Eric André
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I always loved that when I would go to a friend's house and they'd be like, my dad had a couple beers.
And you're like, yeah, that's how they move.
That's how they operate.
And they're like, no, they don't.
And like to watch someone, that's always, that's one of the reasons I started noticing I really had a problem was I'd go to weddings and people would expect me to get like really fucked up.
And I was like, were you drinking in the morning?
sometimes were you drinking every day no oh yeah every day every every night for sure that's how i got through the open mics in new york was they would pin you in drink tickets i'm the guys that that works on yeah that's tough because you got it and you got it from your dad you got it in the blood yeah it's in my blood my aunt was a crackhead and she like told me because she got sober you know in europe you couldn't drink water you had to drink alcohol
Because it was, I didn't even realize that.
Yeah, because you couldn't drink.
I knew in the Old West it was like the water was so bad the alcohol killed it off so you could have whiskey or beer.
And you kind of knew that was safer.
that's fucking you had to so like that's something i want to read into because it's like son of a bitch i was born into that yeah yeah yeah being like you're gonna be a fucking booze bag yeah because when i was young when we were teenagers i thought it was like a superpower i'm reading this book about the history of rum and it talks about like the how in the european cities they like had to drink alcohol because the water was so polluted but native americans could drink
sitting bull and all that shit it's about like crazy horse custard's last day and he was involved in all that shit red cloud was like one of the only foreign generals to have like three or four victories against the u.s army in the history of the country but they talked about how they used to the native americans would trade for coffee was their first shit that they were like yo what is this shit gets you geek
yeah i want this yeah coffee tobacco yeah they would trade for tobacco and then when they brought whiskey they were like fuck that other shit i want that fire water yeah and that's when you know that's a corruption in the united states was like oh we can just turn we can turn them out yeah yeah and then they'll just steal their land because they'll be drunk and disordered yeah yeah you know that's fucking crazy yeah they were like perfect yeah yeah as we are but i didn't know it was like
Yeah, because it's easier than decontaminating the water source.
It's just going like.
Ben Franklin too, man.
The more you read about him and how just like, he was just like, I want pussy and I got diseases.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.