rant · moment 8 of 27
Pompano Beach Gig and "I Just Love Heroin"
from #171 - Brownie Boat | The Tim Dillon Show · #171
4 min
Tim tells a story about a rough rehab convention gig in Pompano Beach and a Chili's lunch where his cousin honestly told him she just loves heroin, plus a bit about ex-addicts running the rehabs themselves.
- Tim describes traveling with comic Scott Papa Curie to a disastrous convention show in Pompano Beach where his cousin and her friends attended.
- The convention show was poorly set up in a conference room with no audience expectation, but Tim performed decently despite the rough conditions.
- At lunch at Chili's, Tim's cousin told him with complete honesty: "I love the family, I love everyone, I just love heroin."
- Tim reflects on how grateful he is never to have done heroin, imagining the point where addiction becomes total acceptance.
- Former drug addicts now run the rehabs and sober houses, creating a cycle where counselors may have been doing home invasions the year before.
- The rehab system relies on an honor system where people self-report their clean time to get certified and paid, with no real verification.
- Money doesn't solve addiction—the real issue is people whose body chemistry has changed and become a ticking time bomb ready to relapse.
- Tim describes how addicts can put together clean time—six months or a year—then suddenly get activated and go "off the reservation."
- Tim went to rehab early in his comedy career around late 2010 because he was taking Percocet and other pills, about three or four a day.
heroinScott Papa CurieWoonsocket Rhode IslandPompano BeachChili's