7 Years 21 days Sober - Fucked Up Fridays

7 Years 21 days Sober - Fucked Up Fridays

What remarkable journeys have people faced head-on against addiction? In this short, sweary and very funny instalment of "I'm Quitting Alcohol", comedian David Boyle marks "7 years 21 days sober" while looking back at the chaos he’s left behind. You’ll first get a slice of his current life in Boston: roasting in the summer heat, wandering past the Good Will Hunting library, and noticing old churches covered in pride and trans flags.

With typical bluntness, he jokes about church "marketing" and how many flags might be a bit much, all while clearly amused by the clash of old buildings and new messages. The heart of the episode is Fucked Up Friday – Boyle’s weekly slot where listeners send in their wildest drinking tales.

After a quick spray at "Steve" for only sending half a story, Boyle reads a full-blown chaos report from "W Blitzer" in the United States, a 41-year-old finishing a degree while working full-time and self-medicating with beer, whiskey and "40s of blow". Blitzer’s spring break-at-41 weekend spirals through near-affairs, all-night drinking, cocaine-fuelled hook-ups and one unforgettable moment: thinking he’s about to climax but instead unleashing "a large stream of urine" all over his brand-new MacBook.

The next day, his roommate cracks open the dead laptop and says, "Hey man, there's some sticky shit in here and it smells awful," before adding the killer line: "What kind of whiskey do you drink? It smells like piss." Boyle cackles through the story, calling Blitzer his "hero" for going back to uni but also pointing out how wrecked and anxious that lifestyle made him.

If you’re sober, sober-curious, or still in the chaos and wondering where this road ends, this punchy five-minute burst shows exactly why he quit – and might get you thinking about your own most "fucked up" Fridays. So what’s your version of the ruined-MacBook moment, and are you done collecting more of them?