Fatboy Slim: From Big Beat to Sobriety
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
It's the episode you've all been waiting for!
Our chat with super star DJ Norman Cook AKA Fatboy Slim.
We were privileged to be invited back stage before his gig in Brisbane to have a quick chat with Norman about life since going sober 14 years ago. We reminisce about The Big Beat Boutique, find out why bringing Fatboy Slim home after a gig triggered him to seek help and how it feels entertaining a massive crowd since giving up booze.
We are so excited to share this with our Sober Awkward fans. Norman is a huge inspiration and proves that you can still party at nearly 60....without being wasted.
A huge thanks to Al, Norman and Andy Mac for making this happen. It really was a wonderful night that we will never forget! Now, enough waffle, let's get on with it!
Enjoy the show!
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is proudly sponsored by buds and beads, sparkling and loose-leaf teas. |
| 0:05.3 | My name is Norman Cook. Welcome to the Sober Awkward podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, |
| 0:18.4 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by |
| 0:21.0 | happy hour. |
| 0:22.1 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one while you head to a dodgy afterparty with a weird |
| 0:26.9 | bloke called Disco Dave? If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship |
| 0:31.9 | with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:39.2 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit before things get too messy. |
| 0:44.5 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories to help you understand |
| 0:49.5 | why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket |
| 0:53.3 | might actually |
| 0:54.4 | be negatively impacting your health. Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober, |
| 1:00.7 | an unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines |
| 1:06.1 | will make you feel happier, help your anxiety in mental health, and turn you into the most sparkly |
| 1:11.8 | authentic version of you. |
| 1:13.5 | Won't that mean I become boring, though, Vic? |
| 1:15.3 | Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. |
| 1:17.9 | I'm Victoria Vanstone. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm Hamish Adams-Kairns. |
| 1:21.1 | And this is sober awkward. |
| 1:31.7 | 14 years ago, Norman Cook, |
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