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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day like I said I'm Jordan I'm an

alcoholic so grateful to be here tonight um welcome to the newcomers please stay please um with that being said if you do stay there is work to be done

so get ready to work if you want what we have you have to do what we do and I was told that

very on I also was just I was told a lot so I'll quickly just do my drunk history just so, you know,

you can identify with me that I'm an alcoholic and I'm just someone who stands up here and, you know,

is talking out of my ass. So my history with alcohol started when I was 14.

Basically growing up, I was born into a family where my brother had rage issues and I took

on the role of being the good kid. You know, I wanted to be the angel and I got attention from

that. So I was always, I did theater growing up and so that's how I got a lot of my praise,

you know, just like at the end of the. Like, I love the intense pressure of it.

You know, like learning lines, meeting people doing all these things.

And I just, I fed off of that.

And so I have through this whole time watching my brother express anger and rage and I don't

express that.

I just express like being good and wanting to be accepted by all of you.

So like, that's what I do to say that I'm an okay person, to be like, okay and being Jordan

and like that's it.

And so the time I got to high school, I was doing a show.

We all, we have these things called cash parties.

And if you can imagine a bunch of teenagers and, like, the seniors just throw a box of liquor

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