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Dopi, the podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit.

My name is Dave, I hope everybody is doing really, really well.

I feel pretty good myself. It is a beautiful day in June. I live in relatively eastern Long Island. It's kind of the center of

Long Island in New York and Long Island is right on the Atlantic Ocean and

once it's summertime here it's very very beautiful so and I grew up in New York City if you didn't know and I was taught to hate

Long Islanders so it's weird that I live on Long Island and that I like it.

And we live right near the Great South Bay, which is right near the ocean, and I go to a recovery

meeting most mornings on the bay. I went to a recovery meeting this morning it was

really really good it's like fuck man when we started making this show all I did was say how I didn't want it to be about recovery and how much I hated going to meetings and how weird it was.

And that has changed. it's weird.

It's weird.

I'm coming up on nine years and my life is different.

It's a different life.

And my life is only good.

It's so fucking annoying that I'm saying all this stuff.

My life is only good because I'm sober because I'm not fucking on drugs.

It's amazing.

And back in the day,

the show, there was a

from Australia who was Deep Dopey Nation. Her name was Gabby. She even did a little roving reporter bit back then. She reached

out for the first time in a long time and here I'm gonna play the little voicemail she left me. I think it made me

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