I decided to make an episode of the Patrick Coffin Show into why I quit drinking. This is kind of a one-off.

Whenever I talk about this, I get contacted by a lot of people who either quit themselves

or realize that they really need to and have made that step. So this is my story of why I quit drinking. And this is the kind of

thing that we talk about inside the True North movement. If you want to find out more about this

community of dot connecting and history and exposing false media narratives and keeping your family

together, making your marriage better, and having a cleaner

lens on which to see the world through what the media tells you the world is, check out

patrickoffin.comf,n.combe, we'd love to have you and learn from you inside the True North

Movement. That's Patrickoffin.combed media. I grew up in Nova Scotia on the east coast of

Canada. It's a very kind of pro-drinking culture.

There's a lot of microbreweries.

You have Olin's ale, which is made in Halifax.

You have Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale.

Those who like it, like it a lot.

You have Labats Blue.

You have the whole moose head, 10 penny. Those are all the

brands of beer that I grew up hearing about in advertisements and drinking myself. So there's

a kind of a party Irish, Scottish vibe in Nova Scotia. And there's also a lot of alcoholics there.

What a shock.

My great, I don't know about my great-grandfather,

but my paternal grandfather, so my dad's dad died without ever getting sober.

He was a hopeless alcoholic, very troubled life, had a lot of

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