6 Years 317 days - Fucked Up Fridays

6 Years 317 days - Fucked Up Fridays

What remarkable journeys have people faced head-on against addiction? This episode of "I'm Quitting Alcohol" shows that sobriety doesn't mean life gets boring – if anything, the stories just get clearer and funnier. Comedian David Boyle kicks off with a rapid-fire rant about Australia’s shortages, rising racism and ageing populations, jumping from toilet paper to Pauline Hanson to global birth rates in a way that feels like a late-night pub chat – just without the pint.

He talks about googling demographic data, fertility rates across the West and Asia, and even asking AI where a young, growing, low-crime population might exist, joking that it “basically broke fucking AI”. It’s chaotic, smart, and very much his style: big-picture worries, wrapped in jokes about soccer and ashwagandha. Then it’s time for “Fucked Up Friday”, where a listener’s story steals the show.

Joey Beavis from Ontario, Canada, sends in a 2015 tale that perfectly captures the messiness of drinking culture. A heavy night on Labatt Blue, a promise to take his niece to gymnastics, a brutal hangover, and one badly timed “innocent fart” in his sister’s car turn into full-blown disaster. What follows is a panic-fuelled mission to buy clean clothes for both himself and his niece while literally dealing with “liquid fiery peanut butter” in his shorts.

You’ll hear about humiliating conversations with shop staff, emergency outfit changes, and a heroic return to gymnastics so his niece can finish her class smiling. Boyle is delighted by the story, calling it, “Take some notes, cunts. That’s how you tell a goddamn story.” For anyone in or curious about sobriety, this episode shows how alcohol turns small tasks into epic sagas – and how, years later, those same disasters can fuel connection, comedy, and a bit of perspective.

It might even get you wondering: how many of your “funny” drunk stories are actually horror shows in disguise?