What's up guys, it's your favorite internet queers. I'm Ashley Gavin.

I'm Alina Joy and I'm Mack and Jame and we are here to tell you about our new podcast

chosen family on the Forever Dog podcast network. Each week we're bringing you a topic or a theme

related to queer life to the family dinner table to weigh in, deliberate and discuss the right

thing to do. The smart thing to do and the dumb thing we know is dumb but we'll probably end up

doing anyway. Hey we never said we were perfect. I am perfect. Okay. We'll be talking about everything

from our own dating lives, sex lives to dealing with family and friends IRL.

Then we'll invite you are stunningly gorgeous listeners to join in on the family conversation

by answering any of your questions and dilemmas. Listen to chosen family podcasts every Wednesday

on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also watch every episode

on YouTube to get the full family experience. Enjoy forever. Go!

Hello, I'm Allison Raskin. I'm a writer, mental health advocate and I recently went up on my

mental health medication. Hi, I'm Gabby Donner, I'm a writer by Convisexual. Icon week and I've

been sober for six months, 10 days, two hours, 10 minutes and seven seconds. Hey, hey,

according to my sober app, how you feeling? Fine. It's funny how quickly you like,

it once you take that off the table, you forget it's an option. Although I will say fake alcohols

are, I'm sorry, I don't mean if we get sponsored by fake alcohol, I love it, but some fake alcohols

are gross. I like to have like a mocktail where it's not, it's just like juices and like

self-serves and like so it's still like a fun drink but it's not like attempting to be like a

fake beer if that makes sense. Have you ever heard of a shrub? No, what's that? A shrub is like a

fermented, it's like a drink where they use like fermented or like pickled like juice substance

and they put it with celtzer and like flavors and stuff and it kind of has this like biting taste,

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