6 Years 338 days - Fucked Up Fridays

6 Years 338 days - Fucked Up Fridays

What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? For comedian David Boyle, it’s less self-help seminar and more chaotic diary, and this instalment of *I’m Quitting Alcohol* sticks to that formula in the best (and filthiest) way. Across a rapid-fire few minutes, Boyle jumps from real-life randomness to listener confession.

You’ll hear him recount a surreal meeting with his YouTube "lipoprotein little a guru" Nick Norwitz at the local YMCA — "I turn my head, and the cunt's there, doing some bench presses" — and the brief chat that ends with simple health advice: get a calcium scan and keep doing what you’re doing. He then shifts to dad mode, talking about his son’s schooling and how blown away he is by the education in his new area.

There’s a funny moment where his son’s teacher mentions "grammar conventions" and Boyle admits, "I've never heard of this," proving that sobriety doesn’t automatically make you academically sharp. Then it’s time for Fucked Up Friday, the weekly slot where listeners send in their wildest drinking tales.

This week’s story comes from Derek in Canada, who’s 15 months sober and cheerfully abusive: "Being sober 15 months, your stupid podcast hasn't helped, but I listened to it anyways to pass the time." Derek’s backpacking saga in Vietnam, 18 days of hostel debauchery, and a very loud night with a deaf Chilean woman in a 16-bed dorm, is exactly as crude and messy as Boyle predicts.

The tone is foul-mouthed, self-deprecating and relentlessly honest — perfect for people in recovery who are sick of polished perfection and want to laugh at how ridiculous booze-soaked behaviour can be. If you like your sobriety content short, sharp, and full of swearing, this might be right up your alley. Ready to hear how ugly drinking can look when you can finally laugh at it?