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The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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“This is truly one of the funniest and most unexpected stories of the young year so far.”

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0:00.0	Hi, Casey.
0:01.0	Hello, Kevin.
0:02.4	How's it gone?
0:03.0	Well, you know, it's going all right.
0:05.0	There's a lot of, you know, sad news in the world right now.
0:08.9	Of course, you know, my thoughts are with everyone affected by these LA wildfires.
0:12.6	And whenever something bad has happened this month, I just think, I can't believe they're doing this to us during dry January.
0:18.8	You know what I mean?
0:20.3	I'm doing dry January this year.
0:23.1	And, um, you know. How's it going? Well, the unfortunate news is that it's going fantastic.
0:28.2	I had sort of assumed that, you know, each day I would wake up thinking like, oh, you know,
0:33.7	it would be nice to crack open a beer with my friends tonight or something.
0:38.1	But instead, I'm just like, I feel so incredibly well rested.
0:41.4	Aw.
0:41.7	So that has been an interesting learning.
0:44.1	Do you plan to continue it beyond January?
0:45.7	Well, yeah, I mean, I don't think I'm going to go 100% dry, but I have actually been
0:49.4	thinking about, like, what if I did it like a dry February too?
0:52.3	So I don't know.
0:52.9	I don't know. I don't know. Changes could be on the horizon. What would happen to your wine tap? I might have to replace it with
0:58.0	seltzer or something. Dramatic. It could be crazy. The horror.
1:07.8	I'm Kevin Drews, a tech columnist at the New York Times. I'm Casey Noon from Platformer.
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