Save Vs Poison

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week we have a special guest, it's herpes.  No just kidding, Our friend Mike stops by as we discuss the need for apologies and the making of amends.  Also the psy-ops this week were really good.  We're still tangent-ing 2 days later! Thanks a ton for listening and please...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week Steves best psyop to date! Will and Ticky talk a little bit about how not every check in is going to be earth shattering. We discuss a few ways to help regulate emotions when you're fresh into your recovery and finally a different kind of worm pops it's head up this week as we dis...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! Welcome back everyone! This week, we find out what makes Ticky go all Limpy, find out where he keeps his cults extra pairs of "special" underwear and finally chat about dealing with stress before relapsing and whether older games should shelve or update their older content as they roll out...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week on Wild Kingdom (tm) we deep dive (DEEEP) on the transitive property of if Lion can Giraffe can beat lion and Steve will eat a giraffe will a crocodile gallop?! We also try to parse what to do when people that use drugs recreationally ask addicts in recovery for advice on what to...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week we explore the ideas of Nickleback as a social contagion.  That's it.  Nothing Else.  We also chat a bit about what to do when you're not the subject matter expert in a room where someone needs help and finally, wanting to spend time with friends but not wanting to...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! It's another solo episode, Ticky and Steve got arrested for protesting outside of A brothel that wouldn't let them ply their trade, so we once again find Will alone in a closet with a microphone!  Woe be unto you children of mankind!  Will interviews himself about trying to stay v...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week, Steve starts us off by addressing allegations left over from last weeks episode, we gab about negative experiences with folks that can't wrap their heads around addiction and finally, we take a look at Warmachine and Hordes from Privateer Press. It's one of our favorite table top...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week, Will and the fellas discuss separating art from artist, Vince McMahon the absolute anus and finally how do we describe alcoholism if the google description is just so poopy.  Sometimes this show is just such a treat for the ears, ya know? Join us here or over on twitch Wed/F...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! Will and the fellas, being of sound mind and body (?) engage in discourse surrounding where the front of the octopus is.  Shortly there after we discuss making and following through with goals and how vital to keeping yourself motivated in your recovery it can be to maintain momentum....

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week, Steve has technical issues after he glues himself to himself.  Never the less Ticky and I soldier on!  Ticky has a big big share at the start of the episode that gets interrupted by random fart joking and then we meander into our primary topics! For addiction we chat ab...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week we welcome a guest onto the show in lieu of having Ticky give us his patented "Well actually" treatment.  Oh what a relief!  We talk with our guest about self medicating, the link between trauma and addiction and whether the aesthetic of calling yourself an addict are a...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week the bands all back together again, much to everyones chagrin (college word ftw).  We dive into some Hockey Tawk, bullshit about the usefulness of VPNs, chat a bit about the the moral and philosophical grounding behind leaglity o/access to mind altering substances and finally...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week, Steve is busy trying to find out new and clever ways to make Ticky and I go down esoteric conversational paths against our will.  I'm sure we'll be ready for it though, maybe.  Yeah we will.... he can't get to me.... wait... he's doing it now?!  WTF STEVE!!!  ...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week on the show, we're super stoked to have as a guest, Dr. Michael Gallagher as our season finale.  Dr. Gallagher is a former vegetarian, Harvard trained orthopedic surgeon, and terrific moustache grower that also happens to have just written and released a book through Amazon....

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week, steve challenges science and makes us all out to be scaley fishmen who drink baileys from a shoe (creamy, biege).  Will and Ticky check in ever so briefly on their sobriety and then talk about dipping their toe back into situations that may have lead them to drink at one poi...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week, It's all fun and games until Ticky is sitting outside your window wondering what's in your guac.  We tackle grief in the time of sobriety and finally wrestle with time in the endless battle of man vs hobby vs commitments. Come listen in to another riveting episode!  Tha...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week we welcome Ticky back to the show with another take on a terrible movie, Steve fails to solo psy-op us so instead we psy-op each other and get lost in the conversational weeds a few times over.  No big deal though you all love our inability to stay on topic right?! RIGHT?! &n...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week Steve and ticky are saving up energy for our monster 21st episode, it'll be old enough to drink and after hearing the movie Ticky's going to review for us, it'll want to.  So instead this week we solo things and chat a bit about V Rising a new Vampire survival game that's in...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! Once again Ticky is working as a very low speed crash test dummy! Instead Will and Steve bounce thoughts of Sex Gongs, the impact celebrities can have on influencing our sobriety and finally whether narrative is a more compelling motivator to play a game than mechanics or challenge ratings!...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week Ticky is off trying to uncover why the ball gag he borrowed tastes a little funny.  In the meanwhile, Steve and Will get Elephantiasis of the Religion,  break down the idea that the inner addict never stops a'whispering and finally do a quicky check in on what they're pl...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This week, Ticky tries to melt down the show with his GI issues, Steve continues his reign of terrorizing us with tangents and we finish off the journey through the 12 steps! Thanks a ton for listening and please follow. Facebook: The Save Vs. Poison Podcast Twitch.tv/svppodcast Twitter: @v...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! On this episode we figure out if there's any redeeming value to step 11 in AA's guide to de-drinkify yourself (pssst we don't think so). Ticky has a wierd and tone deaf moment of mourning for his former drunken dating techniques, and finally how does Steve voodoo his way into getting his fr...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! So it came to be that in the year of our lord, Two Thousand and Twenty Two, that once again upon us, Ticky would inflict the brutality of a terrible movie upon our heads.  We also bullshit about Some sober stuff and whatever, but MOSTLY it's Ticky giving us the low down on a series of...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! On this episode we've got the whole gang back together!  It's a laugh riot!. We also wax philosophic about the joys of couch love, wonder what exactly british vampires drink for tea (you know) and bust out AA step #9!! Thanks a ton for listening and please follow. Facebook: The Save Vs...

The rated R podcast dedicated to gaming, general geekery and enduring sobriety in an ever maddening society! This episode sees our erstwhile hero, Will, piloting the ship alone! There's no peanuts! No gallery! No people calling out Will's super awesome amazing takes (which are awesome)!  We check in with our sobriety, Chat about the epicly open addict Dax Shepard and his impact on Will in his...