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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Julia is joined by genius mind P.E. Moskowitz for a conversation about their new memoir Breaking Awake, which chronicles the mental breakdown that drove them to experiment with drugs, reckon with trauma, and draw meaning from suffering. From Klonopin and SSRIs to ketamine and LSD, they consider what our reliance on substances reveals about our modern world. Are drugs soothing us, transforming us, or just reflecting our pain? Digressions include P.E.’s commandment to “go out and get weird with it,” the dark headspace where internet mantras start to feel profound, and the unfortunate but honest truth that the only way out is through.
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and edited by Livi Burdette.
Check out P.E.’s book Breaking Awake: A Reporter’s Search for a New Life, and a New World, Through Drugs and their Substack Mental Hellth.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Binchopia. We hope you enjoy your stay. |
| 0:15.9 | Hi, bingies. I'm so excited for today's episode with P.E. Moskowitz about their new book, Breaking |
| 0:21.6 | Awake. It's a really amazing book about their mental breakdown, how they made sense of it through |
| 0:26.9 | drugs. And I think that this is a conversation that's really important right now in this moment |
| 0:32.6 | where so many of us are so down, so devastated by what they see in the news, so hopeless, and feeling |
| 0:39.6 | like it's all kind of on ourselves to make sense of what we're going through, that all |
| 0:44.6 | of these feelings are something that are our responsibility rather than a larger problem in the |
| 0:49.3 | world. |
| 0:50.3 | And so I hope this conversation helps you feel a little bit less alone in your experience |
| 0:55.4 | and understand that we are all connected and we are all feeling similar things. |
| 1:00.0 | And that is where the beauty lies. |
| 1:02.6 | That is where the possibility for connection lies in being ourselves, in being honest about |
| 1:07.4 | what we're feeling and not assuming that we are alone. |
| 1:10.6 | So I hope you guys |
| 1:11.6 | enjoyed this episode and make sure to check out P.E.'s book. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to |
| 1:16.8 | Vinchotopia. I have a very special guest back with me today, P.E. Moskowitz. Hello. Hello. |
| 1:22.7 | You've written a new book. I have. It was great. I loved it. Thank you. I feel like it was |
| 1:27.2 | specifically written for my |
| 1:28.6 | special interest, especially the part about the housewife pharmaceutical ads. I wanted to show you, |
| 1:33.6 | I literally have like a full folder of every single pharmaceutical housewife ad. Oh my God, |
| 1:37.7 | really? Yeah, from my college thesis because I wrote about psychiatric abuse against women. I was |
| 1:41.7 | like imagining all the ads you were talking about like, |
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