Hello, hello everybody. I'm Lexi Lombard, your host of the Alexi

broadcast and thank you for tuning in. I'm on strike with alcohol. That's the baseline of this episode.

I don't think I've ever talked about alcohol in the podcast in any extensive way.

But I'm a young 20-something. Alcohol is definitely prevalent in my life and I've gotten to a point where

it's happening so frequently so casually and I'm not about it. I started drinking alcohol when I was a teenager.

I think it was summer going into freshman year of high school, 4th of July,

a couple friends and I were having a sleepover and we went

into her parents liquor cabinet and we drank a little. I don't even know if I got drunk, but I did drink.

And I'm from Warrington, Virginia.

There's not a whole lot.

There's a little, but we don't have a mall.

We don't have a movie theater. we didn't have a bowling alley, we had

basements, we had field parties, maybe a friend would have a camper and we would hang

out in their parents' campers and drink, we would have a bonfire. We would go into the woods somewhere. There was not a

ton of activity. So we would do things like play Edward Fortehands and tape malt liquor to our hands and not be able to take it off

until we finish both of them. There's a ton of just various drinking games that I was

participating in as a young teenager.

And I, thankfully, don't have substance abuse issues in my family.

The addiction gene doesn't run in my family. The addiction gene doesn't run in my family. So starting

young didn't impact me the way that it unfortunately has for some of my loved ones.

Experimenting with alcohol and substances so young.

I mean, I'm thinking of the ways that I would smoke as a teenager.

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