Richie Stephens and John Altschuler

The Dr. Drew Podcast

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Talk Radio, Comedy, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week Dr. Drew is joined by former gangster turned actor Richie Stephens and 'Silicon Valley' co-creator John Altschuler to discuss their collaborative work on Richie's book 'The Gangster's Guide to Sobriety: My Life in 12 Steps' - available now anywhere books are sold. They discuss Richie's wild ride through addiction and recovery, how John came to know Richie and what plans they may have for future media based on his source material. Connect with Richie on Instagram @RichieActor Visit Cymbiotika.com and use code Drew Visit AirMedCareNetwork.com/DrDrew Visit BetterHelp.com/Drew

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, you might remember me from Teen Mom 2, but my 15 minutes is almost up.
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0:41.0	I do believe the Corolla Faithful and the Dr. Drew to podcast Faithful would like that pot as well.
0:46.0	It's sort of a reincarnation or an incarnation of Loveline, not Mr. Perolline. We have that on Drew show of course as well.
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0:55.0	Today I'm Richie Stevens and John Alchuter. Richie's book, The Gangster's Guide to sobriety, My Life in 12 Step, available now on Amazon.
1:06.0	He collaborated with John on this and I'm hearing rumors of some maybe some media sort of projects afoot.
1:14.0	You can follow Richie at Richie Actor or ICHIE Actor one word.
1:19.0	And listen, who should I speak to first here? Welcome gentlemen.
1:24.0	You have to decide Dr. Drew.
1:27.0	Clearly it's John first Richie. Sorry about that. John, I figured whoever came through thought it might be John.
1:32.0	So John, you tell me how did you hook up with Richie?
1:37.0	Well, interesting because I got a blind email from Richie. I didn't know him.
1:44.0	No nothing about him. And I always say, my lawyer is very adamant. Do not ever open a blind email because you will be sued.
1:53.0	And being who I am, I open it and I start reading it and there's something interesting. Look, a lot of this whole concept.
2:04.0	I'm not I'm not a mystical guy, but I don't know why I opened it and I don't know why I read it.
2:10.0	And I don't really know why I ended up the next day at Starbucks in Shurms talking to Richie.
2:16.0	But the interesting thing about the email was that he wasn't pushing himself. He was pushing a friend's project.
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