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May

Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank #115: Heroin – Down in a Hole (Donovan Pee)

ASST #115 Heroin – Down in a Hole with Donovan Pee Mahoney (picture by @BenDianna)

Donovan Pee Mahoney met me in my hotel room in Vancouver to talk about Heroin. Donovan was a heavy heroin user and lived on the streets of one of the most drug addicted blocks in North America. He was involved with the drug for decades and has only recently gotten away from it. It’s a fascinating look at the life and exactly the kind of thing I like for this podcast.

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The Music

ZZ Top – Brown Sugar (I really like the graininess of the vinyl copy. It makes it feel more like Rush)

K’s Choice – Not an Addict (One of my favorite songs in college. Never really understood the lyrics until recently)

Alice in Chains – Down in a Hole (I just saw them play (with the new lead singer) in Columbus the night I recorded this intro and I couldn’t think of a more apt song to play)

Howlin’ Wolf – Spoonful (There’s a psychedelic version you should check out as well. Howlin’ Wolf did some experimenting towards the end of his life with really interesting results. Miles Davis did something similar with infusing jazz and hip-hop together.

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Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank #114: Rounders (John Caparulo, Jamie Caparulo)

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Skeptic Tank #114: Rounders with John Caparulo (art by @MBaltay)

John Caparulo had me over to his palatial estate to do a podcast and we spent most of it talking about poker. Cap was the reason I started playing poker at casinos. He introduced it to Steve Rannazzisi and me about 10 years ago and I caught the bug hard. We had some great times going down to the LA casinos late night after the Comedy Store was over. Hustler, Commerce, Hollywood Park, we hit them all. The last hour was just fun memories. So enjoy. And please enjoy an extra long introduction that has me venting about censorship in comedy.

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Look how thin he looks here! I forgot he used to be a pencil necked geek.

Yeah, San Diego hasn’t won a lot but they kind of don’t care. Charger games are all about the tailgate.

The Music

Motorhead – The Ace of Spades (I met Lemmy once when I was doing Down and Dirty with Jim Norton for HBO (still my only real TV appearance). He was cool and a bad ass and he was 270 by then).

Eric Cartman – Poker Face (I could have used the original, but how can I not take a chance to use something from South Park)?

Pharoahe Monch – Simon Says (Just coincidence that he talks about New York the week I came here for good)

Johnny Cash – The Gambler (I was gonna use the Kenny Rogers version but, man, I just like the way Johnny Cash made music for a while there. And I think I’ll save the original for when I get a professional poker player).

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Main Entry: ²censor
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): cen·sored; cen·sor·ing /sen(t)s-(-)ri/
: to examine in order to prevent publication or take out things thought to be objectionable; also : to delete things thought to be objectionable