After Billy Strings Show - Cookies - AI - Heroin -Recovery
Purpose of the teaser is to push people to Patreon. Mentions: Wednesday Dopey Patreon Zoom Recovery Zoom Saturday Zoom Extra videos + shows. Joke: No one questioned last week’s Zoom announcement because they assume you won’t show up. Billy Strings Aftermath Biggest episode ever. Covered by: Rolling Stone People Magazine Yahoo News Country outlets 75 Spotify comments, a record. You read several: Praise for your interviewing. People crying. People relating to losing mothers. Jokes about your Soft White Underbelly appearance. A listener calling the episode description “cinematic,” which you suspect was written by AI. Listener Present at Katz’s: Saul & Jake Package delivered at Katz’s from German listeners. Note from Saul: Jake listened to Dopey while working in vineyards. They think you’d love the spelt/dinkle cookies. Ask for a shout-out to Ira & Phil. Ask for hope for their friend Maddie. Ask for ska recommendations for NYC. Mention Meta deleting her Instagram—something “you have in common.” Doug refuses to eat the cookie. You mock him for the tiny bite he takes. You accuse him of: “You hate gays and gluten.” Cutaway to Tank Sinatra Story Doug doesn’t know him. You explain: Meme guy 10 million followers Shark Tank contestant Sobriety Recorded in your garage Got a flat tire in your driveway He refused to share the episode → you unfollowed (“petty motherfucker”). AI Debate Teaser Read Kevin Sherry’s email: Calls AI “repulsive,” “morally bankrupt,” “stealing,” and says using it is “relapsing.” Says you have an “autistic flair.” You and Doug debate AI: Doug jokes about AI hospital beds and Costco chickens. You show him the AI mantis graphic. Doug talks about how synthesizers, MIDI, sampling were originally hated. You argue AI feels different but still interesting to experiment with. Closing You finish the German cookies. Apologize to Tank Sinatra again. Announce that your eyes are “fucked up” and you now need glasses. Promote Patreon one more time.
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
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Show Notes
The teaser opens with you explaining the whole point of a Tuesday teaser: push listeners “like little dogs or lemmings” to Patreon, where the full episode lives. You pitch the Wednesday Patreon Zoom, the Saturday Zoom, the Recovery Zoom, the bonus videos and episodes, and joke about your inconsistent track record of scheduling Patreon Zooms.
You welcome the massive influx of Billy Strings fans after the huge episode—Rolling Stone, People Magazine, Yahoo News, and a pile of country sites covered it. You read a handful of Spotify comments reacting to the interview: praise for Billy’s vulnerability, your interviewing, people crying, people relating to losing their mothers, and some teasing about your age and your Soft White Underbelly appearance. You joke about the cinematic episode description likely being written by AI.
Then you play a clip from last week’s recording with Doug, where you two open packages at Katz’s from German Dopey fans. A listener named Saul sends a long, heartfelt note about discovering the show via her boyfriend Jake, who listened to Dopey while working in German vineyards. They sent you spelt (“Dinkle”) cookies. Doug refuses to eat them because he’s convinced they’ll kill him before his hospital appointment. You accuse him of hating “gays and gluten.”
The teaser then cuts to your and Doug’s conversation about Tank Sinatra being the other “bald Long Islander” who recorded in your garage. Doug doesn’t know who he is; you explain Tank’s meme empire, his sobriety, Shark Tank appearance, his refusal to promote your episode, and your petty scorched-earth unfollow.
Next you preview the beginning of the full Tuesday Patreon episode, where you and Doug get into reading Kevin Sherry’s furious anti-AI email. Sherry says AI art is “repulsive,” “lazy,” “morally bankrupt,” “stealing,” and makes you look like you’ve “given up.” You and Doug riff on the bad AI portraits you’ve both received, debate AI vs real art, and joke that Sherry has an “autistic flair,” which Doug mishears and then corrects. Doug argues synthesizers and sampling were also hated when they arrived; you argue AI feels different but still fun to play with.
The teaser ends with you thanking Saul for the cookies, apologizing again to Tank Sinatra for being petty, updating listeners that you now need glasses, and reminding them to join Patreon. You close with “Stay strong… and fucking toodles for Chris,” followed by a bit of a Dopey song.
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