The cut. The cut. The cut. The cut. The cut. The cut.

I used to think that I wasn't that into drinking. I could kind of take or leave it because I like people and I like to go out.

And so I just thought having some drinks was a function of that.

But then it started during the pandemic.

Where suddenly a date didn't really feel like it was over until I had poured myself over Muthin Kampari.

Or a glass of wine.

Or a whiskey on the rocks.

And suddenly I was like, wait, am I more into drinking than I thought?

Or am I drinking because that's kind of the only thing to do and everyone is doing it.

It's just like this is what quarantine culture has been.

Let's get strength. Just like mom and dad.

There's that SNL sketch, this new and halfway movie called In Lockdown.

Since lockdown, David has been drinking so much more.

Yes, David isn't it wonderful.

And this is all pretty hard to laugh through if you have a history with addiction, like writer Emily McCombs.

And the early days I had to stop going on social media because everyone was just showing their wine stockpiles

and pouring their cocktails.

Happy hour, get together, everybody have a drink on Zoom.

Emily thought this will surely get old.

And I thought so too.

I mean, I assumed this episode would be timed with dry January.

I saw a lot of like, okay, dry January's cancelled.

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