Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by Gabriel Union where I ask her, do you know how much I love you?

Since this is only like our second time really sending time together, Gay and Thrones being the first, I'm just really excited to see you and it's been a long time.

Welcome to the show, literally, Gabriel Union, how are you?

I'm so good. I'm so, I don't know, I'm so I don't know I'm relieved I'm happy I'm excited about this book and the

reaction and as people are getting you know reading it and or listening to the

audible and getting the feedback I'm I'm kind of like energized so this is good it's a

good time right now. Oh my God it was so good. Like, congratulations.

This book is literally everything.

So this is an essay book, which we're obsessed with.

It's called, You Got Anything Stronger,

and I love that title.

I buy myself saying that to my husband about alcoholic beverages a lot,

you know, in the pandemic, everything shut down, you were there.

How did you go about deciding what you wanted to write about?

Did the title just like come to you?

Tell us everything.

Anything liquor related just sort of comes to me, sort of my wheelhouse.

So when I was trying to figure out what exactly I wanted to focus on, I kind of went back to the first book,

we're going to need more wine, see the theme,

do you see there's an overarching thing here?

And what I left out of that book and why?

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