E267: Drinking Felt Like It Fixed Me—Until It Didn’t
Sober Friends
Matt J
4.3 • 722 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We should go back to 1995. |
| 0:03.9 | It was like such a great time. |
| 0:06.2 | When I was in college in the mid-90s, and then I think about I lived in a dump of an apartment with mice and I had no money and I had no car and they were their own problems. |
| 0:17.0 | But you only remember what was great about that and you think about with the knowledge you have today. |
| 0:21.6 | So yeah, there were good times and I can remember. |
| 0:24.6 | But I am forgetting what happened an hour or two after that good time where I got into a jackpot of some time, some part. |
| 0:33.6 | That I'm forgetting. |
| 0:34.6 | So the lie can be not just necessarily a lie, but the omission of something. |
| 0:41.3 | It's dishonesty by omission because you forget the other things. |
| 0:46.0 | You're only remember the good nostalgia. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome to the Sober Friends podcast. |
| 0:54.5 | My name is Matt Jay and over there is Steve. |
| 0:57.3 | And what we talk about are all the lies alcohol tells us. |
| 1:03.4 | Talk about recovery, getting better, what was like when we're out there. |
| 1:07.3 | But this alcohol is such a liar to us. |
| 1:13.2 | I'll tell you, I wasn't in danger this weekend, Steve, but I could feel the lies from alcohol. My son had a volleyball tournament in |
| 1:21.7 | Boston. The whole family was down for this one. That's another story altogether of me not liking having to curtail how I handle tournaments |
| 1:32.5 | to make up for my wife and the girls who run at a different pace than me. |
| 1:38.3 | But we're in the south end, the south, not the south end, but the seaport area. |
| 1:44.0 | Yep. Where there was nothing a few years ago, and now there are hotels and all, South, not the South End, but the Seaport area. Yeah. |
| 1:49.0 | Where there was nothing a few years ago, and now there are hotels and office buildings and all this stuff. |
| 1:49.8 | They're just popping up. |
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