Brad Pitt is Drinking Again Despite Being Publicly Sober and an Alcoholic, with Maureen Callahan

So Brad Pitt is drinking again. There was an in-depth profile on Brad Pitt by, who did it? Who did the original? Esquire did the original. And the guy did a great job reporting on it, but he exposed, he broke the news that Brad Pitt is drinking again after having been on the wagon for many years, seven years. And now he offered this guy a glass of wine and the reporter was is it just for the guests? And Brad's like, no, I'm drinking again and admitted and is talking about how he can have, the reporter said, oh, just a glass. You can have just a glass. And he's like, no, I can have more than just a glass, like a few glasses, but I can't have too much. Okay. If you're an alcoholic, I'm pretty sure this is not how it works, Maureen. And I think once again, there's probably not a lot of people in Brad Pitt's life who can sit him down and say, Brad, no, for an alcoholic, what is it? One drink is too many and 1000 won't be enough. So I think this story is fascinating on multiple levels. So Brad Pitt designed that tableau in order to get this story out, right? He was the one who brought out the wine and served it to the journalist and that was the prompt like, oh, is it okay for me to drink in front of you? Like, are you sure? Like you are on the record as being an alcoholic in recovery. And Brad says, oh, well, I'm drinking again. It's a cover story in Esquire. He knows it's going to make headlines, right? So why, why is he telling us this? My question is, are we trying to get ahead of something? Because back when Angie deplaned with those children, fled in a limousine and the next day filed for a divorce, which was shocking and made worldwide headlines. Like I'll never forget, like I was working at the New York post. I got like an emergency call to come in early. And then I looked on the Daily Mail website and I remember the font size about the Brad and Angie split. It was like the font size you would reserve for World War III breaking out. It was an enormous story, right? And then Brad, like a couple of months later does like a cover story for GQ in which he says, hey, I'm an alcoholic and I'm an AA now. And I really had to get my stuff together. And I remember saying to this guy who was one of the top reporters on page six, what is the play here? Why is Brad Pitt doing this? He doesn't have to. There are plenty of people in recovery in Hollywood that we don't know about. So why is he being so public about this? Brad Pitt, Hollywood's wholesome golden boy, you know, all like the way he spun that, that split from Jen Aniston. It was like, he just wants babies. What else can he do? He has no choice. You know, so why is he doing this? And, and Ian said to me, I think he's trying to get ahead of something. And lo and behold, we later learned what went down on that plane. He was on a drunken rampage. He poured beer over Angie and one of the kids hiding under a blanket by Angie's report to the FBI. He assaulted her in a, in a bathroom on that plane. It was a bad, bad scene. And so when Brad Pitt who has been famous for like the bulk of his adult life, who knows how the machine works, does this, like I raise an eyebrow. I like it. I think you're probably right now that I think it through because it doesn't make sense. Everybody knows if you're an alcoholic and he's been in AA, um, you can't drink, you can't drink one. You can't have two, can't have three that those days have passed you because you have this thing that compels you to drink more than one, two, or three. If you pick up the bottle. I mean, maybe there's the rare case. I'm sure there are who are able to do it, but it's the exception, not the rule. So why would he be publicizing it? That's a very good question. Well, we will see if there's another shoe to drop on that one, put a pin in that. National debt has exceeded the gross domestic product. America's reckless government spending keeps catching up with us higher inflation, higher prices, higher cost of living expenses, and higher interest payments on the national debt. Every dollar Washington spends on interest is a dollar. It has to tax, borrow or print smart retirement planners, prepare for potential setbacks. And they can do that by diversifying with a time-tested asset known for weathering the storm. Consider physical gold from Birch Gold Group. Text MK to the number 989898 and Birch Gold will send you a free info kit on converting an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA and physical gold. You don't pull the ripcord on your parachute once you've already hit the ground. Don't wait for economic turbulence to diversify. Text MK to the number 989898 and consider owning some gold from Birch Gold.