Name: Billy Strings on Why He Quit Drinking
Uploaded: 2024-03-29T14:00:26.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Billy Strings on Why He Quit Drinking' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Billy Strings on Why He Quit Drinking' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-29. Transcript available.

i was never like an act like a hardcore addict to anything i mean i i haven't
drank in seven years
but i don't even then i it's not like i i guess i'm an alcoholic i would just i
don't know when
to stop like every once in a while it's like it's not like i even drank all the
time or anything but
every once in a while it's like man we had a good gig i remember the last night
i drank was like
june 16th 2016 and we had this killer gig and it was crowd was ape shit and we
sold a bunch of merch and
it's like yes man like let's go to the bar like drinks on me yeah you know and
we had we were all
drinking i mean i i did coke that night i was drinking wine beer and liquor and
it was just a
i didn't eat anything like for a day and a half and it was just crazy so i woke
up the next morning and
i had the worst hangover ever and i was like oh and we got in the van we had to
drive like five hours
to make it to the next gig to get there by three so we could load in soundcheck
and play our gig
but i thought i was good to go and then when i got in the van i go oh hold up
and i went and puked by
the bushes or whatever got back in the van um 10 minutes later i'm going off
fuck pull over you know
and then every 10 minutes for you know it took us seven hours to drive the five
hour drive because
i had to stop and puke we were late for loading and soundcheck we had to set up
our gear in front
of the audience all just hung over it was like embarrassing it was all because
i was so drunk
the night before and i was like i'm never doing this again and i haven't drank
since
well they're probably weighed on something yeah sometimes when there's a moment
i feel like for
me anyway i know and it just sounds like it like if there's a moment where you
can get enough
reflection where like it costs you something that means something to you like
in a moment
my career was just i could see it it's like man if i don't fuck this up this i
could actually turn
this into something maybe it was like at the point where it's like i shouldn't
blow this you know
dude that's great because that kind of moment doesn't happen to a lot of people
you know where
you just have that perfect thing where you're on stage you're loading in you're
like fuck we're late
it's because of me and it started as like okay i'm not drinking at least for
the rest of the weekend
yeah and then and then yeah you know shout out to everybody that's ever said
that you know what i mean
it's like i'm not okay at least till next weekend or whatever like till this
baby's two yeah yeah and
then so that turned into uh well i'm not drinking for the rest of the week and
that turned into two
weeks months two years seven years yeah wow it's like now i you know what a big
moment for me was
when i realized how many times i had slept in the hotel room with them little
mini bottles in my fridge
and i never even fucking thought about it yeah one one day i was in there and i
reach reach in there
to grab a coke or something and i realized that i was reaching right past a
bottle of jack daniels
and then i realized how many other times i had done that before and then i
never even fucking
thought about well i'm all alone in my hotel room right now i could just
fucking nobody would know
just you know and and i've never even like thought about it's like wow it's
really
kind of out of the back of my mind that's so good you know yeah and i think um
i think people people have started to evolve i was looking at a chart the other
day that
drinking has gone it's not as big on college campuses um that it's just that
drinking is
kind of it started to like dissipate or whatever the desire for it did you go
to college yeah i went
to lsu and we were drinking over there i think i was kind of like you i didn't
love i didn't love
getting all wasted but oh i fucking loved it you did oh yeah i mean that's the
thing is like
when it was going down right and it was like wait a minute man like it was the
celebration thing it's
like man you get a couple indians like all of a sudden it's tasting good even
the more i drink the
better it tastes and and that's the other thing too is like i never drank for
you know people drink
wine and they drink these heady beers these hoppy beers and and everything and
all and it's like
whispering hooker man i grew up drinking fifths of mcmaster's and captain morgan
and shit we didn't
i never gave a fuck about what it tastes like it's like i just want to get
blacked out that's the goal
that pirate syrup baby that shit will get you bro yeah young adults in us
drinking less than in prior
decades i feel that man let me see what it says here it says 62 percent of
adults under age 35 say
they drink down from 72 percent two decades ago how does that correlate to teen
pregnancy
that's a great question i don't know but they i think they should put um birth
control in
in some of this uh white clothes