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Episode 61: Uncool

HOME Podcast

Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

A common belief our society has about sobriety is that it's boring, sad, and ultimately...uncool. The girls address this from their own perspectives, including what their beliefs about sobriety were before they stopped drinking, how and when that perception shifted, and how they feel about it now. Although the episode is titled "uncool" it's about so much more. It's about how to navigate doing something that society doesn't largely support, how to deal with breaking tribal expectations and norms, and how to navigate the period of groundlessness that inevitably occurs when we begin living for ourselves.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There is hope for us yet.

0:05.0

We are young, we are wet.

0:08.0

I am Laura McCowyn.

0:10.0

And I am Holly Whitaker.

0:14.0

And this is Home Podcast.

0:18.0

Can we talk about what you just said?

0:21.0

Yes. I'm just wondering if anybody else out there is mean in the morning.

0:26.4

I'm specifically very mean in the morning. I'm an angry person and I don't necessarily, coffee does has something to do with it, but also I feel like there's time.

0:36.0

I don't know, I'm curious to hear from other people.

0:38.0

Oh God, no I'm mean too.

0:40.0

You say that, but you don't really act like it. But you don't talk to me in the morning. By the time you have talked me, I have had coffee. I've been up for like three hours because it's our time difference. That's right.

0:53.8

So that explains it. If you lived with me you would know I mean and it's the worst it's not the worst but it's really hard to have a kid because they don't care.

1:06.0

And she wakes up like, you can't tell her not to talk to you for the first 45 minutes?

1:10.2

I mean, I do, but it doesn't, she doesn't listen don't say words.

1:17.3

Interesting okay how are you? Hi. Hey girl how are you how are you? How are you? I'm great. I'm so happy to be back home. I was in Colorado.

1:27.6

Yeah, I forgot you were in Colorado, which makes so much more sense because I thought you were just

1:31.0

staying up really late at night. I was like,

1:33.0

because we were texting pretty late.

1:34.0

And I was like, what the fuck are you doing that late?

1:36.0

It makes more sense to me now.

1:39.0

Yeah, I was there visiting family

1:42.0

and just got back last night and God I love coming home.

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