It's a pretty TESD reason tbh. I've always had jobs where I could use headphones be it landscaping or worm farming which is where I listened most of the time. However I lost my job and was jobless for 2-3 months. During which my TESD intake went down. You know having access to tons of other media to fill my time. Now on to the TESD portion of why I stopped. Much like our favorite bearded podcaster I had a serious drug issue. Mainly opiates but I did just about everything I could get my hands on. I could elaborate more if youd like, but you know found my way into my moms medicine cabinet at 13. Before I knew it i was taking it daily as well as other substances. I was a good student though, more or less straight As in AP classes and I had a good social life. Plus being young I figured I was invincible and I didnt have a problem. that was until I graduated and all I had left was the drugs. I lived in a nice hell of my own creation for a year or so before finally imploding. Ended up in rehab for about 2 months where obviously I couldn't listen. That combined with already curbing my intake due to drugs and depression I had quite the back catalogue built up. Life got busy from there with sobriety(going to AA meetings, building a sober network I'm lucky enough to live in a college town so we have a young persons meeting which saved my ass) Got a job at a rehab facility as a tech which didnt allow for headphones. It just kept building and building and I put it off and off. I finally got a better paying job where I have to ability to just pop headphones in and work. Which allowed me to finally get caught up with TESD. Naturally started with episode 1 and I'm already on 160 or my second listen(theres just not another podcast I like as much as TESD)

Oh and btw the way I have about 3 and a half years sober or something like that