7 Years 176 days Sober - Saved By Evan

7 Years 176 days Sober - Saved By Evan

Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? Here’s a twist: this daily recovery show spends five minutes today talking less about hangovers and more about financial whiplash.

Comedian David Boyle, seven years and 176 days sober, riffs through a raw monologue about tech stocks, AI hype, and how “the wisdom of Evan saved my fucking balls.” You’ll hear him unpack how his investments in AI-related companies, Iron and Cypher, crashed around 70%, and how reading analyst Evan’s articles pushed him to sell near the peak and shift into Bitcoin instead. The tone is classic Boyle: blunt, sweary, and darkly funny.

He admits he had “no plan” and calls himself “fucking dumb” about when to sell, using his own near miss as an example of how easily people get sucked into bubbles and ignore risk.

There’s a strong sense of relief as he describes dodging what he calls a “bloodbath” and the kind of loss that would have had him “pushing my chair so close to the wall and just staring directly into it… for days.” Alongside the market chat, you’ll catch glimpses of Boyle’s wider interests: geopolitical analysis, the Middle East, and Chinese large language models undercutting US-based AI projects.

He questions the sustainability of the current AI build-out, the massive power demands being predicted, and the possibility of a major shake-up if spending slows and big tech players pull back. For someone on a sobriety path, this short episode shows how the same all-or-nothing mindset that once drove drinking can easily transfer to money and risk-taking.

It’s candid, messy, and very human—perfect if you like recovery content that doesn’t pretend life suddenly becomes calm and sensible once you stop drinking. Ever caught yourself chasing a high in a different area of life and wondering if you really learned your lesson?