E245: What Sloppy Drunks Taught Me About Sobriety

Sober Friends

Matt J

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

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Send us a text At the Big E, one of the biggest fairs in the country, I couldn’t help but notice how quickly things turned sloppy once the drinks started flowing. Being surrounded by that chaos didn’t just make me uncomfortable—it brought me back to the unpredictability and abuse I grew up with around alcohol. In this episode, Steve and I dig into why being around drunk crowds can feel so unsettling in sobriety, how our pasts shape those reactions, and the strategies we use to stay safe when ...

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0:25.7	Let's get into the show.
0:30.6	Welcome to the sober friends podcast.
0:32.8	My name is Matt Jay.
0:35.5	Over there is Steve.
0:37.1	And you're looking for a path to sobriety.
0:41.3	If you're curious about it, you've reached the right place.
0:44.6	Hey, Steve, I went to the Big E on Friday night.
0:48.6	For those who are outside of New England, the Big E is a big fall fair.
0:57.3	It has a permanent fairground. It is the between second and fourth biggest fall festival in the United States. It's very large.
1:04.4	It's very well known around here. And it's got the stuff like the world, like the biggest beat the hogs the goats but it has all the fair stuff too including alcohol an incredible amount of alcohol there and i was there late and it was sloppy. Yeah.
1:29.1	I wasn't sloppy.
1:29.7	People were.
1:32.1	Just clarify that.
1:37.9	Yeah, it gets sloppy late at night.
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