Pondoff's Anonymous

Pondoff's Anonymous Podcast network focusing on addiction, alcoholism and sustainable recovery. Mission Statement: To F**king Help People. How? Write. I can’t sing. I can’t dance. Here.

Pretty simple stupid stuff here, y’all… to help.

…To help anyone who may be struggling with grief and / or alcoholism. Well… for now… the only way I know how. I can’t act. I can model a bit here and there but at 32 (almost 33) I’m a little out of my prime. I mean I still look good as f**k in a pair of boxer briefs but it’s really become a young man’s game… and I’m okay with that. Let ‘em earn. Bu

t I can write… so I’ll write. I promise to be real. I promise to be authentic. I promise I am not perfect. I’ll write a couple times a month… sharing glimpses of my journey through grief and alcoholism in an online journal… in efforts to demonstrate that the biggest fear for people desperately seeking to escape the grips of G&A is as tough and as real as that monster in the closet…

You are not alone. You are not alone. We are NEVER f**king alone. I promise.

…and throughout my journal entries… throughout these weekly or bi-weekly posts online… I pray and hope that I can articulate this to as many people that are willing to listen. We are not alone. There are no f**king monsters in the closet. I’ll show you. So what say you? Can we do this? You bet your ass we can. And speaking of ‘we’… sharing this story of mine... in a journal format... is pretty f**king personal. Right? Right. So with that comes the anxiety of exposure and vulnerability… It also opens the floodgates to possible character attacks, underserved (and maybe some deserved) judgement, and the potential to develop a cult-like following primarily made up of beautiful, witty, twenty-something year-old women with an insatiable appetite for my dad bod… in my boxer briefs. Needless to say... there's a little bit on the line here... and if any, or all three, of the aforementioned circumstances happen to be a bi-product of this 'big mouth' 'talk-too-much' tell-almost-all journal (that happens to be pretty feminine but it’s okay because I'm a man's man) than I'm going to go ahead and need it to help someone. So feel free to let it help you. After all… you will be bailing me out from poppin’ peaches all day like freakin’ tic-tacs to combat the never-ending stomach knots that comes with this anxious, apprehensive territory… which wouldn’t be very sober. So thanks! God Bless, y'all. (…even the haters)

Chris Pondoff (NA911)

*Checked into rehab for alcoholism: 03-25-14

On tomorrow's PAFO, Jackson Burkett, producer of TMA on 101 ESPN, joins Chris, Zoë and KG for an episode that starts som...
08/26/2026

On tomorrow's PAFO, Jackson Burkett, producer of TMA on 101 ESPN, joins Chris, Zoë and KG for an episode that starts somewhere in the middle of a conversation and pretty much stays there.

Jackson talks about growing up in St. Louis, studying golf before eventually finding his way into sports media, and the strange full-circle journey that took him from a 16-year-old using a high-school project as an excuse to visit TMA to producing the show himself years later.

The crew gets into Jackson's 470 unread text messages, his wisdom-tooth saga, The Sopranos, Entourage, Jerry Seinfeld, golf, and what it was like entering the TMA universe at 22 years old as Chris's “little piggy.”

And underneath all the usual PAFO chaos, the conversation finds its way into something a little deeper: curiosity, certainty, sobriety, how our perspectives change with age, and the value of remaining open to the possibility that what we think we know might not be the whole story.

If you're a fan of TMA, golf, movies, or early 2000's HBO series, you're gonna enjoy this one.

08/25/2026

Honoring Zack means making sure his story continues to matter. ❤️

Tiffany Foster lost her son Zack to fentanyl poisoning, but she refuses to let his story end there.

By continuing to say his name, tell his story and bring awareness to the realities of these dangers, Tiffany is honoring the person Zack was while potentially saving the life of someone she may never meet.

Because sometimes sharing the hardest parts of our own story can become the thing that changes someone else’s.

Zack is remembered. Zack is loved. And through the work being done in his name, Zack is still making a difference.

🎙️ Hear Tiffany and Zack Foster's story on this week's Pondoff’s Anonymous.

08/24/2026

Kindness and weakness are not the same thing.

Mr. Rogers built his entire identity around compassion, empathy and treating people with dignity, but that didn't mean he was passive.

He could stand his ground. He could advocate for himself. And he could disagree without abandoning kindness in the process.

Maybe that's the distinction we sometimes miss: You don't have to become an as***le to stand up for yourself.

And standing up for yourself doesn't make you any less kind.

🎙️ Needed to Hear That From the Pondoff’s Anonymous Podcast Network.

Tiffany Foster returns to Pondoff’s Anonymous for a conversation about grief, memory, advocacy, and learning how to keep...
08/24/2026

Tiffany Foster returns to Pondoff’s Anonymous for a conversation about grief, memory, advocacy, and learning how to keep moving when life changes again.

Tiffany joins Chris, Zoë and KG on what would have been her son Zack’s 18th birthday, just days before the five-year anniversary of his passing. She talks about the ways she still celebrates him, why she prefers to call the anniversary of his death his “Forever Day,” and why talking openly about Zack has become such an important part of both her grief and her work with Addiction is Real, Inc.

Now serving as vice president of Addiction Is Real, Tiffany continues to share Zack’s story with parents and caregivers in hopes of preventing another family from experiencing the same loss.

And because this is still Pondoff’s Anonymous, the conversation also somehow includes horror movies, red velvet cake, Chicago s*x shops, giant.....toys, s**t books, ADHD, bears, otters and whether Tiffany was once a “soft butch.”

It’s funny, messy, deeply human and ultimately a conversation about continuing to live, while making sure the people we’ve lost continue to live with us.

Check it out on the Pondoff's Anonymous YouTube page, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

08/23/2026

What would you do for a National Championship for your favorite team?

Would you take a guaranteed National Championship, if it meant that for every point your team wins by in the championship game, it takes a year off of your life?

Mizzou fans out there, just how far are you willing to go to see the Tigers win it all?

Episode 2 of College Football Anonymous out now on Spotify and YouTube.

08/23/2026

Hope doesn’t always look like having everything figured out.

Sometimes it’s just making it through today. Sometimes it’s hearing somebody else’s story and realizing you’re not the only one. Sometimes it’s finally believing that a life you can’t imagine yet might still be waiting for you.

That’s why we tell these stories.

If something you hear on this network makes one person feel a little less alone, a little more understood, or gives them a reason to keep going — then we’re doing what we came here to do.

There is always hope.

— Pondoff’s Anonymous Podcast Network

08/21/2026

Would you take a Mizzou Football National Championship if it meant all of your partners got together and rated you and you had to wear the score for all to see like a scarlet letter?

And yes, this is a college football podcast.

This week on Needed To Hear That, Chaz and Chris explore what it really means to have compassion for someone who is real...
08/21/2026

This week on Needed To Hear That, Chaz and Chris explore what it really means to have compassion for someone who is really struggling, especially when their struggle looks different from your own.

The conversation moves through addiction, depression, faith, Buddhism and Christianity, including Chaz’s idea of “fierce compassion” — love strong enough to confront suffering without condemning the person experiencing it.

Chaz also turns to The Odyssey and the image of Odysseus tied to the mast as a metaphor for coping skills, recovery, spirituality and the people or practices that keep us tethered when self-destruction starts calling.

Sometimes strength doesn’t mean never hearing the sirens. Sometimes it means having something strong enough to keep you on the ship. And when life becomes impossible — depression, grief, relapse, panic, loss — maybe the question isn’t always “How did I get here?” Maybe it’s simply “How do I be here?”

An episode about humility, dependence, suffering, faith and remembering that none of us are as far away from the rocks as we’d like to believe.

08/20/2026

This week on College Football Anonymous Jackson Burkett, producer on , talks about his favorite memory from that incredible 2023 Mizzou Tiger football season.

It wasn't the 61 yard game winning field goal by The Thicker Kicker against Kansas State.

It wasn't 4th and 17 to keep the game alive against the Florida Gators.

It wasn't throttling the Tennessee Volunteers 36-7.

It was the 39 yard touchdown pass from to between the hedges against top ranked Georgia to go up 7-3.

They'd eventually lose 30-21 but they proved they could hang with the top team in the country that day.

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