E101: Realizing the Friends that Mattered. Matt's 25th College Reunion

Sober Friends

Matt J

12 Steps, Spirituality, Personal Journals, Mental Health, Sober, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, Alcohol Free, Sober Curious, Alcoholics Anonymous, Dry January, Society & Culture, Sobriety

4.3 • 722 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Thank you for supporting the Sober Friends Podcast for 100 Episodes! We started this in November 2020 as a way of spreading the message of hope that recovery is possible, when outside meetings were still very hard to find, in person. We will continue to spread the message that sobriety is possible, no matter your path to get there. For our 100th episode, Matt J takes this one solo, talking about his 25th college reunion in October. Matt's college experience...

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0:00.0	My name is Matt Jay and welcome to the Sober Friends podcast. This is episode 100. I'm Matt.
0:06.0	Hey, I'm Steve. Hey, I'm John. This is the Sober Friends podcast. We're here for The Sober Curious,
0:13.0	the new guy, and the old timer. Here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free
0:18.7	has to face day to day, now we overcame those struggles.
0:22.3	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous. You're not alone. This is the
0:28.3	Sober Friends podcast. Such a feeling that you should do something special for episode number 100.
0:35.5	If you're a podcaster, the idea that you get to 100 episodes is rare air,
0:41.1	regardless of how many listeners that you have. I read a statistic somewhere that said that most
0:48.7	podcasters quit at episode 12 if you get there. If you even get to episode 12, that's a success. If you get to
0:56.7	episode 100, regardless of your listeners, you are in rare air. And Steve John and I are so
1:05.2	appreciative that you bring us into your ears every single week. Now, with that said, my buddy Jill, who does the sober
1:13.4	powered podcast, asked me, oh, 100 episodes, what are you doing special? And I thought about it,
1:19.2	and I procrastinated. And I don't have a special episode in a way you would think it. So I figured
1:26.7	we would do something different. So it's just me today,
1:30.7	like it was in the very beginning in episode one when we started doing this thing. And I hinted this
1:37.4	a couple episodes ago that I had this college story or I went to this college reunion and I could
1:43.6	tell that. And I went back and forth about talking about my college reunion because I went to this college reunion and I could tell that and I went back and forth about
1:45.8	talking about my college reunion because I thought it would be self-indulgent. But I realized as I was
1:51.6	going through the story that this is really part of my sober story. This story of something that
1:58.8	happened last month is part of the story of me being sober
2:05.1	and part of it, me being drunk. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about my 25th reunion
2:11.8	that was in October. And it's something I never would have gone to if I was still drinking. I just would have been
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