Welcome to another bonus episode for the bonus podcast.

Sometimes I do something different or experimental, just something that I might not do on the public podcast.

And this episode, this bonus episode, falls into the category of personal.

So I'm going to share with you something personal, which I'm not sure if it'd be a good fit on the public podcast.

And what I'm going to share with you is why I don't drink alcohol and I've never drunk alcohol before. I've

never been buzzed. I've never been drunk. And I think I basically have mentioned that on the

public podcast that I don't drink and never have, but I've never explained it.

Now, don't worry, I'm not going to ramble on about all my reasons, but instead, I'm going to read you a story.

I wrote this story in my first year of college, so I was either 17 or 18 years old, and it was in the freshman writing class.

I don't remember what the exact assignment was.

It must have been something like, tell something personal about yourself in a creative way.

So I decided to write about why I don't drink alcohol.

But my creative method was to put that into a partially fictionalized story to try to make it a

little more interesting.

So the setting of the story is a courtroom that is inside my brain.

My brain is trying to decide if I should accept an alcoholic drink from another person at this specific moment.

In this courtroom inside my brain, there's two attorneys and there's a judge.

The prosecuting attorney is my it.

So the it usually represents impulsive behavior.

So my it is the prosecuting attorney.

And of course, my it is arguing for me to take the alcoholic drink and drink it.

The defense attorney is my superego.

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