Dopey 549: Heroin at 16, Bundles in Puerto Rico, Mongo in Queens, Addiction Recovery OG – The Johnny Mac Story
-DOPEYCON IS COMING! -SKYFLY IN PA! -LOOSEY ON SALVIA! -BENZO'S in the UK -JOHNNY MAC NOTES: 🎙️ Recorded on a porch overlooking the “Great Lake Patchogue” (complete with swans and menthols). 🚬 Cigarettes, Tahitian Treats, and the first six-pack—Johnny’s entry into addiction. 💉 First heroin bag at 16, injected by a stranger while tripping on psilocybin. 🗽 Growing up Irish Catholic in Woodside—“You can rob, but not in the neighborhood.” 🍔 Donovan’s Pub cheeseburgers and junkie codes. 🧠 Half the high is copping; puking was part of the ritual. 🌌 Spirituality as the real drug—“The only thing I know about God is there is one and I’m not it.” 🎭 Scamming cops during a raid by dropping fake names. 📿 “Mother jumpin’ prayers” every morning: “Thank you, I love you, I need you.” 🌊 La Perla in Puerto Rico, hookers at the Pan Am Games, and spritzed cocaine mist. 🎶 70s acid-dealing days—Simon & Garfunkel, Richie Havens, BB King in Central Park, selling beers on the bus. ⚡ OD stories, Narcan rage, and copping the next day anyway. 🔧 “Mongo”—stealing copper wire to fund the habit. 📰 Port Authority newsstand hustles. 🤝 Dealers and friends like T—“I feel like a marshmallow in hot chocolate.” 🪦 Cigarettes for a dying friend with AIDS in Elmhurst Hospital. ✈️ Bundles on planes to Puerto Rico, acid to Ecuador, coke sprayed with perfume mist. ⛪ From Veritas Villa to AA: surrender, sing-song sayings, and “stupid enough not to drink.” 🙏 God doesn’t come in a booming voice—He comes in small shifts, if you keep showing up. 😂 Jemokes, mongo, bullshit, and spiritual banisters. -
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
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This week on Dopey! We are joined by old school recovery/addiction legend Johnny Mac! From Queens! But first we learn about Sky Fly in PA, we hear from a benzo addict in the UK and then hear a nice story about Salvia from Loosey in California! Then we get this fuckin Johnny Mac! A 74-year-old New York junkie-turned-AA old-timer, who lays out his wild ride from Woodside Irish Catholic rules to acid-dealing in Ecuador, nodding out on heroin in Queens, and finally finding peace in AA. Johnny talks about his first bag at 16 (while tripping on mushrooms), copping in Bushwick and Harlem, nearly dying on the toilet, watching friends die, and pulling scams from coke hustles to copper wire “mongo.” He tells insane stories from La Perla in Puerto Rico, sneaking bundles on planes, running a Port Authority newsstand, and OD’ing only to chase the same dope the next morning. But through all the chaos, Johnny shares deep reflections on God, spirituality, and why being “stupid enough not to drink and keep showing up” has kept him sober. This one’s pure Dopey gold—equal parts junkie chronicles and spiritual wisdom.
All that and more! On the good old dopey show!
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