Joe Rogan Experience #1566 - Nicholas Christakis

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Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (instrumental music plays) Yeah, I got into cigars lately. I did sober October and, uh, during the month of October, uh, no drinking at all and I started smoking cigars.

How did the sober October work for you?

It's great. Do it every year. It's nice. A little reset.

It's interesting, you know.

Very nice.

I mean, uh, I have another friend of mine who stopped drinking all together, uh, and, uh, he, he said that it was making him cranky when he was drinking and of course there were extra calories. And, uh, I listened patiently to him and thought, "I would love to do that," but at the same time, it's hard to give up completely, so.

I enjoy a glass of wine with a meal. That, that I miss the most. That, that was the worst when I was, uh, you know, having a steak and just like, "God, I'd like a nice glass of red wine right now."

Yeah.

But other than that, I don't drink much. I'm not much b- much of a boozer. Although when November kicks in and I know I can drink again, there's usually a few days of excess.

(laughs)

Which is, uh, speaking of the subject of, uh, COVID-19 and the current pandemic we're into, that's not a good thing. Um, there's a lot of people out there destroying their immune systems drinking. There's a very funny video that I found online of this gentleman who runs around his neighborhood and, uh, he noticed that during the lockdown, he would run around his neighborhood and he would see the recyclable bins and they were just filled with empty alcohol containers. He's like, "This is crazy. This w- this is for the weak. Like how much are these people drinking? Just vodka and wine and..." There's a lot of that going on.

Yeah, people have actually looked a little bit at that, at alcohol consumption, and it's a little bit like the toilet paper shortage. I, I don't know if you followed the whole toilet paper-

Yeah.

... shortage thing. Well, what's happening is there's a shift in consumption. You know, a lot of the drinking that was taking place in restaurants and, uh, you know, at, uh, at, uh, bars is now taking place at home. So I think it's like half and half. Like half the consumption in the past was at home and half was out of the home, and now it's almost all at home which is part of it. But I also think as you're suggesting, the actual amount is going up too, so, so yes, it's, um, you know, and it's contributing to weight gain and other problems in our society.

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