Today on the Dennis Michael Lynch show, it's the Life After 50 episode. It's our first one of the season. Mary's here with me, and it's going to be all unfiltered.

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Hello, I'm Dennis Michael Lynch, and I thank you for joining me today.

Sitting across from me is the beautiful Miss Mary.

All right, maybe I'm a little biased.

Uber beautiful, some people would say.

And we are diving into our first episode here of Life After 50, which is a replacement for the Wine and Talk because my wife no longer drinks. No. All right. So it's been a year since you've drank. Give me the short answer on this one. Do you feel better? Do you miss it at all a little bit? I feel better. No, I don't miss it.

Really? You don't miss it at all? No, I'm a, I'm a very social person, so I, even when I drank, I didn't really drink a lot. Yeah, no, there was no difference in your demeanor. No, I don't, I don't know. I'm very social. I have no problem having fun. We're out in a group. I don't need alcohol to to help it. Aren't you special?

You know, the... no problem having fun. We're out in a group. I don't need alcohol to help it.

Aren't you special? You know, the, uh, it's good. Since this happened to you,

I've drank less often. When I do drink, I drink more, you know, when I'm having the short stint.

At least that was, I would say, prior to August.

And then when we went away in August, we went with the intention of we just wanted a break.

Really couldn't do a lot of activity because you were still with the cane at that point. And, you know, I track my steps. The month of August, I did more steps than I did any

of the month. And I had only drank maybe two times, three times, that whole entire month. And I said,

wow, you know, I'm on vacation. I usually would drink every day.

Yeah. We're not getting hammered. We're just having a couple of glasses of wine. Glass of wine here or there. We didn't do it. No. And when I came home, people said, how was the trip? I said, it's one of the best trips I've ever had. Yeah. And when I thought of that, I said, you know, I don't have to do this.

I don't need to do the cocktails.

So I have

cut back significantly and I have not drank since the new year. Yeah. In fact, even 10 days.

But it's 10 days. It's a milestone for you. It's a milestone for me.

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