Timestamp Notes
00:02 – AI Dopey song opens the episode
02:14 – Dave welcomes listeners to Thursday Dopey Greatest Hits
02:45 – Josh Clark AI Dopey music and “ghosts in the machine”
03:30 – Gabor Maté won the Patreon poll
04:10 – Gabor Maté booked to return
04:39 – Katz’s, Action Bronson, Paul Wall, and Fuck That’s Delicious
05:20 – Dave’s crazy weekend: Katz’s, Vermont, Divided Sky, Susan’s birthday
06:10 – Trying to get Jeff Ross on Dopey
06:35 – Listener voicemail: old hippie, age gap, and pee-drinking drug story
07:00 – Baba, Encinitas, sushi, sake, opium, and red wine
08:00 – San Francisco Thanksgiving, red roses, and Harbin Hot Springs
08:30 – Coke, wine, nude hot springs, and hot/cold therapy
09:20 – Amma the hugging saint and nitrous mention
10:00 – Mushrooms, Kirtan chants, and awkward threesome suggestion
11:00 – MDMA in Ojai and pee drinking
12:10 – Dave reacts to the predatory guru story
13:00 – Dave asks for more weird guru stories
13:30 – Patreon comments from Gilbert Trejo replay
14:20 – Listeners praise Gilbert and ask for Gabor Maté
15:10 – Spotify comments on Gilbert Trejo
16:20 – Mr. Jason celebrates eight months sober
17:00 – Shooting dope in fingertips and Gilbert’s extremeness
17:40 – “Don’t whip your dick out at the Grove”
18:00 – Car wash dope story and the movie Candy
19:00 – Permanent Midnight and Jerry Stahl
20:20 – Dave wonders if Gilbert saw Candy
20:50 – Dr. Gabor Maté intro
21:45 – Gabor discusses The Myth of Normal
22:20 – Addiction as a normal response to abnormal culture
23:00 – Addiction as an attempt to soothe pain
24:00 – “Why the pain?”
24:45 – Dave talks about overprotective Jewish parents
25:20 – Gabor reframes “overprotective” as controlling
26:30 – Recovery means getting yourself back
27:50 – Gabor’s compulsive classical CD shopping addiction
29:30 – Addiction definition: temporary relief, craving, harm, inability to stop
30:20 – Lying, shame, and shopping addiction
31:00 – Writing In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts helped Gabor heal
31:45 – Downtown Eastside patients understood Gabor’s addiction
33:00 – Talking to addicts vs. Tim Ferriss types
34:20 – Replacing the word “addict”
35:00 – Badge of courage vs. harmful identity
37:30 – Helping people find the true self
38:00 – Dave’s heroin and inner peace
39:00 – Shame comes before addiction
40:00 – The “stupid friend” and childhood self-blame
41:20 – Negative self-talk and Donald Trump “stable genius” example
42:20 – Trauma as a wound
43:20 – Toxic culture, medication, and trauma
44:50 – Diabetes, stress, junk food, and trauma
47:20 – Food companies and addictive sugar/salt/fat
48:00 – Dave’s nighttime ice cream/cereal/chocolate syrup soothing
49:45 – Gabor on work addiction and attention
51:00 – Fame, ego, and Gabor’s wife understanding him
52:10 – ADD and addiction connection
53:00 – ADD as childhood stress and dopamine dysfunction
54:30 – Dave’s school struggles and downer drugs
55:20 – Heroin ritual and dopamine
56:50 – Ritalin, Adderall, motivation, and focus
58:00 – Gabor’s own stimulant use while writing
59:30 – Dave asks about Adderall for writing
01:00:20 – Gabor tells Dave to organize his life around the book
01:01:40 – The Last Jewish Waiter: How I Got Off of Heroin at Katz’s Deli
01:02:00 – Ayahuasca and psychedelic healing
01:03:20 – Gabor’s first ayahuasca ceremony
01:04:30 – Crying when a baby coos during ceremony
01:05:30 – Shamans, healing chants, and community
01:06:30 – Psychedelic therapy and integration
01:07:15 – Dave wraps with Gabor
01:08:00 – Dopey short film festival announced for June 26
01:08:54 – “Good So Bad” outro song
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