Introducing Drunk-ish: Danielle Mercier

For Crying Out Loud

Kids & Family, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This episode is right up our FCOL listeners' alley. I love this episode because Danielle Mercier is basically a walking cautionary tale and a motivational poster at the same time. We get into her early “party girl” years, her brief era of thinking Las Vegas was a wholesome alternative to LA (amazing logic), and the moment her drinking finally caught up with her in the most dramatic way possible. From there, Danielle talks about getting sober, finding her people in 12-Step, and building a life so full she actually likes herself now—which is kind of the whole point, right? Also: cocaine on a soap opera set. You’re welcome.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. It's me, Stephanie Wilder Taylor. This is drunkish. Look, I'm trying to change up this intro, make it a little bit less boring. But you know what it is? It's based on my book, Drunkish, where I told my sobriety story. And now I'm letting other people tell their stories. And do me a favor. Watch this on YouTube if you want. It's under drunkish podcast
0:23.0	and subscribe on YouTube. It will really help me out. And why not give the podcast five stars
0:30.8	or four. Just don't go below that. You know, don't be that way. Anyway, I hope it helps hearing other people's stories.
0:39.2	And today I'm very excited.
0:42.7	I have a friend of mine.
0:44.2	Her name is Danielle Merci.
0:47.2	Her story is pretty incredible.
0:50.7	She tells it with just brutal honesty.
0:53.4	And it's funny.
0:56.1	She's hilarious and charming and warm and I've known her for a really long time and I know you're going to enjoy it.
1:04.7	I know you're going to enjoy it. And I am here with my friend Danielle, who just took off her domers.
1:29.0	Can't see if I did.
1:30.9	I have to put them back on.
1:33.1	Were you just trying to like look like you don't need glasses?
1:37.5	I was trying to look less murderess.
1:39.9	Yes.
1:40.7	They're not murdery.
1:42.1	They're so not murdery glasses.
1:47.1	Danielle knows that I have my, I don't wear I'm ever on this show because I can't see my computer with my Jeffrey Dahmer glasses, but they are
1:54.3	I love. They are these. And my kids are merciless with me. They're just like, no, mom, get some
2:00.7	cuter glasses. And I'm like,
2:02.1	these are cute. They're 70s. It's hip. Yeah, I'm right there with you. It's super groovy. Really.
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