New Year’s Eve - Don’t just survive it – Outsmart it!
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this gloriously unhinged episode, Vic and Hamish find themselves in that awkward festive no-man’s-land between Christmas and New Year – gravy-stained, confused about the day, and dangerously close to eating a whole tin of Quality Street in one sitting.
But fear not. Among the leftover potatoes and peri-menopausal meltdowns, your sober elves are here with a very handy toolkit to help you navigate New Year’s Eve without diving headfirst into a bucket of prosecco.
Yep, we’re diving deep into why your mindset matters more than the perfect mocktail, how to handle your Aunt Karen when she calls you a party pooper, and what to do when the countdown begins and you suddenly feel the urge to shove someone for no reason at all. Plus, we make a strong case for why being tucked up in bed with a hot water bottle and a forensic crime doco by 9.07pm might actually be the ultimate New Year flex.
We also discuss frogs. Yes, frogs. There’s a weird moment where Vic tries to convince us all that carrying a tiny frog in your pocket on NYE can help you stay sober – and somehow, it makes sense. (Just go with it.)
You’ll also hear about our own cringey NYEs from the boozy past – from driveway spews to mysterious cardigans and rashy regrets – and how we’ve now completely redefined this weird night of the year into something we actually enjoy.
So whether this is your first sober New Year or your fifteenth, come hang out with us and feel smug, steady, and slightly feral in the best way possible.
This one’s all about preparing your brain, not just your beverage list.
Let’s make it awkward, weird, frog-friendly… and totally unforgettable.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Norman Cook. Welcome to the Sober Awkward podcast. Have you ever woken up on a |
| 0:11.1 | Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman |
| 0:16.0 | by happy hour? Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one while you head to a dodgy after party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:23.9 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:30.6 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit |
| 0:37.6 | before things get too messy. |
| 0:39.8 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories to help you understand |
| 0:44.7 | why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket |
| 0:48.6 | might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 0:52.1 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober. |
| 0:56.0 | An unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints |
| 0:59.4 | or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, |
| 1:03.4 | help your anxiety and mental health, |
| 1:05.4 | and turn you into the most sparkly, authentic version of you. |
| 1:08.7 | Won't that mean I become boring, though, Vic? |
| 1:10.6 | Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. I'm Victoria Vanstone. I'm Hamish Adams-Kairns. And this is sober awkward. So here we are, Vic, sitting in that weird no-man's-lown between Christmas and New Year, where you have no idea what there is. You're wearing pyjamas with gravy |
| 1:28.0 | stains and someone's eaten all the bubble and squeak. Yes. In my case, I've eaten too much |
| 1:33.2 | turkey and I'm currently sat with the top button of my trousers undone and a pile of scented |
| 1:40.0 | candles next to me that smell of like that potpourri that my nan had in her lounge for about |
| 1:45.1 | 40 years that smell of nothing. It is a grateful time of year, isn't it? You do sound like you're leaning |
| 1:51.3 | into that. Yeah, so grateful, Hamish. I actually must give you a warning this episode, Hamish. |
| 1:57.5 | It could go either way. Either you're going to cheer me up or I'm going to hire a hitman |
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