Benjamin Franklin once said “No great love story ever starts with ‘We met in treatment.'” He was right, and this podcast is the unfortunate love child of a relationship forged in rehab.

What started as longing glances in the cafeteria has since blossomed into a solid friendship with an occasional awkward embrace. Over coffee one afternoon we joked that we should start a podcast. Being world-class procrastinators it only took a shade under 12 months to act on this idea.

Our only qualifications to talk about recovery from addiction are as follows.

JOHN C (aka 👊🏼🕳)

My story is simple: I drank, had a lot of fun, then things got worse. I sobered up as a young man and stayed sober almost 18 years in AA.

Since things were going so well I decided to quit working a program.

Then the inevitable happened: I told myself I wasn’t an alcoholic anymore so I drank, had a lot of fun (albeit for a much shorter time), then things got worse (like Three Mile Island worse). I sobered up as a middle-aged man and have stayed sober since the day I walked into rehab. I met a closet case named John when I was there, too.

JON H (aka Also John, MAGA, 🍆)

OMG am I awesome. My life is killer. Just look at me. I am a nitro-fueled sex machine. I also invented AA and Alcoholism. One word describes my program….. Cured. How did I do it you ask, well let me tell you. I trusted the process and did the exact opposite of everything that John C told me to do.

I also put dots after each sentence like it’s 1842. I do it ironically, though, which makes me way cooler than you.