RE 63: This Alcoholic Probably Won't Just Grow Out of It.
Recovery Elevator
Paul
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Kelly, with 9.5 months sobriety shares how she did it!
Johnny Manziel is an alcoholic who isn't having any fun. We has drafted 22nd overall in the 2014 NFL draft and the wheels have been coming off since. The media seem to wonder why he hasn't simply grown out of his crazy party lifestyle and realized his potential a an NFL quarterback. It was refreshing to see an article in written in the Bleacher Report about how Johnny's problem isn't a maturity one, but a clinical one.
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery Elevator episode 63. |
| 0:03.0 | All right, this really has to stop. |
| 0:05.5 | This is over. |
| 0:06.2 | I can't do this anymore. |
| 0:07.4 | And I've been sober ever since. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:17.0 | According to the Recovery Elevator Suburiety Tracker on my phone, I've been sober for one year, seven months, and three weeks. |
| 0:24.0 | On today's podcast, we've got Kelly. |
| 0:26.0 | She's from the Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:27.6 | She's 36 years old, and she's been sober since June of 2015. The topic of today's podcast is Johnny Manzel. He's a professional |
| 0:36.5 | football player, well was a professional football player, he's a free agent now, |
| 0:40.6 | but in 2014 he was the 20 second overall pick for the Cleaveron Browns. |
| 0:46.0 | His freshman year in college, he became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy Award. |
| 0:51.2 | Watching this guy play football at Texas A&M, which is in the SEC, let me tell you, was like watching a gentleman run around little kids. He was unstoppable. People were saying this was going to be a sure bet the best quarterback we have |
| 1:06.0 | ever seen. Fast forward two years to 2016 he's a free agent. Now before we go any further, let's talk about something that I've said in many podcasts, listen to the similarities and not the differences. |
| 1:17.5 | You might not even like the NFL, but doesn't matter. Focus on the similarities here. |
| 1:22.0 | This is basically a person in the national spotlight |
| 1:24.6 | where everybody has a front row seat watching his downfall, his demise. This |
| 1:30.0 | disease, this progressive disease, take its course and honestly it's painful to watch. |
| 1:36.7 | My ears first perked about Johnny Manzel and his alcoholism two years ago at the NFL draft when he was picked 22nd overall by the Cleveland |
| 1:45.9 | Browns. I read an article that Johnny Manzel was sleeping underneath a table skirt |
| 1:51.7 | during the draft. |
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