The Drunkalogues

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Rerun - Episode 17 - Adele Hare Feb 27, 2023

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Shaking off some rust here as I get ready to do some new interviews... This is a wild and interesting story told with great humor and zero pity. From stripping to sex work to sobriety. This delights me...

Adele Hare is a food service manager here in Los Angeles. She works in the fields of mental health and addiction and is currently studying to get her certificate in substance abuse treatment. Her story takes her to some pretty dark and funny places as she tries to fill that hole in her soul before finally re-connecting with some deeply buried innocence and finding a way to become an adult.

Episode 72 - Patrick McCartney Dec 06, 2022

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Patrick McCartney came of age in the Chicago improv scene in the early nineties where he worked with the likes of Del Close and toured with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey in the Second City Touring Company. But it wasn't long before his early exploration of drugs and alcohol blossomed into a full blown heroin problem and rules like "I'll never use before going on stage" became "I'll never go on stage if I'm not using." Heroin use eventually gave way to crack addiction, and he found himself alone and suicidal in a heatless cabin in Wyoming. But he got clean and found his way into recovery and is now finding a kind of spiritual practice teaching and performing improv

Episode 71 - Larry Clarke Nov 22, 2022

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Larry Clarke is a writer, director and actor whom you have almost certainly seen in one of the many, many roles he has played in mainstream studio tv and films from "Law and Order" to Steven Soderberg's "The Laundromat." His story is interesting, in part, because he stopped drinking about 5 years before he actually discovered the world of 12 step meetings, but it was really in the rooms of recovery that he found a kind of stability that ultimately led to his successful Hollywood career. We've known each other for years but have never really sat down to talk so this light, rollicking conversation covers a lot of ground and feels like a good palate cleanser for the Thanksgiving feast

Episode 70 - Hannah Sward Nov 08, 2022

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Hannah Sward grew up in a commune in Santa Cruz where her father was a prolific poet. Her parents split when she was young and a lot of her early journey was shaped by a quest to reunite with her younger sister in Los Angeles. That quest that took her first to Chicago where she quickly became a call girl to raise enough money to pay the tuition at an acting conservatory that did eventually bring her to LA. Reunited, the two sisters started working together as dancers at various LA strip clubs. But the pressure to stay young and hot eventually led her to pick up speed to maintain her figure which took its toll on her body not to mention her soul. Eventually, she picked up the bottle and entered the world of sugar daddies before an important mother figure in her life helped her get sober and finally live out her life long dream of becoming a writer. I loved this conversation. It's raw and direct and vulnerable without a hint of self-pity. She has a new book out now called STRIP.

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Episode 69 - Phillip Dane Oct 04, 2022

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Phillip Dane has been a serial entrepreneur since his early teens and has started companies that do everything from rest room marketing to pay phone manufacturing. In his early twenties, he founded the world famous Melrose Flea - almost on a whim - and currently runs the Loz Feliz flea as well as Odd Night at the Autrey. The journey from Melrose to Los Feliz took him thru a dark, circuitous path of cigar bars and heroine addiction but he lived to tell the tale, and I had as you will see a GREAT time sitting down to hear it.

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Episode 68 - Patrick O'Neil Sep 12, 2022

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Patrick O'Neil's new book "Anarchy at The Circle K" - chronicling his life as a tour manager for punk rock bands like The Dead Kennedys - is out now. He is also a teacher and a substance abuse counselor. But before all that -- he was a bank robber -- responsible for a series of hold ups in the bay area with a gang of guys known as the "Men In Black."

This episode is such a powerful exploration of the slippery slope that is addiction as well as the capricious nature of grace.

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Episode 67 - Kim O'Hara Aug 29, 2022

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Kim O'Hara went to film school to act and produce and then became a film producer in NYC where she always managed to assemble a strong social network of friends and family to keep her drinking and using in check. But when her second marriage collapsed and she no longer had any guard rails to keep her on track; things started falling apart. While sobriety gave her a new system for living and also opened her up to new possibilities, it also helped her discover a deep spiritual longing and a long repressed memory that made her wonder if her whole identity rested on a false premise.

Episode 66 - Joe Hart Aug 09, 2022

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I've wanted to interview Joe Hart from the moment I started making this podcast as he has always exuded a powerful empathy for everyone around him even when things in his own life were clearly not going his way. He grew up in New York in a house his dad built with his own hands and eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. And it was only after enduring a series of confouning drunken mishaps out on the road with a touring company that one of his colleagues came to him and suggested, "you don't have to live like this." It reminds me there's help and there's grace everywhere.

RERUN - Episode 19 - Mark Christopher - Part 2 Jul 26, 2022

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Love the radical turn this second half of Mark's story suddenly takes. Really did. not. see it coming.

I haven't seen Mark since he recorded this. We traded emails during the pandemic. He'd had an accident of some sort and was in a Motel in West LA and needed a ride to the doctor. I couldn't take him but offered to send an uber but his phone was dying and I haven't heard from him since. Mark! Get in touch...

This is part 2 of a two part interview I chose to air in its entirety because the first part feels like the kind of drug misadventure that movies are made from, but this second part is something different and it explores the kind of spiritual awakening you don't hear a lot about these days. It's radically different, I think, and yet bears so many tantalizing similarities.

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Rerun - Episode 18 - Mark Christopher Jul 11, 2022

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Mark Christopher grew up in a world of extreme privilege and then parlayed his connections and street smarts into a thriving weed empire. Despite multiple brushes with death and the law, a wildly inflated sense of self kept him convinced he could manage an addiction that would eventually rob him of everything.

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