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Hey dear sugars listeners my name is Vanessa Zoltan and I'm the host of a

podcast called Hot and Bothered. We were lucky enough to be joined by your very

own Steve Almond to come onto our podcast and give us some advice about giving

advice and he was wonderful as always so we thought we would drop this episode

of Hot and Bothered into your feed so you could get more Steve in your life.

If you like what you hear today feel free to join us over at Hot and Bothered

wherever it is you find your podcasts. Thanks so much. We hope you like it.

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Happy Birthday Julia. Thank you Vanessa. How does it feel to be older?

I feel like I'm Benjamin Button. I'm just aging in reverse.

You just look younger and younger. I just look younger every moment.

What do you want to call today's segment? Stay safe or get away. Protect yourself.

So this week's question is intense. It is it's it's one of the tougher questions we've gotten I

think and by gotten you mean that I found chosen to take. Yes. Yeah. So I'm going to jump right in.

My boyfriend 21-year-old man is a serial drunk driver and I do not know what to do. As the

title states my boyfriend often gets drunk and then drives around. We live in a college town full

of alcoholics so this is unfortunately normalized. He called me today to tell me about his weekend

when I was out of town. He bragged about how much he drank all night and then early the next

morning drove to the lake in his friend's car without his friend. I told him it was stupid to not

only drive drunk but in someone else's car. He doesn't have the insurance and it could even look

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