The Importance of Stories in Drinking

I definitely still to this day rely on alcohol as a kind of decompressor but tying into your previous book we'd try it when you were working through that and alcohol maybe was a way of soft in the blow bringing the walls down. Was there also a tribal element where you drink it in groups and storytelling through your drinking as well? I feel like a lot about modern society that it's a bit of a con and that con works because we're all very distracted, he says.