I’m A Crackhead

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0	So you said do you use every single day?
0:03.0	Like, and it's only, I would use every day if it wasn't for money.
0:06.2	You know what I'm saying?
0:07.1	Are you high right now?
0:08.7	Yes.
0:10.1	All right.
0:19.2	Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Sanagato. I'm Greg Dybeck.
0:22.4	For anyone out there that would like to be a guest in our show, don't hesitate to reach you out to us.
0:25.6	Our email is OPL podcast at gmail.com.
0:28.9	Yeah, and today we are speaking to a crackhead. That sounds like an offensive term, but that is what they wrote in their email.
0:37.4	So the subject line is, I'm a functioning crackhead. And they are going to talk to us about their addiction, how they use pretty much every day, but basically still find themselves in a position to be a functioning member of society. So really interesting. It doesn't seem like a conversation you get to have often where someone is kind of going willingly admit all of this and walk us through it. So we appreciate the guest being on. And yeah, thank you so much for being on today. I appreciate you guys giving me the opportunity to come on. It's fun. It's not a funny thing, but it is funny hearing that.
1:12.1	Yeah.
1:12.6	The word crackhead is just like, yeah, it's so direct.
1:17.7	Yeah, hey, you said it first.
1:19.0	You gave us permission.
1:20.3	Absolutely, man.
1:22.1	But can you just, I guess, talk to us about how your addiction started.
1:27.3	How were you introduced?
1:28.4	You know, was it crack originally?
1:30.4	Was there sort of a gateway drug into crack?
1:33.9	Yeah.
1:34.4	So it's a, I'll try and make it as short of a story as possible.
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