Why Nobody Is Really Drinking Anymore - Tom Segura

I went to this uh daytime house music party in Austin on Saturday it's called mushroom Cowboy so it's uh micro do the kind of event I don't know I think they're kind of hinting at that but it's in a coffee well was outside of a coffee shop off Congress yeah so I turn up at half 10 it started at 10 and the queue is 250 yards long for coffee what and there must have been, 1500 people there one guy brought a baguette was raving with his baguette there dogs you know pretty pretty sober looking from

the outside maybe some people smoking weed but uh I think this is maybe the beginning of us seeing the end of like hardcore drink culture if you've looked at how few of jenzi now drink yes it's I think maybe 20% the interesting thing is like the the theories on why because there's obviously the there they have to be theories right on on we don't actually know exactly yeah uh one of them is that people the youth views drinking as like what their parents did right so that's like that's naturally uncool yeah my [ __ ]

lame ass dad drinks like I don't I'm not interested so that's one thing the other part of it is that this uh group of people uh that are the youth right now are so much more informed on what the negative aspects of drinking and what it can can do to you that they're just like why would I you know why would I consume yeah to to something like that and that they found this whole other you know when you want to take the edge off there's a lot more options and it's also a lot more

accepted today than it was 20 years ago like the idea that you could micro do or do Edibles or smoke or you know I mean and then there's like all the you ketamine and everything is like I have a I have different things that I do when I want to have a recreational good time um and yeah but it's it's undeniable that it's it's definitely way down there's more daily users in the US of weed now than there are of alcohol is that for real overtaken or at least that was the the most recent study

that I saw in the US they're now more daily or near daily marijuana users than daily on near daily alcohol users and that and that that thought was just completely like if you're a a teen right now you don't understand how Preposterous that sounds coming from like if you were growing up in the ' 80s and 90s like you were just like that that those were like Fringe people almost you know what I mean like yes it was popular but it was not like a respectable person really wasn't doing that you know it was like

the Arts it was like hippies and and yeah it was I mean people thought of it as like the absolute worst thing that could happen I mean people from like my dad's generation likened marijuana to heroin they didn't even see like really a difference they're just like you're a junkie like but what for smoking a joint and like yeah that's the way they viewed it so the fact that it's that accepted now it's it's mind-blowing to me I wonder if some of it is that drinking in the house on your own feels pretty [ __

] bad yeah but smoking in the house on your own you're like I'm just watching I'm playing Call of Duty yeah leave me alone but if you're if you're six beers deep playing Call of Duty yeah it's a different story yeah and and you're not playing well at that you're just like I don't know how well people are playing on weed either but yeah yeah he probably more likely to yell out pejorative slurs um yeah I think that um I mean look smoke smoking is still not good for you so like you're probably but but

we've discovered that you know there's other ways to ingest and like consume and that's that's what I think is part of like this youth culture thing about staying away from drinking is they're like whatever I do droplets in this or I you know I I have my gummy or whatever however they want to consume but they're just they're definitely not drinking man they're not drinking like they like everybody else before them did I used to run nightclubs for ages and one of the big downturns we've seen has been in Nightlife industry I think the UK

is losing a nightclub a week There's not like an unlimited number of nightclubs it's like one is shutting down pretty much every single week and I asked a friend who's still in the industry why he thought that was the case he said smartphones man back in the day you could be as Loose as you wanted you could sort of have that Larry louy drinking Spirit at least in in Britain recorded of course like if you mess up and like [ __ ] yourself in the middle of a nightclub in 2002 it's a story that you

can deny the next day and then after 6 months most people have probably forgotten whereas if that happens in 2025 that's now concretized on the internet for everybody to know and bring back up and make memes out it for the rest of time I mean it's but imagine like how the pro athletes of the 80s and 90s and early 2000s would just go out and just just destroy just destroy a woman's hopes dreams and then now they're all yeah they're like everyone's on edge yeah everyone's got a phone out it's just yeah we'll get back

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