Whoops! The Celsius Recall and the Very Real Risks of Finding Alcohol in Non-Alcoholic Beverages | Episode 132

Get ready for an intensely personal, raw, and possibly uncomfortable episode of Don’t Eat Poop! Warning: In case alcoholism is a sensitive topic for you, proceed with caution.

In the face of a recent Celsius Astro Vibe energy drink recall due to a mix-up at the factory, which resulted in High Noon vodka seltzer alcohol inside Celsius cans, our hosts Matt and Francine are approaching this recall in a different way.

To better illustrate how serious this mishap is and its possible consequences, Matt opens up on his complicated decades-long journey with alcoholism and how he's finally managed to recover from it in the past two and a half years.

Tune in for this brave story and more information on this possibly disastrous recall.

In this episode:

💩 [03:00] Matt's early introduction to alcohol

💩 [04:06] From his teenage years all the way to COVID

💩 [05:44] When Matt's addiction to alcohol got really bad

💩 [09:45] The breaking point and Matt's hard road to sobriety

💩 [18:13] The physical aspects behind addiction

💩 [21:10] The feelings that come up in the process of recovery

💩 [24:59] The mistakenly alcoholic Celsius Astro Vibe recall

💩 [25:49] The risks if these mislabeled cans fall into kids' hands

💩 [27:00] Understand High Noon's monumentally terrible whoops

💩 [30:58] The seeming lack of quality control in these factories

💩 [32:12] Energy drinks and their differences

💩 [34:53] The recent diet Coke and regular Coke mix-up

Disclaimer: Episode title and content do not constitute legal or health advice.

Resources from this episode

Listen to the song Paralyzed by NF.

Learn more about Alcoholics Anonymous and find the one nearest to you at aa.org.

Check out the NBC article Matt refers to when talking about the Celsius recall.

Noteworthy quotes from this episode

“ An alcoholic who is in recovery, getting a drink that has alcohol in it, and they don't know, that could be very bad. Will it kill them? No, that one alcohol drink is not going to kill them. Will it kill them because they start drinking again, and then everything goes down? Potentially.” – Matt Regusci

“ Sometimes I wonder if some of these places even have quality control. I don't know. They have to, at some level, but you have to wonder.” – Francine L Shaw

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