Hello and welcome to another Tuesday teaser edition of Dopey, the podcast on drugs, addiction,

and dumb shit. My name is Dave and I'm thrilled to pieces to bring you another Tuesday teaser

of fucking Dopey. It's seriously my greatest pleasure to make the show. I made the actual Tuesday

Patreon show this morning. I'm in my dad's house in the kitchen. And then I had the pleasure to go

do a news thing at Scripps online news. And first, my friend Jim, who's recently been on the show,

got a job teaching at FIT. So that was fun. I got to go meet up with Jimmy. And we had

soup dumplings in Emperor Noodle Shop. And he talked about his new CPAP machine. and I talked about them pulling the teeth out of my

head and he was like yeah this seems like a real 50 year old Jewish man conversation and it's true

I mean I feel like a kid on the inside but on the outside I definitely and I sound like a kid on the

show but I do not look like a kid.

I'll tell you that.

I was coming into my dad's house and some kids ran by me, and I could tell I was no spring chicken anymore.

And I went up to record this news piece about recovery, and the woman asked me, like, what can we do for people who are not

in recovery? And I basically was like, nothing. There's nothing we can do. And is that true? No,

I guess we can, what can we do? And if you know what to do for somebody who doesn't want to be sober, send in a email or a

voicemail to dopey podcast at gmail.com.

I left to her office.

First of all, we did an interview for like, I don't know, half an hour, and you hear how congested

I am.

So I sound like shit. My beard is long

and white and straggly. My hair was not well quaffed. And as we were doing the interview,

I don't know, there's a bright light on me. And then there was a heater in the back. And my throat

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