Sinopsis
What drives you to drink? Or, if you dont drink, what drives you to emotional places in which you need to suppress the desire to curse, to scream, to snatch a persons phone from their hands and throw it vehemently across a room? Or, if you are feeling quite calm, have internal homeostasiswhat drives you put in an extra 5k run, a second 45 minute spin class, yoga, or a hot cup of herbal tea with pan flute arrangements playing in the background of a candle-filled, incense-fogged room? What makes you want to bury your head under the covers, ball up in a fetal position, and pray for a reset? But really, what drives you to drink? For me, its a multitude of things. For me, the accumulation of rigid and often inconceivable pet peeves (losing a momentarily favorite pen can usurp most of my attention, throw me into a sympathetic nervous system sweat, and ultimately cause me to rear-end the elderly person ahead of me cautiously rolling through a four-way stop sign) amounts to an actual mountain consisting of hundreds of insignificant molehills. But my brain is a catastrophizer, much like the emotional stability of a 12 year old girl attempting to move through a pre-pubescence full of consecutive emergencies.But then, there is also larger stuff, important stuff, professional and global stuffbehaviors and systems and interactions that I see and experience that also drive me to drink. I want to explore these larger, more important topics as well. The actual mountainsnot the ones created by my anxious, judgmental, worrisome, self-doubtful, slightly obsessive and compulsive brain. And we will venture there. Id love to engage in real dialogue, over drinks, treading lightly enough that we can experience laughter, perhaps tears, and where we can be entirely honest without worrying about offending or saying the wrong thing. The goal is honesty. The goal is truth. Well see how that works out.
Episodios
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![05. Our First Inclusion Excursion]()
05. Our First Inclusion Excursion
24/03/2015 Duración: 39minOn today’s episode (...is it five? No, six. Wait, four. Five. Final answer…) of the d2dpod, Greg sleeps like a dead person while stroking his beard, Jen’s phone (and the “OK Google” function) need a hearing aid and possibly an IEP after having been tossed down the steps...and the results are hilarious, a J.K. Rowling acolyte messes with men on okcupid, and Jen and Greg discuss inclusion. Beautiful, wonderful, amazing examples of inclusion right in our back yards. Enjoy! (Greg’s note: There is a point in the episode where it appears that I perhaps outed an individual. I ended up stumbling on the word, “lesbian” not because of any discomfort with the word, or lesbians, but rather because I needed to make an instantaneous decision. I felt the person was publicly out, but I hesitated in the moment. “Maybe she’s not,” I thought just before the word came out. Ultimately, I would not release the episode if this were the case. I sound phenomenally uncomfortable saying it, and that’s why. We used fictional
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![04. A Rum Old-Fashioned Makes Me Feel Like a Pirate]()
04. A Rum Old-Fashioned Makes Me Feel Like a Pirate
17/03/2015 Duración: 27minOn today's episode of the D2D Pod, Jen and Greg discuss the pitfalls of toddler AND dog shit, Kendrick Lamar's high-energy, frenetic performance on SNL and what fueled it, and the state of cannabis as Jen obsesses with "Draw Something" like Kate, the dog, obsesses with reflections and laser lights. Enjoy!
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![03. Floating In a Sensory Deprivation Tank]()
03. Floating In a Sensory Deprivation Tank
11/03/2015 Duración: 33minOn today’s episode of the d2dpod, Greg discusses his experience floating in a sensory deprivation tank. There is an additional post on our website, www.driven2drink.com, titled, “All Senses Gone,” which I hope you read either before or after listening to the podcast. We encourage everyone to try this experience if you are able to find a facility (...you can Google search it, you'll find at least a tank nearby...) and afford the cost. It's like absolutely nothing else.
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![02. Of Gym Rats and Jackasses]()
02. Of Gym Rats and Jackasses
03/03/2015 Duración: 20minOn today’s episode of the D2D Pod, Jen and Greg discuss the preparation of an “Old Fashioned” cocktail and the spirits within it, Jen bemoans the linguistics of drink/drank/drunk, both get mired in the muck of scapulas, scalpels, and speculums; a Bassett Hound tap dances with her tiny dinosaur paws; and an old man sits spread-eagle at the gym admiring his physique. We present to you, "Of Gym Rats and Jackasses."
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![01. A brussels sprouts stalk is a cruel, cruel mistress]()
01. A brussels sprouts' stalk is a cruel, cruel mistress
21/02/2015 Duración: 23minIn this, the inaugural episode of the Driven to Drink podcast (D2D Pod), Jen and Greg discuss an unexpected adventure with four Brussels Sprouts' stalks (...with winds whipping and temperatures dipping below freezing outdoors and the furnace on the fritz indoors...), the booze in their glasses, the absurdity of the very phrase, "Brussels Sprouts' Stalks" (Is that how you'd write that, grammatically?!?!), the anatomy of said stalks, and the tap-dancing of a canine little person with ass balls. We present to you, "A brussels sprouts' stalk is a cruel, cruel mistress."
