Tristan Tate
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I live in Romania, which is the most Christian country in the world, but they love to drink in Romania.
The priests drink, the monks drink, the government drinks, but everybody in Romania drinks and it's a part of the culture.
So I don't try to tell anybody what to do in terms of alcohol besides to make sure that you are not yourself in a destructive place or you're not causing any harm on others.
That's the time to stop.
Yeah, I think there's a big, big disconnected culture.
America's experimented with I mean, the founders of America, a lot of them were Puritans.
And if you're familiar with the Puritan movement, that was like absolutely nothing Puritan.
that can lead you to sin should be permitted, including alcohol.
I mean, I think the Amish still live that way today.
But America has experimented with prohibitions.
They have one of the highest ages of consent for alcohol in the world.
I think it's 21 years of age before you can legally drink here.
If you actually just look at the statistics, because I am an American, but I'm also a European, a lot of countries have a lot less of a problem with alcohol than the United States.
And I think it's one of these things where it's like, you can't do this.
You shouldn't do this.
You can't do it.
And then when they turn 21 and they're off at college, they're binge drinking and, you know, going to these keg parties.
I don't know if those are still around, but
And yeah, people develop problems with alcohol.
Whereas if you live in France, France for all of its problems, don't even get me started on the politics of France.