Bob Forrest's Don't Die Podcast
282 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsDon't Die! Kids are dying and it needs to stop, that's the simple message addiction counselor Bob Forrest is trying to get out. Listen as Bob and Chuk talk honestly about music, drug addiction, treatment, the recovery industry and the lies that politicians and big pharma are telling the American public
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Episodes
Dont Die Episode Thirty Two
November 27, 2017 18:21 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBBob and Chuk talk about the new Rehab Bob website and its purpose. Bobs rehab history. part two of the six questions you need to ask a rehab if your considering, Bob ends with a heartbreaking story. What is the family program like? What kind of follow up, after-care programs are offered? What is the average length of stay? www.rehabbob.com www.alorecovery.com
Don't Die Episode Thirty One
November 23, 2017 12:01 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MB#31 Bob and Chuk talk about Chuck Mosley, Fentanyl use, the pit falls of helping the addict get in to treatment. Part one of Bobs six questions you should ask rehab centers when you seek one. How long has the facility been in operation? How many licensed professionals work full-time at the facility? What do they specialize in? www.rehabob.com
Dont Die Episode Thirty
November 18, 2017 08:04 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBBob, Mike And Chuk talk OC punk, dead pets, the billionaire Sacklers, Don’t die starting up across the country, pharmacist and doctor checks and balances are gone, Chris Hoy, Tropical meetings, “we meet for the new person” discussion.
Dont Die Episode Twenty Nine
November 03, 2017 01:35 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBBob and Mike on this one folks. When to talk about drugs with your kids, the potency of drugs today, schools, sexual abuse, our childhood, helicoptering, letting kids go out alone, girls in the Boy Scouts, Don’t Die spreading across the nation.
Dont Die Episode Twenty Eight
November 01, 2017 06:59 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBAdvocating safe injection sites, needle exchange programs, 911 police policies, concert stories, The greatest new bands, cold medicines, horse boners and Vice President Pence.
Dont Die Episode Twenty Seven
October 28, 2017 01:26 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBGratitude, whatever works, changing a diaper at Disneyland, dealers, drones, broken old cars, Hollywood and some good drug stories.
Don't Die Episode Twenty Six
October 21, 2017 18:55 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBThe fires, drug testing, Bob’s FB posts, Bruce Springsteen, FB is for old folks, the Vegas shootings, defensive concert going, rape culture in America and staying silent, not accepting things that are wrong, acceptance as a concept, flight from 12 step, change has to happen.
Don't Die Episode Twenty Five
October 13, 2017 08:54 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBBob, Chuk and Mike in this one, Bob tells the story about Alo House recovery and the beginning, yoga pants, botox, politics, the Left, the Right, hatred, division, taxes, money, Hobby Lobby, bombs, the Rocketman and let's heal America!
Don't Die Episode Twenty Four
September 22, 2017 23:31 - 57 minutes - 45.8 MBBob on being a positive pessimist, sober by example, wearing our sobriety like a loose, comfortable garment, pooping, Google takes a moral stand on rehab advertising, the reality and perils of not using a professional interventionist, love of heroin, love and relationships,
Don't Die Episode Twenty Three
September 14, 2017 19:45 - 51 minutes - 71 MBBob and Mike talk dying junkies, news reporting, fossil fuel lobby, liberal disillusion, mindset change, spiritual malady, bullish*t information, punk rock history, The Vandals, Tex and the Horseheads, Thelonious Monster, shooting guns in the house, put your hands in the air but don't die.
Don't Die Episode Twenty Two
September 12, 2017 21:44 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBBob, Chuk and Mike talk about being ex-addict punk rock parents, bikers, sponsors, fucked up parents with fucked up kids, learning how to communicate and being a better citizen.
Don't Die Episode Twenty One
September 05, 2017 03:21 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MBContinued Talk about coming trends in rehab policy, in network changes for the better of the whole industry. creating a new mentality, raising kids
Don't Die Episode Twenty
September 02, 2017 15:17 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBBob talks about the changes coming for the Rehab business, talks about God “there’s too much God stuff in the world, if you're that happy about ,keep it to yourself”, clinically charged tough talk and honest appraisal's, wine and whiners.
Dont Die Episode Nineteen
September 01, 2017 08:48 - 51 minutes - 71 MBMore of Bob's story, punk rock history, Bob's family history, drug history, doing dope in New York.
Don't Die Episode Eighteen
August 10, 2017 01:33 - 47 minutes - 64.5 MBBob goes to Paris and observes millennials, parents and differences in parenting. Acts like an American asshole and gets a painful phone call about a friend. Talks about existence, existentialism, beliefs and ends with good hearted laughter about kids learning how to do everyday things in rehab.
Don't Die Episode Seventeen
August 03, 2017 20:00 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBBob copes dope and shoots up for the first time with Top Jimmy. Wild in the streets lyrics and Bob’s 64 Valiant, program, monotheism, is the 12 step program outdated? Is anonymity really just a reflection of shame? Get into the right treatment
Don't Die Episode Sixteen
July 30, 2017 21:22 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBAMA, big pharma, purdue is the evil empire. Talk needs to get back to junkie to junkie. Music talk about heavy metal, getting stoned on pot, bob catches his hair on fire smoking bunk. LSD at Disneyland. Bob talks his atheist views
Don't Die Episode Fifteen
July 22, 2017 07:28 - 37 minutes - 50.8 MBFind the answer’s here to some very important questions. Does treatment work? Fixing the broken things. PaintBall in rehab? Really? The journey begins with “I’m not sure I want to stop using” Bob's eskimo, Brendan Mullen tribute.
Don't Die Episode Fourteen
July 12, 2017 17:16 - 46 minutes - 64 MBBob Forrest and Mike Martt talk about Thelonious Monster, music scenes, opioid epidemic, scoring from doctors and recovery while Chuk Davis is away doing the good work.
Don't Die Episode Thirteen
July 07, 2017 20:06 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBCounselor talk about licensing, almost failing, the test, being a honest, intuitive, counselor even if you were not a great student. For the parents, asking the right questions when choosing a rehab and what to expect. As always, advising addicts if your not ready to quit just “Don’t Die” because we do care.
Dont' Die Episode Twelve
June 30, 2017 01:11 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBBob 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.
Don't Die Episode Eleven
June 17, 2017 20:10 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MBThe 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.
Dont Die Episode Ten
June 13, 2017 18:00 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBConnecting 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.
Don't Die Episode Nine
June 12, 2017 00:01 - 59 minutes - 82 MBThe 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.
Don't Die Episode Eight
June 07, 2017 17:02 - 47 minutes - 65 MBDoctors, 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
Don't Die Episode Seven
May 27, 2017 18:58 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBRehabs 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.
Don't Die Episode Six
May 25, 2017 19:55 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBBob 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.
Don't Die Episode Five
May 23, 2017 23:00 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBGetting 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.
Don't Die Episode Four
April 28, 2017 18:06 - 49 minutes - 67.5 MBWhy 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.
Don't Die Episode Three
April 28, 2017 18:01 - 42 minutes - 57.7 MBTalk 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.
Don't Die Episode Two
April 28, 2017 17:57 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBBob 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.
Don't Die Episode One
April 28, 2017 16:29 - 54 minutes - 79.5 MBBob 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.