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This is Annie Gray, so welcome to this snake and mine podcast. I'm here with Maxi.

Maxi? Yes, Maxi. How are you?

Good, I'm really good. Yeah, I took the day off to do this, actually.

Oh, that's awesome. I'm so great. I'm feeling good about having a full day as well, so that's nice.

That's so good, little bonus, little treat for yourself.

Yeah, awesome. I thought so. Yeah.

So why don't you sort of take us back to the beginning in your relationship with alcohol? Where did it all start for you?

I think it goes way back. I think it's pretty common in Australia for teenagers to really involve themselves in drinking really early.

But for me, it was like high school, probably 16 or maybe like 16, 17 years old and just drinking on the weekends with friends.

It was crazy from the start. It was like one litre bottle of absolute vodka. I have photos of myself drinking your conversions of different bits of big bottle of straight vodka.

And that's all I drink these parties. And yeah, so it kind of started there.

And I'm a musician. I like, like a lot of bands growing up.

So it was always like, you always in pubs and clubs and venues and there's always alcohol there.

And you know, like in some gigs we're getting paid in beers, you know, you have a rider.

So it was, it was just like always there. That's kind of like where it began for me.

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