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Ep 5: Rethinking Alcohol: Problem or Habit?
Join us on a heartfelt and enlightening journey as we share our 7 month experience of abstaining from alcohol. Sparked by a symbolic moment in Hawaii, combined with an internal struggle and a recent exploration of plant medicine, we reassessed our relationship with drinking. We emphasize the importance of self-awareness and mutual support, highlighting how loving yourself and each other can create healthier habits.
Reminisce with us about our early encounters with alcohol, from childhood memories to high school antics. We reflect on how drinking influenced our lives and families, recounting both amusing and regrettable moments. We share some personal stories that shed light on the broader impact of alcohol, providing a closer look at how it effects us.
Lastly, we delve into the societal and environmental implications of alcohol consumption. Questioning its alignment with individual values and health, we reveal how alcohol can disconnect us from reality and higher consciousness, leading to various negative outcomes. This thought-provoking conversation challenges societal norms and encourages self-assessment.
Tune in for a transformative discussion that might make you rethink your next drink!
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you're listening to the love movement with your hosts britney and brian johnston.
Speaker 1:We're starting a movement centered around love to help raise the vibration of this beautiful planet if that's your vibe, hang out with us as we chat about many topics all centered around three main pillars Loving yourself, loving each other and loving the planet. So if you're ready, let's jump in. Okay, so today on the podcast, we're going to talk about alcohol, a topic that I didn't think we'd really ever talk about, and the title of this is you know, is it a problem or is it a habit, which is really a cool perspective to look at this from. So, before we get into anything that we want to talk about today, I just have to say we have zero judgment. Like this is not. Like because we've chosen to not drink the last seven months at the time of this recording doesn't mean like we have it all figured out, or we're going to stick to this, or we're better than the next person Like. I think everybody has their own experience with alcohol.
Speaker 2:You can't judge when with love right.
Speaker 1:That's right. You can't judge with love, and this is kind of, like you know, with our podcast, we like to put it in the pillar of is this about loving yourself, loving each other, loving the planet? I think this is both about loving yourself and loving each other. So keep that on the back of your mind as we kind of talk about this today. But so whether you're listening to this and you do or you don't drink, it doesn't matter, right? We're just going to share our story about kind of where we're at right now and a bit of like perspective, I guess you could say. So, like I said, we're currently seven months into no drinking and I will definitely say neither of us had a problem with drinking. But, brian, why don't you share like, why did we decide to do this? Because I feel like it wasn't really a decision. I made it, you started it, I just followed, yeah, so we were.
Speaker 2:We were in hawaii and in january in january and the tradition is, you know, you get to hawaii, you go to the store, you get some drinks, bring back, you know, hotel room and now you got your drinks for the week. You know, at the pool, it's, it's a vibe. You're listening to good music at friends, you're, you're drinking right and I have this special cup. My sister-in-law got us yetis. Yeah, a little sweet yeti mug.
Speaker 1:Um, I drink a lot I got a teal one, you got a black one.
Speaker 2:It goes on every holiday with me it's my designated drinking cup but um at. So while we were there um, I forgot my cup at the beach so we went on. It was like I don't know, 25 minutes away from the hotel, go to the beach, come back and get back to the hotel and I'm like where's my cup?
Speaker 2:I can't find my cup and I turns out I lost a whole bag because we drove back to see if it was there drove back to the beach, went to get the the stuff and I grabbed the bag was there and I picked it up, brought it up to the car and I looked and someone literally stole one thing out of the bag and it was my yeti cup, my well-used yeti cup. Stickers all over it like like what, and this was a. It was like a sign because deep down, for I would say years, I felt like it just wasn't serving me and I didn't want to drink and I just, I just felt stupid because I had this like internal thing where it's like, if you want to do your best and feel your best, why would you impair yourself? Yeah, you know, why would you like slowly poison yourself every, every weekend?
Speaker 1:And I will say you never once voiced this to me.
Speaker 2:No, this is like a hundred percent internal and this was like a conflicting intention that I've had for years, that I didn't want to drink and it just I. Just the cup was gone and I was like I just felt freed almost. I was like, hey, it's a sign.
Speaker 1:Because, remember, I was like, do you want me to buy you a new one? Yeah, and you were just like no, you never really explained, you guys, if you don't know, brian, everything is like an internal thought and in human design he's a reflector which is 1% of the population. That's for another podcast. But he like takes a lunar cycle to make decisions. So clearly he's with his own thoughts for a long time before he decides anything, which is why I never know what's going on.
Speaker 2:So the weird thing that I think also helped me with this and I've talked about mushrooms lots, but mushrooms really, really help people with addiction and breaking habits. And you know neuroplasticity, you know new brain patterns happening and I was just at like my beginning of stages of exploring you know plant medicine with mushrooms and so all this happened like at the same time, like I think I did, like a, like a like like a journey, like a week or two before this happened I think it was december 21st is when I did like one of my first mushroom journeys and then this was like two, three weeks later this happened.
Speaker 2:So I had a lot of the mushies are in my head already doing their magic as they do. But yeah, it was just one of those things.
Speaker 1:I don't even know when it was that. You were just at home in the kitchen, you were like I haven't drank in this long, I swear. It was like two months or something, yeah. And I was like, oh wait, a second that I don't think I've drank in two months either, like I didn't even know that's how much I don't drink.
Speaker 2:I didn't give anybody and it was like once we every voice said I was like game on and then I was like, okay, now this is a competition and I like a good competition.
Speaker 1:So then we just haven't drank and I you know, with different events and things that you go to, like normally you're offered wine or whatever and I just it's like I'm not drinking and people can't make you know before they'd be like, oh, you're pregnant, like no, everybody knows we're one and done, that's behind us. So like this is just a choice. Now, which is also such a stupid thing, that the minute you say, as a woman, I'm not drinking, people immediately assume you're pregnant. Yeah, I will just say, as a woman, that's annoying off tangent um, but yeah, I feel like the other thing we were talking about was like it's such a low vibration and this podcast we're about raising the vibration. Yeah, let's go. And I we were talking about vegas because with my company, we're at a global convention every year in vegas and I literally hate going there yeah, I actually got invited to go to vegas.
Speaker 2:Uh, last week my friend he's like you want tickets to go to this thing in Vegas?
Speaker 1:This is the first I'm hearing about this. You guys Prime example of me not knowing Vegas. I was going to tell you about it.
Speaker 2:But anyway, I was just like no.
Speaker 1:You're like, I live on Vancouver.
Speaker 2:Island, why would I go to Vegas? Yeah, no, that's not my jam anymore. 20 years ago maybe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but not even there, Like they're out of their mind half the time. But like so much smoking, so much drinking, like sex alcohol all the thing, gambling Like. I'm just not. It's not my vibe, it's gross anyway. That's why I think you know we love living on vancouver island. It's more of of our vibe, absolutely. Um, okay, what, what have you? Let's start with this first. Actually growing up like what was your experience with alcohol?
Speaker 2:uh well, my dad didn't really drink, so it wasn't a big thing in my house. Um, my mom didn't really drink like they would have. They would have some drinks, but it wasn't a big thing in my house. Um, my mom didn't really drink Like they would have. They would have some drinks, but it wasn't it was never like a thing there wasn't like oh, we got to go, get to the liquor store and get some booze.
Speaker 2:Like it wasn't. I wasn't anything like that. Um, I had. My grandpa, though, was a big alcoholic, like you see him with a coffee cup in his hand and it's straight up, vodka. He definitely, definitely, definitely had a problem with that. I definitely had, uh, some family that had some some problems with that. Um, some of my parents friends I like at a young age, like you know, you just go, you just be around people that are alcoholics at a young age, not knowing everything about it.
Speaker 2:You people that are alcoholics at a young age not knowing everything about it. You know it's not cool, you just, you just feel it like these people like this is gross, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then like leading into when you started, like how old were you when you started drinking?
Speaker 2:um, probably high school, and I think it was more of a thing just to fit in totally, which I think it is with most kids but it becomes a thing where it's like every weekend you're out going to parties and getting wasted.
Speaker 1:That's like the goal and it's so ridiculous when you think of it yeah, but you go from.
Speaker 1:Like we have a three and a half year old and it's like going to play dates and playing with your friends to like, let's get out of our minds loser drunk like when, where does that happen? And playing with your friends to like, let's get out of our minds. Loser drunk like when, where does that happen? Like, think about it. It's actually crazy because I remember probably my first times being drunk and I was drinking some disgusting cooler out of like the giant clear bottle, like what is that? A two liter, four liter, whatever those sizes, and it was so sweet and gross. But I remember just being because I'm such a lightweight when it comes to alcohol and I'm pretty sure I'm allergic to it like I turn red and blotchy and like you just gotta drink, that's your body just saying, hey, this isn't good this isn't for you, but just do it.
Speaker 2:I'd be like, oh, just drink through it. When you get an allergic reaction to anything else in your life, you're like, oh man, this really affects me, like I should probably stop doing that.
Speaker 1:But with alcohol it's like, just keep going, keep going and I remember just like falling down a flight of stairs and I remember sometimes just being like I was sleeping, like, oh my god, I was sleeping like just totally blocked out, or like then I'm just puking, sick and dry, heaving from like the depths of my soul, yeah, and then I'm so sick the next day. We don't have time for this, but like remember when we were in costa rica in circa 2009 a whole day lost because, because your friends wanted you to drink more.
Speaker 2:And I was like you guys know she's got to stop and you're like we've been so controlling. I'm like you don't know her like I do this is not good, and then it just yeah no, it's not.
Speaker 1:It's not even a little bit worth it to me and I don't obviously for me too, like same. I don't remember, like growing up, that it was like an issue in my, in my household there was. I remember there was being beer and like Friday night after work, like you know, my dad likes a cold pilsner and I remember my stepmom would drink it in a glass and she put peanuts in it and I don't know why. I remember that interesting. I also remember being a little kid when I lived with my grandma and thinking that there was a glass of water and going to have some and it was vodka and just thinking like, oh good thing I didn't drink that. Somebody warned me.
Speaker 1:But like why was there vodka in a glass also? You know, yeah, it probably wasn't just pure vodka, but that was my memory as a little child. And then, yeah, same as you, just like trying fit in, trying to be part of the cool crowd, but realizing how like it affected me so much. Like my friends would joke that Brittany just needs to sniff a bottle cap and she'll be drunk, and I don't really like the taste of alcohol, like I hate beer, I hate wine.
Speaker 1:I try all the time to like wine, because it's like bougie and fancy. Apparently, every time you wanted a drink, it had to be like a drink that was straight up sugar. Yeah, I like a caesar, but I also like it just as good without the alcohol.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so basically give me the salt and the pickle, some tomato juice yeah, so where do you want to go next with this Cause?
Speaker 1:we had a few thoughts in terms of um well, how, how has alcohol affected?
Speaker 2:um well, you not so much, but maybe those around you like.
Speaker 1:I think we all have a story about someone, something, Well, I mean, like in my family too, like extended family, obviously there's for sure issues with alcohol. Um, have you know, even been to rehab? Some have not been and some have relapsed and some have, you know, kept on without it. I just I don't really remember it like affecting me that bad and I certainly never had any kind of like issue. That's why it's weird when you said to me well, what did you notice about not drinking? It's like nothing other than I have to like think about saying no thank you when someone offers me one yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:Well, how about someone have you had anyone who know, anyone who's like died in a car crash from alcohol related, or? Or is there someone I guess I do you know whose actions are? It's not affecting you in like your health per se, but it's going, it's coming into your life somehow and affecting you, like like someone has a problem the whole family is trying to deal with something. Oh my god it's stressing everyone out like it's affecting you that way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, for sure, and I do have like a friend who definitely died in high school and it was. I mean, any accident that I can think of from high school was always drinking was involved. Especially being in small, like rural towns was just what you did, not that I did, and I was always like the don't get in the car with somebody drinking and driving. What do you think about when you think of that?
Speaker 1:I definitely or what are your experiences being like? Mine's just kind of like whatever I'm trying to fit in, I don't really do it. Yeah, so not doing it, I don't really notice anything, but that's not really not that you had a problem, but you're noticing more like what was it like in high school when you would drink, for example?
Speaker 2:I was just stupid, like going to class next day hungover trying to do you know, your work and you just you're not there and it's yeah, it's just, it's not cool. And I've gone to work hungover in the past at a desk job and I even went and slept under the stairs.
Speaker 1:I literally remember that day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, horrible. Like why did you employ me if that's how I was? It was unbelievable the stuff I've done. Why did you employ me if that's how it was? It was unbelievable the stuff I've done. Like some of the stupidest things I've ever done in my life were when I was drinking like shameful, regrettable, embarrassing things. If I think back to all the things that happened in my life where I just didn't feel good about myself, they were all related to alcohol, like what Was there any of those you want to share?
Speaker 2:um, I was arrested once fun fact for anybody that doesn't know, brian actually I was arrested twice, oh my god. One was, yeah, I was drinking at drinking at a party and ended up getting loser drunk, pass out in a park and the cops arrested me and they brought me. They asked if I wanted to go to the drunk tank or home and I went home and my dad pulled up at the house the same time as me, right in front of the cop car, like cop car, my dad's car, nose to nose, and I get out of the car in handcuffs. I was like, hey dad, how old were you.
Speaker 2:I probably would have been 17. No no 16 I will literally kill our son if this happens. And then another time I got uh arrested and I got a ticket because uh drinking in public going to a big party and uh had a beer in my hand and the cop seen me and tried to hide it and yeah, so interesting when you think back to that, because it just like we're so not these people anymore no, and maybe that's why because you've grown and evolved and done so much personal growth and development that like that was just like this one last piece of the puzzle that just didn't align with, like who you are and who you're becoming yeah, a lot of people go through that.
Speaker 2:Like there's politicians who and people that are like high up in like government that have like stupid things like this. Like everyone has some stupid things. Some of the most amazing people I've met in our life have stories like this from when they were young, right when I think about, like, why even did I drink?
Speaker 1:Why did I not notice that we weren't drinking? It's because, like, we always have a Friday night date night, and I mean prior to having our son, that was like very much in our calendar. Friday nights were date night and most of those nights we loved going into our basement because we had newly renovated a really awesome sound system. We loved watching movies down there and the back of it had like a big bar which I'm sure people came over and saw it would think like, oh, these people actually love to drink. It was more for the aesthetic of what it looked like, yeah, but at the same time it was there in front of you and you're really good at making a margarita.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, the funny thing about the bar like your environment is going to affect the outcome. So when you have something like that plain sight all the time looking at you, and there's like a.
Speaker 2:You know there's a thing to it. Like you watch movies and people are having you know fancy bottles, you know having a scotch like it's just like a thing. It becomes so normalized in society that and now you, you walk down to this bar and you're like, oh, I can have a drink any time of day and you just start drinking because it's right there in front of you. Yeah, and then we, we moved, we got rid of, we left all our booze behind.
Speaker 1:We didn't have moving company wouldn't take the alcohol, so we just like left, left it.
Speaker 2:I could have moved it, but we left it behind and we got to the island and we had. We didn't have any booze, so I was. It's easy not to drink when you don't have it. It's easy not to eat a donut when you don't have it, like it's Right, right yeah.
Speaker 1:And then eventually we had some company over and they wanted some drinks. We start drinking a little bit, building up our little inventory a little bit again. Yeah, a little cupboard a little above the fridge stocking, you know, stocking your booze. I like amaretto a lot, with coke zevia at christmas time. Um, yeah, it just like it becomes a habit. It's like when I when I ask myself, why did I even drink? It's not because I it, it's not because of how it made me feel, it's not, it's literally a habit. Yep, it was a habit around Christmas. It was a habit in the summer. It was a habit at events. It was a habit on a Friday night, like, and your habits is what determines your lifestyle.
Speaker 2:So what? What can people do to replace that habit? What can people do to replace that habit? What can they drink something instead?
Speaker 1:Well, we drink a lot of kombucha, a lot of fizz sticks.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of other options you can drink. There's so many Drinking. Not drinking is like the new drinking. I agree. There's so many non-alcoholic options out there.
Speaker 1:The other day, my friend brought over for my birthday a bottle of I thought it was wine, and I was like, oh, did I not really tell her that I wasn't drinking? And I didn't want to be rude.
Speaker 1:So I was kind of just like, oh, thank you, I'm going to accept the wine and just save it for guests and just serve it, like I used to host events all the time in the house called Wine and Wonder, like I-alcoholic. This wine she brought and I was like, oh, I forgot, she's also not drinking and I'm. We must have had the conversation where she knew I wasn't drinking. And so here I have this non-alcoholic, beautiful looking bottle of wine. We're going away this weekend and you're like, are we gonna ever drink this?
Speaker 2:I'm like let's bring it on the weekend yeah, I'll bring some grape juice, basically put it in a fancy wine glass like why does? It need to be alcohol yeah but there it shows like you're who you hang out with affects you know what you do. Well, and you become.
Speaker 1:You become the average of the five people you surround yourself with the most.
Speaker 1:And it was funny because we had friends around the weekend and brian made them a margarita and I was a little jealous because, like, I know how good your margaritas are, yeah. But it was funny because he said, um, we had kind of told him that we weren't drinking when he'd offered some to us a couple of weeks ago and apparently we were like a little bit inspiring with our story that he was like I haven't even drank since you guys told me that you were drinking. And I think sometimes that's part of why I thought we should do this podcast, because sometimes people just need another perspective of like, maybe I'm just going to try not doing it and I'm not going to say we're never going to have a drink again, like, and I'm not going to say we're never going to have a drink again, like, maybe we'll go back to Hawaii next year and we'll have a drink, I don't know, but right now we're just going to try to go through the whole year and see if we can do it.
Speaker 2:Well, I feel like it's just easy.
Speaker 1:I just don't want it, but I'm just drinking kombucha, yeah, so that's like an easy replacement. I feel like kombucha is. It was great yeah, and it's like no big deal, they can have a drink, we can have a kombucha. Like why can't it be what's right for you? Like it doesn't need to be judgy or all the same, or you know. But it's just sort of like, yeah, looking internally and like does this does it feel in alignment to you when you are drinking, or are you drinking out of habit? And that's really why.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So it's like take, if you take an inventory of your life, like where did alcohol in the past add value to your life and where did it negatively affect you? Well, I think we all know what side of the scale alcohol is going to fall on.
Speaker 1:When you look around people, let you know too, like alcohol literally is ruining people's lives. It's ruining relationships. I feel like it's leading into a lot of the growth. It's like easier just to numb and to like I don't know.
Speaker 2:Just sort of well it's like puts up like a curtain in front of like reality. Right it actually.
Speaker 1:It lowers your vibration where it actually, like disconnects you from like divine consciousness, if we get into that at some point but, if you're, if you're on that route like, it lowers your vibration so much that you're not even in touch with like unified field anymore, if you don't what I'm talking about that's cool and like, it's such an interesting way to look at it too, and I think, um, you know, if you are somebody that does drink, it's like just ask yourself why like, and if it feels good, I guess, keep doing it. And if it doesn't like, challenge yourself like we are, maybe yeah.
Speaker 1:What? What? A month or six months or a year of just not doing it? You know, there's a part of me that thinks like if you're somebody that's like, oh well, I don't have a problem. Well then, not drinking for a year should be easy. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But it's your habit.
Speaker 1:It's a habit, though I know Um cause. Sometimes I think too like are we just avoiding the things we need to address in our life, or are we like actually addressing them by not numbing ourself all the time? Anyway, I listened to this. Will you send it to me, A YouTube video that we can maybe share in the show notes? Um, it was a motivational video and the very beginning of it said that the most damaging drug to society as a whole is alcohol 100 agree which I was like what.
Speaker 1:There's like way worse drugs out there, but apparently not no because it's accepted, it's sold at stores.
Speaker 1:The government you know you have government liquor stores right right, yeah, and it said in there that alcohol is considered a class one carcinogen or cancer causing agent. Well, I'm not really out looking for those things in my life. I'm trying to do everything I can to avoid that. Yeah, um, it's in the same category as benzene and tobacco smoke. If you know, me and brian are the biggest anti-smokers ever. We won't probably do a podcast. No, there's no point. Um, but basically, the poison in alcohol, which is the sedal alcohol itself, is what leads to the effects of being inebriated or drunk. Poison is making us feel like that.
Speaker 2:It is poison and it's just like I had to think of it differently, like I'm slowly poisoning myself. Every time I drink, I'm slowly poisoning myself. I'm like that does not sound like something I want to do.
Speaker 1:So I was just like I don't know there's just at the end of the day, just it's not adding value, it doesn't feel in alignment for us at this time, right, and I don't know.
Speaker 2:It was just something I thought we could chat about because it's an interesting topic yeah, like like you could go do a Google search on the benefits of quitting and do a Google search on the risks and you're going to find stuff like yeah, carcinogen cancer, how it affects like every organ and one of the big things is it massively affects your digestion and your microbiome. Your microbiome is, like, related to your overall physical and mental health, so it's like a double whammy.
Speaker 1:Well to me. I just feel like too. I'm like I represent a health and wellness company. I don't feel an alignment when I'm drinking. No, and that's just something you got to look at yourself to see. Like do you? Because maybe the next person, they don't feel like that. That's just how I feel. So it feels good that I just that I'm not drinking, but it's also really easy for me to not drink.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, and like in a, in a world where everyone is always so stressed with everything, alcohol raises, like your baseline cortisol level, which is directly related to stress, so it's almost like one of those things are oh yeah, I need to drink to de-stress, but you're doing the opposite yeah, it's you're. You're making it worse, you're stressing your body. Yeah, um, yeah, what you? What did you ask me earlier?
Speaker 1:what, uh, some of the things that I noticed right, because I didn't really notice anything, because, like, it's not really a thing for me. But what did you notice?
Speaker 2:I never did drink a lot. So I guess the first thing is I never felt guilty and regretful anymore because every time I drank I felt guilty for doing it because I knew it wasn't in alignment and I felt regretful the next day because I'd just done something stupid that I didn't want to do, so I didn't have that anymore, so that's good.
Speaker 2:Um, I say mood is overall better. Um, sleep is huge. Like you, you have one drink and like I, wear a smart watch when I sleep and you can track your sleep cycles, how deep you go, like all that stuff. Have one drink and watch what your sleeps look like.
Speaker 2:Horrible, horrible sleeps and I noticed so interesting I noticed when, uh, I had a drink, my baseline heart rate in my sleep was usually about 20 beats per minute. More. That's crazy it's like my body's trying to pump my blood faster to well because you poisoned it to filter it all out, to get it out of my body's trying to pump my blood faster to well because you poisoned it to filter it all out to get it out of my system so you're hurting your liver like what I remember.
Speaker 1:Actually, now they're saying that what did I notice? Whenever I would have a drink like even the other night when they came over and had your margaritas I thought to myself one thing I don't miss is, as I'm getting ready for bed and we're, you know, putting the dishes by the sink and stuff is I don't feel like I have shrek feet. Oh yeah, like I would be so swollen in my body, like the inflammation, not the good kind of swole the inflammation was like yeah, something I did not love, yeah and I think overall clear thinking is another one.
Speaker 2:Um, and saving a lot of money. I mean, you're buying kombuchas, but it's still cheaper than you can't. You just can't put a price on money. I mean, you're buying kombuchas, but it's still cheaper than you can't.
Speaker 1:You just can't put a price on your health, though you really can't, and I was talking to a friend today that was, um, just on the tail end of being sick, and I just said you know what is true, nothing else in life matters, nothing else. Like we just got a new car, move to a new place, you can have your brand new house, all whatever you think, but if you don't have your health, like literally none of it matters.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and when you drink you're actually suppressing your immune systems. You're going to get sicker more, Like I don't know. You can go to Google search all the risks and benefits of not drinking.
Speaker 1:So I would say just a little bit of a like call to action if you're listening still to our ramble chat on this is just do some inventory with yourself and like check in and say like, does it feel in alignment? Is it something I just feel totally fine if I continue on, or is it something you want to kind of challenge yourself with and see, like, can you go a little bit of time without it and see how you feel, see what you notice?
Speaker 2:I mean another, another thing when we talk about, you know, our three love pillars is um loving each other like this.
Speaker 1:Alcohol really, really affects relationships in a big way we really don't fight but I will say any fights that we've had, even drinking yeah, like I said, stupidest, shittiest, most regretful moments I've had in my life is, and not that you're like an angry drunk. You're just like an annoying drunk. He gets so chatty. I make fun of him like not being chatty, but then he drinks and it's like lispy chatty, I think yeah, because my thoughts are always so internal.
Speaker 2:I think it just makes those internal thoughts external.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a lot of benefits to that.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I'm loving this new us that's not drinking and yeah, it's not. We're not judging anyone, we're just sharing our experience and it's. It's been amazing and I think everyone should, should try it Like I've tried it before in the past. Yeah, you have. When I was doing really competitive mountain biking I was like no, no alcohol, because I know it affects me. Duh. Yeah, and that's when I was at my absolute peak physical performance.
Speaker 1:So you really do notice that affects you Absolutely.
Speaker 2:And then it was like, hey, in the fall, mountain biking's done, we'll be in Mexico. Then, like, turn on the drinking machine again.
Speaker 1:That's so wild. Yeah, so we're heading to Costa Rica and then back to Maui for our one year Kind of full circle moments. I guess We'll see what that's like being sober vacations. I wouldn't have my cup, so those are our first total sober vacations, but like, let's experience that it's going to be great, yeah. So love yourself, love each other and love the planet. Actually while we're talking about loving the planet.
Speaker 2:This does relate, actually, this actually does relate. How many beer cans you think you find on the side of the road? Yeah, when you're drunk and drinking a whatever pack, yeah drinking a 12 pack of uh beer, but no one's going to be drinking a 12 pack of kombuchas drinking one why is alcohol like that?
Speaker 1:like you would never sit down and drink a case of pop either.
Speaker 2:If you drink pop, no, but you would sit down and have drink after drink, after drink with some pop true but yeah, it's weird. So, yeah, you got all the uh, the garbage that comes with drinking. And then just think of all the crops that are grown specifically for beer Like you know, you got barley, so you got whiskey like all these different crops that are grown specifically to make alcohol. That could be growing food for people and nourishing them, but it's.
Speaker 2:Think about all the vineyards, yeah all the vineyards, oh, but a good wine tour is pretty cool.
Speaker 1:I mean, people do love their wine tours.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but just get all that land. Just think of you could actually think of the global scale of it how much land is actually taken up to grow crops for alcohol when it could be for nourishing food.
Speaker 1:Alcohol is just such a thing that is so widely accepted hey.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's sad we do without it.
Speaker 1:So love the planet and drink one kombucha, not a 12-pack of beer.
Speaker 2:Exactly, Stay awesome everybody.