Hello and welcome to Dopey, the podcast about drugs and other dumb shit including addiction

and recovery and I like to talk about music but Chris can't talk about it.

I'm Dave. Well Chris. And today on the show we have my friend Ray.

Hi Ray. Hi. How are you, Ray? Good, how are you?

I should talk about my experience with music because I actually played two instruments when I was

younger. Do you know that? I shocked. I played the violin for two years because this girl,

Michaela, she played violin in fifth grade so I chose to be in strings. It's the hardest.

Yes. Were you like Michaela? Yes. So me and this kid PK, there was, there was only eight people.

The name Pete Kennedy and he called it PK. It was Paul Kennedy. No, it was Paul Kingsbury.

Anyways, the strings was this half semicircle of eight people and Michaela used to sit all the way

to one end of the circle. Do you know what I mean? So there was only one person that would sit next

to her and we had Jim class beforehand in fifth grade and fifth grade and me and PK used to

bolt, literally race after Jim class to get to that one seat that was to the left of Michaela.

And then I was so bad at strings at violin that the teacher, Mrs. Ferguson, used to tell me to

airbow for the concerts. Wow. And she hated because everybody who did strings were,

they were like better. They were like kind of more serious about it. That worked airbow.

Yes, she said airbow. So I did strings for two years and then it's

so you're fucking pretended to play for two years in elementary school for concerts.

That's why you're not. I really believe that this was instrumental in crushing yourself and

steam. You sat there 12 years old, faking like you could play in concerts. Do you think this

is why I used heroin? I'm almost certain. I'm trying to figure out why I didn't.

Hmm. That doesn't matter. Let me tell you about trumpet real quick before we get into

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