We're Out of Time - Jay Mohr Overcoming Victim Mentality & Checking Ego in Addiction Recovery
Episode Date: January 14, 2025Jay Mohr joins the We're Out Of Time podcast with @RichardTaiteOfficial and cohost Jason LaChance for an eye-opening and hilarious conversation about Jay's journey from addiction to recovery, Satu...rday Night Live stories, and checking one's ego. For all things Richard Taite, the We're Out Of Time podcast, and Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa: For 1 Call Placement: 888-808-6159 For more on Jay Mohr: Key moments from this conversation with Jay Mohr, Richard Taite & Jason LaChance. Intro 00:00 Jay shares a funny story about the Saturday Night Live skit "How Much You Bench". 00:34 What does Jay say was his "first addiction" and how did he break his victim mentality? 01:40 Jay and Richard share some funny stories from childhood and how does it make their struggles with addiction make more sense? 06:10 What happened when some guy threw a Coke can at Jay's car? 10:19 "It's such a weird job to be a comedian in recovery." 12:49 After Jay quit alcohol how did other substances take over his life? 16:08 Jay shares Saturday Night Live stories about Norm Macdonald, Nirvana, and Aerosmith? 18:03 Jay shares words of hope for anyone struggling with sobriety and a HILARIOUS Christopher Walken impersonation? 24:13
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My first addiction was your approval.
It's such a weird job to be a comedian in recovery.
Your whole job in recovery is to smash your ego.
My entire existence, the reason I own a home,
is because people clap from it.
And then having an alcoholic mom.
I personally don't think anything caused my addiction
because then that can still paint me as a victim.
A guy threw a can of Coca-Cola at my car
and then I happened to have a tire iron.
Then I took the fire iron and I smashed in his windshield.
And then I went, yeah, I should go back to at least two meetings.
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To my right,
Richard Tate,
the man who revolutionized addiction treatment.
Good to see you,
my friend.
Thank you.
I'm Jason LaChance and a certified addiction recovery coach.
And on this episode of We're Out of Time,
we're going to give this a James Con,
Godfather,
trash can style beaten.
He knows why.
How much a bench?
How much a bench?
240, steroid, just like you guys.
240, you called a brag about that?
Put the phone down.
Other gays at the gay bar want to use it.
Jay Moore, thanks for joining this.
Yeah, my pleasure.
I had to do that.
One of my favorite cast members of S&L, so that got me chills.
That's like a dream come true right there, Richard.
That's sketch.
We had little mechanical legs because we were steroid guys.
So we had to kneel inside of chairs, and so the little mechanical legs.
But if you go back and watch, David Spade, they used his real legs.
Just sitting kicking his little legs.
Oh, shit.
That's too good.
That's too good.
You know, it's always interesting for me.
I mean, all this stuff with us with addiction starts in childhood.
And I know for me grew up in a home of addiction.
So I kind of wanted to talk about that with you because I know you talked about your mom not getting clean.
She got clean when you were about 10?
Well, I was 10, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, my first addiction was your approval.
Right.
you know and I think my I think my drug addiction and alcoholism precedes my you well I know it does for me
it precedes my actual usage like I was insatiable and needed more and I had this disease of perception
before I treated it with drugs and alcohol so like my first drink was maybe 13 my first wee I just
smoked weed till I was like 19 but I was I had like when I do my step work and stuff I can see that
I behaved that way zero to up until it's just how I think it's just how my hard drive was installed
and then having an alcoholic mom and being the youngest kid on the block and not wondering where I mean
I don't think that didn't help but I don't think I personally don't think anything caused
my drug addiction because then that can still paint me as a victim and something on the outside
of me caused this thing right yeah I mean between my ears yeah that's why one of my my slogans is
outside solutions to inside problems because that's where it started like well you go to a meeting and
people like you know my disease is out in the parking lot doing push-ups i'm like i didn't see it i've got
through a lot of parking lots i've never seen one disease out there banging out push-ups right yeah why do you
think that people look at it as like it's was some external thing i know for me you know because i because
it is an external thing explain and and and he can feel that way because it works for him right okay
and his life depends on it, so he's got to think that way.
Okay.
But a lot of it comes from our early childhoods.
Well, for sure.
Right.
And that's an external thing.
And, you know, in AA, they talk about how, you know, our parents did the best they could, right?
Even if they didn't, right?
You have to say that in order to codify it in your brain.
But, you know, what happens is.
So for example, you're five years old, right?
Now, remember when you were five, you were little and everybody was big.
Remember?
Okay.
So if you have your father going, shut up, I'll give you something to cry about and he smacks you
or he hits you with the belt or in my case, the cane with the brass handle, right?
It's like you can't formulate the thought, my parents are idiots because your frontal cortex isn't
developed. And not only that, but you're like, if these people don't love me, if they're the ones
that have me, what am I supposed to do? I must be bad. You can't say anything other than,
because your frontal cortex isn't developed, I must be bad. And if you're bad, okay, every time you
get disappointed.
Every time they hit you,
every time they say,
shut up,
are you stupid?
Or whatever they say,
it reinforces itself.
And pretty soon,
you're a 45-year-old man,
you know,
and your five-year-old self
is running a 45-year-old man.
And that's what I,
but that doesn't make you a victim,
or for me,
it doesn't make me a victim.
And the reason it doesn't make me a victim
is because I can say,
okay,
that's what happened,
okay, I'm the adult now, I'm the parent now, and I'm not going to be a victim.
And the genius is that you figured that out and you stopped lying to yourself.
And once you can get that, it works.
But the thing about AA is it's always the same.
And it's my foundation, man.
I'm not sober today without AA.
I'm not.
Okay, I don't have kids.
I'm not, you know, none of it.
I mean, I've been given a lot.
life, right? But the problem sometimes with AA is they feel it's the only way. Everybody's an expert on their own sobriety. And they have to believe that way because their life is dependent on it. So I understand it. That's a very good explanation you gave. And I can quickly swing around to your side and say, yeah, that's exactly right. I just, I have to be, hmm, you, you,
You really surmised it perfectly.
It doesn't do me any good to go,
they messed me up.
That's right.
Because when you sit, like, looking up.
Because then you're a victim.
Everybody looked really angry all the time
because they had cigarette smoke in their eyes.
You know what I mean?
Like, they're just like going, what?
And, you know, everybody,
every time you asked a question,
it was like, what?
What?
So, yeah, I could see that.
Dude, I was so, this is the household I was brought up in
and you'll be able to tell exactly why it turned out the way I did.
I like that your dad had a cane,
not because he had a limp, because he was like a duke.
Yeah, well, he had to beat the shit out of his...
He was a baron.
He just had to beat the shit out of his tweens.
That's all.
Richard, get over here.
I must give you a lashing now.
Oh, my God.
It was so bad.
Where'd you grow up?
In Encino, which is, again, scarring.
Right?
Yeah.
I can't even drive through the valley man without having anxiety.
Yeah, it's the world's biggest consolation prize.
Brooklyn and Encino.
It's like...
That's so far.
I can see where I really want to live from here.
Do you want to do that?
People are like, no, Brooklyn's great.
I'm like, is it?
You see that other place right across the river?
That's pretty good, too.
It's an island for a reason.
My parents would put all three of their kids in the car
after they feathered our hair.
And they put us in the same outfits.
Like, I remember this gene outfit from head to toe
with all these studs all over it.
So we were like,
this family. We were props. Feathered hair and denim. Right? And then they put us in this. I was thinking, no, no, no, it's horrible. They put us in the Jew
canoe and they roll up the windows and they're smoking, chain smoking, Marlboro Reds, while their three minor children are in the car,
exfixating, and I'm Jewish. So you would think they'd be like against that, right, exfixating their kids.
and then the only time they opened the windows
because my mom had this big pompadour, right?
It was spray and wasn't moving.
They rolled down the windows to throw the McDonald's,
the poison that they were feeding their kids
out on the freeway.
So these are my parents.
And that's the good part.
And they wonder why we turn out a little feral, right?
Yes, but I like that you said
like the best that they could even if they didn't because this is, you really, you're like,
nah, you weren't around. You definitely did not do the best you do. Like there's a part of you deep
down. That's why I think grandparents are the best have the best connection with the grandkids because
they're like, oh, I can, I can do it better this way. That's right. I was talking to Buddy Hackett
once about his grandkids. And he goes, I love my grandkids so much. I love my kids. But the bonds I
have with my grandkids supersedes the bond I have with my kids. And I asked my rabbi, what is it?
What's this bond? Why am I so close to my grandkids? Why are we so connected? And my rabbi said,
common enemy.
That's too good. So we're going through, you know, like you said, it was about, what, 13, first time
he had a drink, 19, smoke weed.
I mean, you were a pretty popular kid, though, right?
I mean, I heard you talk about your wrestling captain, if I recollect.
Yeah, but it wasn't, look, being a wrestler is like sort of being a monk.
Sure.
It's a monastic life.
And then when you throw stand-up comedy on top of it, you're really not really connecting
with anybody.
You have an M.O.
And nobody understands what the wrestling room is like.
And fewer people understand what it's like to go to Manhattan, borrowing your older
sisters, Pontiac, Sunbird, and go and park and do a six-minute set in a bar and then get
home in time to wake up for school the next day.
No, so I wasn't popular.
I was just kind of bobbing around, you know?
It's classic.
Friends with everybody, not really friends with anybody.
I got to stop you for a second.
Go ahead.
Because I've been dying to know something.
Okay.
This is like really, like you had a bucket list.
This is mine.
tell me about the tire iron okay that's that's all I care about all right so three meetings a day for
three years but over almost three years three meetings a day morning zoom at 8 a.m noon and then
730 in the palisades three meetings a day three meetings a day and I sit to my sponsor I go you know
I want to cut back and spend more time with my wife or girlfriend
at the time, I said, but, you know, all these relapse stories, the first thing they say is I
stopped going to meetings. And he goes, yeah, but they weren't doing three meetings a day.
You need to make time for your family. You get sober. So, you can be, I go, okay. So I cut back
to two meetings a day. I got rid of the 730. Then I got rid of the 8 am. Zoom. Now I'm doing
one meeting a day. And then a guy threw a can of Coca-Cola at my car at a red light. And I have
no idea what the F you son. And I'm like, I literally have no idea what this guy's talking about.
and he follows me, follows me, and he throws a can of coke at my car,
and then I happened to have a tire iron.
So then I took the tire iron, and I smashed in his windshield,
and then we went through this, like, high-speed chase through, like, Marina del Rey.
It was on.
Like, it was kind of scary.
And then I went, yeah, I should go back to at least two meetings a day.
Because when I don't, I punch out people's windows with a weapon.
I totally understand that, by the way.
It was just weird.
But I got real scared, like, fighting scary.
Fighting is scary.
It is when we're older.
And I can fight.
Like, you can fight.
I got, no, I got ass kicked like all the time.
Well, you present yourself as a guy that can.
No, I don't.
Oh, yeah, you do.
I do?
Yeah, you come in, come on.
You come across.
Cock and a walk.
Here it is.
Shoulders back.
James purse, v. neck, Cuban cigars, sweatpants.
But I think it's important to share because it's like all the shit that does really start
way back when, like you said, you know, we get that, that anger and all that stuff
or the, I could relate to what you.
you said, but, you know, was cool with everybody but wasn't popular with anyone, but yet I always
felt like an outsider. Always. Yeah. I never felt any connection. And it didn't matter like,
you know, I did acting and all this shit. It didn't matter how much like applause or hey,
great job. None of it like filled anything. It's such a weird job to be a comedian in recovery
because your whole job in recovery is to smash your ego, you know, and surrender it and get on your
knees every morning, which I do and this. But then my entire existence, the reason I own a home
is because people clap for me. Right. My job is subjective. If you don't like me, I don't eat.
My kid doesn't go to private school, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So you go on the road,
people buy your tickets months at advance. He's coming. He's coming. He's coming to town.
Tomorrow we're going to go see him. We're going to get a babysitter. We're going to pay for parking.
It's sold out. You do radio. They promote it. They got commercials that you hear when you're in an Uber.
like, that's me. And then I get applause on my way to my office, the stage. I talk for an hour.
If you talk while I'm talking, you get thrown out. You don't get to interrupt me. I'm the guy.
I'm in charge. I say good night. I get a standing ovation leaving my office. And then I sit alone
in a hotel room in Albany, New York for 22 hours. Like, that's insane. Like, boom.
Boom. And that's since you're 16 years old, that's all you know. Yeah. And you need it, right?
Not anymore. It became a job a long time ago.
Really? Yeah. It's just, you know, you know how you make an actor complain, you give him a job.
So I'm like, oh, I got to fly out a Long Island. It's like, but yeah, but if I'm not going to Long Island, I'm like, how come you don't have me in Long Island?
Right. You know, it's classic.
When then really does, I mean, the substance use start to take off? I mean.
Well, I've been a...
I was a alcohol, drunk from, you know, 21 to 26 bad.
And then I, so I quit drinking May 5th, 1998.
I was like, this is crazy.
And my mom being in the program,
I said to a friend of mine who suggested I just have one or two drinks.
It was, you know what?
It was, no, it was after the Suicide King's rap party,
which was at the improv.
They wanted me to roast everybody.
So I pre-gamed at home, went there,
had an entire bottle of champagne and some beers,
had a second bottle of champagne while I was on stage.
Then we switched to scotch.
And I woke up the next day, like, crippled.
You know, just trying not to crap your pants in your car.
Right.
Just squeezing it in.
And I was like, bro.
And he said, why do like I do, have one or two and stop?
And I said, well, because when I have one or two,
I'm powerless.
And I said the word powerless out loud.
and I was like, wow.
I'm done.
Riverside and Lancashim at a red light.
Yeah.
So.
I'm sorry.
I went to a couple.
I went to a longest light on earth, by the way.
It's like 18 different.
Of course it does.
I went to AA on Moore Park and this,
but I was loitering with intent to recover.
Right, right.
Yeah.
So once I got through the detox on my own,
then I switched,
I just started,
I picked up NyQuil to help me sleep on a night shoot,
and then three bottles a day later.
Then I got rid of that, again, went back to AA,
loitering with intent to recover, like, whatever.
Took my will back.
Then it was bike it and biking and bike it and,
Norco, biking and biking and.
And I had a couple, like, quit that start, quit that start,
quit that start.
So that's like 2000 in the teens, 2000 teens.
And then I, when my, before my divorce,
It was just a gaslight.
Yeah.
So I was like, you know what?
I want to feel.
I needed a release.
Yeah.
So I just started snorting the pills.
And then Adderall was what took me down.
When did you, how did you even get the Vicodon?
Were you getting it off the streets from someone you knew?
I had some connects.
Yeah.
Some ex-NFL players that would give them and not use them.
One guy was, I won't say his name, massive offensive linemen.
And he gave me one of these, I go, do you have, I'm out, I need some pills.
He's like, yeah, I got you. Come on over. He was living here for some reason. So I go to his house
and he gives me one of those massive like GNC protein powder things, like a gallon, big thing.
And I open it up and it is almost overflowing with Norcos, just these beautiful yellow
footballs. And I screw it up and I go to take it and he takes it back. He goes, here's the deal.
If you ever ask me for another pill, I get to beat to show.
out of you. And I was like, great. That sounds great. That sounds good. Thanks. Right.
That's fair. Right. Totally. Do you see how excited he got when he was discussing the pills?
Yeah. Oh, pain pills, playing Madden, big thing of chewing tobacco in my lip, playing video games,
that little golden hum inside me. So how is your marriage? Then? Yeah. Well, it ended, obviously.
But I mean, like, that was actually before my second marriage, through the second marriage.
And then things that, out of respect to the partner, you know,
but maybe things they were doing, I was like, well, they get to do it, but I don't
I get to do it.
Right.
What is maybe one of your favorite memories from Saturday Night Live or something
even where you're like, watching Nirvana and dress rehearsal, my first week there,
I wasn't in any sketches.
I wrote the opening monologue.
It was Charles Barkley versus Barney the Dinosaurs.
That's so good.
It did those like Barclay versus Godzilla Nike commercial.
So I was like, what about Barclay versus Barney?
So I had that in a can.
So I was like, all right, I'm good.
And then I'm in the writer's room on the 17th floor.
I look up at the monitor.
And so it's a Thursday.
I look up at the monitor and I see Nirvana on stage.
And I was like, ooh, time to go to the bathroom.
And I go down to the eighth floor and I'm from here
to that microwave from Cobain just screaming
me at the top of his lungs. And it was, it was rehearsal, but they had no rehearsal speed.
It was, it was like the most important gig of their lives. Like, they only knew one way. And Dave Grohl
just, bow, bow. And then watching Aerosmith, same setup, week three, they re-released sweet emotion.
And I'm closer. I'm from me to you from Joe Perry. So the edge of the stage is right. I'm up against
the edge of the stage, just watching. It's an empty soundstage, except for the camera.
Maybe, I don't know.
And when that airbox on his guitar,
I, like, started to cry a little.
Like, I had no idea, like, how important that song was.
And then, bing sweet a mo.
I was like, man, this music matters, man.
How old were you?
22.
Dude, that's so good.
That's so good.
At 22, you must have just been, like, so,
wide-eyed and I was insane that's so good so norm McDonald's here there was this rewrite that happened
there David spade and uh Fred wolf wrote this sketch where um David spade's a weight loss guru like
tony little like the ponytail at the first like elliptical and but the the gag is it's just it's really
just crystal meth he sends you crystal meth and you know like they have the outline of a human
body it's like over six weeks but it's like six hours and then you see a skeleton and there's a
voice over, ride the snake. And so there's a pre-filmed piece where it's Chris Farley at a drive-thru
window and he goes, all that 14 hamburgers, 14 cheeseburgers, 14 milkshakes, no, seven strawberry
milkshakes, seven vanilla milkshakes, 18 apple pies, 15 French fries. And then the voice in the box says,
will that be all? And it's written like, no. And it says TBD to be determined what this joke's
going to be. Two hours, we went back and forth in the middle of the night. Like, how about he repeats
the exact same.
Will that be all?
No.
I'll also have any change.
What if he changes to Cokes to Diet Cokes?
Nah.
Okay.
What if he goes,
will that be all?
No.
And then he repeats the exact same order.
Or what if he switches out
the French fries for half?
When I say two hours,
I mean from 2 a.m.
to 4 a.m.
15 grownups at a table
struggling with this one stupid joke.
And Norm MacDonald was over on a couch in the corner.
We didn't know he was in the room.
He goes,
Hey, hey, hey, you guys.
you know
I don't know
you got Chris at that drive-thru window
you know
and he goes
yeah let me get
all those cheeseburgers
and French fries
you know
and then
the guy in the box
goes will that be all
and Chris says
yes
that's so good
one syllable
we were like a pack of dogs
hunting in the wrong direction
and he just goes
and then when they
show it on camera
When Chris says yes, he's got this like,
hmm, like the program's already working for him.
Like this huge order, will that be all?
Yes.
Like, he's proud of himself.
He could restrain himself.
It's like, I mean, he says, yes.
Norm was the best.
We lost our mind screaming laughing.
Do you like one of my favorite things,
because I haven't seen Saturday Night Live in years?
It's good right now.
I did watch the last couple years.
I love that the thing that Dennis Miller used to do with Michael Che and Colin Joe's.
Yes.
When they write each other stuff.
It's amazing.
It's the best thing I've ever seen.
Man of Steel, ST-E-A-L.
Dude, that was so good.
The best part was that they had Scarlett Johanson, Joe's wife, they're watching it
do these bits and it's like, oh, Lord.
It's all about a big RB sandwich.
They did it again this year.
Yeah, and she was like this.
Classic.
So good.
This cast seems like they're having a really good time.
Yeah.
And that's why I love like my secret, like, I wish I worked with that guy.
Bill Hader always seemed like he was having a ball.
Like Bill Hader just seemed like he was having the best time.
Like, the California.
Have you ever met him?
No.
He's a cool guy.
Yeah, I would love to be.
He's really cool.
It's John Malkovich and it's like, he just keeps Morrison.
Oh, so many.
Like, I love all of his impressions and he just seemed to be in on it.
Like, we're having a, yeah, we're having a ball.
Yeah, he's gifted.
Like, don't take comedy so seriously, you know, it's like.
Who's your favorite comedian?
George Carlin.
Me too.
Who is your second favorite comedian?
Prior.
I mean, it's nothing new here, you know.
Carlin Pryor and then it's like Chappelle, Dave Othell.
I love Chris Rock.
Did you love Sam Kinnison?
Liked.
Oh, I loved him.
Didn't love, liked.
It didn't age well.
No.
No, but none of them do.
I know, Eddie Murphy, Dice.
I had met him at a, at a show, maybe, maybe 15 years.
We're talking sobriety.
Right?
So I grew up a guy for fentanyl.
Right.
I'm Andrew Dice Gay.
I love when you do Christopher Walkin.
That was the first sketch.
I got on was Christopher Walkin's psychic friends network.
What's amazing is when I look back at clips of it, my walking impression is horrible.
It's like, yeah, I'm always, I sound like I'm deaf.
Like, yeah, you should call.
Nobody will know.
It's like, now I would do it like, yeah, you should call.
No one will know.
I can help you with romance.
You might be in grave danger.
Call me.
Yeah, it's fun to do that.
You know what?
I just assume everybody's sick of it.
it.
No.
So I'm always like on stage, I'm like.
Sick of it.
That's how I wake up in the morning.
Yeah.
I've got him on my phone.
Saying what?
Exactly.
Richard.
You got to get moving.
Get up.
Your employees.
They're not going to yell at themselves.
How do you get him to do that?
I didn't.
My buddy did it.
My buddy, how did I get him to do it?
I don't know.
You're a player, man.
You might know people.
Player.
The most famous person I've ever had in my house is you.
It's not true.
Well, and the good thing that you do about it, too,
is that a lot of people miss is when he gets the quiet,
where he's like, you gotta be able to do the quiet.
Yeah.
Your son, forgets that he is.
The best scene he's ever done was in true romance.
Do you remember that scene?
Yeah, he didn't stop until he left his driver's license on a dead man.
Do you know me?
I'm Antichrist.
At the risk of being redundant, make your answers.
Genuine.
Let me ask you a question.
Have you known anybody who's died of fentanyl?
Fetanol overdose?
No, I had a sponcy die.
But no, not on fentanyl specifically.
He took a bunch of pills and drank and put it on Facebook like so long.
It's like, but that's what happens.
Get honest or get out.
You know, it's, yeah.
And it's, you go, how could you take that?
it might have fentanyl in it when I was using.
Great.
Yeah.
You know, they go, you've heard this all the time like, you know, you got to play the tape
for it.
Well, yeah, but when I'm in my addiction, if I play the tape forward, I don't care.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're going to lose this.
You're going to, great.
Fuck it.
No, the only way.
The only far you get when you play it forward when you're using is you think about
the detox and you're like, uh-uh, I'm going to keep using.
I mean, that for me, if you play this, if you play it forward, you can
only think as long as I'm running out of drugs,
I'm gonna come down, right?
So I better keep using drugs.
Yeah.
I mean, for me, you know,
every time I played it forward,
I was thinking, you know, I'm gonna be suffering.
Yeah.
So you're a crack guy.
Yeah.
So it seems like crack and meth very similar highs.
That's mess more white trash.
Just talking about the high.
You don't get the bell ringer, okay?
Yeah.
You don't get the bell ringer, but you get that.
So you're a lot more, you know, you're going to paint the house.
It seemed like a lot more erections on meth.
A lot more.
Meth guys are just all about rings and just putting shit everywhere.
You've done remarkably well.
Like you were doing, like you were always functioning, right?
I mean, you were 22 years old.
You were doing drugs the entire time.
I was drinking.
Drugs were like 2000 teens.
But you still came out the other side beautifully.
I mean, you.
You've got a great wife, you've got great kids.
Oh, now for sure.
You've got great recovery.
You've got great relationships with a bunch of guys
to talk to one this morning, Tim, right?
Just a wonderful guy.
Tim Ryan's my boy.
I love you, Timmy.
Yeah.
You get your teeth.
I know, right?
Get your damn teeth fix, bro.
But there's a reason why my life is so great,
because I did the work.
That's right.
And if you want what I have, do what I did like this.
If you're not happy with results,
you can go back to that pipe.
It'll be waiting for you.
Yeah.
But don't do half of what I did and go,
well, I can't get what you got.
Yeah.
No, it's all I did for a long time.
I just became this monk.
Like, oh, no, I'm just studying the Sanskrit.
This is all I'm doing.
You want to come out with us?
No, it's like when I first started stand up.
You want to come out with us?
No, I got a spot.
I got to write this joke.
You want to, like, you got to be, like how?
But people, you hear in meetings all the time,
like I'm really just looking for balance.
and go ask Wayne Gretzky about balance.
Yeah.
Go ask Michael Jordan about balance.
There's no balance in my life.
I do recovery and then my life also.
I fit my life into recovery.
I don't fit recovery into my life.
Yep.
That's the only way is through a commitment.
If you don't have a contract with yourself
to go when you don't want to go
and to do what you don't want to do
and push through it, you can't stay sober
if you're an alcoholic like me.
Yeah.
Okay?
If you come in, surrender.
surrendered already, right?
Anybody can get you sober, okay?
Because you've already surrendered.
You're willing to do anything and everything to stay sober.
You want to hear a couple alcoholic jokes?
Yes.
We'll close with this.
Alcoholic dies of alcoholism.
He's in his casket and his drinking buddies are tearing down in his casket.
And one of them goes, did he ever go to AA?
And the other one goes, no, it wasn't that bad.
Alcoholic on a deserted island finds a genie lamp and rubs it.
And Jeannie says you get two wishes.
He goes, all right.
I want a cocktail that's never empty.
He's holding it.
And he's chugging it for like hours, just getting smashed.
He's bombed and it's still right here.
And the genie eventually goes, yo, my man, you know, you got another wish.
He goes, oh, I'll have another one of these.
I like those.
It's so good.
Do we have to ask this man where people can reach him?
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