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I'm Quitting Alcohol
David Boyle reads an anonymous Irishman’s chaotic drinking memories from his gap year in the UK, filled with wild parties, bad jobs and reckless behaviour. The story ends with the writer now a few months sober, looking back at his past with humour and a hint of relief.
12:38•11 Sept 2026
Basements, Booze and Bad Decisions: A Wild Fucked Up Friday
Episode Overview
- Heavy drinking and drug use during a gap year led to dangerous and chaotic situations.
- A basement lock-in prank at a party escalated into violence, police involvement and serious property damage.
- Workplaces and jobs were repeatedly affected by drunken behaviour, leading to sackings and conflict.
- The storyteller reflects on past actions as "idiotic" but can laugh now from a more sober and stable place.
- Short-term sobriety shows a shift from debauchery to a calmer life with a partner, even if change feels "old and boring" at times.
“"I really was a idiot back in those days but happy to laugh at it now."”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? This episode of "I'm Quitting Alcohol" throws you straight into David Boyle’s regular Friday chaos, known as Fucked Up Friday, where sobriety meets some properly wild drinking stories. You’ll hear Boyle read out an anonymous email from an Irish man looking back on his booze-soaked gap year in the UK.
It’s a rapid-fire tour through dodgy restaurant jobs, legal highs, endless weed, chaotic house parties and a level of stupidity that’s funny now, but clearly dangerous at the time. From microwaved curries at "Curry in a Hurry" to a psychotic boss at "Wok On", the story shows how alcohol sat at the centre of pretty much everything.
The highlight is a legendary house party in a rent-free three-storey house, where about 60 random strangers end up locked in the basement as a joke, only for one of them to protest with a poo on the floor and another to grab a knife from the kitchen while off his head on drugs.
As the storyteller puts it, he "really was such a fucking idiot" back then, but now he’s a couple of months sober, older, partnered up and laughing at the madness from a safer distance. Boyle keeps the tone fast, raw and very funny, adding his own commentary and clearly enjoying the chaos while still pointing to how reckless it all was.
The episode sits perfectly for anyone who likes their recovery content real and unfiltered, with no preaching, just honest stupidity and the relief of having survived it. If you’ve got your own outrageous drinking stories or you’re simply wondering how anyone comes back from that level of mayhem, this Fucked Up Friday might have you asking: what wild memories are you ready to leave in the past?
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