Hello and welcome to Dopey, the podcast on drugs addiction and dumb shit.

I'm Dave.

Today is our Monday replay.

For whatever reason, I decided it was a good idea to have a show up every day and the Monday was going to be the interview from the week before last. And then timing happened and it

changed. And now I think we're three weeks old. And today's replay is going to be with Alec Baldwin,

which was a really amazing thing for me to do. And I really enjoyed it. And I thought

Alec was great on the show and came through.

And this is the chance for anybody who didn't get to hear it then can just listen to it now.

But another thing that's interesting about doing it five days a week is that I can stay pretty up to date with life stuff on a daily basis. And last week on Thursday, Linda's dad died.

And he had been sick for a very long time. I'm sure hardcore listeners or attentive listeners

have noticed conversations about Linda's dad being sick.

I think Linda's mom was on the show a long time ago now, six years ago,

seven years ago, and started to talk about what was going on with her husband, Tony.

He got Louis Body dementia.

I don't know if it's contracted is the right word but he developed

louis body dementia which is uh similar to alzheimer's he he got Parkinson's disease he got

prostate cancer and skin cancer and he's been in this decline for seven or eight years, which has been very, very challenging.

And before I talk about how challenging that was, I need to say that Linda's dad was one of the most,

just one of, I mean, everybody is one of a kind.

Linda's father was an exceptional person.

I met him when Linda and I started dating and he seemed, he didn't, I mean, he was like nobody

I had met, but I didn't realize how exceptional he was. He was short, very stocky. Once you go to the beach with him, you realize

...