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MJTV: Are You Participating in Dry January?
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00:00now froggy have you ever participated in dry january uh last year i was dry for like six
00:08months but it got real old real quick why did you go dry for six months last year just to just to
00:14dry out you know and to dry out for a half a year were you in a program no not in a program i just
00:21you know just a little challenge myself did you have to have a talk where she's like i think you
00:25have a problem did you have to like apologize to people i'm so sorry no no i just thought uh i
00:32just thought it was time for a little break you know we're doing the show again it was hard to get
00:35up and then i started losing too much weight speaking about pound land you're just getting
00:42pounded every night on your your jameson's irish whiskey in canadian club of course but no yes i
00:49i i'm gonna be uh dry this january i'm trying roxanne do you ever do dry january or do you
00:55have any friends that have ever done dry january i've never done it i know a lot of people who do
00:59it and i started on january 3rd what's the point yesterday wait a sec wait a sec so you you're
01:09actually doing dry january this year starting yesterday i missed the first two days are you
01:13serious yeah i'm serious dry january so coincidentally i i chose this to talk about we did not have any
01:21pre-planning on this one we didn't talk about this so i'm doing the dry january story and you
01:26legitimately started your dry january yesterday i started yesterday i just looked back at my
01:32consumption over the holidays and said you know what time to dry out well maybe listen if you're
01:38thinking that pound land is a sex shop maybe you did have a little too much to drink over the holidays
01:42you know you know january doesn't start on the third hold on did you know like were you so drunk
01:47over the holidays you neglected your kids no no i spent a lot a lot of quality time with my children
01:53was children and families involved at all during this no dcf was not involved no no yet yes are you
02:00sure all right i want to go to phones on this folks let's go to phones on dry january i'd love to hear
02:06from you the mj morning show listener i want to hear from you 800-990-1047 800-990-1047
02:18if you do dry january do you do it every year i'd like to know what does dry january do for you
02:26now are you a heavy drinker i want to really run the the spectrum here i'd like to just get calls from
02:32a bunch of listeners and tell us about your experience with dry january where you just
02:38stop drinking for the entire month of january the question and what i saw was does dry january
02:45actually improve your health the number to get a hold of us is 800-990-1047 800-990-1047
02:56tell me about your drinking tell me about you abstaining during january have you done it in
03:04the past you're not doing it now what are the pros what are the cons does it really change things for
03:11you because the story i have is does dry january actually improve your health and month-long public
03:20health campaign encourages people to abstain from alcohol as a way to improve your health but the
03:29question is are there actual benefits from going dry during this month not partaking in alcoholic
03:37beverage consumption experts say yes there is a benefit but it's not an absolute must that everyone
03:46needs to observe ultimately sober months like dry january can be harmless for the majority of the
03:52population who do not have a severe alcohol use disorder says dr denny carise the chief science
04:00officer at recovery centers of america oh wow diagnoses are characterized as mild moderate or severe
04:07those who drink heavily could encounter very serious health risks when quitting abruptly
04:13yeah cold turkey so the recovery center is telling heavy drinkers if you've got a problem
04:20don't just stop don't just stop cold turkey you go into some kind of withdrawal well if you're a heavy
04:25drinker you're not just gonna partake in sober january all right now if you are if you are
04:31participant what'd you say if you're a serious drinker you're not gonna partake in sober january you're
04:36an alcoholic you get shakes probably all right now if if you're thinking about doing dry january
04:41there are health considerations i'm gonna get to that in just a minute i want to go to phone calls
04:46first year phones just blew up on this all right dry january let me grab mick the brit is it oh it's
04:56it's i know mick mick mick the brit from london hey mick mick called while i was over in london i
05:02called uh or uh mick called me hey mick hey uh mj how you doing this morning and hello the fester
05:09and froggy there oh and roxanne we are laughing our bottoms off with what you thought pound land
05:17would hey mick do you go to pound land a lot yeah and you know what i like to do i go how much is
05:24it's like a pound i go what about this pound and just go around the shop driving me crazy
05:30by the way the current pound it's it's about a buck 25 so a pound is about a dollar 25 is is what it is
05:38yeah that's right so so mick thanks for calling me by the way while i was over in london and you
05:43might have heard a few minutes ago michelle is sitting at heathrow uh gatwick actually gatwick
05:47michelle's at gatwick right now sitting on a ba flight coming to tampa yeah that's an awesome flight
05:52uh mj i've done that myself a few times because as you know i live there in tampa there so gatwick's
05:5925 miles from where i live and where i lived in largo because i was largonian uh it was 25 miles away
06:06is also from tpa yeah all right so mick what is your alcohol consumption like and have you ever done dry
06:11january it's high and no never and especially with all these uh uh germs around no of course all right so
06:20mick are you a pint drinker do you like going to the the pubs and drinking you know uh oh yeah is
06:26that your deal you're you're a pint drinker oh absolutely yes yes definitely i'll be going out
06:31later on this afternoon yeah mick is an anything drinker that's great good for mick hey hey mick
06:38great to hear from you buddy all right i'm glad you got back safe and sound with uh half the family
06:44and obviously we'll be making sure that michelle gets back there to tampa as well so uh god bless
06:49i'm glad everything worked out for you thank you so chloe is midair right now chloe's on delta flight
06:5431 to atlanta right now and michelle's getting ready to push back on british airs uh airways to tampa
07:00mick i'll talk to you soon thank you all right 800-990-1047 800-990-1047 let me grab pam in valrico
07:09pam are you a dry january adhery are you uh quitting alcohol consumption are you insane
07:18first of all what that might as well be dead january let's just skip the month and go to
07:25valentine's day no no and roxanne i love you anyway i'm just putting that out there uh no why don't
07:33anybody no sorry i drink mick ultra which is like water beer my friends make fun of me but you know what
07:39uh guess what hates uh alcohol covet hates alcohol so i'm in there man no hello on
07:46dry might as well be dead take january away you know what great attitude pam are you
07:51pam are you taking anything else no no no no that is my one vice i mean are you kidding me
07:58mick ultra is my one vice there are people out there doing heroin and meth it's crazy out there
08:04i can't even imagine driving or i've never even heard of it so you just said that i don't even know
08:09what that is she's rationalizing her vices yes good job dry all right so i hope you guys had a happy
08:15new year and a great time in london what a great place to be i've been there quite a few times and
08:19it's beautiful i'm glad you guys had a great trip thank you pam and enjoy your mick mick ultra during
08:25mj i think pam is drunk i will because craziness is out there it's the only thing to keep me sane and
08:31from not blowing somebody's eyeball out i love you guys man she's drunk now she's drunk right now
08:37did you say wait a minute did you say that mick hold on did you say mick ultra and your consumption
08:43is the only thing from keeping you from blowing people's eyeballs out i think she said pulling yes you
08:49have no idea people are horrible drivers they're mean everybody's nasty i gotta fight i can go fight
08:53with a garbage guy yesterday he didn't want to take my recycle bed wait a minute you got into a fight
08:58with the wait wait a second you're a drunken menace man probably because there were 17 000 cans of
09:04mick ultra in your recycling there were a few there were a few i also collect from the neighbors
09:10so it's not all me i'm a recycling aholic not you know i recycle everybody's stuff i had to chase
09:17the garbage guy right down the road so tell me about this fight that you had with the recycling
09:21guy he's so young i'm like are you gonna take my recycling and he's like yelling back at me i'm
09:28going what are you insane i mean i think he was drinking that early in the morning anyway no dry
09:33january maybe some people should do it but not me it wouldn't be ugly it would be ugly people would
09:38hate me pam thanks for the call i can see how they love you now all right the question is how many
09:44of our mj morning show listeners are doing dry january have you ever done dry january where you
09:51you stop alcohol consumption during the month of january have you done it in the past are you
09:56continuing this month or have you done it once and you're not doing it again tell me about your dry
10:02january and have you noticed a health advantage has any when you've done dry january in the past when
10:08you quit drinking for the month of january has your health gotten better have you ever noticed
10:13anything positive that's changed 800-990-1047 800-990-1047 i wonder if there are less duis in
10:24january doubtful you know what that's a that's a good question that is actually a very good point let
10:29me go back to phones here sherry is in spring hill hello sherry you're on the mj morning show on q105
10:34good morning guys hey yes i started it but before i tell you this story the lady before me
10:41love her garbage guys think they're freaking prima donna
10:46wait a minute i'm hearing quotes i'm hearing quotes on the show today that i've never heard in my life
10:56garbage guys garbage guys think they're prima donnas with do me a favor sherry explain that to me
11:02my recycle guys they won't take my stuff unless i have a friggin bow on my boxes if i have one lid
11:12out of my recycle bin for boxes they leave it and i'm like what the hell you guys get paid a lot of
11:21money for picking up my shit all right all right sherry listen none of these colors are partaking
11:27sherry let's not get so loose sherry just dropped sherry just dropped the s-bomb okay
11:34i'm sorry you sure you i i had to dump that you sherry you can't drop the s-bomb that's a naughty
11:40word i'm sorry i i'm military and it's like actually no excuse hi how are you okay so listen
11:48so are you anyhow i started dry january about 20 years ago when my father-in-law said oh my god
11:58everybody's drunk again so i never did now i'm nicknamed the key totaler in my family
12:07and i just sit around and watch everybody be jerk
12:10yeah okay god you're so mad sherry what what happens february 1st i think sherry is like pam's
12:18sister the first caller that's why they're getting along i know that's why sherry loves her
12:23thank you sherry thanks for the call i appreciate it let me grab tamra in bradenton tamra you're on
12:30the mj morning show do you do dry january yes i do and how long have you done dry january
12:39um i actually just started a couple years ago when i got diagnosed with breast cancer
12:43um i participate in it i and it actually does improve your health it improves your breathing
12:49and all that you're sleeping everything now tamra if you don't mind me asking how old are you
12:54i will be 35 tomorrow okay oh happy tamra if we don't talk to you tomorrow or if i don't go to
13:00your party happy birthday by the way tomorrow so wait a minute you're gonna be 30 thank you
13:04you're gonna be 35 or 36 tomorrow 35 all right 35 happy birthday so tamra how much drinking do
13:13you typically do that you cease for dry january um in in a month span i will probably go through
13:22three or four 12 packs and probably a bottle and a half of vodka wait wait what that seems high
13:29is that high i don't know how long wait how long we have we have a lot of like parties and stuff
13:33that we do oh so you're not drinking our family's crazy it's either weed or it's beer
13:39i'll take an invite anytime i love i love how she started off the call with like oh yeah i gave up
13:46alcohol because of my breast cancer diagnosis but now we're on weed and beer the rest of the year
13:50is there a month for is there a month for abandoning weed no no way no i don't think they have a dry
13:57weed month that would be silly i don't think the drug dealers would appreciate that month very well
14:03by the way uh by the way uh this is a good point uh froggy has a new client doc mj for medical
14:17marijuana of no affiliation to you i i i am not doc mj let's be no you're not let's be very clear
14:24that doc mj is not owned by me mj i'm not at all connected with doc mj unfortunately which is froggy's
14:33uh new uh uh client yes yes you know you know how many taxes you could probably get from that
14:39profits from it why can't we all right tamra what happens on february 1st
14:44you'd go back to your normal life you just pick up a beer and a joint and you go
14:50all right so all right so tamra wait a minute so you stopped drinking your 12 packs of beer
14:57and your vodka during january but you're still smoking weed well yeah you know it helps with
15:03the side effects of chemo too so hey it's all in one there you go helps with her uh hunger issues
15:09right tamra hold on tamra are you on chemotherapy yes i i'm on chemotherapy what what kind of cancer
15:16i had uh breast cancer she said that oh i'm sorry you know i missed that all right so uh sorry guys
15:23are you in remission are you cured um i am well what they say is i'm in halfway in remission halfway
15:30out um i had a double mastectomy i have all my lymph nodes on my left side removed but i have
15:36uh 32 more tumors that just popped up oh boy and that they're monitoring because they can't remove
15:42them they're in my liver and stuff like that where they can't be removed so um i am on a chemo pill
15:47for the next 10 years of my life and i'm on infusion for god knows how long well listen i wish you the
15:53best tamra and please keep in touch with us okay all right thank you guys all right thank you let me
15:58move on and we got to get into antonio brown we've got to get into the the mechanics of the meltdown
16:03uh in a minute also the betty white death we got to get into that momentarily let me grab
16:08lisa and tampa as we uh wrap up the whole dry january and then as i i teased a moment ago uh i
16:15got to give you some of the health considerations that you should know before you do ditch alcohol
16:20for january uh let me grab lisa tampa hi lisa you're on the mj morning show hi good morning mj how are
16:28you doing well lisa so tell me are you a dry january dump the alcohol adherent yes yes um my brother
16:36had said he was gonna do it last year i tried it it didn't i didn't last very long so this year
16:42i decided i would do it and i one of my girls and one of my friends in pilates class and one of
16:48persons i play tennis with they said they were going to do it so i joined in and then i got my
16:52fiance to say he'd do it and him day uh this kind of funny we were having pizza last night and used
16:58with my son and his girlfriend before they go back to college and he was like we always have beer and
17:02pizza and we you know usually we drink on the weekends and he's like this uh seltzer water sure
17:07is good without any vodka in it so it's only been five four days four days all right four days down
17:14all right well lisa well you got you got what 20 uh 28 27 days to go yeah january 31 days all right
17:22hey good luck and thanks for listening lisa yeah have a great day you too thank you for calling all
17:29right so uh just wrapping up dry january here if you are thinking about jumping into dry january or
17:36you've already started if you're thinking about it you're late well yeah that's right uh today is what
17:40today's the fourth yeah you're almost missing the whole first week is your functioning alcoholic
17:43friend partaking but also dry dry january though really it's after like going like maniacally
17:53drunken crazy yeah on new year's eve it's the the beginning is january 1st it's you know just hours
18:01well technically you're probably still getting hammered into january 1st that's why you don't even
18:06start till the third one two three o'clock in the morning you gotta get through the weekend hey what
18:11was your two o'clock in the morning like uh new year's eve or new year's day then what what was it
18:16like yeah were you all were you falling over i mean i drank a lot of tequila a lot yeah good for you
18:23do you keep it all down yeah no i didn't throw up or anything no no no reversals but i do have to tell
18:30you i have to tell myself to stick to dry january i have to tell myself roxanne if you want to have
18:36a glass of wine you can because if i'm too like rigid and say you can't have anything then i'll fall
18:42off the wall no no so you're not doing you're doing a half ass you're doing it's gonna be too
18:48hard i'll have a drink every once in a while you're doing half ass dry january all these callers
18:52convinced me it's just too much of a pain it's moist january it really is that's like you know this
18:57this uh a a program you know you know sometimes i get tired of it i want to put a few back just
19:02one yeah you know wednesday i'm gonna fall off then thursday i'm back okay listen saturday i'm off
19:07again you know if you're in a a you're not celebrating one month of sobriety yeah i mean come on i know
19:12okay you have an issue drinkers and there's drinkers and there's alcoholics you know doug has a drinking
19:17problem because he drinks white claws all the time and he he's got other problems if he's drinking
19:24white claws that's what i'm saying i i loathe white claws especially for a grown man and so that
19:30that is such a wussy drink for a for dig dig dug your fiance that's all he drinks is white
19:37he drinks tequila too but anyways one of his friends sent him like a stack i showed you that
19:43photo mj a stack of white claws like a pallet had to cut or pallets of it were unloaded at my house
19:49which famous person no no just a regular friend okay mr claw is that why whenever you guys come
19:54over to my house and we do like a dinner that yes that doug brings me a great bottle of wine
19:59does he not drink red wine no he drinks red wine too he does but he's mostly on the closet all right
20:04so just wrapping up dry january here if you're thinking about it here are some health considerations
20:10that you should know before you ditch the actual alcohol outside of saving money from all of the
20:16alcoholic beverages that you will not be purchasing for the month of january the top health benefit that
20:22you can receive is avoiding the unnecessary weight well yeah calories really because people people
20:31don't realize how many calories are in alcohol you can get a mixed drink for instance you could have a
20:38500 calorie drink bomb you're having a cocktail at a bar you could be sitting on a 500 calorie drink
20:44bomb that's why you drink your stuff straight like me on ice i don't know you give me a couple of
20:49piƱa coladas with extra lardin oh delicious according to the usda's food data central database
20:55a can of beer is around 154 calories a five ounce serving of wine is around 123 calories
21:02but varying spirits and liquors like sake whiskey vodka rum gin they tend to be under 100 calories
21:10but that's on a per ounce basis that can if you're making a cocktail that can really rack up
21:17that's why uh fester do me a favor do a do a google search on the most high calorie cocktails
21:25guarantee you it's like a margarita a mai tai yeah do quickly high calorie cocktails those things make
21:31you feel so that's why you get hung over drinking that stuff so uh one of my favorites oh my god look
21:36at number three a piƱa colada could be 644 calories getting drunk in the rain okay so all of these would
21:45be what i would order at a bar if i were going to get a drink yeah he orders really starting off
21:48with number five the mai tai 350 the uh my favorite your shirts i was right favorite kind of russian
21:54though white russian yeah 425 pina colada 644 wow uh margaritas 740 and a margarita could be 740
22:04calories and coming in at number one is uh the pride of every new yorker the long island iced tea
22:11give me a long island iced teas could average 780 calories for one drink those are no joke
22:20they will they will sneak up on you they will light you up because you're drinking them like
22:24you're having an all or palmer or something you know it's like you're putting back you know like
22:28a non-alcohol and then you know before you know it you're falling over drunk you forgot your name
22:33you end up in a bathtub your kidneys gone i was i was dating a girl i was dating a girl we were on a
22:38date at a bowling alley and she drank so many she puked on the alley like they had to come and like
22:43clean the alley are you serious i'm like i'm not gonna roll in that no yeah it's all the gutter
22:51it's the hottest thing i've ever seen well my ties are no joke i mean uh long island iced tea should be
22:59banned no run runners didn't make the list that's what run runners are like too yeah but run runners
23:04are like little shots right don't you like no it's a big slushy you know like 10 different
23:08alcohol drinker whiskey neat or on ice so you can control the craziness all right so there you have
23:16it dry january pros and cons and again if you're a heavy heavy drinker experts are saying do not cold
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23:24you