Comedian David Boyle - I'm Quitting Alcohol

29/11/2023

This is my last show in Australia for the year. If you are in Sydney tonight come down.

https://www.trybooking.com/events/831942/sessions/4290839/sections/2027362/tickets?fbclid=PAAaY9KTI0_5_IGZyTfmthC7tKgv2vPKYvQDjdal2VlveG4O3zgqYtwmvR6aw

28/11/2023

Only 8 days till I'm in Canada. If you are in Canada come to a show, bring a jacket, I'm rocking up shorts and singlet.
Vancouver 6th of December
Toronto 8th of December
See ya there.

Tickets 👇👇👇

https://www.boylecomedy.com/tour-dates/

13/11/2023

Ok Canada just over 3 weeks until I'm in your freezing fu***ng country. Got a couple of shows in Vancouver and Toronto. Use the link below for tickets and I'll see ya out there. Bring me a jacket.

https://www.boylecomedy.com/tour-dates/

08/10/2023

Hey Sydney people I got a new room opening this Tuesday. Come down check it out. Doors open 7pm.
https://m.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/lvl-1-lazys-comedy-club/155829?ref=RSS_Lazyboneslounge&skin=lazybones

19/08/2023

This was my year 12 class. Multiculturalism was strong at the time.

03/08/2023

Just one of the lads taking extreme safety precautions.

15/06/2023

Prepare yourself for situations like this.

15/06/2023

It's not long after you quit drinking that you come to the realization that:

Oh. I drank because I’m fu**ed.
I’m not fu**ed because I drank,
I drank because I’m fu**ed.

And then the real fun begins.

Newsletter is out, go read it.

A birthday party favorite.

09/06/2023

A very rare sighting of old "Golden Boom" in an actual crane. This is a 13t Kato. At full speed with the alarms screaming it goes 50kmph. It's illegal to drive on the freeway but who gives a f**k, you just spark a dart and red line it and hope the cops are too busy tasering old ladies.
I was in this crane for approximately 2 weeks before they kicked me back into the s**t crane. We were doing a highly illegal lift in a hurricane and a gust of wind caught a load of roof sheets we were lifting. It swung back and sliced through the LMI cable locking me out. Good news was it was early in the morning so got a full day off.
The best part about working with cranes was turning up hungover every day and thinking you're going to die.
Sometimes after a really brutal gig I miss the cranes but my old boss is dead and I never got to thank him for the opportunity and apologise for all the f**k ups. Such is life.
Anyway
Cheers Youngy and I'm sorry.

08/06/2023

I don't care how white your picket fence is. New newsletter is out. https://imquittingalcohol.substack.com/p/you-are-not-exempt-from-alcoholism

04/06/2023

When I started this podcast I made a promise to myself that I would have to stop doing the podcast if I drank again. And as annoying as it is to have to record an episode every single day of my life, I fu***ng enjoy it. When I had that dream and thought I’d fu**ed up everything, I even tried to reason with myself: “I mean, it's two beers, who gives a s**t? I didn't feel anything. I wasn't drunk. I didn't keep drinking. I can continue doing the podcast.” But even that made me feel guilty. It was a real moral battle with myself. In the end, I decided to wake up. I realized I didn't even have any drinks so it was all sweet. F**k yeah, I could continue doing the podcast. And that's good, for everyone, isn't it?

02/06/2023

Self-improvement, creating good habits, chasing success, all that stuff, it’s an emotional fu***ng rollercoaster. I have bad behavioral patterns that lead to depression, where I’ll start doing all the things I need to do in order to get closer to where I want to be. I’ll be writing, reading, meditating, exercising, I’ll be feeling good, feeling on top of it. And I’ll get to a point where I’m like, alright, I’m doing well, I can take a little break. And then I take a little break, and one thing drops off. And then another thing drops off the back of that. Then next thing I know I’m doing nothing. I feel defeated. The self-doubt, self-sabotage and depression creep back in. Until finally I’m willing to pull myself out of the rut and start building momentum from zero again.

That keeps happening to me, over and over again. So I’ve been wondering if I just have to keep working, continuously, for the rest of my life, because that’s the only way I won’t be depressed. That’s so fu**ed isn’t it. You can’t stop working on yourself or you get depressed.

31/05/2023

Newsletter is out: https://imquittingalcohol.substack.com/p/how-to-celebrate-without-alcohol

28/05/2023

You don’t have to ruin everyone’s night all the time.

25/05/2023

I’ve talked about it a lot over the years, but it’s so fu***ng important to give yourself a worthy outlet to focus your energy into when you quit drinking. If you have nothing to do, of course you’re just going to get bored and go back to fu***ng bending.

Do something creative. You don’t even have to be “creative” to be creative. Everyone is creative. Creativity is everywhere. In everything you do. And it’s the best therapy. You can sort through your problems and pain with any sort of creative outlet.

You don’t have to be able to write or paint or sing. You can make chairs, or carve knives, or lay bricks or make paper. It’s not about making something “pretty”, it’s about understanding your craft. Creativity is about learning the history, knowing the people involved, understanding how s**t works.

You are being creative when you force yourself to learn something. Because it forces you to learn about yourself. And when you give up alcohol, the number one challenge you face is having to learn about and get to know yourself.

25/05/2023

VB was my drop, the s**t got me into a lot of trouble over the years.

24/05/2023

Quitting alcohol doesn’t solve your problems, it just gives you new fu***ng problems to solve. Problems that don’t involve vomit or arrests or 100 missed calls from your wife. But quitting alcohol is when the work really starts because the fog finally clears and you see how fu***ng hard you have to work to do something meaningful with your life. Before that, when you’re still drinking, you’re just stagnant.