A Lesson in Drinking
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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🎙️ Throwback Thursdays on Sober Awkward!
Every Thursday, we’re serving up a little slice of Sober Awkward history – a powerful clip from one of our most-loved past episodes.
Why? Because sometimes, the right words hit differently the second time around. Whether you’re new here or a long-time listener, these throwback moments are here to keep you company, remind you you’re not alone, and offer that little nudge of insight or encouragement just when you need it.
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| 0:00.0 | So children, it's time to put your pens down, sit up straight and stop fidgeting, |
| 0:11.7 | because today we're going to give you a lesson on alcohol. |
| 0:14.9 | Why we started drinking, why, as a civilisation, we decided we needed it to socialise |
| 0:19.9 | and the effect it has on our lives. |
| 0:22.4 | Okay, so this is how I would start a lesson, teaching alcohol, the dangers of alcohol in schools. |
| 0:29.6 | Okay? So, open your books and listen up. We'll start at the beginning with a brief look at the history of this thing we call alcohol. |
| 0:39.3 | The oldest verifiable brewery was found in a prehistoric burial site cave in modern Iran. It's age 13,000 years old. |
| 0:48.9 | But there is evidence to suggest that alcohol even predates humanity as primates would eat |
| 0:54.1 | fermented foods which contained alcohol. |
| 0:57.0 | So you're telling me that chimps and monkeys used to get drunk? |
| 1:00.0 | Yep, it's true. It all started with fruit. |
| 1:03.0 | Quick science interjection. |
| 1:05.0 | The sugars in overripe fruits attract microscopic organisms known as yeast. |
| 1:10.0 | As the yeast's feed on fruit sugars, they produce a |
| 1:12.9 | compound called ethanol. This is a type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. This process is called |
| 1:19.5 | fermentation. We have been making fermented drinks from grapes and barley from as far back as 7,000 BC. |
| 1:27.6 | Now remember those monks you talked about. they're to blame, I think, |
| 1:30.9 | because they used to make it to sell to local people for food. |
| 1:35.2 | So it was really the monks that started it, Hamish, as well. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, we can't blame them for all of the things, can we? |
| 1:41.5 | Blame them for everything. |
| 1:43.5 | They were just trying to teach me the withdrawal method, and they need to be forgiven for that because those are their beliefs and that's fine. Fair enough, yes. We're all inclusive here. Now, it's been used in a variety of ways over the years. By monks, to mention one, in religious rituals, for medicinal purposes and as a painkiller, to name just a few. In today's society, |
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