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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day hello i'm brendan i'm an alcoholic

i just want to start off just saying thank you so much. Steinie picking us up at the airport, making

that easy. Thor hosting us, putting us up. Terrific house. Awesome. And Gooner, we're helping

out put this all together and meeting us up, meeting up with us, and I know probably

telling him, Terrell in their name's terrible. you guys, forgive me, I'll slaughter them.

I know no Icelandic, not even swear words, so sorry.

And John met us up there at Akir.

Did I say that right?

Ooh, got one right.

Anyways.

So my sobriety date is October 18th, 1991.

I'm not that old.

I did get sober young, but we'll get to that.

So I just want to start off really talking about where I came from and, you know, kind of the family and the household where my,

where a lot of this started. And I'll be clear up front that my family isn't the reason I'm an

alcoholic. Circumstances didn't make me an alcoholic. But I think it is important to talk about

some of that stuff and where I came from

because recovery isn't just about physically getting sober, right?

Separated from alcohol.

Sobriety really is about beyond that.

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