We're alive. Good morning and welcome to Dopey, the podcast about drugs, addiction and dumb shit and I'm Dave. My name is Chris.

And you know what Dave just said, he said, good morning. This is the first ever Dopey episode in the morning, which is a.

It's 735 in the morning. It's weird. It's insane. We are on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

What's the earliest we've ever recorded? Like 6 p.m. No, I think like four. I think when you went to see the secret life of pets and needed to come home to poop, it was like four.

I worked till four and you were at my apartment. So we did a couple of early ones. You've always been a proponent of morning episodes. You've been saying it for a year. We need to do morning episodes.

Well, I'm like totally not good. I don't know. I just figured in the morning, I'll be better. I just figured I'd feel more centered.

At night, you're totally not good. And you're better in the morning and that's the language you're using. At night, I'm totally not good. And in the morning, I'm better.

That's as far as I'm going to go. No, you know, I mean, also like we tend to do it after long shifts. We recorded two.

We're staying in the hotel down the street from where I work. This fancy pants hotel that like positions itself at some punk rock hipster hotel.

There's a weird pseudo painting poster of Johnny Ramon on the wall.

Poor Johnny Ramon, you know, the fact that he his image is in some fancy pants, multi-million dollar hotel. I don't sure he's rolling over in his grave.

But maybe he got money. Maybe his wife got money. You want to hear an interesting story in the Ramones.

Joey Ramon had this girlfriend, who's ironically her name was Linda. And Johnny Ramon came in and swooped up Linda and married her like in the early 80s.

Then for the next 15 years, Joey Ramon and Johnny Ramon never spoke. They toured the whole time in vans. They would sit in different rows on the van.

That's so sad. Yeah. That's a horrible story. And Joey Ramon died horribly of lymphoma. And they didn't sell records. They only sold t-shirts.

But they made money off their t-shirts. Not a lot. They made like money like, you know, upper middle class people did.

Is this the band that inspired a lot of other bands to start?

Yeah. We always talk about that being the velvet on the ground, but the Ramones is also that.

I remember you saying the Ramones. The Ramones is your companion to Dopey.

Yeah. The Ramones is probably the greatest rock and roll band to ever come out of Queens. They're from Forest Hills. And they're all mostly Jewish.

What are the rock and roll bands of Game Out of Queens?

I can only think of hip-hop groups that came out of Queens. Run DMC, Nas.

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