How on earth do you celebrate your Soberversary??
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
🎙️ Throwback Thursdays on Sober Awkward!
Every Thursday, we’re serving up a little slice of Sober Awkward history – a short, powerful clip from one of our most-loved past episodes.
Why? Because sometimes, the right words hit differently the second time around. Whether you’re new here or a long-time listener, these throwback moments are here to keep you company, remind you you’re not alone, and offer that little nudge of insight or encouragement just when you need it.
Think of it as a midweek check-in. Something bite-sized to walk with, laugh at, or quietly reflect on. And if the clip hits home? You can go back and listen to the full episode anytime – just follow the link in the show notes.
We know one episode a week isn’t always enough – so here’s your extra helping of honesty, humour, and a bit of awkwardness to get you through the week.
🎧 Listen to the full episode here → https://open.spotify.com/episode/6nqaxOxYpri8kreODVeiqb?si=58b04a10ed2e451e
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| 0:00.0 | Now, you're probably wondering what I'm doing here on a lovely Thursday morning. |
| 0:07.8 | Well, it's Vic here with your Thursday retrospective episode of Sober Awkward. |
| 0:13.7 | You might be thinking, hang on, haven't I heard this before? |
| 0:17.4 | And the answer is yes, yes, you have. |
| 0:19.3 | But like all good drinking stories and bad toilet humour, |
| 0:23.4 | they both get better with age, or at least less embarrassing the more times we tell them. |
| 0:29.1 | On Thursdays, we dust off our favourite episodes from the archives, |
| 0:34.2 | something you might have missed, loved or listened to at the start of your sober life. |
| 0:38.4 | Think of it as a journey back in time, or a jolly leftover, a bit like lasagna that tastes |
| 0:43.9 | even better on day two. So sit back, relax and enjoy this vintage slice of awkwardness. |
| 0:50.7 | A retrospective episode reheated and served right to your ears. |
| 1:03.4 | You and I obviously come to sobriety from slightly different places, Hamish. So having done |
| 1:09.1 | what you set out to do and gone sober for a year, |
| 1:11.9 | how do you feel about your sobriety going forward? This is the big question, really. You were saving |
| 1:16.6 | this one for the end. I was Hamish because I am concerned about this. If you say that you are going |
| 1:22.0 | to start drinking again, then you're not going to be on the podcast anymore. That's number one. |
| 1:27.2 | And I'll feel a bit sad and weird and scared. I'll feel very many emotions if you tell me you're about to go to the pub and get pissed. I don't know how I feel. I think I might tie you down. You reckon? Or would you relapse with me? No. Certainly. I can't imagine anything worse. It's a big blowout end of the podcast together. |
| 1:44.6 | Oh God, what a messy afternoon that would be. Let me start by saying, as long as I do this podcast, I will be sober 100%. Okay. Doing this podcast and moderating or doing this podcast and drinking or doing this podcast and turning up smelling of alcohol. It's not going to work. It's not going to work. It's never going to work. |
| 1:59.4 | Even cheating, even if you went, oh yeah, I'm going to do the podcast and I'm going to pretend that I'm sober, but I'm secretly going to drink. I will know. You will know. I have had hundreds of opportunities to cheat. I've had so many friends and even Liz say to me, she'll never know. She'll never know. Where are the outside of the world? |
| 2:17.8 | She'll never know. |
| 2:18.6 | So I have not cheated. |
| 2:20.0 | Okay. |
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