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I'm Quitting Alcohol
Comedian David Boyle sweats through a US heatwave and reads a listener’s brutally embarrassing moonshine story from a remote Montana ranch. He uses the tale to talk about shame, broken promises to quit drinking, and the messy reality behind long-term sobriety.
10:50•3 Jul 2026
Moonshine, Mortification and Sobriety: A Fucked Up Friday at 7 Years Sober
Episode Overview
- Alcohol-fuelled nights can lead to extreme embarrassment that lingers long after the hangover fades.
- Shame-heavy experiences often spark thoughts of taking stock and changing drinking habits.
- Promises to quit or cut back after a bad binge are easy to make but just as easy to break once you feel better.
- Loneliness and distance from partners can be powerful triggers for heavy drinking and risky behaviour.
- Humour and honest storytelling can make confronting past drinking disasters feel more bearable and relatable.
“"That's almost one where you're like, I really need to take stock of my life now."”
What are the common struggles and victories in addiction recovery? This short, punchy episode of *I'm Quitting Alcohol* drops you straight into David Boyle’s sweary, brutally honest mix of sobriety chat and outrageous drinking stories. Boyle kicks off from a sweltering US heatwave, joking about avoiding modern weed, jokingly eyeing off kratom, and hunting for a way to survive his first American 4th of July since moving there.
The tone’s loose, cheeky and very Australian, but underneath the laughs is someone seven years sober still thinking carefully about substances and consequences. Then it’s time for “Fucked Up Friday”, where Boyle reads an anonymous listener story from 2007. The writer was working on a remote fly-fishing ranch in Montana, surrounded by grizzlies, wolves and wealthy guests, going weeks without seeing his girlfriend.
After a cancelled romantic weekend and a night hitting homemade moonshine, things spiral: blackout drunkenness, drunken guitar attempts, raging hangover… and a truly horrific discovery. He wakes to laughter downstairs, vomits into his dirty clothes bag, then slowly realises he’d used a pocket sex toy in the shared lodge bathroom. His boss’s sixty-something wife later tried to “wash her hands” with what she thought was soap, only to be told it was the toy, complete with pubes.
As Boyle puts it, “That is like every nightmare rolled into one just fucking poured on top of you.” Boyle riffs on that sickening post-bender shame, the urge to “take stock” and swear off booze, and how quickly those resolutions crumble once you feel normal again. It’s crude, hilarious, and painfully familiar to anyone who’s drunk themselves into deep regret.
If you like your recovery content short, filthy, and uncomfortably honest, this slice of sobriety-meets-comedy might hit a nerve and make you ask: what’s my own ‘never again’ story really worth?
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