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After Hours with Jimmy Thistle

Join Jimmy Thistle for After Hours — the brutally honest, funny and heartwarming podcast that dives deep into alcohol, addiction, and recovery. Each week, Jimmy sits down with real people who’ve…

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Latest episodes

  1. My Dad Was Sober for 16 Months & I Had Him Back — Then My Granddad Died & He Relapsed Hard & Within Four Months He Was Gone10 Aug 2026
  2. I Lay Buried in Snow in Shorts for Two Hours & Five Minutes in the Scottish Highlands & Broke a Guinness World Record — Three Years Earlier I Was Rattling Outside a Health Centre3 Aug 2026
  3. People See My Tattoos & the First Thing They Do Is Offer Me a Drink or Drugs or Both — They've Got Me Completely Backwards27 Jul 2026
  4. I Grew Up Knowing If My Dad Had Four Cans in the Fridge Everything Would Be OK — But If He Went to the Pub With His Friends I Needed to Hide Under the Covers20 Jul 2026
  5. I Was Going Door to Door Around the Neighbours Asking If They Had Any Wine Left — That Was Where My Life Had Got To13 Jul 2026
  6. I Did a Thousand Day Ones Over 35 Years & the Furthest I Ever Got Was Day Six — Then I Worked Out the One Thing Everyone Gets Wrong About Quitting6 Jul 2026
  7. I Decorated the Entire Hospital Ward in Blood — The Doctor Came Back the Next Morning & Said You've Got a 20% Chance of Making It Through the Next Hour29 Jun 2026
  8. I Got Off the Plane & There Were Cops Waiting — Drug Trafficking Charges, Deported, Lifetime Ban From the US & That Was the Moment Something Finally Shifted22 Jun 2026
  9. I Was Drinking All Day Every Day in the Build-Up to Being Deployed to Iraq — I’d Wake Up in the Morning, Make Half a Cup of Coffee & Fill the Rest With Cointreau1 Jun 2026
  10. My Biggest Trigger Is Loneliness — Every Single Relapse Started the Same Way: Alone, a Cancelled Plan & a Bottle of Wine24 May 2026