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Tickets: Hunter Biden with David Manheim at 92NY — December 20

This week on Dopey! Writer, musician, and world-class dope Tony O’Neill joins us for an extra-long trip from the Britpop stage to the shooting galleries of Los Angeles. Tony tells us about touring with Marc Almond and Kenickie, getting slapped by Courtney Love, and a night with the Russian mafia that ends with blood, broken teeth, and hiding in a broom closet.

Then things get seriously dopey: black tar heroin, compulsive speedballs, $30,000 in embezzled money shot into oblivion, and a stint in the Brian Jonestown Massacre that ends with Anton Newcombe chasing him out of the house with a sword over some orange juice. Plus, getting run over by a police car buying crack on Christmas Eve, robbing a generous armed dealer, and the girlfriend who burned his writing—some of which survived to become Digging the Vein.

Tony also gets into methadone, finding love, becoming a father, and the accident that sent him back into addiction after ten years off heroin. We talk writing, Jerry Stahl, Dan Fante, returning to AA, and learning to sit still with his own mind.

PLUS! Two Laurens leave voicemails from very different places—one struggling after a second DUI, the other celebrating six years sober and finding her people in Dopey Nation. A listener dumps a guy who doesn’t get Dopey, Dave remembers Todd, and much more on a marathon episode of a brand new episode of that good old dopey show!

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This week on Dopey’s Greatest Hits! The incredible Mackenzie Phillips takes us from One Day at a Time to shooting cocaine with her father, the Mamas & the Papas’ John Phillips. We hear about stealing his prized Owsley acid, running around London with Keith Richards, pharmaceutical cocaine sprinkled on dinner, and getting arrested with black tar heroin on the way to a Rachael Ray reunion. Plus, the trip upstairs with Mick Jagger to get mayonnaise that turned into an overnight stay.

Mackenzie also gets brutally honest about surviving sexual abuse by her father, the family backlash after High on Arrival, and a six-year relapse after a decade sober. And how she came back to build a life helping other addicts find recovery.

PLUS! Owen remembers Brad, the friend who helped save his life but didn’t survive his own addiction. Listener comments, Dave’s upcoming Hunter Biden event at the 92nd Street Y, and a classic Jake from West Virginia banjo outro. All that and more on a fucking monumental Greatest Hits episode of Dopey!

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This week on a very very special Wednesday Wild Card DOSE of Dopey! Author Ian Leslie joins me to talk about one of my favorite books, John and Paul, A Love Story through Songs - and the drugs, grief, jealousy, and love behind the Beatles’ extraordinary partnership.

We follow the Beatles from speed-fueled nights in Hamburg to getting stoned with Bob Dylan, John accidentally taking acid at Abbey Road, and Paul joining him for a trip that brought them even closer. We get into McCartney’s cocaine use, Lennon’s relationship with heroin, and whether songs like “Two of Us,” “Oh! Darling,” and “Jealous Guy” were ways of saying things they couldn’t say directly to each other. Plus, losing their mothers, Phil Collins versus Paul McCartney, and why the Beatles made getting high so interesting to me in the first place.

PLUS: a listener’s first experience smoking meth in San Francisco, memories of Todd, spiritual dollars, your comments, and the new Wall Street Journal piece about Dopey. All that and much, much more on a very Beatle-esque Wednesday DOSE of Dopey!

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