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August 18, 2023 15 mins

Hi. You can call me M. In this episode, I'll tell you a little about how I plan to help the addict that still suffers. 

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Microphone (Yeti Stereo Mi (00:16):
What is up, everybody.
Thank you so much for tuning inright now.
If you are listening to thispodcast.
I know one thing for sure.
And that means that you'realive.
So that's pretty fucking crazy.

Microphone (Yeti Stereo Micr (00:30):
my name is M and I feel incredibly
grateful to be sitting here,getting to talk to you today.
And there's probably a hundreddifferent things that I want to
say, and that I want to talkabout right now.
But the first thing I need tosay, and the most important
thing that I'm ever going to sayis this.

(00:52):
If you're a drug addict rightnow.
And you're experiencing a worldof pain.
And you feel like you're in thedeepest, the deepest circle of
all health scape.
I want you to know that there isa way out.
That, despite any of the pain,any of the feelings that you

(01:12):
have right now and all of thepain that you have.
I want you to know that.
It's temporary.
It's only here for right now.
And maybe you've been feelingthis way for a few days or a
year or your entire goddamnlife.
I want you to know that there isa way out.
And hopefully if you listen tothis podcast or any podcast or

(01:39):
any other way that can get youhelp you too.
We'll see.
That there, that there is hopeand there is a way out.
Yeah, I I just wanted to open upwith that.
Anyways.
Yeah.
Who, what the hell is this?
Who the hell am I right?
So my name is M and that's notmy real name.
I'm keeping it at M right nowfor anonymity sake.

(02:00):
It might reveal myself later on,but.
Yeah.
Let's let's see how this thinggoes.
So the reason why.
I want to start this podcast.
The thoughts of an addict?
Is I believe that the best wayfor an addict.
Well, you know, whether that beto alcohol or narcotics, whether
it's weed or crack or whateverthe hell your drug of choice is.

(02:23):
I think there's real value in anaddict, helping another addict.
And.
I think through these damn radiowaves, this might be the best
way to get my message out there.
I I'm not in this to get famous.
I'm not enlisting.
Shit, you don't even know who Iam.
You might not ever know who I amand that's totally fine with me.
I don't even know if anyone'sgoing to be listening to this

(02:45):
thing.
Hell, I don't even know if mymicrophone's working right now
to be quite honest.
You probably hear my voice is alittle shaky.
I'm a little nervous right now.
I I really don't know what I'mdoing, but I decided it's time
to give back to.
All the people that have helpedme through my addiction.
And maybe I could give.
Some of the wisdom back thatI've picked up through through

(03:06):
the last five years.
My ultimate goal of this isthat.
Well, there's just one personout there.
Just one suffering addict.
Who's able to hear this message.
And maybe goes listens to theadvice that I offered goes and
gets says, this guy's an idiot,but I want real help.
That's a huge win in my book.
If I can help one person.

(03:28):
Then this whole experience forme is incredibly cathartic and.
Yeah.
I'd love to help.
Anyways.
Who, who am I?
Right?
Who the hell is em?
So right now.
I am.
A dude, a 30 years old who goesto business school, probably a
pretty big, pretty good businessschool.

(03:49):
People would say, I don't know,I don't care.
I'm not a prestige hound.
Like I used to be, um, From theoutside, looking in, people
think that I'm pretty fuckingpositive guy.
My classmates used to say that Ihad a resting stoke face that.
You know, they look at me and itlooks like I'm just a happy
dude.
Just absolutely stoking on life.

(04:11):
And to be quite honest, I'd saythat's pretty true for the most
part.
I'm a, I'm a pretty fuckinghappy dude, but you know, it, it
hasn't always been this way.
From the ages of around 16, the25.
I was a very, very deeplydisturbed.
Degenerate just absolutelyfucked up.

(04:34):
Addict.
And that's not to say that I'mstill not, you know, fucked up
in a lot of ways.
There there's remnants ofaddiction that I think will
never go away in my mind.
And.
And that's and that's okay.
You know, I opened this podcastsaying that I am incredibly
grateful but I I'm always, I'malways going to be an addict.

(04:55):
I'm not going to give you mywhole life story right now.
I think as I As I continue towork on this podcast, I think
I'm going to give you moreglimmers into my life and the
struggles that I went through.
And that's not get people topity me.
I don't need a petty party.
I've probably pitied myselfthroughout my life or for four
or five lifetimes where it's sothat's.

(05:17):
That's not the goal here.
I just want to let you knowthat, yeah.
My life is pretty, pretty goodright now from, I don't know,
societal perspective and fromthe fact that I'm pretty fucking
happy, but.
I did not come out this way,man.
I was I was like Pantheon orwhatever the hell that Greek
God's name is, who.
Who stole fire and brought itback to humanity, right?

(05:40):
I was in the depths.
I was in the trenches of.
Fucking deep addiction for many,many years of my life.
And I never thought things wouldget better.
And I'm here telling you that.
Yeah, they, they absolutely can.
So I personally am a 12 stepper.
I don't want to, I don't wanteverybody running for the Hills
now.
It's like, oh fuck.
It's one of these fucking guystalking about his 12 steps

(06:03):
thinking.
That's the only way.
I think one of my key messages,at least in, just in this brief
introduction that I'm doing withyou today is the 12 steps are
not the only way for you to getclean.
Okay.
It's what worked for me.
And it's what worked for a lotof the people that I've seen.
But hell I have a ton of friendswho have more clean and sober

(06:25):
time than I do, and they ran thehell out of those rooms.
It just wasn't for them.
And.
Yeah, a lot of the stuff thatI'm going to be talking about is
inspired by the 12 step program.
But a lot of it isn't.
I need to make it very clearright now that I am not a
representative of the 12 stepprogram.
I don't want you to take whatI'm saying and think, oh, this

(06:46):
is good.
This is a, this is a 12 stepmeeting that that's, that's not
what this is.
There's actually quite a fewthings that this podcast is not.
First of all, I am not alicensed therapist.
Uh, I have no traditionaltraining in any of this.
I thought about being atherapist when I was younger,
but I absolutely nuked mypsychology class.
So yeah, that, that dream flewout the window when I was 18.

(07:09):
So that's not my role here.
Normally a doctor, this is noneof this shit's medical advice.
This is truly just an addict.
Trying to talk to other addictsout there trying to connect.
But no, I have no medicalbackground.
I'm not smart.
Right?
I'm not cool.
I don't have any of these fancyschmancy degrees.
I'm just some fucking guy.

(07:30):
Okay.
So take everything I say with agrain of salt.
And then also this, isn't goingto just be like a list of
affirmations.
If you want to be told thateverything's going to be okay
and everyone's amazing.
And.
Eh, just a bunch of positivestuff.
I'm sure that you can go onYouTube and find plenty of
playlists of.

(07:51):
Some lady with a really sweetvoice feeding you affirmations
for six hours, but that's notwhat this podcast is going to
be.
Okay.
This podcast is going to be.
It's going to be raw.
That's what I want for this.
Okay.
I think it's going to be.
Very true and scathing at times.
And I think it's going to bedark and probably hard for me to

(08:15):
talk about a lot of things.
But I don't know.
I think a lot of value lies andlies and truth as difficult as
it might be.
And so those are all the things.
The podcast is not what.
What is this?
What is this podcast with thisrandom not cool.
Normal dude who just bought amicrophone yesterday.

(08:37):
So this podcast is me an addictwith a fucked up deranged,
derelict mind.
Who's been able to find his wayto a degree in this world.
And I just want to be talking toother addicts who.
Who think that there's a way infuck.
Even if you don't think there'sa way maybe you just liked the

(08:59):
sound of my voice.
I don't know.
My hope is that you can gleanfrom all of this fucking
rambling that I do, and that I'mgoing to be doing something
that's going to be helpful foryou.
So now a little bit about.
Why.
Why am I doing this?

(09:19):
For fame or for money.
No, I don't.
I don't even really think peoplemake that much money from
podcasts.
Unless you get a manscapedsponsorship, in which case you
get a.
You know, a pube shaving razor,but that's.
That's certainly not my pointhere.
And as a quick aside you'll tellthat.
I'm a little bit crass here, alittle rough around the edges.

(09:41):
I curse like a sailor, butthat's unfortunately the only
way I can speak, honestly.
So, sorry.
In advance if that offendsanybody.
So why am I doing this?
I think that this is my overalllife purpose.
To help the addict.
That's still suffers.
I don't fucking know why I wasable to break out of active

(10:04):
addiction.
I don't know if it was the 12steps or if it was through my
meditative practices or for.
Fucking the great Juju in thestock, in the sky, or just
stupid fucking luck.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know, but I'm hearingnow.
And I have some time and I'mgoing to use it to try to help

(10:27):
some people.
Aye.
I can't imagine.
A better way that I would wantto spend my time.
Then to help people that havebeen in the same fucking
depraved hell hole.
That I was in for the formativeyears of my life.
And you know the question.
Why now?
Why am I doing this now?

(10:48):
And.
I think the thing that reallylit the fire under my ass.
Is.
My closest friend.
Of, I don't know, 12 years methim when I was an undergraduate
at UCLA.
Yeah, he died.
He died of an overdose about amonth ago.

(11:11):
This was my absolute fuckingclosest friend in the world.
Well, I'll protect his I'llprotect his name, but man, dude,
Talk to this guy every day forthe last 12 years of my life.
He was going to be the best manat my wedding.
And.
This fucking disease.
Got them.
It got them.

(11:32):
And.
I fucking hate addiction.
I hate seeing what this canfucking do to people.
I just had a job in SanFrancisco for the last three
months and, I'm walking next toeverybody with the briefcases
and then in their nice suitsand.

(11:53):
You know, walking to work.
Stepping over fucking half deadpeople just so naked, you know,
get to there job, whatever thefuck.
It's such a fucking problem,dude.
It's such a fucking problem.
And I don't, I don't know whatthe solution is.
I'm not a very political guy.
I don't know.
What's in place here, but.

(12:16):
I think someone needs to try tohelp do it.
And I'm not fucking Superman.
I'm just a drug addict.
Uh, microphone.
Okay.
And I like to think that if mybuddy, my dear fucking buddy
got.
Got some help that he would haveneeded.
Then he He would've been withhere with us today.
And yeah, I don't want that tohappen to anyone.

(12:39):
Certainly anyone I fucking knowever again.
So I'm going to do my part intheir lives, on a personalized
basis.
But fuck dude, if I can.
Help.
Prevent the fucking grief andjust the F.
Fucking pain that I feel.
From his passing.

(13:00):
And I can help prevent thatthen.
Fuck, dude.
Then I've done.
I've done my part, man.
And that's all I really need.
Anyway, sorry to be sogoddamned, dark.
Um, Shit there and just.
I guess let's try to fucking endthis thing on a positive note.
Cause it's not, yeah, the, thefucking addiction itself, it is

(13:21):
doom and gloom, but the recoverypart, man, Jesus Christ.
It's the most magical thing inthe world.
Dude break.
I promise you breaking out ofactive addiction.
It's not easy.
I mean, if you, if you'relistening right now and you
wanted to stop being an addict.
You probably would've justfucking done it by now.

(13:43):
Right?
If it was that easy.
But it's not, it's fucking hard,but I'm here to tell you.
I'm living proof.
It's possible.
Okay.
And.
I'm going to have other peopleon the podcast.
Other people that have had theirstruggles, other people that are
spiritual guides and they, andI'll mention this too, right?
Like I'm not a political guy,but I'm pretty spiritual.

(14:05):
Not.
I wouldn't say religious in anyregard, but this podcast is
going to be.
It's got to invoke somespiritual principles, whether
that just be meditation, prayinga lot of these, a lot of these
methodologies just really work.
Yeah, I mean, this was a lot offucking rambling.
I clearly have no goddamn cluewhat I'm doing.
Just a.
Just as to, this is what thethoughts of an addict sound

(14:26):
like.
I guess if anyone.
If anyone was ever curious.
So I'm going to start trying topump these things out.
Start looking for.
Different topics that I candiscuss, hopefully a few times a
week.
That hopefully will givesomebody hope or give somebody a
tool or we'll plan, least planta seed.
In somebody's mind, who's stillstruggling out there.

(14:49):
Thank you so goddamn much forlistening.
If you've made it this far, I'dbe shocked to be honest with you
because I don't know.
I don't know how this thing isgoing to pan out.
This is my first time evertalking to a microphone, but,
thank you for coming by.
If you liked what you heard.
Keep coming through.
If, you know, somebody who'ssuffering, maybe this will help

(15:10):
them.
There's a fucking way out.
This is M from thoughts of anaddict.
Thanks for stopping by.

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