Dopey 522: From Junky Telemarketers to Emmy-Nominated Whistleblowers, the true story of HBO's The Telemarketers

This Week on Dopey! I'm super excited to have had the chance to interview PAtrick J. Pespas and Sam Lipman-Stern from The Telemarketers! A junky/true crime/scam busting documentary series on HBO! AI wrote all the juicy nuggets below - PLUS Dove updates us! Weighing heroin bags, and Siggy's 7 years!!!! All that and more on a brand spanking new episode of the good old Dopey Show! 📞 Dopey Podcast Episode Summary: The Wild Life of Pat Pespas & The Telemarketers Scam This week on Dopey, we dive deep into the insane, scam-filled, heroin-soaked life of Pat Pespas, the star of HBO's Telemarketers—the most outrageous, jaw-dropping, and hilarious docuseries in years. Pat joins us to spill it all—from running telemarketing scams for corrupt police unions to snorting heroin while making sales, to going undercover and taking down a billion-dollar fraud operation. We cover his years as a junkie, the insane characters at CDG (the boiler room from hell), the shady contracts, the FBI raids, and how he and director Sam Lipman-Stern turned their chaotic past into a critically acclaimed HBO docuseries. Sam jumps in to share how a high school dropout & graffiti kid became an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, what it was like to hunt down politicians, mobsters, and scammers, and how The Telemarketers almost got shut down for exposing too much corruption. Plus, Pat reveals his wildest drug stories, what happened when he disappeared, his thoughts on addiction & recovery, and why he turned down $250,000 in media deals after the series blew up. 🔥 This episode has EVERYTHING: Junkie telemarketers, shady deals, crime, betrayal, Emmy snubs, and a whole lot of heart. 💀 Don't miss it. 👉 Watch Telemarketers on HBO 👉 Join Patreon for exclusive content & video access 👉 Follow Dopey for more raw, unfiltered insanity Stay strong, Dopey Nation—Toodles for Chris!

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Dopey Podcast is the world’s greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years, Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its core, to keep addicts and alcoholics company. Whether to laugh at our time in rehab, or cry at the worst missteps we made, Dopey tells the truth about drugs, addiction and recovery. We continually mine the universe for stories rife with debauchery and highlight serious drug taking and alcoholism. We also examine different paths toward addiction recovery. We shine a light on harm reduction and medication assisted treatment. We talk with celebrities and nobodies and stockpile stories to be the greatest one stop shop podcast on all things drugs, addiction, recovery and comedy pathfinding the route to the heart of the opioid epidemic.