costs for impaired driving. excessive drinking was defined as binge or heavy drinking or any drinking by pregnant or underaged youth. alcoholism is not an easy thing to deal with, either by yourself or alongside someone you love. this brings me to another story i want to tell you about, a home for alcoholics that lets them drink and is funded by you, by me, the taxpayers. no matter what you think, it s an interesting concept for sure, and these types of places are starting to pop up more and more frequently around the country. chris welsh spent the better part of a month working on the story at one of these so-called wet houses. he joins me now from minneapolis to talk about it. chris, thanks again for being back on the show. let me ask you to start how did you get interested in this? well this was a story that sort of popped up on a local newspaper a while back. you know, we saw it and thought this could really make an interesting story to really dig deeper into. so we t