Episode 42: O.P.D. (Other People's Drinking)

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Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

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🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this ep, the girls answer a letter from a sober woman who was frustrated and disappointed by a yoga retreat she attended where drinking played a much bigger part than she expected. How do we deal with being sober in a drinking world, especially in places where we don't expect it? How do we deal with our own judgments around drinking? Is other people's drinking ever our business?

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0:00.0	There is hope for us yet.
0:05.0	We are young, we are wet.
0:07.0	I am Laura McAllen.
0:10.0	And I am Holly Whitaker.
0:16.0	There's like a beeping in your background. Yeah, it isn't.
0:18.0	And so it would begin.
0:20.0	I love that's always my answer.
0:23.0	I'm in a city.
0:25.0	But it's like early there.
0:26.0	What can be happening since 3.m?
0:28.0	The same thing that happens at 1 a.m.
0:31.0	It's 2 a.m.
0:32.0	That happens at 3 a.m. That happens at 4 a.m. 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.
0:34.0	that happens at 4 a.m.
0:35.0	For some reason, James Brown plays all night long here.
0:38.0	I mean, things beep.
0:39.0	What?
0:40.0	People, people, there's a lot of people have. People have boom boxes with them at all times and or like some sort of it is great and like sometimes they'll just be like some I don't know Jackson 5 song,
0:58.0	but then sometimes that'll be replayed over and over again.
1:01.0	It's nice when you're on the street.
1:03.5	And you're walking by and some guy is really happy
1:06.5	and he's listening to music.
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