Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.

Hi, Kate. Hi, Jess. Hey, Hambone. Hey, Girls. I'm so excited. I'm really excited for this episode. We've been having a holding a secret from everybody. We haven't, but you have. Yeah, Hambone has. I certainly have.

Hambone, what's your secret? So, by the time this episode airs, I will be 90 days sober.

Yay!

It's pretty crazy. I know. So, okay. Where should we begin? I know. Did we plant this seed? Yes and no. Okay.

So about two years ago, I finally decided to stop running for my problems and faced a lot of shit down from when I was younger. I started going to therapy.

Started using talk space. And one of the first things that my therapist suggested to me was maybe you should quit drinking. Because I am 40 years old,

and for the last 20 years, I have been a hard drinker, hard partier, you know, living that rock

and roll tour life as much as I could, Yeah. You know, on and off the road.

Sure. And wasn't doing myself any favors. Yeah. That said two years ago when I started therapy,

I was like, no, I will never quit drinking. I'll stop for a little while here and there. Yeah.

But I'll never quit. Like, how preposterous. Yeah. Roude. Yeah. I said, good daddy.

I'm walking away now.

Yeah.

I got to go.

Then as time went on and the therapy process started to help me heal myself, I started

getting closer.

I started getting much closer, starting to consider the idea. And then of

course, when I started really thinking about it, then I'm like, but then I can ever have another

drink. Then I can't like have another like beer at my dad on St. Patrick's Day. Then I can't, you know,

I started making all the excuses. Well, you think of all like those little things. There's never a good

time to quit. Yeah. Right. You just keep putting it off. So I kept putting it off. And then rolling into my 40th birthday, I was like, all right, I can do this.

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