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July 5, 2023 - Candace Owens
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Why Brett Cooper Doesn’t Drink
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Alright guys, so yesterday we talked about an article that completely transformed my life entitled, Why I Quit Drinking, which then in turn became a big reason why I quit drinking.
Today we're going to stay on that same subject and dive into a huge cultural lie, which is the idea that prohibition failed.
You need to examine the facts and realize it didn't fail.
This is kind of similar to the lie that all kids were having sex in high school, so that's why we might as well teach sex education.
You know, they weren't having sex in high school.
And then after teaching sex education, the majority of high schoolers then began having sex before they left high school graduation.
So we're going to dive into that cultural lie.
And then later on in the show, I'm going to bring on Brett Cooper, an amazing Daily Wire talent.
If you're not familiar with her yet, I don't know how you're not.
Her YouTube channel is blowing up.
And she also might be the only 21-year-old I know that doesn't drink alcohol.
So super interesting. Stick around.
You're not going to miss that on Candace Elton's.
So why are we discussing drinking?
Well, if you haven't heard the episode yet, you should go back and you should find it.
It's entitled, Why I Quit Drinking.
And I read to you the article that inspired me to quit drinking, despite me being a person that never had any problems with alcohol.
But of course, I observed all of the problems that people in my life had with alcohol.
I had watched a girl, as I mentioned in that episode, ruin her life.
She could have saved everything that was happening around her if she just committed herself to put down the booze.
She couldn't do it.
And I felt after reading this article that I needed to transform my life.
And the consequence of that one decision was that I felt that the entire world opened up to me.
I launched my YouTube series.
Thanks to all of you, it blew up.
what felt like overnight success in talking about politics.
And I credit that to me having read an article, which I believe saved me because it made me
a different person going into politics.
I was very clear-minded going into politics, and I didn't make any mistakes, as I think
a lot of people do when they're having a cocktail and drinking in the lobby of a Trump hotel
in D.C. following every political event.
So that is that.
That is my experience with it.
And I have been honest with saying to you that I drink very rarely, and I still will
have an occasional glass of wine here and there.
But I am not binge drinking, which is something that I did in my college years.
I am not known as somebody who drinks at all amongst political circles.
Now, to build on that past episode, today I'd like to talk to you guys about prohibition because a big component of this, if you listen to that episode, you would say, Candace, what are you arguing for?
Are you arguing for prohibition?
No, I'm not arguing for prohibition at all.
I think we should discuss prohibition and the lies surrounding the narrative that it was a complete and utter failure in the United States.
You know what conservatives say.
Oh, well, we tried it.
It's fine that I'm drinking my wine while I'm telling you not to smoke your pot because we tried prohibition and it doesn't work.
And there's nothing wrong with drinking a little bit of alcohol.
It takes the edge off at the end of the day.
I enjoy it. Of course, that's not true.
Look around you. You know that alcohol is ruining our society.
You know that we read a story in the news.
It feels like virtually once a month about some college person.
Maybe they were being hazed and they drank too much.
Maybe they were subsequently raped because they drank too much.
We see these stories all the time, and yet we don't ever talk about maybe just alcohol.
Becoming a more temperate society.
So let's talk about prohibition.
Let's talk about the 18th Amendment.
America went dry on January 17th, 1920.
And that lasted until December 15th, 1933, when it was repealed by the 21st Amendment under FDR. Now, why did they decide in 1933 to repeal the 18th Amendment?
Why did America say, no, let's go back to drinking?
Well, again, if you're following conventional wisdom, it's because it was a failure.
Everyone was drinking anyways.
What was the big deal? No, there was a specific reason that they did it.
It's because at that time in America, we were suffering through a great economic depression.
So the government didn't say, drink your booze.
Let's legalize the commercialization of alcohol because things are great and wholesome and we're having a good time.
They basically said, well, you have nothing.
And so the very least we can let you do is while you are suffering, allow you to have some alcohol.
Think about that. This was something that because things were going wrong, because people were suffering, because people were depressed, because people were jumping out of windows, realizing that they had lost everything virtually overnight, On top of that, we're going to give you some alcohol.
What does that signal to you?
What does that signal to you that the government is aware regarding the impacts of alcohol?
They know it's not a good thing.
They're not giving it to you as a high, as something celebratory.
They're not saying things are going great, let's toast to that.
They know that you are miserable.
And maybe if you're lucky, this will help because you won't think so bad about your miserable circumstances.
Essentially, it will thrust you into a different reality.
We're hoping. We're hoping, right?
Now, let's unpack the lies surrounding the narrative that prohibition was a failure, because actually, it was a remarkable success.
And there was an article that was published, I can't believe I'm going to say it, they used to do some journalism once upon a long time ago, the year that I was born in 1989, the New York Times published an op-ed that was entitled, Actually, Prohibition Was a Success.
And the Schreyer does a great job of debunking the narrative that it was a failure.
There are essentially four main points here.
The first is that most people are not even aware of what the 18th Amendment was.
There are lies surrounding it.
People believe that they were prohibited from drinking alcohol.
That was never the circumstance in this country.
To the contrary, the amendment prohibited the commercial manufacturing and distribution
of alcohol, alcoholic beverages.
It did not prohibit the use or the production for one's own consumption.
So that's a lie.
If you were seen drinking in your home, the police weren't going to come get you and arrest
you because it was a crime.
Basically it said commercially we're not going to have this.
And by the way, morally during that time, and you can't even fathom this in today's
society, advertisers were declining to have ads published that promoted alcohol.
This was before prohibition.
They just said this is immoral.
This is immoral behavior.
There was this understanding that it did not contribute to anything positive in our society.
Thank you.
Secondly, actually, because of prohibition, there was, in fact, a steep decline in alcohol consumption.
So there goes, there blows up that entire narrative that people were just drinking all the time anyways,
didn't matter, and eventually the government just gave in and said, all right, have your booze.
Alcohol consumption declined, as did cirrhosis death rates for men,
which were 29.5 for every 100,000 persons in 1911, and that dipped down to 10.7
for every 100,000 people in 1929.
Also, admissions to state mental hospitals for alcoholic psychosis declined
from 10.1 per 100,000 in 1919 to just 4.7 in 1928.
So too went arrests for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct, which declined by 50%
from 1916 to 1922.
The best estimates were that consumption of alcohol declined somewhere between 30% and 50%.
Those numbers are stunning.
The impacts were instant.
This kind of reminds me of the El Salvador prisons, which overnight people just,
50% homicide rate drop, right?
Over two years they were able to do this because they got serious about attacking
the issue of violent crime.
Well, when America got serious about tackling the issue of binge drinking,
the results were instant.
Could you imagine 50% less, up to 50% people were just going, mm, no thank you, it's not for me.
But then you hear this, well, okay, we know what the conventional narrative is.
Well, okay, what ended up happening actually, they tell us, is that the mob was born.
The mafia was born.
Violent crime took place because people wanted their booze, and it gave birth to these violent mafias.
Well, that actually is the third lie that needs to be unpacked.
Violent crime did not increase dramatically during Prohibition.
Rather, before Prohibition took effect, homicide rates rose dramatically.
This was from 1900 to 1910.
But throughout Prohibition, it remained constant.
Organized crime became more visible.
This is what people were reporting on.
But it did not increase.
Violent crimes did not increase throughout the period of Prohibition.
So that is important to note.
And of course, this last point, following the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, alcohol consumption increased.
And so what do we have to show for it?
What has happened since then?
Well, let's talk about the statistics surrounding drinking today.
In 2016, there were 3 million deaths.
5.3% of all global deaths were contributable to alcohol consumption.
That is astounding. 3 million people would be allowed to say if it weren't for alcohol.
In 2016, approximately 14% of total deaths among people aged 20 to 39 were alcohol attributable.
In 2019, 25% of people ages 18 and older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month, and 6.3% reported that they engaged in heavy alcohol use in the past month.
Every day here in the United States, 32 people die in drunk driving crashes.
So that is one person every 45 minutes if you want to time that.
Every 45 minutes throughout your day, somebody is going to die in a drunk driving car accident.
In 2020 alone, 11,654 people died in alcohol-impaired driving traffic deaths.
We know that alcohol is a huge factor, particularly amongst the age group of 18 years to 22 years in the United States.
We've covered on this show extensively young girls who would be alive today, young women that would be alive today if it weren't for events that took place on their college campuses engaging in binge drinking.
It's almost acceptable in the United States that if you go to college campus, they're expecting that you are going to drink.
Further on that note of talking about the youth, regarding people that are under the age of 21, there are every year 1,092 motor vehicle crashes, 1,000 deaths from homicides.
Again, this is under the age of 21.
108 deaths from alcohol overdoses falls burns or drownings and
596 suicides because you know that people that commit suicide typically
They will do that when they are under the influence because you know
The liquor gives them the courage to do things Well liquor gives you the courage to commit a crime
The liquor gives you the courage to sleep with a bunch of people that you wouldn't have slept with if you were sober
Right. This is why people like to drink it is a social lubricant and we can see the suffering in our society
everywhere but nobody wants to talk about it
because everyone likes their boobs.
And how boring to talk about a society that's temperate, how boring to even consider what our society might look like if we did not have our boobs on a Friday night.
Now let's talk about the effects of alcohol on the body because this astounds me.
I have a theory, by the way. I'm not a doctor.
I just have a little bit of common sense.
The reason why we are seeing such drastic rises in Alzheimer's and dementia is because I believe that long-term alcohol abuse...
It absolutely has to dictate dementia.
Absolutely. And I just think about this because when I used to binge drink in college, one of the things that happens, you can't remember much in the morning, right?
And then as days go on, little memory comes to you like, oh yeah, I do remember that.
It causes temporary amnesia, right?
And so you'd have to imagine that prolonged use would of course impact your brain severely.
And this, by the way, to turn this to something that has always amazed me, is how sharp, when you speak to Trump, despite the fact that he's 80 plus, Donald Trump, he's very sharp.
For his age, I've never seen someone that sharp.
It's totally weighed against Joe Biden.
But something that was never spoken about enough is the fact that Donald Trump swore off alcohol.
He never drank alcohol throughout his entire life because his young brother Fred died because he was an alcoholic.
He saw in real life how somebody ruined their life, somebody that he loved very much, ruined his life because of alcohol, and he swore it off, right?
Right. And I thought that was amazing.
It's something that isn't discussed enough because we don't have a culture that celebrates sobriety.
That's not considered a cool thing.
I felt weird when I came out and wanted to talk about the fact that I'm not a big drinker and I think that people should drink less.
And I don't think it's classy for people to be posting on Instagram the social pressure of, oh, having fun, clinking glasses.
How cool are we? It's a Friday night and we can do this.
It shows that I'm having fun.
I think there needs to be less of that.
And there's nothing that is conservative about alcoholism.
There's nothing that is conservative about drinking alcohol.
We often say that one of the things, almost the most important thing when we talk about conservatism is conserving the family.
I speak about this all the time.
I got into this because of realizing all of the ill effects that black America is suffering today simply because we have broken families and we have broken households.
What contributes to those broken households?
Okay, well, obviously we can talk about the welfare system as pertains to black America.
We can talk about the government initiatives to make sure that men are not inside of the home.
What about the other initiatives?
What about the social initiatives that have taken place?
How can you not consider how many people, and I would say it's all of us, right?
If you are an individual and you're listening to this right now and you go, actually, I don't know any alcoholics, please comment.
Please take the time to find this video on YouTube and to comment under it because I don't know anyone that hasn't been touched with alcoholism in their family.
I don't know anyone that doesn't have either a drunk cousin, a drunk uncle, a drunk father, a drunk mother that they can't talk about that has been abusing alcohol for years.
There's nothing to me that screams anti-family more than alcohol, right?
You hear about those divorces.
You hear about those broken homes because they have an individual within those homes that is dependent upon alcohol, that would rather have a good time than to be a good father or to be a good mother and to be a good leader.
And yet conservatives shy away from this discussion.
Again, I am not making an argument for prohibition, but I am perhaps making an argument for temperance.
And if that seems like too big of an idea, right?
Like I could never not give up alcohol.
What if you just didn't drink every single weekend?
What if you were a conservative, right?
And if you spoke about how you think pot is bad, what if you stopped doing that because it's tremendously hypocritical?
It's hypocritical. How can you actually sit back there, right?
And as I told you guys in the earlier episode, be like Rick Santorum and talk about the pot smokers as you drink something that you know leads to millions of deaths every single year.
Well, I don't drink to get to that point.
Okay. That makes you exceptional, I suppose.
Maybe you are the person that really just has one glass.
But I'm doubting that is the typical scenario.
One glass almost always ends up being two.
Two glass always, always ends up being three.
And if we dialed back this one thing in our society, if we made temperance cool,
if we started feeling that same shame that they felt, right, leading into the 20th century
about outward displays of drinking, if we started being the sorts of individuals who said,
you know what, we're not gonna promote alcohol in any capacity, we're not going to make it seem
like the cool thing to do, people that follow you, if they knew that there was other options,
I don't know, I like to garden.
I like to go antiquing.
That's what I did a few weekends ago.
Maybe people would realize that that's an option, that they could be cool without having to drink alcohol.
It's an idea. It's an idea that I'm working on.
I don't know. Maybe I want to be the first person in the conservative movement to tell people that there's another way to be cool, that you don't have to drink to be cool.
And actually, to go a little bit further in saying that drinking is not that cool, full stop.
Treat that as an idea, not a sentencing.
And that's all I'm going to say about that.
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I can't believe this is the first time that I've ever had you on my show.
I know, because I wasn't on the first show and I haven't been on this one yet.
Yeah, well guys, introducing my audiences to Brett Cooper, if you don't know her, she
is the newest, hottest talent on Daily Wire, very close to 3 million subs.
By the time this premieres, she'll probably already be at 3 million subs.
You should subscribe to her channel anyway.
It's so great.
It's very funny as well.
Great editing and covering topics.
I would say really for Gen Z, which you just told me something very fascinating about Gen
What was that? Okay, so Gen Z is the new sober generation.
We are the soberest generation in recent history.
Shocking. I know. How did we get here?
I think it's a reaction to, I mean, you were saying that you think, you know, millennials tore it up.
And I think it's a reaction to that.
And in a weird way, and I've said this before, Gen Z is often misguided about a lot of things.
But I do think that they care...
About their health. I think they do care about, you know, they're very passionate.
And so I think somehow that is landed back with sobriety.
And they're realizing that alcohol is not all that it's cracked up to be.
So there are more Gen Zers of the drinking age that are not drinking.
Gen Z, you know, in addition to that, is like leading the charge with going back to flip phones.
It's so random. I kind of love it.
But it's very, very cool. They're kind of going backwards.
I know. Maybe because everyone's going so progressive.
They're like, no, you know what? The rebellious thing to do is to go regressive.
I know. Well, it's like the example I gave you.
There's a new article.
Actually, it's not new. It was like at the end of May.
But it says, is monogamy the new kink?
Because it's like we've gone so far that like monogamy is now dangerous.
So it's like, ooh, it's so cool to be monogamous.
That's crazy. So it's like it's cool to be sober in a way.
Like I go to bars now. Every restaurant and bar has a mocktail menu.
Yeah. And before that, it was like, oh, could I just get, because I'm sober, guys.
So it's like, ooh, could I just get a little like, you know, soda with lime?
Now I have like huge options of mocktails.
Which is amazing. It's good to be square.
It is, yeah. I want to talk about your sobriety.
First, I'm going to do something you're not supposed to do.
You're never supposed to ask a woman their age.
So, Brett, how old are you? I'm 21.
Okay, there we go. We got the answer.
Wow, I love that we just broke that.
We shattered that. It's over. It's so easy.
You'd ask me what's my way now. Amazing.
I'm 34. Right.
So fascinating that you're 21 and you don't drink and that's why I wanted to bring you on the show because it's just not something that you typically hear culturally.
I think it was you and maybe Taylor Swift who did this thing which was excellent.
She waited until she was 21 to have the first drink.
I fully admire that.
I did not do that. I did not do that either.
Okay. That's important to note. So I drank Until like a week after my 21st birthday.
But I got sick on my 21st birthday.
I got the flu. So I didn't drink for that whole week when I was celebrating.
I didn't drink for a couple weeks afterwards just because I still felt gross.
And I was like, oh, why not? It became less fun after I became 21 because I drank throughout college.
I went to college early. You guys know it's like the conspiracy with me and Ben.
We both went to UCLA when we were 16 years old.
So are we the same person?
And I would drink with my brothers and that kind of thing, family events.
But it was more fun when it was the dangerous thing to do.
And when I became 21, I was like, oh, this really isn't exciting.
And then I started slowing down.
And then April 1st of this year, I just completely stopped drinking and I never felt better with a decision.
Yeah, so I share with my audiences, I've just never, I shouldn't have never been a big drinker.
Throughout my political career since they've known me, people know me in politics as being a total non-drinker.
And then I tend to, if I'm traveling with my husband on vacation, or if we're in London, I really do enjoy wine.
But I'm probably down to drinking wine, even, Four times a year, and people are very astonished for that.
I don't enjoy it, is what I was sharing with people.
And I wanted you to watch this clip and respond to it.
It's actually somebody, Lucy Hale, she's an actress.
She was on Pretty Little Liars.
She's 33 years old, and she is revealing that she is celebrating one year of sobriety.
I thought it was a really fascinating clip, and it's a super departure from my regular content because I typically just bash celebrities.
In this circumstance, I actually would like to say she's doing something really wonderful, so let's take a listen to what Lucy Hale had to say.
Gotcha. Never talked publicly until yesterday about being sober.
I have a little over a year of sobriety.
You know, I've been working on getting sober since I was 20.
I'm 33. It takes time.
Alcohol did for me We did a couple of things.
It was like this feeling of, oh my god, this is what I've been searching for my whole life.
I'm my truest self, right?
Like, I'm so much funnier and cooler and people like me.
That's all bull.
It started with, wow, I can be free and funny and boys will like me.
Like, held on to that belief that real Lucy came out when she was drinking.
Guess what? Real Lucy did come out, but it was that rage and pain that I had been holding onto for so long.
Wouldn't remember what I did, what I said, which is...
Scary. And people would just tell me, well, Lucy, don't drink.
Oh, thank you.
Okay. Thank you so much.
I'll try that. Thanks.
But now it is that. Now it's like, okay, I just don't pick up the first drink and I'm fine.
Because what would happen for me is I'd pick up the first drink.
I'd like the feeling. I'd have another drink.
I'd really like the feeling. And then it was past drink two.
Don't remember. I have an allergy to alcohol.
I cannot drink.
I view it as an allergy to alcohol.
My brain doesn't Work the same way as someone who can just have a glass of wine.
It always wants more.
It's like craving that. This is the stuff that I wish would be viral in the media because it's so important and it's such a special message, especially for young women who I think can really identify with that message.
You think it's a social lubricant.
You think it's doing good for you.
How do you respond when you hear something like that?
I think it's really, really positive what she's saying because that was so honest and raw and I think people are wary about acknowledging that this fake self is not good because it feels good.
It feels fun and I think people get caught up with like oh this is very cool and I enjoy it but just because you're enjoying something doesn't mean that it's like A net good or a net positive, the way that it impacts people that you're around, the way that it impacts your self-esteem.
Even when I would have one or two drinks towards the end of me drinking, so like March of this year, when I was falling asleep, would feel so anxious.
The anxiety. I mean, it wasn't even like a hangover.
It was just like, ugh. And I think it was a combination of, did I represent myself well?
And this was, again, I wasn't even drunk.
It was just coming down from alcohol was very, very hard on me.
Hard on my body, hard on me mentally.
And I don't think people talk about that a lot, especially young people.
And then another thing that she said is that it is very hard to stop drinking, even if you are not an addict, just because so much of our culture is It revolves around drinking now.
And I think one thing that really stood out to me was, you know, moving to Nashville.
And Nashville is a very party-heavy city.
It's, you know, Nash, Vegas.
Everybody comes here for their bachelorette parties.
And the things to do for young people are to go out.
You go to Midtown or you go to Broadway.
You do all of this stuff and it all revolves around drinking.
And that's kind of what I did because that's what everybody else does.
And I started to say things like, That's the only thing to do in Nashville, where there's nothing else to do, so we should go out.
Oh, there's nothing else to do except go to dinner.
And I realized, I only turned 21 this year.
What was I doing for the rest of my life?
I had hobbies.
I had other activities. I would rock climb.
I would go to other things, you know?
I would go take art classes.
And so it was me hindering myself.
It was my own self-talk, saying, that's all you can do.
Oh, well, you better go drink.
You better go out. And even if I didn't drink a lot, I was still in that bar culture.
And I realized I was doing it to myself because of the social pressure.
It is social pressure, and it's so funny because when you and I hang out on the weekends, we go to the farmer's market, we go antiquing, all of these things, and we're like, yeah, there's all of these other options.
George makes us coffee. Yeah, and then we talk about things, and we're still able to connect, and I think that it's really compelling that she describes it as an allergy because I would make the argument that everybody has an allergy to alcohol.
Everybody has an allergy to alcohol.
That anxiety you're talking about, that is why I don't like drinking.
It is not worth it for me next morning, and it's all about this idea.
How did I represent myself? I don't like to be out of control.
That's Oh, it feels so awful.
Especially when you are somebody who is publicly known.
And my reputation is so important to me.
And I never want to put myself in a situation where my IQ is diluted, where my, again, control is diluted, my decision-making, because I know that people are watching me.
And even if I did not have a platform, did not have an audience, as somebody that has a lot of integrity with myself and cares a lot about how I represent myself, how I represent my family...
It's like, why would I put myself in a situation where I don't have that, where I'm losing that control?
Right. And I think there's nothing more illusorous.
The concept for me especially, because I stopped drinking completely, and they know the story because I showed them on yesterday's episode, right before I got into politics, and it was literally a God thing.
It was nothing that happened. I just kind of I think God just wanted me to be sober is what really happened.
He just knew that this next phase of my life would have to be sober.
But to me, the idea of having children and these people that wake up hungover, I don't know how they do that.
Like, I would feel if I ever could not be 100% for my children in the morning because I was nursing a hangover.
Yeah. I personally would just feel like that anxiety would be quadrupled.
Forget the social anxiety of did I text something I wouldn't normally text, did I say something that I wouldn't normally say?
And yeah, in the moment you feel really cool, but those few hours of feeling cool, not even, I would say a couple hours before you trip over into being an a**hole.
Yeah. Just not worth it for that follow-up.
It's guilt. Yeah, it just feels so bad.
I mean, truly, making the decision to stop drinking.
It was kind of a fluke, and I said, you know, I'll do it for April, and I'll see how I feel.
And I just have no intention of stopping.
And I think it's also something that I'm really proud to say as a young person.
Whereas, you know, if I'm invited to go somewhere, you know, oh, why are you drinking a mocktail?
I'm very proud to say, you know what, I don't drink.
And it's not a, you know, I'm better than you kind of thing.
It's just like, I'm doing this for myself.
This is something that I had been thinking about for the last four months but didn't want to do because of social pressure.
What would people think? You know, do they think I'm going to be a square?
Like, oh, that, you know, conservative girl, that stick up her ass that she's got, you know.
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Yeah, I think it's important what you're saying too is to say it's not because I'm better than you because let me tell you, let me promise you, I was worse than you.
Whatever you think, I was worse than you.
I started drinking way too young, got a little bit bored with it, and probably was a bit better when I was in college than most people were because I had a boyfriend.
But I did it all, and there was nothing left that I felt that a glass of alcohol could give me.
And I think one of the biggest things that has changed in sobriety for me, and I've now been sober for years, save the occasional glass of wine that I have when I go away...
Is my whole career and life took off because I was no longer filling that time doing nothing.
And I could still connect with people in different ways and actually connect with them in a layer that's actually more real.
Who are you? You're not a glass of alcohol.
I know, exactly. And it's a confidence booster, I think, when you realize.
And it's hard at first. It's hard to go into social situations And not drink.
Say you're drinking a mocktail. I mean, obviously, guys, you can get a fun mocktail that looks like a cocktail and not even have to, you know, you don't even have to say that it's like a mocktail.
But it is uncomfortable when everybody around you maybe has had that one drink and you feel like, ooh, do they realize that I'm not drinking?
But that in itself is an exercise.
And I think it's a huge confidence booster once you get to that point that you don't even worry about it anymore.
Right. It's like, I don't really, you do you.
You drink if you want to.
But you're going to like me for me regardless of whether I'm drinking.
And I think it solidifies your circle, whether you have a good circle or not, whether you're surrounding yourself with good people that actually want the best for you.
It's a huge confidence booster in knowing that you don't need that.
Like the real you is just good enough.
And if it's not good enough for those people, then find other people.
Life is short. There are more cultural examples of people that have been speaking out about not drinking.
One person, notably Blake Lively, is a non-drinker.
J-Lo says it's for beauty, but look how much she's tried for, which I believe her.
She's just like, it's actually just bad for your skin.
Which, by the way, Lucy Hill, her skin was just glowing.
Yes. I was like, girl, if that's from not drinking, I'm getting on the program because your skin is amazing.
My skin has never been clearer.
So I also, this is around the time that I stopped using all of my, like, normal products, and I went to my beef tallow, which you know, and I used that, and my Stale Mucus.
This is what we hang out and talk about, like how we can put slugs on our faces.
Yes, exactly. Stale Mucus, guys.
It's really great. It's the best toner I've found.
But that, in addition to not drinking, I had no idea the impact it was having.
Even when I was only having a couple a week.
I mean, my hormonal acne totally went away.
It's crazy. Yeah, the benefits of it.
And Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry, she recently spoke out and said that they have converted themselves to non-drinkers.
I know Chrissy Teigen had said it.
I bet she's back to drinking. But she was very vicious, and I bet a lot of that was because she was drinking too much and staying at home.
And so I cannot remark enough.
And the reason why it was so important for me to do this episode is that there are so many examples of people that I think they follow us.
They think we're so cool. You've got 3 million subscribers.
And they think, oh my God, she's so cool.
And I think that they probably naturally associate, because of today's cultural society, coolness with drinking.
Especially being young and being 21.
Yeah, so she's 21 years old.
She must be drinking with the boys and doing all this stuff.
Guys, I don't go to the clubs. No.
I'm not at the clubs on a Friday night.
I am home with my dad.
We are losers and I say that in the best way possible because actually it's the best form of winning of my entire life began when I realized that I didn't actually need alcohol and that the whole world opens up.
So any closing thoughts to the young people that watch my show religiously just in terms of how they navigate those situations because it is hard.
You do have to have some emblem of courage to even have the confidence to say that you don't drink because people look at you like you have a problem.
Yes, they do. I never had a problem. I know.
They're just like, oh, well, she must have been drinking at 2.
Or they go, oh, good for you.
I'm so glad you worked through that.
I'm like, I wasn't an... It doesn't matter if I was or not.
I'm just not. But what I would say is, you know, just smile.
And it's easy to laugh things off to and just go, oh, yeah, you know, it's right for me.
I think something that I always say in these situations where I'm making a choice that's different than other people is, you know...
I'm so glad that's working for you.
You know, this was the best choice for me.
But, you know, that drink looks great. And that kind of thing.
And, like, I'll enjoy my pineapple mocktail.
And usually they are very good.
I got a juicer just so I can make mocktails.
I love that. So it makes your life very exciting.
The amount of appliances you and I own is another problem.
And we'll have to do some content on that because George is thinking, he's like, no more appliances.
I'm like, but I need more things.
I have a garden now. We talk about gardening.
We're basically eight-year-old women.
We are. For Candace's birthday, I got her a composter against George's will because he didn't want another appliance.
And I walk in their house with this ginormous thing.
I'm like, happy birthday!
Anyway. And I was so happy.
She was. I was like, this is the best birthday present I ever could have asked for.
It's what I've wanted for the last two years.
I was going to do the worm trays, but this was like...
An electronic compost makes it so much easier.
You guys, it's okay.
It is hip to be square is the moral of this episode.
I'm so happy that Brett joined us, you guys.
Don't forget to check out her channel into the comments section.
It's so funny because she's literally in the comments section, which is where I can't play for too long because then I start going on a ramp, but she's so brilliant at it.
You guys, Brett and I will be back tomorrow for an all-new episode of Front Stage.
I know the ladies are like, yes, yes, because what we've basically done is we saw that backstage was very boy-centric, and they've got the They're scotches and they're cigars and they're talking about things.
And we just want to have, but girls just want to have fun.
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