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On The Mend

How Tubes turned to Golf Life after alcohol addiction

On The Mend

High Performance

Healing, Resilience, Education, Relapse, Growth, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Redemption, Trauma, Vulnerability, Alcoholism, Mentalhealth, Hope, Addiction, Mental Health, Menshealth, Recovery, Identity, Sobriety, Personal Journals

4.9566 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest is Peter “Tubes” Dale, someone who knows how quickly things can unravel when drinking, shame, and identity start feeding off each other. Known publicly as the funny one, the lad who could always carry it, Tubes was privately stuck in a cycle of blackouts, panic, and self-loathing, watching the distance grow between who he was and the person he became when alcohol took over.


In this episode, he pulls the curtain back. Tubes talks candidly about hating the version of himself that drank to excess, the fear of not knowing what he’d done or said, and the moment he realised he was heading towards losing his family if he didn’t stop. He opens up about relapse without excuses, the weight of shame he carried for years, and why choosing to speak honestly was the first step toward change.


This is a grounded, human conversation about addiction, mental health, and recovery, not as a straight line, but as something messy and ongoing.


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Need Support?

Samaritans: Call 116 123 or visit samaritans.org

Narcotics Anonymous: na.org

Alcoholics Anonymous: alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk

Mental Health Mates: mentalhealthmates.co.uk

Shout: https: giveusashout.org

IAPT: england.nhs.uk/mental-health/adults/nhs-talking-therapies/


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0:00.0

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0:07.0

Hi guys, Matt Willis here and welcome back to On the Men. This is the podcast where we look back at life's toughest moments to figure out how to move forward.

0:14.2

And for today's guest, it only felt right that we get out of the studio and we're headed to our local golf simulator.

0:19.9

Because today, on the podcast, we have the one and only tubes headed to our local golf simulator because today on the podcast we have

0:22.4

the one and only tubes now i'm so excited to sit down and chat with tubes i've kind of known him

0:27.9

for a little bit i went on his youtube channel which is called golf life you may know him from

0:33.5

soccer a m i only know him from golf life literally i found him on youtube started watching these

0:38.6

videos became obsessed with him then i found out that he's like me he's a recovering alcoholic

0:44.1

and i think we're going to get on really well today so we've come down to pitch in soho right it's a

0:49.8

golf simulator it's amazing it's incredible in here it honestly is kind of the perfect place to play golf.

0:56.8

It doesn't really matter if you're a beginner like me or a really good golfer like tubes.

1:01.3

They've got an absolute world-class setup right here. Also, it's just really cool. Like it looks wicked.

1:06.6

It's awesome here. I really recommend you grab your mates, get yourself a bay, get on it.

1:11.1

Guys, as we are at a golf simulator and an indoor golf place,

1:14.2

you're probably going to hear some golf noises in the background.

1:16.8

If you're listening on audio, I really apologize for that. mate i've got to say thank you so much for coming i'm massively massively

1:34.3

appreciate my thanks for you don't mind it's not like i literally like right we've got him on

1:39.7

let's play golf but we're doing exactly that is it when we are doing we are kind that. I was like, right two birds one. So literally my life now is like, how can I make everything about golf? That's where I am. I love how much you love golf. Really? When you came on golf life and you were like, you were so similar to me when I got into golf. Yeah. It was like, you know, I do my work.

2:01.7

I do all my tour and stuff.

2:02.6

I just want to play golf.

2:03.6

Yeah, absolutely. It's a great game, isn't it? Frustrating, but great. It's a frustrating game. But, mate, I came on your show, Golf Life, right? I think what was interesting is, obviously, I didn't know about soccer A.m. You know, like I didn't know you from Sochre A.m.

2:16.3

And like everyone else loves you from Sokorea M, right?

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