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I had baijiu one time.

You had baijiu?

Yeah.

Uh, my buddy-

Kind of a controversial name nowadays.

We don't really, um-

Yeah [laughs]

We don't really talk about that stuff anymore.

Yeah, the, um-

But, uh, but yeah, it seemed...

I didn't take a shot of it, but it seemed like, uh, something that would upset me greatly and-

Oh

... burn my stomach instantly.

It's the only thing other than Everclear and moonshine, like, like, like, like moonshine real...

Not like fucking the brand, but like homemade liquor that I've ever had.

Malort was pretty close, but it was like in a setting that it was fun.

When I drank baijiu, it was like my buddy had come back from China, and he like snuck some on, and it was...

It looked like a bottle of perfume, dude.

It was like a frosted glass with like a little twisty top, and he was like, "Drink this." And I straight up...

I was already drunk, and I was like, "Bro, I'm not drinking perfume." And he's like, "It's not perfume.

It's baijiu." I was like, "What the fuck is a baijiu?" He was like, "Oh, it's the alcohol that like Chinese, uh, homeless guys, and also like brilliant mathematicians," [laughs] the great chasm of baijiu consumers, "it's what they drink." And so I was like, "Oh, I..." He didn't tell me that it was bad.

He kinda sold it in a way that it was like, "Oh, it's a worldly beverage." Like, "Oh, great thinkers drink it, and also homeless guys." And I was like, "Cool," like that's, that's actually a pretty cool cultural thing.

Thank you for this gift.

He also didn't tell me that it's like corn liquor.

It's like Everclear.