Sobriety Sucks
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Hi we're Jack and Meredith and we're alcoholics. We wouldn't be alive without the help of our favorite twelve step programs, but that doesn't mean recovery doesn't fully suck too. Listen as we discuss how sobriety and twelve step is portrayed in specific media, books, movies and television. God grant me the serenity to rock the house down tonight.
Sobriety Sucks
1y ago
The boys are back in town!!! The BIDEN BOYS that is! Jack and Meredith watch the republican propaganda film My Son Hunter. They resist the urge to tear the film to shreds and try to focus on the recovery aspects. They deep dive into why people think addiction is a weakness, and how the family system can impact recovery ..read more
Sobriety Sucks
1y ago
WE'RE BACK SUCKOS. You asked for it, you got it: Jack and Meredith celebrate their triumphant return to podcasting by discussing the Hulu show the Bear. They also shit on LA, and make a very special announcement about the future of the pod. Thanks for sticking with us suckos. We love you ..read more
Sobriety Sucks
2y ago
HAPPY NEW YEAR SUCKOS! Jack and Meredith were supposed to talk about Pixar's Soul. They did not. Meredith had a lot of burning questions about victimization, narcissism, and self-preservation in a sober setting. So that's kind of more what they talk about ..read more
Sobriety Sucks
2y ago
SORRY SUCKOS MEREDITH IS AN IDIOT!!! We've missed you SUCKOS. Jack and Meredith don't watch anything this week but they are back with general updates on their life, the state of the nation, and how the return to "normalcy" is stressing us sober folk the f*ck out ..read more
Sobriety Sucks
2y ago
Meredith and Jack watch the 2016 Netflix series Love and try to pinpoint why exactly it is so bad. But you know what they do love? Their SUCKOS. LOVE YOU SUCKOS ..read more
Sobriety Sucks
2y ago
Jack and Meredith have a VERY SPOOKY EPISODE talking about some show about a haunting of hill house or whatever. I don't remember what the title was. SPOOKY!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEEN SUCKOS ..read more
Sobriety Sucks
2y ago
Meredith and Jack discuss the incredible graphic-novel blog 'Joe vs. the Cult' (https://elan.school/). They get into the dark world of the "Troubled Teen industry", and whether or not AA is actually brainwashing us to be better people ..read more
Sobriety Sucks
2y ago
Jack and Meredith are still avoiding their inevitable Euphoria Episode by talking about the art of the SCAM, baby. Meredith goes off on a tangent as an Airbnb private investigator, Jack talks about the Tinder Swindler, and they both discuss what their grifts would be had they not gotten into AA ..read more
Sobriety Sucks
2y ago
WE'RE BACK SUCKOS. On the first episode back from hiatus, Jack and Meredith get in a FIGHT ..read more
Sobriety Sucks
2y ago
Jack and Meredith talk about the lowkey amazing movie Nightmare Alley, and how it may be the most AA movie of all time. Meredith also whines about twitter and Jack deep dives on the personal history of an old member of the program: the author of nightmare alley himself ..read more