading preventable

cause of cancer. The report even calls for

alcoholic beverages to carry a warning label. Congress would have to enact that. If you miss

that conversation, go back and take a listen on the WNIC website or app or your favorite podcast

platform. But here's one very short bite that might set up your dry January calls.

Many of us, myself included when I was in medical training about 25 years ago,

we're taught that, hey, drinking may be good for your help as long as you drink around one

or two drinks a day or less. It turns out that is a lot more complicated than we had

thought.

So there was Surgeon General Murphy earlier in the show.

The report that was published this month, likely after you made the pledge to abstain from alcohol, came out and a lot of people are talking about it.

And I wonder, has that had any impact on your choice to participate in dry January, or maybe at least it has steeled your resolve?

Maybe you already knew generally how alcohol can negatively affect your body, but this report

has extra significance to you. 212-433, WNRC,

212, 433-9692. If you're doing dry January, how's it going? What made you decide to do it this year?

212-433-9692. And maybe even today on day 16,

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