Mike Quasar Took His Dog’s Meds To Help Get Sober!

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00:00let's talk about your life today okay what is like a big thing that happened in like the last

00:05year and a half for you hmm the last year and a half uh hmm well i uh got a new dining room table

00:13i don't know if that's exciting to your listeners that is exciting mahogany yeah i live in a very

00:19modest condo so i'm proud of the table uh oh i stopped drinking i totally forgot i don't uh yeah

00:26i gave up booze can you imagine that what's up with that that is um spoiler alert i knew that

00:34yeah i mean i'm so proud of you thank you uh that is incredible why don't you tell us in your own

00:40words about your sobriety journey and why you stopped drinking okay well if this is in fact

00:46interesting to anybody uh i will tell you that from about the age of and it's funny because i

00:52um sort of a um uh very prolific at least in terms of my own journaling to myself a prolific writer so

01:00i have documented proof of the very first time i acknowledged that i might have had a problem

01:05with alcohol and it was uh october 10th 1995 so i was 25 i just gave my age away anyway uh

01:13but no one's gonna do math let's be real like holy i was hoping the guy was gonna say he was 72 i'd say

01:18it looks pretty good for his age spoiler alert i don't anyway uh so i wrote uh uh on that particular

01:24fateful day that i thought i might have a problem with alcohol and but it took me uh almost 30 more

01:30years to actually do anything about it so um and uh and you were a large part of that as well um

01:37and uh yeah it's it's it's very strange how i started drinking for you know whatever reasons i had

01:46back then those can't possibly be the same reason that i continued all those years but i it just

01:51become it became a part of my life it became a part of my personality it became a part of my persona it

01:56was like a thing where everybody's like oh it's quasar he's drinking blah blah blah he's you know

02:00blah blah blah i used to do stand-up comedy years ago most of my act was about my drinking problem i

02:05used to make a joke about the fact that uh you always hear about these poor desperate alcoholics

02:09that are on the waiting list for a new liver that's why i'm putting myself on the list now

02:12because i want that liver waiting for me you know uh as it turns out i might not need one so that's

02:18good um uh no i've been to rehab twice um i was probably now that we have to go through all of our

02:27steps and our inventory and everything i was probably a terrible husband and i didn't realize

02:31it at the time uh now that i was isn't it crazy how that stuff works when you start like really

02:36looking at your part you're like yeah i don't want yeah that part's uh i might go back to drinking

02:40actually if i think about that too much uh like an inventory thing but uh i don't know i can't even

02:45tell you why a moment came where i'm like this is it i can't my doctor had told me years ago you're

02:52gonna die and i'm like yeah whatever many people in my life including you uh were probably very um

02:58subtly moving me in that direction like you know things are not gonna always you know anyway long

03:05story short i was um coming off yet another bender somehow i managed to shoot more porn than

03:10anyone who ever lived during this entire i think it's good that i had this as a vocation because

03:16i don't think you can be a uh a neurosurgeon and have that degree of dependency on alcohol but i uh

03:21there's no expectations in this business so i i excelled anyway uh you too can be a degenerate

03:29alcoholic and still make a decent living for your family and your children okay uh so i was on yet

03:35another vendor uh the 40 000th of my life and um i just was like i i can't do this anymore i can't

03:44every moment of every day is either thinking about drinking um wishing i was drinking uh detoxing from

03:51not drinking enough um there's this constant state of anxiety that you find yourself in and again it just

03:57sort of becomes part of your life so you don't really realize it and then for some reason they

04:02always make that joke you know i had a moment of clarity it may have also helped that i was um

04:07i was so uh out of whack that i was detoxing using uh gabapentin it was prescribed to my dog that's how

04:13i got off alcohol just so you know you were taking your dog's gabapentin yeah

04:17uh how many gabapentin do you have to take to for it to be like human size do you just look at your

04:25dog and figured like ah there's like 70 pounds i'm about 160 175 i'm gonna go uh i'm doing six

04:32that was it i uh i went to web md i had it all figured out what's the problem um so anyway i was

04:40doing i was doing about six of those a day and um and then by like the third day i started to feel

04:46kind of normal and uh i believe it was uh you it's all kind of foggy but i think you were like uh

04:52we should go to a meeting mike and i went uh fuck yeah all right and we did and uh just like

05:00they say i kept coming back and now it's 14 months later and um man that's i can't i'll get emotional

05:08so i'm gonna stop no but you should no we have tissues right i mean like i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm

05:14at a share meeting right now i'm like yeah and then i remember i woke up in a pool of my own urine and my

05:19my dog looked at me strangely and i wondered i hope i didn't touch her and anyway no none of that

05:25ever happened it was nothing strange i just had a very serious dependency i don't know why you just

05:30reminded me of that story of that one speaker that we saw who like woke up like car like he was

05:35masturbating with like motor oil motor oil that was the craziest fucking story man that's the great

05:40thing about alcoholics anonymous aside from the help that it gives you and you can really have a new

05:44life and i recommend it i don't push it but i recommend it for anybody but the fucking stories man it's

05:49like you know you think you have a rock button this motherfucker was jerking off on math drunk out

05:53of his mind with fucking motor oil somewhere out in the desert i'm like whoa okay that was i think

06:02no he was parked like on a bridge above where they were shooting like pirates of the caribbean or

06:07something right yeah and he was just like i'm gonna check out this film shoot and then he just got

06:11fucked up on drugs and alcohol and just started jerking off and i got nothing to use so i just reached

06:16around i got some you know 10w30 and i'm like huh and all i'm thinking is you used you should have

06:22used a synthetic you know that would have been better for you whatever everybody knows you don't

06:27put uh you know regular motor oil in a car um anyway so that was uh yeah so i never did that i never

06:34jerked off with uh motor oil um ever so that wasn't part of my uh reason to get sober but uh it certainly

06:41was that guys and uh that's why they call it anonymous yeah that was one of the wildest stories

06:48there's definitely been i've heard so many over like the i don't know 15 years i've been going or

06:53something like that yeah so you're and you're sober for a very long time except for actually my

06:57yes i have my my second so yeah i was sober for seven years and then i relapsed and i'm back on the

07:04wagon and actually my sobriety birthday is on saturday i will have six years that's amazing

07:13thanks and i was also remembering one of the other times that you had me on here um i was drinking

07:20whiskey while i was on your podcast you were you were you and francois yeah yeah because uh the first

07:26time i was on your podcast i was i wasn't drinking anything i think um i think anything that was

07:31important in my life i i managed to like curtail it enough to like function right it's when i didn't

07:37have anything particularly important going on that i just you know unwind and uh didn't matter

07:42consequences be damned but um but yeah i remember coming in uh pretty hungover to do that podcast i

07:48don't recommend you looking for it it wasn't funny either that was mostly because of francois i was

07:52adorable i'm kidding um but yeah i was uh i was drinking so uh and this is just a delicious glass

08:00of monster energy they watched me pour it in here so i'm not lying yeah well i mean that and that's

08:05the thing right you always go from like alcohol to like absurd amounts of caffeine oh my god it's

08:09like you got to have something in your life right i'm drinking it out of the signature holly randall

08:12unfiltered mug if for any of you out there who would like uh own a piece of this particular podcast

08:16i suggest you inquire within and this can be yours go to shop holly randall.com look at that

08:21look at that all right get your own mug to not put alcohol in yeah to not or put alcohol in

08:26whatever uh we don't care yeah okay so and it's funny how it works right because

08:32yeah i was expecting some kind of like crazy rock bottom moment and i had so many rock bottoms and

08:38that did not stop me right and they say like your bottom is when you stop digging and same for me it

08:46was like it wasn't like any the first time or the second time it wasn't like any one particular thing

08:51it was just like i don't know i just one day i just got tired and but i had been trying the whole

08:59time on both occasions yeah i just got tired and i was like i can't yeah i can't do this anymore like

09:05fuck me i mean what i have to say is admirable about you is that you didn't you did it like on

09:11your own you went to meetings and you basically you know stopped drinking whereas i had to go away

09:16both times like i had to go away to a place where like they tested me on a daily basis and i had to

09:23like sleep in a bunk bed with like a 19 in a room full of like a bunch of 19 year olds and um yeah i

09:31like had to be taken out of my element taken away from it because i could not i could not stop on my

09:36own well i mean i went to to detox twice i went to the good old tarzana treatment center um uh and the

09:44reason i did that was because i had i had strung myself out so badly that i i now i can't function

09:50i remember going to work one day first time and uh of course i drank in the morning before i went to

09:55work as i often did and then i got to work and i remember picking the camera up and i was just

09:59sweating just like that horrible feeling of like in the anxiety and i'm like i'm like trying to shoot

10:04porn and again low bar of entry to porn but the camera should at least be steady i think right

10:09then again i've seen some only fan stuff so who knows that's not important unless you want to

10:15apply warp stabilizer to everything they didn't exist forever to render yeah and i just remember

10:21so i'm shooting at a friend's house and was the location and i was just like oh okay he's also a

10:27you know degenerate alcoholic so i go to his liquor cabinet he's got this giant costco-sized bottle of

10:32patron and i remember doing five shots just like boom boom boom five shots of patron about 10 minutes

10:39after that i felt normal right completely normal and i had this moment where i'm like i i now have

10:46to drink to be sober like this isn't like this wasn't like let's party this was just like i need

10:50to get even right so then i i'm like okay that's a problem i'm gonna go into detox and i went to detox

10:57and um and that was you know five days of you know um whatever they just check you every day

11:03and make sure blah blah blah and then of course i got out of detox and thought that was easy and i'm

11:07never gonna drink again and fuck and then of course people are like well you should go to aaa i'm like

11:11a bunch of fucking people sitting around on uncomfortable chairs in a church basement just

11:16wishing they were drinking i got this and i need no fucking higher power nonsense yeah as it turns out

11:22i was wrong so uh i had a massive relapse and uh i went right back to uh almost seven more years of

11:30uninterrupted drinking and then i hit that same thing again i'll never forget it was right around

11:34the corner at the hq gastro pub right here in woodland hills i had 14 margaritas i had four shots

11:39of tequila independent of those margaritas and i had two old fashions what you had 14 margaritas

11:45in a time span of how long however whatever time we got there to whatever time it closed so you know

11:51maybe four hours i don't know and anyway i woke up the next day and i'm like ah fuck like it's just

11:57that blanket of anxiety is around you and i'm like i'm chugging bloody mary as i'm trying to get even

12:02again and i couldn't do it so um and i was still married at the time and i remember we were supposed

12:07to leave for cabo the very next day um because we had a timeshare which thank god we got out of that

12:13but at the time we did i'm like i can't go i can't function so she was like well if you can't

12:17go on vacation you're going to go back to detox so then i went back to detox again i was there the

12:24same amount of time five days i got out i'm like thank god dodged a bullet again stayed sober for

12:29about three months uh again just thought i could do it on my own and uh and just i didn't i just it's

12:36it's the craziest thing and there's an interesting thing and i don't want to make this all about aa

12:40because i know anybody watching this just wants to hear me talk about uh sucking the girls and

12:45tits so anyway we'll get to that uh but there's a thing in the book uh and i'll misquote it i'll

12:51paraphrase it but uh we cannot recall uh with sufficient urgency i think uh the humiliation

12:59and uh pain essentially of even a week or a month ago like so even though i was like literally in the

13:05fetal position and it just come out of this you know detox facility where i was like just the

13:09ultimate demoralization as we talk about you know it wasn't a real thing i couldn't conjure

13:16that back up in my mind all i could remember is how good it felt to drink and that's right there

13:21right so there you go uh until 14 months ago knock on wood it ain't happening again so yeah what do

13:30you think so what do you think is different this time that program is the only difference it's the

13:34only thing i again i don't want to get emotional it's about porn i will never be able to stay sober

13:41without it i know that for a fact and i never wanted to admit that i never wanted to admit i

13:45had a problem and then i did admit i had a problem then it was just kind of funny it's like oh that's

13:49mike he's you know blah blah blah and uh and even getting you know i never got sober i just quit

13:54drinking for a while and um and i thought i could do that on my own i was very arrogant about about

13:58all of that and then you know you realize it ain't about you uh at some point and um then i had to get

14:05humble and i did and i'm extraordinarily grateful yeah so there yeah let's move on oh oh no no no no

14:14no not we're not ending this topic until you have tears come on dr phil come on your face

14:20no you want you want to see tears streaming down my face let you're streaming down my face let's

14:26talk about my uh personal life aside from that uh continue

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