Two DUIs in 18 months. The Lesson She Took Away was Worse.

Jackie Kashian's drinking résumé includes Rumple Minze by the shot, a combination she and her friends called a dead Nazi, and one night she puts at eight shots and eleven beers. That was the last night she drank. It ended about eight blocks from her apartment. In this episode of Drunk-ish, Stefanie talks with the comedian, host of The Dork Forest and co-host of The Jackie and Laurie Show, about more than 25 years of sobriety and the extremely creative period that came before it. Jackie tried moderation management. She tried therapy. She tried AA. She tried tarot cards. She tried enemas. She tried being macrobiotic for a full year. What she had not tried was asking anybody for help, on the grounds that she is a helper, and helpers do not need help. Also in here: the first stand-up show she ever saw, where she tipped the waitress a dollar per drink because that is what her stepmother taught her, got completely hammered, and heckled Sam Kinison; two DUIs eighteen months apart and the conclusion she drew from the first one, which was not to stop drinking but to stop driving; and her husband, a normal drinker who has half a margarita and calls it a night, which Jackie regards as a personal shortcoming on his part. Somewhere in the middle of all of it there is a real answer about why telling the truth matters in sobriety, and it involves barnacles. Drunk-ish: the sobriety podcast where you're allowed to laugh about the worst parts. You can listen to Jackie on her podcasts: The Dork Forest and the Jackie and Laurie Show. Plus watch her special Alter Kashian right on her website JackieKashian.com And if you're one of those who likes your podcasts to be heard and not seen, you can download Drunk-ish wherever you get your Podcasts: Drunk-ish on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drunk-ish-a-sobriety-podcast/id1804651676 Drunk-ish on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/64beSr4o4l7cvy79jZrs2d Drunk-ish on iHeart iheart.com/podcast/drunk-ish-a-sobriety-podcast-271073735 #Sobriety, #SoberCurious, #RecoveryPodcast, #AlcoholFree, #SoberWomen, #AddictionRecovery, #QuitDrinking, #FunctioningAlcoholic, #JackieKashian, #DrunkishPodcast