Bob Forrest's Don't Die Podcast

Bob talks about a special time years ago when he would lure addicts out to Joshua Tree to detox, rehabs closed, Celebrity Rehab, we review the four agreements and rehab jobs review.

Bob, Mike and Chuk remember Chris from the Dopey Podcast in a tribute after his death, education can’t replace experience in counseling, sometimes the only thing that works is hardcore rehab, Big pharma and puberty, ends with Dave from Dopey

What have we all been doing this summer?, Chuk get a colonoscopy and talks about wieners, Bob talks about fame, Celebrity Rehab and living in Joshua tree then takes a trip to a yoga retreat in Hawaii, tour stories Mike can’t remember, media and lots of funny kid talk.

Shout out to the new Don't Die chapters in Sacramento and Las Vegas, Bob does some acting in a movie about rehab in the 80’s, The dropping national IQ, Authoritarianism, Depression, ridiculous terms used by doctors and insurance like replacement medication and craving control medication.

Discussion and reading of the 11th tradition and basic misunderstanding it, NBA talk , Bob loses hope in the world and Chuk gets profound and says” Opiates will be the opiate of the masses in the future!”, Bobs House has bears!! real bears!! the new brigade of young people, New York in the eighties.

Bob and Frenchy build a trampoline, Bob speaks and the old people leave, Chuk explains the concept of young old, Getting 12 step back on track, being the smartest 20 year old in kindergarten, Its hard to be humble so keep coming back.

Los Angeles Weekly columnist, Johnny Wendell and host of "Southern California Live with Johnny Wendell” on KTLK-AM 1150 hangs with the Don’t Die regulars for a special punk history episode.

Starting a Don't Die meeting, Satan, Taking drug addicts into your house, connecting to people without controling people, there are no rules

Special edition of Don't Die. Just Bob on this one addressing Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain's suicide's and how we as a community of people need to communicate and care for each other. Reaching out to others can be life saving.

Bob, Chuk and Mike are joined by Steve E Nix from The Briefs, hailing from Tacoma Washington. We talk punk rock music, injection assistance programs in the state of Washington, rehab stories, songwriting in sobriety. Broadcast from Alexs Bar, Long beach ca. 

Single payer health care and war on California, Keith goes to Cedar Sinai, money owed in arrears, Bicycle Thief in Europe, Thelonious Monster plays a Helena Montana rodeo and Wisconsin, political vibe in California, props for Gary Tovar for helping T Monster, 

Another one of Bobs friends dies, his pet peeves, Ugh boots, Range rovers, men without shirts, his 70s pick up technique, sniffing locker room, Bobs Baja bug on the beach story, drug addicts are the creative crazy people the world needs. 

Our 1 year anniversary show with conversation about starting Don’t Die, call in with Don’t Die Wisconsin's Kevin Schaefer and Patrick Reilly, reaching out to hard to reach millennials, funerals, church, modality, you can’t trust doctors.

Don’t Die is expanding and growing with another chapter in Syracuse NY, conspiracy and drug companies capitalism, talking to new drug addicts, scoring in beverly hills, god bless the coke, lies about drugs, speed vs coke, Bob the speed dealer, Bob the ripoff, Bob sings a meth song "I’m the prince of sadness"

Music, recovery and more music! A visit from Forrest George son of legendary Little Feat frontman and Bob and Mike’s favorite songwriter, Lowell George, Thelonious Monster history, relationships, being the son of a famous dad.

Bob goes on a quest for milk, junky artisan is a lost talent on today’s millennial, going to see the Tubes, humanity is being replaced with technological obedience, we need to teach real life interaction

Bob celebrates 22 years as a professional drug counselor, start your own Don’t Die chapter in your state, dealing with what other people think of you as a drug counselor, the baby boomers, Bill Wilson and the vine, racism is history repeating itself, born again in the 70’s 

Bob and Chuk talk about Bob’s trip to San Francisco, harm reduction, creating new recovery models for middle America, starting your own chapter of Don’t Die.

18 billion dollars being allocated to the opiate crisis, Purdue gets real, Bob gets invited to speak in San Francisco, the wheres and hows about placement and assessment, being respectful, joyriding with Bob, Thelonious tour stories.

Regrets, Thelonious Monster, being responsible, political punks, rebellion, Joe Strummer, Eminem, straight edge, the Russians, the greatest country in the world, the Bob and Flea Yakov Smirnoff Lenny Bruce’s house story.