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I'm Quitting Alcohol
Comedian David Boyle rants about Australia’s Djokovic drama before reading a listener’s wild Amsterdam drinking story filled with drugs, pranks, police and injury. The fast-paced episode mixes dark humour with stark examples of how chaotic and harmful alcohol-fuelled nights can become.
12:33•7 Jan 2022
Fucked Up Fridays: Amsterdam Chaos, Condoms and a Broken Wrist
Episode Overview
- Fucked Up Fridays feature listener stories that show the extreme chaos alcohol and drugs can create.
- Heavy nights out are framed as "fun" yet include serious issues like sexual assault and dangerous pranks.
- Intoxication leads to risky behaviour, such as biking on a freeway, police involvement and injuries.
- Old patterns can linger for years, highlighted by Joe arriving at a high school reunion essentially unchanged.
- Comedy and blunt storytelling are used to process past alcohol-fuelled mayhem while reflecting on its consequences.
“"You don't have to be a success to live your dreams. You just fucking do what's in your heart and then turn up to your high school reunion 10 years after you've finished unchanged."”
Get ready to be moved by real-life accounts of wild, booze-soaked chaos and what they can mean for people rethinking their relationship with alcohol. This short, punchy episode of "I'm Quitting Alcohol" catches comedian David Boyle on a rant about Australia’s handling of Novak Djokovic, before he swings into his regular "Fucked Up Friday" segment.
The format is simple: listeners send in their most outrageous drinking and drug stories, and Boyle reads them out with dark humour, blunt honesty, and zero censorship. This week’s story comes from Joe, a listener from the Netherlands, who drops the audience straight into an Amsterdam night of joints, beers, generous whiskies, coke in the toilets, barefoot dancing and, as Boyle puts it, "That would have been enough...
That sounds like the perfect evening just there." Things escalate fast: a vicious prank on a passed-out guy involving a condom and a pencil, a ketamine-fuelled bike ride down a freeway, a night in a police cell, a broken wrist he doesn’t feel because of alcohol, and finally staggering into a high school reunion "looking and smelling like a hobo" and still kissing his high school sweetheart.
Boyle calls parts of the story "full-blown sexual assault" while still acknowledging why some people would laugh at it, highlighting how alcohol-fuelled behaviour can cross serious lines even when it’s told as a joke. He wraps up by saying, "You don't have to be a success to live your dreams," underlining the absurdity of pretending this kind of chaos counts as winning.
For anyone in or around recovery, this episode offers a raw reminder of where heavy drinking can lead, delivered with sharp comedy and a strong dose of self-awareness. It’s messy, offensive, and brutally honest – and might leave you asking: how many of your own "funny" stories actually hide warning signs?
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