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But without further ado, my name is Will Defrees, and this is the Sunday Scaries Podcast,

New York here for the Sunday Blues.

It's difficult to quantify the benefits we get from our guilty pleasures.

I could make the case that a couple glasses of red wine on a Thursday night are really

a wash.

While they feel comforting as they go down the hatch, there are also the downsides, the

calories, the disruption, and sleep, and the fact that I have a half bottle of wine left

over that I'm obligated to finish the next night.

Oh no.

But that's exactly why these guilty pleasures are what they are.

Without any downside, the guilt gets washed away and we'd all become glutton who don't

know right from wrong.

For me, there's no better time to lean into these guilty pleasures than over these colder

months.

Between the seasonal depression, the lack of sun in the sky, and those cold nights huddled

at home in favor of going out.

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