Dean Statman

I lasted about three months, which is not very long.

And the reason really at its core was that I didn't realize going in how alcohol is not just about alcohol.

You might be pulling one lever, but it affects so many other things.

It's not just like my night's going to be exactly the same, except my beer didn't have any alcohol in it.

It's...

It's got sort of roots that just go so much further than I had imagined.

I was noticing how it was affecting, not drinking, was affecting my friendships, my marriage even, and kind of just my general, like,

mood, outlook.

You could maybe even go so far as to say mental health, maybe had I done this for longer.

Is that correct?

Yeah, 100%.

I think, you know, I'm someone who, I work from home.

I'm writing most of the time, which is, as you know, it's a very, you know, solo activity.

And so I used to really look forward to those times when I would,

you know, go play pickup soccer with the guys that I had in New York and we'd go grab beers afterwards or just going out on a weekend, whether it's a Friday night, going out for dinner with friends and then going to a bar afterwards or just going to bars and bar hopping.

It's someone's birthday.

Or you go out and then you decide like, hey, let's go somewhere else after this instead of just going home.

Yeah, I think that just got kind of decimated.

Yeah.

like area of Zurich that we hadn't been to before.