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Matt F.

Matt F.

Recovery advocate and site captain for Street Life Ministries in Menlo Park, CA, sharing his journey from addiction to sobriety through AA and faith.

Aug 13, 2026

JoeHOST
7:54
I guess for lack of a better word, you know?
Matt F.
Matt F.GUEST
7:56
Abso-absolutely, and I definitely remember, you know, this was growing up in the, the '80s and '90s, and I remember watching Miami Vice and TV shows and thinking that kind of life and culture was cool.
Matt F.
Matt F.GUEST
8:09
And I lived in South Florida.
Matt F.
Matt F.GUEST
8:11
I thought, "You know, maybe I could be one of those cool guys like that." But I just ended up a average drunk, you know? [laughs] I never got that cool, about as cool as I thought I was in my own mind.
Matt F.
Matt F.GUEST
8:23
But, um, I kind of carried that same kind of stuff, you know, that was in middle sc- the end of middle school into, uh, high school.
Matt F.
Matt F.GUEST
8:31
I went to a public high school and, um, found drinking and other things, and I had arrived, you know? Really, like, my high school time in the, for the most of it was, um, pretty great.
Matt F.
Matt F.GUEST
8:46
I, um, partied the way I wanted to party.

43 MINS LATER

JoeHOST
51:43
Anyway.

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