Recovery Elevator episode 22.

And she was like, sort of been drinking and I was like,

I looked out of myself and I said, well, can I get out of this?

I realized that no, because I had peed all over myself and defecated in my seat and I could smell it.

Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us.

According to my Recovery Elevator sobriety Tracker on my iPhone, I have been sober for

10 months, one week and five days.

We've got a great podcast in store for you guys today and I'm going to

interview Bridger who after waking up in his own car in a bar parking lot covered in

his own urine by a police officer he realized it was time to stop drinking. Before that I'm going to talk to you

about drunk driving. Yes, it's kind of that taboo thing. If you drink, whether you're an

alcoholic or not, chances are you have probably gotten behind the

wheel when you shouldn't have. It's kind of a taboo thing in culture. But the legal limit,

0.08 in most states, is actually really, really low. I remember growing up thinking that a drunk

driver was the absolute worst thing you could possibly grow up to become and I would never

ever do it but man unfortunately I'm on the other side of the coin now.

And as of about five days ago, I was on a probationary driver's license from a DUI that I got last summer,

and I will touch more upon my DUI experiences, that's plural, unfortunately, in a later upcoming podcast.

Let's touch base about the drinking and driver culture first.

Some of the stats that I get here are from a Freckanomics article. and based off a blog from Tim Stoddard from sober nation.com.

First off there are over 75,000 bars in the United States.

And if you think every patron is pulling out a BAC card with their body weight

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