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“Come back, write your piece, then get drunk.”

On “Rolling Up the Welcome Mat,” which came out just a few months after the couple finalized their divorce in late 2022, Ballerini sings that they “had to get drunk to ever really talk”; in one song she recounts a breakfast by herself in Big Sur while her husband was on tour in Europe: “The pictures look pretty,” she sings, “at least they do on your Instagram.”

“I learned to be a hybrid. I can do a party song because I’m young — I like to go out and have fun and get drunk. But I also educate myself and was raised with the notion that there’s a purpose to my existence, a responsibility.”

Though he did write that "drowning the shamrock... by no means implies that it is necessary to get drunk in doing so".

By banning alcohol at strip clubs, Washington is upholding a public policy that tells patrons to get drunk before arriving, absent any of the basic safety requirements that protect against overserving at your neighborhood bar.