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let's get into the show. No amount of alcohol is good for you, right? Alcohol is poison, and we put it

into our body and we, that the body has to deal with it.

The reason why we do that is because we get a pretty good feeling, right?

Once you get a couple of drinks and you, it feels, for most of us, it feels good.

So, but today we realize that none of that stuff, a glass of red wine is good for you.

None of that is true anymore.

Research has done it.

I've talked about it.

And I just know that I have kids in their 30s, and both of them do a lot of, first of all, neither one of them are alcoholic.

And both of them do a lot of sobriety thinking.

I'm not going to do, like we're not going to drink.

We're going to have, you know, non-alcoholic drinks, or whatever.

Like, they're very much aware of alcohol use in their lives.

Do you really need to have to lose it all to get sober?

You need to end up in jail, rehab, or a hospital bed first?

Well, this episode is for anybody wondering, are things bad enough?

I think, Steve, that if you're asking that question, they might already be bad enough.

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