Bob Forrest's Don't Die Podcast

Bob and Chuk talk benzos, rehabs and old school 12 step with phone in guest, author and front man for punk band TSOL, Jack Grisham, Bob's love of Budweiser beer, taking sober prospects out to the desert and heroin. 

The Don't Die theme song "Look at that house up there". Smuggling needles into Japan. Fun, sad human stuff. Punk rock nonconformity Steven Adler, Gibby, the OD story, Robin Crosby, Chris Goss, The Cathouse, Tex and the Horseheads, Bob the booker and other Hollywood drug stories including suppositories. This Episode goes to Eleven.

Connecting with parents of millennial's, the promises and washing dishes at Millie's. You don't have to fit the mold, just don't use. The front row and the back row of meetings. Songwriting, Songwriters and some advice.

The hippy therapist lady and the psycho babble used in rehabs. The list, The baby bird story. parenting and self love. Bob's dad, co dependant parents and american society. 

Doctors, Being passionate and compassionate about recovery, Free speech is in jeopardy, Bobs DUI story, In jail with Ike Turner, Getting beat up in Wayside penitentiary, Harm reduction mentality

Rehabs teaching helplessness, junkies function on a higher level when their hustling, parents being co-dependent, cut kids loose and let them function on their own, the health insurance game, suicide and the life saving connection to 12 step meetings. 

Bob and Chuk talk institutions, scams, the good the bad, Bob's divorce and living in his own rehab, suicide, basketball, the importance of changing in your relationships with people, a centered spirt, lack of shame, minimum guilt and feeling purposeful. Bobs methodology   and getting theraputitized, as Mike Tyson said. Giving incorrigibles a new start, learning to listen or at least trying.

Getting to the right meetings and avoiding the negative ones. Just how anonymous is anonymous. Cool old timer Fred Brownell story and the importance of being involved. The value of keeping a sense of humor in in the twelve step world and Bob closes with a special explicative message for those anonymous's not helping.

Why Bob started the Don't Die campaign, medicating kids with adult drugs but talking to them like children, the OxyContin epidemic and the plan by big Pharma to addict all of Americans, the Minnesota model of drug treatment. Brendan Mullins being Bobs eskimo. How can we be attractive to young people trying to get sober. Bob and Chuk explain the 12 step preachers. Planting positive seeds.

Talk about the Prince overdose and the dangers of fentanyl, Bob gets his blood changed, talks celebrity doctors, naltrexone, Thelonious Monster and parents babying their kids to death. Bob yells at Chuk and calls him a feather.

Bob and Chuk talk pop culture and drug abuse. If only millennials had good music and art to listen to maybe things wouldn't seem so hopeless. Parents need to let their children fail and stop babying them. Helmet Nazis and why Bob Forrest is the most dangerous dad in America.

Bob Forrest and Chuk Davis Talk about the new millennial generation of drug addicts and they're problem with 12 step programs, big Pharma and how they are killing regular americans, fentanyl deaths, responsibility, alternative rehabs and Thelonious Monster.