This Week on Dopey! I'm super excited to have had the chance to interview PAtrick J. Pespas and Sam Lipman-Stern from The Telemarketers! A junky/true crime/scam busting documentary series on HBO! AI wrote all the juicy nuggets below - PLUS Dove updates us! Weighing heroin bags, and Siggy's 7 years!!!! All that and more on a brand spanking new episode of the good old Dopey Show! 📞 Dopey Podcast Episode Summary: The Wild Life of Pat Pespas & The Telemarketers Scam This week on Dopey, we dive deep into the insane, scam-filled, heroin-soaked life of Pat Pespas, the star of HBO's Telemarketers—the most outrageous, jaw-dropping, and hilarious docuseries in years. Pat joins us to spill it all—from running telemarketing scams for corrupt police unions to snorting heroin while making sales, to going undercover and taking down a billion-dollar fraud operation. We cover his years as a junkie, the insane characters at CDG (the boiler room from hell), the shady contracts, the FBI raids, and how he and director Sam Lipman-Stern turned their chaotic past into a critically acclaimed HBO docuseries. Sam jumps in to share how a high school dropout & graffiti kid became an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, what it was like to hunt down politicians, mobsters, and scammers, and how The Telemarketers almost got shut down for exposing too much corruption. Plus, Pat reveals his wildest drug stories, what happened when he disappeared, his thoughts on addiction & recovery, and why he turned down $250,000 in media deals after the series blew up. 🔥 This episode has EVERYTHING: Junkie telemarketers, shady deals, crime, betrayal, Emmy snubs, and a whole lot of heart. 💀 Don't miss it. 👉 Watch Telemarketers on HBO 👉 Join Patreon for exclusive content & video access 👉 Follow Dopey for more raw, unfiltered insanity Stay strong, Dopey Nation—Toodles for Chris!