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>> all right. so its easter. what comes before easter, 46 days of lent. weve got a very interesting, intriguing, funny kind of thing. departure from the usual what do you give up for lent? this young man, jay wilson said, you know what, im going to give up food in exchange for beer. so he had a diet of drinking beer on a regular basis. hes a father. he is a newspaper man. and guess what? he got to drink beer, imbibe all the time while at work. >> for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. actually, i thi...

Spaced out in my day. its not a matter of getting to 5:00 and then, you know, slamming back four or five beers. so i approached my boss a year ago and said im thinking about doing this project next year. im looking to write this book. im wanting to conduct this experiment and so one of my publishers happens to be a home brewer himself. you know, hell shoot me e-mails during the workday asking me advice on, you know, brewing this kind of beer or that kind of beer. ive been a home brewer for 14 ye...

The ban on beer. what is the reasoning behind that decision? >> well, were all scandalized by this in the uk, as you can imagine, since drinking beer is our national past time. the reason is very simply that this is no average we had willing reception. its at the queens house, and they believe that its a bit too common to be drinking beer for lots of young people sitting around drinking beer and theyd rather they drank champagne and wine on this occasion. >> all right. so theyre trying to give t...

Are doing it and the historical aspect of it, right? >> yes. >> you have been drinking beer for home days because easter is still a couple of days away? >> today is day 31. >> how has it affected you? >> it has gone really, really well. i was prepared for the worst. i have done a lot of research on ex tenned fasting. day one and two, i had a pretty good headache. i was hungry on day one. when i awoken o the morning of day two, i really wasnt hungry. that has been the case all along. once you get...

>> an iowa mans lenten quest goes 46 days on a beer-only diet but liquid bread. he is doing it for historical research. local newspaper editor and beer blogger, jay wilson, says he is emulating a lenten tradition that dates back to the german monasteries of the 1600s. jay wilson joins us on the phone. >> hey, how are you? >> first off, before we get into this, i want to explain that lent is a time many catholics fast leading up to easter to honor jesus resurrection. you are doing that in a uniqu...

Why do men now have the upper hand when it ms. to the bedroom? >> well, when sex is cheap, when its in high supply in the environment, men dont need to achieve social status, they dont need to make resources. remember, one of the things that largely motivates men to have big careers, to have notoriety and to accumulate resources is because it gives them access to higher status and more women for sexual opportunity. >> its all about impressing the woman, and you dont have to do that because there...

Youll have to look at the label because by the time you look at guarine, these are things that the average person is not accustom to looking at and know the caffeine amount. and then warn your kids. one occasionally if youre melty is n healthy is not going to kill you, but kids are slugging these down. >> its what college kids mix with alcohol, if they should be drinking beer or anything else? >> and as we know, this whole caffeine/alcohol combo has already been pulled from a lot of local market...

For the pittsburgh steelers. you cant say enough about thbo of these towns. they both have incredible defenses. their quarterbacks, though, to me are the bigger story. ben roethlisberger is going for a third. then you have aaron rodgers who really, you could argue was the hottest quarterback in the nfl towards the end of this season. including into the playoffs. i think when youve got somebody on his game in the zone as much as he was, its tough to compete with that. but then you have roethlisbe...

Ben rohas one two already. and aaron rogers, who you can argue was the hottest quarter back towards the end of the season. i think when you got somebody that is on his game in the zone. then also you have got ben who was out at a piano bar on tuesday. >> i heard all about it. drinking beer and braeaking the rules but apparently got back in time for the curfew. thank you for joining us. i know your pick. we have an expert coming up. ed does color commentary for the eagles. by the way, governor, i...

We have been working up here. and he hitched back, and, i dont know -- just came into the barn here at 2:00 or 3:00, so they just come in and started drinking beer with us. >> did he say anything about where he was coming from or where he was headed? >> he said the yellowstone deal. his wife left him, and he was trying to make way back to indiana, and i said, well, you can sleep on the floor, because we were all drunked up anyway. >> we are following breaking news on the alaska plane crash. more...