But, Society says drinking is normal?
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Everybody does it but does that make it ok? That's the question Vic and Hamish will ry to answer, in their own 'unique' way, in todays episode of Sober Awkward.
You've heard the line before...
'I might be bad but I'm not an alcoholic.'
'Didn't I read somewhere that drinking a little red wine is good for you?'
'Everything in moderation!'
The messages that we receive in today's society about what is considered 'normal' drinking, directly opposes those that we are receiving from our doctors.
This confusion leads many of us to fall into the trap of believing what we see around us rather than what those like the World Health Organisation are saying.
In today's episode Vic and Hame take a deeper dive into this gap...not that like you filthy animals...although Vic does admit to having wank on her head throughout this episode.
Don't know what that means? Nor do we!
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | The cattle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:03.0 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please, mate. |
| 0:08.0 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:16.0 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, |
| 0:21.4 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:25.1 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one, |
| 0:27.8 | while you head to a dodgy after-party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:31.6 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship |
| 0:34.9 | with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:38.1 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:42.2 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit |
| 0:45.4 | before things get too messy. |
| 0:47.5 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories |
| 0:51.1 | to help you understand why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 0:59.9 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober. An unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, help your anxiety in mental health and turn you into the most sparkly authentic version of you. Won't that mean I become boring though, Vic? Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. I'm Victoria Vanstone. I'm Hamish Adams Cairns. And this is Sober Awkward. So this week was John's birthday. Yep. And we had a little |
| 1:34.7 | dinner out, didn't we, Vic? We did, lovely little dinner out. And we were having a lovely time, |
| 1:38.3 | weren't we? We were having a lovely time. Until the waitress came up and she said something, |
| 1:42.0 | which got under your skin. Okay, so I know that there's going to be some listeners that are nodding along with this |
| 1:47.4 | and there's going to be some that are really, really cringing, aren't there? |
| 1:52.3 | For me, it felt like my insides went tight. |
| 1:56.1 | I got very, very tense. |
| 1:57.5 | I couldn't make eye contact with her and I felt on edge for the rest of the night. |
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