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Tom Segura recounts attending a daytime house music event in Austin called Mushroom Cowboy, which took place outside a coffee shop on Congress Street with an estimated queue of 250 yards and over 1,500 attendees. Despite the large crowd, many participants appeared sober or were using cannabis rather than alcohol; one attendee was notably raving while holding a baguette accompanied by his dogs. Segura suggests this scene might signal the beginning of the end for hardcore drinking culture, noting that only about 20% of Gen Z currently consumes alcohol compared to previous generations. He attributes this shift partly to young people viewing their parents' heavy drinking habits as uncool and lame, leading them to reject those behaviors in favor of a lifestyle they find more respectable or interesting. The decline in youth alcohol consumption is further driven by increased awareness regarding the negative health effects of excessive drinking and the availability of safer alternatives for relaxation. Segura points out that today's youth are well-informed about what substances do to their bodies, making them question why they would consume something harmful when other options exist. These alternatives include microdosing mushrooms, using edibles, smoking weed, or utilizing ketamine, all of which are more socially accepted now than two decades ago. This cultural shift is so profound that there are currently more daily or near-daily marijuana users in the United States than alcohol consumers, a statistic that seems preposterous to those who grew up during an era when cannabis was stigmatized as being comparable to heroin by older generations like Segura's father. Segura also reflects on his past experience running nightclubs and observes a significant downturn in the nightlife industry globally, with clubs closing at a rate of roughly one per week in the UK alone. He credits smartphones for this decline, arguing that modern social media has eliminated the ability to forget embarrassing or destructive moments from nights out. In the 20s, incidents like getting wasted on spirits and causing scenes could be denied by morning and forgotten within months, whereas today such events are permanently recorded online, creating memes that last forever. This constant digital scrutiny means everyone is now "on edge," contrasting sharply with athletes of the 80s and early 2000s who would freely engage in reckless behavior without fear of immediate public judgment or lasting internet consequences. Throughout his commentary on these societal changes, Segura acknowledges that while smoking cannabis is not entirely healthy either, it represents a different kind of recreational choice compared to traditional alcohol abuse. He emphasizes that the youth culture has evolved into one where individuals seek ways to take the edge off without relying on hard liquor, often preferring gummies or other forms of ingestion that allow them to enjoy themselves without feeling like they are ruining their lives. The transcript concludes with a promotional segment for Nomatic travel packs, highlighting Segura's partnership with the brand and his endorsement of their 14-liter backpack as an essential item for travelers who want organized compartments for laptops, shoes, and sunglasses, along with a lifetime guarantee and international shipping options available through their website.
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I went to this uh daytime house music
party in Austin on Saturday it's called
mushroom Cowboy so it's uh micro do the
kind of event I don't know I think
they're kind of hinting at that but it's
in a coffee well was outside of a coffee
shop off Congress yeah so I turn up at
half 10 it started at 10 and the queue
is 250 yards long for coffee what and
there must have been, 1500 people there
one guy brought a baguette was raving
with his baguette there dogs you know
pretty pretty sober looking from the
outside maybe some people smoking weed
but uh I think this is maybe the
beginning of us seeing the end of like
hardcore drink culture if you've looked
at how few of jenzi now drink yes it's I
think maybe 20% the interesting thing is
like the the theories on why because
there's obviously the there they have to
be theories right on on we don't
actually know exactly yeah uh one of
them is
that people
the youth views drinking as like what
their parents did right so that's like
that's naturally uncool yeah my [ __ ]
lame ass dad drinks like I don't I'm not
interested so that's one thing the other
part of it is that
this uh group of people uh that are the
youth right now are so much more
informed on what the negative aspects of
drinking and what it can can do to you
that they're just like why would I you
know why would I consume yeah to to
something like that and that they found
this whole other you know when you want
to take the edge off there's a lot more
options and it's also a lot more
accepted today than it was 20 years ago
like the idea that you could micro do or
do Edibles or smoke or you know I mean
and then there's like all the you
ketamine and everything is like I have a
I have different things that I do when I
want to have a recreational good time
um and yeah but it's it's undeniable
that it's it's definitely way down
there's more daily users in the US of
weed now than there are of alcohol is
that for real overtaken or at least that
was the the most recent study that I saw
in the US they're now more daily or near
daily marijuana users than daily on near
daily alcohol users and that and that
that thought was just completely like if
you're a a teen right now you don't
understand how Preposterous that sounds
coming from like if you were growing up
in the ' 80s and 90s like you were just
like that that those were like Fringe
people almost you know what I mean like
yes it was popular but it was not like a
respectable person really wasn't doing
that you know it was like the Arts it
was like hippies and and yeah it was I
mean people thought of it as like the
absolute worst thing that could happen I
mean people from like my dad's
generation likened marijuana to heroin
they didn't even see like really a
difference they're just like you're a
junkie like but what for smoking a joint
and like yeah that's the way they viewed
it so the fact that it's that accepted
now it's it's mind-blowing to me I
wonder if some of it is that drinking in
the house on your own feels pretty
[ __ ] bad yeah but smoking in the
house on your own you're like I'm just
watching I'm playing Call of Duty yeah
leave me alone but if you're if you're
six beers deep playing Call of Duty yeah
it's a different story yeah and and
you're not playing well at that you're
just like I don't know how well people
are playing on weed either but yeah yeah
he probably more likely to yell out
pejorative slurs um yeah I think that um
I mean look smoke smoking is still not
good for you so like you're probably but
but we've discovered that you know
there's other ways to ingest and like
consume and that's that's what I think
is part of like this youth culture thing
about staying away from drinking is
they're like whatever I do droplets in
this or I you know I I have my gummy or
whatever however they want to consume
but they're just they're definitely not
drinking man they're not drinking like
they like everybody else before them did
I used to run nightclubs for ages and
one of the big downturns we've seen has
been in Nightlife industry I think the
UK is losing a nightclub a week There's
not like an unlimited number of
nightclubs it's like one is shutting
down pretty much every single week and I
asked a friend who's still in the
industry why he thought that was the
case he said smartphones man back in the
day you could be as Loose as you wanted
you could sort of have that Larry louy
drinking Spirit at least in in Britain
recorded of course like if you mess up
and like [ __ ] yourself in the middle of
a nightclub in 2002 it's a story that
you can deny the next day and then after
6 months most people have probably
forgotten whereas if that happens in
2025 that's now concretized on the
internet for everybody to know and bring
back up and make memes out it for the
rest of time I mean it's but imagine
like how the pro athletes of the 80s and
90s and early 2000s would just go out
and just
just
destroy just destroy a woman's hopes
dreams and then now they're all yeah
they're like everyone's on edge yeah
everyone's got a phone out it's just
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