179: Sobriety for Blokes with Sam Delaney

Soberful

Veronica Valli & Chip Somers

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sam Delaney is a journalist and broadcaster. Entrenched in the British binge drinking culture, he felt like he was living the life until he wasn't. In today's episode, he discusses the 'toxic' and 'dysfunctional' British drinking culture and how he left it behind.

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0:00.0	I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting
0:10.1	that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.
0:22.4	I could touch but never hold.
0:27.7	Hi, everybody.
0:28.7	Welcome back to the Soapful podcast.
0:30.6	It's Veronica.
0:31.6	I just want to let you guys know.
0:33.2	I know Chip hasn't been on a podcast recently.
0:35.7	He has been a little bit under the weather.
0:38.1	He's doing good. He's doing fine. So it's just sort of resting up a bit and not trying to overload his
0:43.4	plate. As we have spoken about here many times, we are both workaholics. So I thankfully have
0:49.7	lots of wonderful interviews for you and I'm doing some solo episodes. But don't worry, Chip,
0:53.8	we'll be back
0:54.4	to sending him all our love and best wishes we do have some live in-person events taking
1:02.1	place in the UK this summer that we're really excited about and we would love for you to join us
1:06.5	on Sunday July 3rd in Chelsea in London at 606 Jazz Club, which is a world famous jazz club, it's a fantastic venue.
1:17.1	We have the Soberfour Swire, which is going to be a lunchtime event.
1:23.1	It's in celebration of my book, Sober Fall, and it's going to be in support of a wonderful charity
1:29.2	turn up for recovery. We had Malaya Clapton on, gosh, back in 2020, who is the wife of Eric
1:35.3	Clapton, and she has a charity which raises money to send people to treatment. So all the profits
1:40.7	from this event will be going to that wonderful charity. We are going to have some
1:44.3	live music. We have some amazing bands. If you'd like the intro music, that's actually my best
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