Gabor Mate REPLAY: In the Realm of Dopey Ghosts PLUS The (other) Guru that Erotically Drank My Pee - Trauma, Addiction, Recovery

What this episode covers

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 Title Ideas

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