Buzz-Free Headlines: The Bear, Sober October Gifts & Twiggy the Water-Skiing Squirrel

Recovery meets pop culture with Alysse & T-Boog’s Top 5 Buzz-Free Headlines: a recovery-lens look at The Bear, a Sober October Gift Guide you’ll actually want, 72 hours at Bethpage Black with Soba Golf, our Fake Sponsor of the Week (🧴 People Pleaser Repellent™), Sober Celeb shoutout to Questlove, and the Breaking Weird legend: Twiggy the water-skiing squirrel. Plus: a stopwatch sprint through sober events and a T-shirt-worthy one-liner. 

Chapters: 

• Intro: Emotional Support Squirrel Energy 

• Big Story #1: The Bear — Birth Order, Family Roles & Addiction Genetics 

• Big Story #2: Sober October Gift Guide 2025 

• Big Story #3: 72 Hours at Bethpage Black with Soba Golf 

• Quick Hits: Suzanne Warye’s The Sober Shift + Greenlights review 

Fake Sponsor: People Pleaser Repellent™ 

Sober Celeb of the Week: Questlove 

Breaking Weird: Twiggy the Water-Skiing Squirrel 

Sober Events Stopwatch Challenge 

• Thu 10/9: Drag Bingo — Sober AF Tacoma (Alysse attending) 

• Fri 10/10: Stop the Shuffle — Wilmington DE International Film Festival 

• Sat 10/11: “Just F**ing Write” virtual w/ Tawny Lara 

• Thu 10/16: Virtual Risotto Class — Teetotal Initiative Pittsburgh 

• Fri 10/17: BigVision Acoustic Series — NYC 

Put That on a T-Shirt: “Recovery called — she’s thriving and mildly codependent.”