Episode 53: Why Me?

HOME Podcast

Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, the girls respond to a letter from a man who's wondering why he got addicted in the first place. Was it his upbringing? His work environment? Was he predestined to go down that path, or is it something he succumbed to? This episode confronts the questions so many of us ask when faced with sobriety: why, and why me? Music by Radiation City. Photo credit: Matthew Wiebe @ Unsplash

Transcript

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0:00.0	There is hope for us yet.
0:08.0	I am Laura McCowen.
0:10.0	And I am Holly Whatever.
0:15.0	And this is Home Podcast.
0:19.0	Why does it sound like an eat a bag of wax?
0:24.0	Does it?
0:25.0	I think so.
0:27.0	I don't hear that.
0:29.0	You mean like you sounded like froggy?
0:32.0	Yeah. Hmm. I didn't catch that. I just woke up. They sounded just fine.
0:41.2	So, hi. Hi. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.
0:47.0	Hello.
0:48.0	Mm-hmm. How are you? What are you doing right now? What did you do today?
0:52.0	Mm, okay. slept until nine which is
0:55.2	fucking fantastic and then I woke up and I went to my favorite cafe and I had two
1:01.4	cappuccinos and two pastries and then I then I came back to my oh then I went to the
1:08.4	farmer's market that's open every day and I bought for $10 two full bags of produce.
1:15.0	And then I stopped at the store and I bought a bunch of fizzy water
1:18.4	and some mozzarella de Beaufala,
1:21.1	which is like, I think God, all this stuff is so cheap here.
1:23.7	You asked, I'm just gonna painstakingly take me
1:26.7	through it all.
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