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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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