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I'm Dessa.

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Today, we're talking about drugs.

And we're already like five and a half seconds in.

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James, can we speed it up a little?

I've just got an insane amount of stuff to get to in this episode.

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Hey, come on, man.

Don't speed me.

You know, dude, that always makes me dizzy, and you know it.

Okay.

I work as a touring musician where it's not considered unprofessional to drink on the job.

In fact, taking a slug of whiskey on stage often elicits a round of applause.

This business is full of fascinating, brilliant weirdos and intoxicants are easy to get and sometimes hard to avoid.

Alexis Stevenson, an author friend of mine, once told me,

I'm not a writer, I just drink a lot about it,

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